By Ben Reiser

Programmer & Accounts Manager, UW Cinematheque

Festival Coordinator, Wisconsin Film Festival

Movies I’m Really Glad I Saw in 2016:

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, Dan Trachtenberg)

Arabian Nights (2015, Miguel Gomes)

Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)

The BFG (2016, Steven Spielberg)

The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015, Oz Perkins)

Don’t Breathe (2016, Fede Alvarez)

Finding Dory (2016, Andrew Stanton)

Fireworks Wednesday (2006, Asghar Farhadi)

Frank and the Wondercat (2015, Tony Massil, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa)

Heaven’s Gate (1980, Michael Cimino)

The Heiress (1949, William Wyler)

Hell or High Water (2016, Daved Mackenzie)

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waikiki)

Hush (2016, Mike Flanagan)

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016, Edward Zwick)

La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle)

The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos)

Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)

Moana (2016, John Musker, Ron Clements)

A Monster with a Thousand Heads (2015, Rodrigo Pia)

Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)

Morris From America (2016, Chad Hartigan)

The Mother and the Whore (1974, Jean Eustache)

The Neon Demon (2016, Nicholas Winding Refn)

The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini)

Presenting Princess Shaw (2015, Ido Haar)

The Revenant (2015, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016, Gareth Edwards)

Rules Don’t Apply (2016, Warren Beatty)

Sing (2016, Garth Jennings)

Sing Street (2016, John Carney)

Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies)

Sweet Charity (1969, Bob Fosse)

Tharlo (2015, Pema Tseden)

To Each His Own (1946, Mitchell Leisen)

Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)

The Witch (2016, Robert Eggers)