It’s a Cannes 2016 Hierarchy

Tier 1 (A- / A)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) – 8.4

Tier 2 (B+)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven) – 7.3
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) – 7.1
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra) – 7.0

Tier 3 (B)
Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont) – 6.9
Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (1945, Mitsuyo Seo) – 6.8
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie) – 6.6
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho) – 6.5
Beyond the Mountains and Hills (Eran Kolirin) – 6.5
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi) – 6.4
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) – 6.3
Risk (Laura Poitras) – 6.2

Tier 4 (B-)
The Park (Damien Manivel) – 6.1
Happy Times Will Come Soon (Alessandro Comodin) – 6.0
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen) – 6.0
Mimosas (Oliver Laxe) – 5.9
Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader) – 5.7
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 5.7
Harmonium (Kôji Fukada) – 5.6
Le Cancre (Paul Vecchiali) – 5.5
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) – 5.5
Café Society (Woody Allen) – 5.4

Tier 5 (C+)
Sweet Dreams (Marco Bellocchio) – 5.3
The Red Turtle (Michäel Dudok de Wit) – 5.2
Wolf and Sheep (Shahrbanoo Sadat) – 5.1
Graduation (Christian Mungiu) – 5.1
Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.0
Diamond Island (Davy Chou) – 5.0
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu) – 4.9
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook) – 4.8
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn) – 4.7

Tier 6 (C)
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (Francisco Márquez & Andrea Testa) – 4.5
In Bed with Victoria (Justine Triet) – 4.5
Exile (Rithy Panh) – 4.4
American Honey (Andrea Arnold) – 4.1
Loving (Jeff Nichols) – 3.9

Tier 7 (C-)
From the Land of the Moon (Nicole Garcia) – 3.6
Dogs (Bogdan Mirica) – 3.5
Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza) – 3.4
The Transfiguration (Michael O’Shea) – 3.1

Tier 8 (D+)
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan) – 2.9
The Last Face (Sean Penn) – 2.2