2016 Top Tens

Films

  1. The Assassin
  2. Things To Come
  3. Embrace of the Serpent
  4. Elle
  5. Little Men
  6. The Ornithologist
  7. The Witch
  8. Love & Friendship
  9. Your Name
  10. Victoria

Albums

  1. Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper / Telefone - Noname
  2. Blonde - Frank Ocean
  3. Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown
  4. Malibu - Anderson.Paak
  5. A Mulder do Fim do Mundo - Elza Soares
  6. Emily's D+evolution - Esperanza Spalding
  7. Still Brazy - YG
  8. The Life of Pablo - Kanye West
  9. Bucket List Project - Saba
  10. We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest

Honeys

1. Antoine Griezmann, from football




  1. 2. Anthony Joshua, from boxing






  4. 3. Nassim Si Ahmed, from Marseille (Netflix) 



  13. 4. Leonardo Bonucci, from football



  22. 5. Paul Hamy, from THE ORNITHOLOGIST



  31. 6. Nilbio Torres, from EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT




  40. 7. Daniel Goodfellow, from diving


  49. 8. Greg Casar, from Austin, TX council


  58. 9. Billy Eichner, from Billy On The Street



  67. 10. Ore Oduba, from Strictly Come Dancing



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