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2023 Movies

Boston Globe: Odie Henderson: 10 Best Movies of 2023

15 December 2023

Past Lives - Celine Song

Odie Henderson: 10 Best Movies of 2023, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  2. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
  3. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
  4. Air
    Ben Affleck
  5. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
  6. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
  7. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
  8. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
  9. It Ain't Over
    Sean Mullin
  10. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig

Runners-up

  1. Carmen
    Benjamin Millepied
  2. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
  3. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
  4. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
  5. Full Time
    Éric Gravel
  6. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
  7. Blue Jean
    Georgia Oakley
  8. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
  9. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
  10. Flora and Son
    John Carney

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