01) Aliens (James Cameron)
02) Manhunter (Michael Mann)
03) The Fly (David Cronenberg)
04) The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese)
05) Platoon (Oliver Stone)
06) Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
07) Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
08) Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
09) Top Gun (Tony Scott)
10) The Mission (Roland Joffé)

Honorable Mention: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes), A Better Tomorrow (John Woo), Ruthless People (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker), Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Paul Mazursky), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks), The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)

Undiscovered: The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand), The Hitcher (Robert Harmon), Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter), Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch), Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola), Something Wild (Jonathan Demme), She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky), Salvador (Oliver Stone), Hoosiers (David Anspaugh), The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton), Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee)

Worst of 1986:
01) Howard the Duck (Willard Huyck)
02) Raw Deal (John Irvin)
03) Cobra (George P. Cosmatos)
04) Shanghai Suprise (Jim Goddard)
05) King Kong Lives (John Guillermin)
06) Highlander (Russell Mulcahy)
07) The Karate Kid, Part II (John G. Avildsen)
08) The Golden Child (Michael Ritchie)
09) Iron Eagle (Sidney J. Furie)
10) 9 1/2 Weeks (Adrian Lyne)

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