We’re a little over halfway through 2016 and, unlike this time last year, when Mad Max: Fury Road was already the film of the year on Letterboxd and kept that spot till year’s end, there seems to be no obvious Mad Max successor this year.

So we took a quick look at the numbers—applying our usual methodology*—and these are the top ten films emerging as your best-of, so far.

Congratulations to New Zealand director Taika Waititi who sits in pole position with Hunt for the Wilderpeople, his funny-sad adaptation of the Barry Crump novel Wild Pork and Watercress.

A few observations:

・Of the ten films, four are international (New Zealand, Ireland, Colombia and Greece/Ireland/Netherlands etc.) while six are US releases.…