{"id":2928,"date":"2016-12-08T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/12\/08\/german-comedy-toni-erdmann-voted-best-film-of-2016-by-critics\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:29:57","slug":"german-comedy-toni-erdmann-voted-best-film-of-2016-by-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/12\/08\/german-comedy-toni-erdmann-voted-best-film-of-2016-by-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"German comedy Toni Erdmann voted best film of 2016 by critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC News<\/em><\/p>\n

Directed by Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and is Germany’s official candidate for next year’s foreign film Oscar.<\/p>\n

American coming-of-age story Moonlight and adult drama Elle came next in Sight & Sound’s Films of the Year poll.<\/p>\n

Last year’s winner was The Assassin, by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.<\/p>\n

Toni Erdmann, which will be released in the UK on 3 February, is one of three films with female directors to make this year’s top five.<\/p>\n

The others are Certain Women, a triptych of tales from US director Kelly Reichardt, and Andrea Arnold’s road movie American Honey.<\/p>\n

Nick James, Sight & Sound’s editor, expressed delight that the poll “recognises the talent of women directors at the top of the art form”.<\/p>\n

Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, which won the veteran British film-maker his second Palme d’Or at Cannes, came sixth in the poll.<\/p>\n

Oscar-tipped Manchester by the Sea – named the National Board of Review’s best film of 2016 earlier this week – is ranked seventh.<\/p>\n

According to the British Film Institute (BFI), publisher of Sight & Sound, the results represent “a small triumph for diversity”.<\/p>\n

The full top 20:<\/h2>\n