Best Movies of 1986
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
AliensThe rare sequel that changes genre entirely and comes out with more than it started with.Read the review
PlatoonOliver Stone's own war, filmed with the dirt still under its fingernails, loses a little of its truth each time it reaches for allegory.
Stand by MeFour boys, a railway line and a body, and the best film ever made about a friendship with an expiry date.
Ferris Bueller's Day OffA perfect hangout comedy that is secretly about Cameron, and it is Cameron who makes it last.
Top GunPeerless aerial photography bolted to a story with roughly the depth of a recruitment poster.