Top films of 2016--a final ranking of a fantastic year in cinema
Top-ranked films of 2016 Louder than Bombs --not released in the US or UK until April (though elsewhere in 2015) this Westchester examination is in a league with The Ice Storm . People are really really struggling up there, it turns out, and sometimes finding transcendence. Extraordinary Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, and David Strathairn...and not just saying this because the director Joachim Trier is Scandinavian... Embrace of the Serpent-- this is actually at 2015 release but no one saw it in the US until 2016--when it lost the Best Foreign Film award to Son of Saul . It shouldn't have (no comments about the surprise that a holocaust film won out over a true original gem with radical environmental and racial politics). The movie tells of the relationships between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years. The relationships show the violence, racism, covetousness, and abuse