20 Best Movie Moments Of 2016

For fans of character driven, period set indie flicks you couldn’t find much better this year than James Schamus’ big screen adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel Indignation. Set in the early 1950s against the political backdrop of the far-off Korean War, the film focuses on young, working class atheist Jewish student Marcus (Logan Lerman) and his experiences attending a small Ohio college.

One of its best scenes – a confrontation between the fiercely intelligent yet kind of insolent Marcus and his college dean (played by Tracy Letts) – is also practically an antithesis to the conventions of current movie-making techniques. At almost 20 minutes and 13 pages of script long and featuring just two characters, it’s a scene that could fall flat in a lot of movies. But thanks to some brilliant acting from Lerman and Letts it manages to be an entirely gripping scene that wholly demonstrates the generational differences between them and the contempt they share for each other.