The films we've as the best science fiction and genre films of 2016 are a very motley crew. This year we loved superheroes, animation, farting corpses, live action, talking animals, and more. These are films spanning different genres, disciplines, and themes, which experienced varied levels of success. Each is worthy of acknowledgment, though, so check out what we crowned the best of the best, and worst of the worst.

Turns out that the Independence Day sequel forgot to bring the heart alongside its lovely explosions. If only it had decided to bring some giant goddamn robots to replace it with instead.

Independence Day is big, dumb and full of heart. The special effects may look a little hokey in 2016, but that's to be expected. It's disaster porn, but hey, it's damn good disaster porn. The sequel, unfortunately, is a turd.