Sundance 2016 critics ratings

Scaled to 0-10

Very Good New Films

1. "Manchester by the Sea" (Kenneth Lonergan) [8.61/50 1.2]
2. "Life, Animated" (Roger Ross Williams) Directing Award [8.33/9 1.8]
3. "Sing Street" (John Carney, Ireland) [8.04/24 1.4]

Good New Films

4. "Weiner" (Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg) [7.89/9 1.7]
5. "Jim" (Brian Oakes) Audience Award [7.75/8 1.9]
6. "Under the Shadow" (Babak Anvari, United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar) [7.74/35 1.0]
7. "Kate Plays Christine" (Robert Greene) Screenwriting Award [7.69/29 1.3]
8. "Gleason" (Clay Tweel) [7.62/8 1.8]
9. "Newtown" (Kim A. Snyder) [7.56/9 0.7]
10. "First Girl I Loved" (Kerem Sanga) Audience Award [7.55/11 2.0]
11. "Hooligan Sparrow" (Nanfu Wang, China, U.S.A.) [7.40/5 1.4]
12. "Mammal" (Rebecca Daly, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands) [7.40/10 1.2]
13. "The Lesson" (Ruth Platt, UK) Rome [7.40/10 0.8]
14. "The Fits" (Anna Rose Holmer, U.S.A., Italy) [7.35/23 1.2]
15. "Author: The JT LeRoy Story" (Jeff Feuerzeig) [7.33/9 1.0]
16. "Certain Women" (Kelly Reichardt) [7.31/34 1.5]
17. "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" (Taika Waititi, New Zealand) [7.25/31 1.2]
18. "The Birth of a Nation" (Nate Parker) Audience + Grand Jury Awards [7.23/35 1.7]
19. "Holy Hell" (Will Allen) [7.18/17 1.1]
20. "Love & Friendship" (Whit Stillman, Ireland, France, Netherlands) [7.11/35 1.3]
21. "Little Men" (Ira Sachs) [7.10/20 1.2]
22. "Halal Love (and Sex)" (Assad Fouladkar, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates) [7.00/4 1.2]
23. "LO AND BEHOLD, Reveries of the Connected World" (Werner Herzog) [7.00/8 0.9]
24. "Sand Storm" (Elite Zexer, Israel) Grand Jury Price [7.00/19 1.4]

   The rest is below 7 or is not new or has not enough votes.

All official sections

U.S. Dramatic [6.28/16]

1. "The Birth of a Nation" (Nate Parker) Audience + Grand Jury Awards [7.23/35 1.7]
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2. "Swiss Army Man" (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan) Directing Award [6.96/50 1.7]
3. "White Girl" (Elizabeth Wood) [6.88/21 2.1]
4. "Tallulah" (Sian Heder) [6.69/13 1.5]
5. "Morris from America" (Chad Hartigan, U.S.A., Germany) Performance + Screenwriting Award [6.55/38 1.3]
6. "The Intervention" (Clea DuVal) Performance Award [6.52/23 1.6]
7. "Christine" (Antonio Campos) [6.48/48 1.5]
8. "Other People" (Chris Kelly) [6.42/36 1.7]
9. "Lovesong" (So Yong Kim) [6.14/21 1.4]
10. "Spa Night" (Andrew Ahn) Performance Award [6.13/15 1.2]
11. "Goat" (Andrew Neel) [6.12/35 1.3]
12. "Equity" (Meera Menon) [6.08/12 1.0]
13. "As You Are" (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte) Special Jury Award [6.06/15 2.0]
14. "Joshy" (Jeff Baena) [6.00/19 1.5]
15. "Southside With You" (Richard Tanne) [6.00/25 1.6]
16. "The Free World" (Jason Lew) [4.25/16 2.0]

World Dramatic [6.24/12]

1. "Mammal" (Rebecca Daly, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands) [7.40/10 1.2]
2. "Halal Love (and Sex)" (Assad Fouladkar, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates) [7.00/4 1.2]
3. "Sand Storm" (Elite Zexer, Israel) Grand Jury Price [7.00/19 1.4]
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4. "The Lure" (Agnieszka Smoczynska, Poland) Special Jury Award [6.88/33 1.5]
5. "Mi Amiga del Parque" (Ana Katz, Argentina, Uruguay) Screenwriting Award [6.56/9 1.3]
6. "Between Sea and Land" (Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo, Colombia) Audience Award [6.40/5 2.2]
7. "A Good Wife" (Mirjana Karanovic, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia) [6.25/4 1.9]
8. "Wild" (Nicolette Krebitz, Germany) [6.21/14 1.6]
9. "Belgica" (Felix van Groeningen, Belgium, France, Netherlands) Directing Award [5.93/23 1.5]
10. "Male Joy, Female Love" (Yao Huang, China) [5.38/8 1.6]
11. "Much Ado About Nothing" (Alejandro Fernández, Chile) [5.38/8 0.9]
12. "Brahman Naman" (Q, United Kingdom, India) [4.50/6 2.2]

U.S. Documentaries [7.08/14]

1. "Life, Animated" (Roger Ross Williams) Directing Award [8.33/9 1.8]
2. "Weiner" (Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg) [7.89/9 1.7]
3. "Jim" (Brian Oakes) Audience Award [7.75/8 1.9]
4. "Kate Plays Christine" (Robert Greene) Screenwriting Award [7.69/29 1.3]
5. "Gleason" (Clay Tweel) [7.62/8 1.8]
6. "Newtown" (Kim A. Snyder) [7.56/9 0.7]
7. "Suited" (Jason Benjamin) [7.33/3 0.9]
8. "Author: The JT LeRoy Story" (Jeff Feuerzeig) [7.33/9 1.0]
9. "Holy Hell" (Will Allen) [7.18/17 1.1]
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10. "NUTS!" (Penny Lane) Editing Award [6.83/23 1.2]
11. "Kiki" (Sara Jordenö, U.S.A., Sweden) [6.80/5 0.7]
12. "Trapped" (Dawn Porter) [6.09/11 1.3]
13. "Audrie & Daisy" (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk) [5.73/11 2.0]
14. "How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change)" (Josh Fox) [5.00/2 2.0]

World Documentaries [6.13/9]

1. "Hooligan Sparrow" (Nanfu Wang, China, U.S.A.) [7.40/5 1.4]
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2. "All These Sleepless Nights" (Michal Marczak, Poland) [6.88/8 1.6]
3. "Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" (Kevin Macdonald) [6.83/6 0.9]
4. "The Land of the Enlightened" (Pieter-Jan De Pue, Belgium) [6.50/2 0.5]
5. "We Are X" (Stephen Kijak, United Kingdom, U.S.A., Japan) [6.50/2 3.5]
6. "Sonita" (Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Germany, Iran, Switzerland) Grand Jury Price [6.00/11 1.1]
7. "Plaza de la Soledad" (Maya Goded, Mexico) [5.86/7 2.4]
8. "The Lovers and the Despot" (Robert Cannan, Ross Adam, United Kingdom) [4.67/3 0.5]
9. "A Flag Without a Country" (Bahman Ghobadi, Iraq) [4.50/2 2.5]
"When Two Worlds Collide" (Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel, Peru) [reviews]
"The Settlers" (Shimon Dotan, France, Canada, Israel, Germany) [-]

NEXT [6.25/10]

1. "First Girl I Loved" (Kerem Sanga) Audience Award [7.55/11 2.0]
2. "The Fits" (Anna Rose Holmer, U.S.A., Italy) [7.35/23 1.2]
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3. "Operation Avalanche" (Matt Johnson, U.S.A., Canada) [6.89/19 1.6]
4. "Sleight" (JD Dillard) [6.85/13 1.5]
5. "The Eyes of My Mother" (Nicolas Pesce) [6.58/26 1.9]
6. "The Land" (Steven Caple Jr.) [5.67/3 0.9]
7. "How To Tell You're A Douchebag" (Tahir Jetter) [5.60/10 1.6]
8. "Dark Night" (Tim Sutton) [5.40/25 2.1]
9. "Jacqueline" (Bernardo Britto, Argentine, U.S.A.) [5.33/12 2.5]
10. "THE 4TH" (Andre Hyland) [5.25/8 2.6]

Midnight [4.78/9]

1. "Under the Shadow" (Babak Anvari, United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar) [7.74/35 1.0]
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2. "The Greasy Strangler" (Jim Hosking) [5.57/15 2.3]
3. "Antibirth" (Danny Perez) [5.30/10 2.6]
4. "The Blackout Experiments" (Rich Fox) [4.88/8 1.3]
5. "31" (Rob Zombie) [4.85/20 2.0]
6. "Trash Fire" (Richard Bates Jr.) [4.80/10 1.9]
7. "Carnage Park" (Mickey Keating) [4.54/13 2.6]
8. "Yoga Hosers" (Kevin Smith) [3.09/11 2.1]
9. "Outlaws and Angels" (JT Mollner) [2.25/8 1.4]

Spotlight [6.84/5]

1. "Land of Mine" (Martin Zandvliet, Denmark) [7.60/1 0.0]
2. "Rams" (Grímur Hákonarson, Iceland) (Cannes) [7.00/1 0.0]
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3. "Miles Ahead" (Don Cheadle) [6.83/11 0.7]
4. "Viva" (Paddy Breathnach, Ireland) [6.81/7 0.6]
5. "Maggie's Plan" (Rebecca Miller) (London) [5.96/16 0.9]
"Cemetery of Splendor" (Apichatpong Weerasethakull, Thailand) (Cannes) [reviews]
"Embrace of the Serpent" (Ciro Guerra, Colombia) (Cannes) Sloan Science-in Film-Prize [reviews]
"Green Room" (Jeremy Saulnier) (Cannes) [reviews]
"The Lobster" (Yorgos Lanthimos, EU) (Cannes) [reviews]

Kids

Premieres [6.77/17]

1. "Manchester by the Sea" (Kenneth Lonergan) [8.61/50 1.2]
2. "Sing Street" (John Carney, Ireland) [8.04/24 1.4]
3. "Certain Women" (Kelly Reichardt) [7.31/34 1.5]
4. "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" (Taika Waititi, New Zealand) [7.25/31 1.2]
5. "Love & Friendship" (Whit Stillman, Ireland, France, Netherlands) [7.11/35 1.3]
6. "Little Men" (Ira Sachs) [7.10/20 1.2]
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7. "Captain Fantastic" (Matt Ross) [6.94/17 1.9]
8. "The Fundamentals of Caring" (Rob Burnett) [6.84/19 1.6]
9. "Indignation" (James Schamus) [6.76/17 1.5]
10. "Ali & Nino" (Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom) [6.75/4 2.6]
11. "The Hollars" (John Krasinski) [6.73/11 1.7]
12. "Sophie and the Rising Sun" (Maggie Greenwald) [6.40/5 1.4]
13. "Wiener-Dog" (Todd Solondz) [6.22/33 1.8]
14. "Agnus Dei" (Anne Fontaine, France, Poland) [6.00/9 2.2]
15. "Frank & Lola" (Matthew Ross) [6.00/15 1.3]
16. "Mr. Pig" (Diego Luna, Mexico) [5.86/7 1.6]
17. "Complete Unknown" (Joshua Marston) [5.18/22 1.6]

Documentary Premieres [5.97/10]

1. "Under the Gun" (Stephanie Soechtig) [8.00/1 0.0]
2. "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures" (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) [7.33/3 1.7]
3. "Eat That Question—Frank Zappa in His Own Words" (Thorsten Schütte, France, Germany) [7.00/2 0.0]
4. "LO AND BEHOLD, Reveries of the Connected World" (Werner Herzog) [7.00/8 0.9]
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5. "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" (Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) [6.33/12 1.9]
6. "Richard Linklater—dream is destiny" (Louis Black, Karen Bernstein) [6.00/1 0.0]
7. "Unlocking the Cage" (Chris Hegedus, Donn Alan Pennebaker) [6.00/1 0.0]
8. "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper" (Liz Garbus) [5.00/1 0.0]
9. "Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall" (Spike Lee) [4.00/1 0.0]
10. "Film Hawk" (JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet) [3.00/1 0.0]
"Resilience" (James Redford) [reviews]

Special Events [7.00/1]

1. "11.22.63 (TV)" (Kevin Macdonald) [7.00/1 0.0]
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"The Girlfriend Experience" (Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz) [reviews]
"Behind the Scenes of Anomalisa" (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson) [-]
"Chelsea Does" (Eddie Schmidt) [-]
"O.J.: Made in America" (Ezra Edelman) [-]
"The New Yorker Presents (TV)" [-]
"The Skinny" (Jessie Kahnweiler) [-]
"United Shades of America" (W. Kamau Bell) [-]

Slamdance [5.88/14]

1. "All the Colors of the Night" (Pedro Severien, Brazil) Sao Paolo [8.33/3 0.5]
2. "Peanut Gallery" (Molly Gandour) Madrid, NewFilmmakers NY, New Jersey, Great Lakes, ... [8.00/1 0.0]
3. "The Lesson" (Ruth Platt, UK) Rome [7.40/10 0.8]
4. "Alki Alki" (Axel Ranisch, Germany) [7.00/2 0.0]
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5. "If There’s A Hell Below" (Nathan Williams, USA) [6.83/3 0.6]
6. "How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town" (Jeremy LaLonde, Canada) Calgary, Whistler, Atlantic, Edmonton, ... [6.74/5 1.1]
7. "Neptune" (Derek Kimball, USA) 2013 [6.25/4 1.5]
8. "MAD" (Robert G. Putka, USA) [6.00/1 0.0]
9. "Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites" (Platon Theodoris, Australia/Indonesia) Perth, Sidney [5.51/7 1.4]
10. "Art of the Prank" (Andrea Marini) Denver [5.50/4 1.5]
11. "Chemical Cut" (Marjorie Conrad, USA) [4.67/3 1.9]
12. "Last Summer" (Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli, Italy) Frightfest 2015, KVIFF [4.62/8 1.5]
13. "Hunky Dory" (Michael Curtis Johnson, USA) [3.00/1 0.0]
14. "Excursions" (Daniel Martinico, USA) [2.50/2 0.5]
"Dead Hands Dig Deep" (Jai Love, Australia) [reviews]
"Across The Sea" (Nisan Dağ & Esra Saydam) Audience Award + Jury Honorable Mention [-]
"Driftwood" (Paul Taylor, USA) [-]
"Honey Buddies" (Alex Simmons, USA) [-]
"My Enemies" (Stéphane Géhami, Canada) [-]
"SWEET MICKY FOR PRESIDENT" (Ben Patterson) Jury Award Doc + Audience Award [-]
"THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE" (Perry Blackshear) Jury Honorable Mention [-]
"The Successor" (Mattia Epifani, Italy) [-]
"The Tail Job" (Bryan Moses, Daniel Millar, Australia) [-]
"Tired Moonlight" (Britni West) Jury Award [-]

330/353 Critics

filter stddev >2.5 from avg, <10 ratings or unknown
stddev name (magazine, cn) numratings ±diff
0.00 Oktay Ege Kozak (The Playlist, US) [1 +0.0]
0.17 Frank Scheck (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [1 +0.2]
0.31 Geoff Berkshire (Variety, US) [1 +0.3]
0.81 Katie Walsh (The Playlist, US) [6 +0.1]
0.82 Vadim Rizov (Filmmaker Magazine, US) [12 -0.6]
0.86 Noel Murray (The Playlist, US) [24 -0.2]
0.88 Mike Ryan (Uproxx, US) [18 +0.2]
0.92 David Ehrlich (Time Out New York, US) [11 +0.6]
0.97 René Sánchez [11 +0.3]
0.97 Ben Delgado (Coral Gables Art Cinema, US) [27 +0.4]
1.04 David Rooney (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [6 -0.4]
1.05 Mike d'Angelo (A.V. Club, US) [11 -0.7]
1.11 Charlie Nash [19 +0.5]
1.12 Rodrigo Perez (The Playlist, US) [2 -1.1]
1.13 Ryan Walter Blair [27 -0.1]
1.14 Eric Kuiper [11 -0.0]
1.14 Matthew Lingo [12 -0.4]
1.15 Sean Hillary [14 +0.3]
1.16 Marc Mohan [14 -0.8]
1.16 Brett [13 +0.5]
1.17 Justin Chang (Variety, US) [3 +0.2]
1.18 Blake Williams (Cinema Scope, Canada) [18 -0.9]
1.19 Jordan Raup (The Film Stage, US) [27 -0.4]
1.19 Angie Han (Slash, US) [15 +0.3]
1.20 Mirjam Urban (Free, Germany) [16 +0.3]
1.24 Eric Kohn (Indiewire, US) [16 +0.0]
1.28 Fionnuala Halligan (Screen Daily, US) [3 +1.3]
1.29 Rob Hunter (Film School Rejects, US) [19 -0.6]
1.30 Dylan Moses Griffin [15 +0.6]
1.30 A.A. Dowd (The A.V. Club, US) [20 -0.5]
1.31 Peter Debruge (Variety, US) [2 -0.9]
1.31 Scott Renshaw [27 -0.2]
1.33 Fernando Maldonado [11 -0.3]
1.35 JM Oursler [15 +0.4]
1.39 Bilge Ebiri (Vulture, US) [1 +1.4]
1.39 Justin Lowe (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [3 -0.7]
1.42 Steve Greene [14 -0.0]
1.44 KaileeA42 [10 +0.6]
1.46 Sean P. Means (The Salt Lake Tribune, US) [3 -0.9]
1.48 Jordan Hoffman (The Guardian, US) [11 -0.1]
1.48 Alex Heeney [23 -0.4]
1.49 Thomas Seraydarian [26 -1.0]
1.50 Monica Castillo [25 +0.2]
1.51 Alex Dieckmann [18 +0.7]
1.53 Jordan Foxworthy [12 +0.2]
1.55 Jason Bailey (Flavorwire, US) [25 +0.2]
1.56 Alex Billington (FirstShowing.net, ) [2 +1.6]
1.57 Adam Cook [21 -0.3]
1.57 Julia Tang [13 +0.9]
1.59 Matt Hoffman [26 +0.8]
1.68 Roy Parker [21 +0.2]
1.68 Josh Dickey (Mashable, US) [7 -1.0]
1.69 Matt Goldberg (Collider, US) [18 -0.7]
1.71 Erik Childress [15 -0.1]
1.72 Brian Tallerico [25 -0.7]
1.74 Kevin Conner [11 -0.6]
1.76 Tyler Martin [17 +0.0]
1.79 Taylor Armosino [12 -0.8]
1.80 Adam Chitwood (Collider, US) [19 -1.1]
1.81 Xavier Hall [16 +1.2]
1.83 Brent Hankins [10 +0.9]
1.83 Leslie Felperin (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [4 -0.7]
1.84 Nigel M Smith (The Guardian, US) [15 +0.8]
1.85 skyhir [17 -1.4]
1.88 Nick Chaney [18 -0.5]
1.90 Tim Grierson (Screen International, Paste, Deadspin, US) [4 -1.6]
1.90 Caitlin Manocchio [11 -1.1]
1.98 Kevin Jagernauth (The Playlist, US) [3 -1.8]
1.99 Melanie Conlin [22 +1.3]
2.03 C Bersani [11 -0.4]
2.04 John DeFore (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [5 -1.7]
2.07 ImmigrantFilm [19 -1.4]
2.07 Dustin Putman (TheBluFile, TheFilmFile, TheFrightFile, US) [4 +1.3]
2.09 Lanre Bakare (The Guardian, US) [14 +0.3]
2.13 Reini Urban (Free, Germany) [20 -0.3]
2.24 Russ Fischer (Slash, US) [5 -0.8]
2.28 Siân Melton (Cinefilles, UK) [8 +2.0]
2.81 Anthony Kaufman (Screen International, US) [2 -1.4]
2.98 Todd McCarthy (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [6 -2.5]
3.00 Boyd van Hoeij (The Hollywood Reporter, US) [1 -3.0]
3.03 Reena Chohan (TIFF, Canada) [6 +0.7]
3.60 Kyle Smith (New York Post, US) [2 -2.8]
3.73 Kate Erbland (Film School Rejects, MSN Movies, Boxoffice Magazine, US) [1 -3.7]
4.55 Sam Fragoso (Movie Mezzanine, US) [1 -4.5]
4.57 Dennis Harvey (Variety, US) [1 -4.6]