(pictured above is a still from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Happy Hour)
Individual Ballots from our contributors:
Peter Martin, Managing Editor:
- The Wailing
- The Nice Guys
- Hell or High Water
- O.J.: Made in America
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Paterson
7, Elle
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- The Salesman
- Sing Street
James Marsh, Asian Editor:
- Toni Erdmann
- A Bigger Splash
- The Wailing
- Arrival
- Swiss Army Man
- Elle
- The Handmaiden
- Fire at Sea
- Raw
- Your Name
Ben Umstead, U.S. Editor:
- Cameraperson
- Happy Hour
- I am Not Your Negro
- Toni Erdmann
- O.J.: Made in America
- The Dreamed Path
- Embrace of the Serpent
- Dark Night
- Louder Than Bombs
- The Untamed
Andrew Mack, Associate Editor, News:
- Deadpool
- Rogue One A Star Wars Story
- Train to Busan
- La La Land
- Moonlight
- The Neon Demon
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Headshot
- I Am Not A Serial Killer
- Zootopia
Michelle "Izzy" Galgana, Associate Editor:
(in no particular order)
- The Lure
- Evolution
- The Love Witch
- Always Shine
- Buster's Mal Heart
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe
- I Am Not A Serial Killer
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- The Handmaiden
- Swiss Army Man
Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Associate Editor:
- Toni Erdmann
- Raw
- Moonlight
- Lemonade
- The Handmaiden
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- American Honey
- Embers
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Arrival
Brian Clark, Editor at large:
- The Wailing
- Elle
- The Handmaiden
- Moonlight
- Manchester by the Sea
- Men go to Battle
- Eye in the Sky
- The Treasure
- Zootopia
- Christine
Christopher Bourne, Featured Critic:
- Happy Hour
- I am Not Your Negro
- O.J.: Made in America
- Cameraperson
- Moonlight
- La La Land
- Yourself and Yours
- The Wailing
- Always Shine
- Wet Woman in the Wind
Dustin Chang, Feature Critic:
- Toni Erdmann
- American Honey
- Academy of Muses
- Things to Come
- Elle
- Cemetery of Splendour
- Mountains May Depart
- Kaili Blues
- The Ornithologist
- Neruda
Jim Tudor, Featured Critic:
- La La Land
- Hell or High Water
- Jackie
- The Jungle Book
- Mountains May Depart
- 20th Century Women
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Love and Friendship
- Hacksaw Ridge
- I am Not Your Negro
Pierce Conran, Contributing Writer:
- The Wailing
- Elle
- The Age of Shadows
- Manchester By the Sea
- Swiss Army Man
- Jackie
- Raw
- Creepy
- American Honey
- Paterson
Patryk Czekaj, Contributing Writer:
- Bone Tomahawk
- The Last Family
- After You're Gone
- I am a Hero
- Hell or High Water
- The Handmaiden
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Creepy
- Three
- Everybody Wants Some!!
Zach Gayne, Contributing Writer:
- American Honey
- O.J.: Made in America
- Nocturnal Animals
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- Operation Avalanche
- Hail, Caesar!
- Christine
- Certain Women
- The Handmaiden
- Krisha
Jaime Grijalba, Contributing Writer:
- Paterson
- Elle
- The Ornithologist
- Aquarius
- The Alchemist Cookbook
- The Royal Lemon Tree
- Anti-porno
- The Handmaiden
- The Woman Who Left
- The Nice Guys
Kurt Halfyard, Contributing Writer:
- Nocturnal Animals
- The Neon Demon
- The Lure
- The Nice Guys
- Moonlight
- Paterson
- Elle
- Chi-Raq
- Sierra Nevada
- Hail, Caesar!
Martin Kudlac, Contributing Writer:
(in no particular order)
- Bodkin Ras
- Endless Poetry
- I,Olga Hepnarova
- Malgré le Nuit
- Mimosas
- Scarred Hearts
- The Death of J.P.Cuenca
- The Death of Louis XIV
- The Plague at the Karatas Village
- We Are the Flesh
Stuart Muller, Contributing Writer:
- Embrace of the Serpent
- Moonlight
- Mustang
- Aferim!
- Arrival
- Call Me Thief
- Taxi
- The Lobster
- The Accountant
- Hardcore Henry
Eric Ortiz García, Contributing Writer:
- Arrival
- Sausage Party
- The Nice Guys
- The Lobster
- The Neon Demon
- The Hateful Eight
- Tangerine
- Train to Busan
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Hugo Ozman, Contributing Writer:
- The Mermaid
- Cold War 2
- Trivisa
- Finding Mr Right 2
- The Wailing
- The Boy and the Beast
- Daylight's End
- Operation Mekong
- Line Walker
- The BFG
Christopher Webster, Contributing Writer:
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- The Neon Demon
- Green Room
- Cash Only
- Arrival
- Into the Forest
- The Witch
- The Invitation
- Blair Witch
- Synchronicity
Loïc Valceschini, Contributing Writer:
- Aquarius
- Trivisia
- Heart Attack
- The Handmaiden
- Demon
- Swiss Army Man
- Toni Erdmann
- Under the Shadow
- Elle
- Everbody Wants Some!!
Ernesto Zelaya Miñano, Contributing Writer:
- Spotlight
- The Hateful Eight
- The Witch
- The Nice Guys
- Train to Busan
- When Two Worlds Collide
- Creed
- Green Room
- Deadpool
- 10 Cloverfield Lane