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Top UK films 2016

  • 'Anomalisa' photocall, 72nd Venice Film Festival, Italy - 08 Sep 2015<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Camilla Morandi/REX Shutterstock (5052801b)
 Charlie Kaufman
 'Anomalisa' photocall, 72nd Venice Film Festival, Italy - 08 Sep 2015
 
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    Charlie Kaufman: 'The world is terrifying and destructive and dehumanising and tragic'

  • Tugging the heartstrings … Michael (voiced by David Thewlis) in Anomalisa. Photograph: Paramount Pictures/AP

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 1 Anomalisa

  • Kate Beckinsale: ‘I think it’s important as an actor to have periods where you’re not flavour of the month.’

    Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’

    Her second collaboration with Whit Stillman in Love & Friendship has brought her the best reviews of her career
  • Swinton with Ralph Fiennes in A Bigger Splash.

    Tilda Swinton: ‘Our film started as sick satire – now it’s a recognisable portrait’

    A Bigger Splash is our fourth-favourite film of the year. Its star explains what it taught her about human nature – and reveals if she really was channelling David Bowie
  • Why didn’t it win the Palme d’Or? ... Son of Saul.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 2 Son of Saul

    As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver looks back on a harrowing Holocaust drama from Hungarian director László Nemes
  • Amy Adams in Arrival.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 3 Arrival

    As our countdown continues, Catherine Shoard heralds Denis Villeneuve’s emotionally bruising sci-fi which saw aliens – almost - land on Earth
  • Exquisite unease ... A Bigger Splash with Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 4 A Bigger Splash

    As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver admires Luca Guadagnino’s unnerving drama of desire and betrayal that boasts remarkable performances
  • Fire at Sea, the fifth best film in the UK this year.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 5 Fire at Sea

    As our countdown enters the final fortnight, Peter Bradshaw gives a nod to a documentary portrait of the wartime-like life of migrants to Lampedusa
  • Radiant and frightening … Kate Beckinsale with Xavier Samuel in Love &amp; Friendship.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 6 Love & Friendship

    As our countdown continues, Catherine Shoard bows down before Whit Stillman’s revisionist yet traditional take on Jane Austen
  • Intimately tragic … Michael Barbieri, left, and Theo Taplitz in Little Men.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 7 Little Men

    As our countdown continues, Peter Bradshaw pays tribute to Ira Sachs’s New York-set drama about the lost friendship – and the true cost of gentrification
  • 'The Revenant' film - 2015<br>Mandatory credit: TM & copyright 20th Century Fox No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only No Book or TV usage without prior permission from Rex.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
'The Revenant' film - 2015

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 8 The Revenant

    As our countdown enters its final fortnight, Andrew Pulver goes on the march with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro González Iñárritu for this epic frontier revenge western
  • Anthony Weiner, depicted in a 2016 documentary.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 9 Weiner

    As our countdown enters the final fortnight, Peter Bradshaw welcomes a documentary about disgraced US politician Anthony Weiner that’s a classic study of self-delusion
  • Food, glorious food ... Sausage Party.

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 10 Sausage Party

    As our countdown enters the final fortnight, Andrew Pulver hails Sausage Party, the foul-mouthed, sex-obsessed talking-food animation that hits heights of surreal brilliance
  • Anomalisa

    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: the full list

    The Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the UK this year
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