‘Loving,’ ‘Jackie’ and ‘Hail, Caesar!’ make Kenneth Turan’s Top 10 films of 2016

It’s been more than half a century since the formidable Sam Fuller looked directly at the camera in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou,” but what he said came instantly to mind as I was putting together my 10 best list for 2016. The year just ending was unusually strong across the board, with impressive work visible in films with astronomical budgets, like Marvel’s $165 million Benedict Cumberbatch/Tilda Swinton “Doctor Strange,” as well as those with tiny ones, like the 150,000-Euro-budgeted, Anna Rose Holmer-directed “The Fits.”