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Screen critics: best films of 2016

By Screen staff2016-12-13T09:23:00+00:00

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Ten Screen critics select their favourite films of the year.

Click the critics below to find out their top five, best documentary, best UK film and undiscovered gems.

Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic

Tim Grierson, senior US critic

Allan Hunter

Dan Fainaru

Lee Marshall

Jonathan Romney

Lisa Nesselson

Charles Gant

Wendy Ide

Sarah Ward

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‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’: London Review
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She has been a long time coming, but Fanny Lye certainly delivers
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‘County Lines’: London Review
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The causes and effects of the most recent UK crime blight are laid bare in Henry Blake’s debut
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‘Savage’: London Review
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Toxic masculinity and its lethal consequences in a New Zealand street gang

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An all-star voice cast can’t lift this flat animation.
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’A sharp-eyed history lesson that unfolds with the pace and fascination of thriller’

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Screen critics: best films of 2016

Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic

Tim Grierson, senior US critic

Allan Hunter

Dan Fainaru

Lee Marshall

Jonathan Romney

Lisa Nesselson

Charles Gant

Wendy Ide

Sarah Ward

Topics

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‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’: London Review

‘County Lines’: London Review

‘Savage’: London Review

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