Year-End Lists

Polygon: The 50 Best Movies of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. Past Lives
   Celine Song
3. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
   Daniel Goldhaber
6. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
7. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
   Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
9. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
10. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
11. May December
    Todd Haynes
12. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
13. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
14. Suzume
    Makoto Shinkai
15. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
16. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
17. The Killer
    David Fincher
18. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie
19. Knock at the Cabin
    M. Night Shyamalan
20. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
21. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
22. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
23. Dream Scenario
    Kristoffer Borgli
24. Saltburn
    Emerald Fennell
25. Jawan
    Atlee
26. Napoleon
    Ridley Scott
27. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
28. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Jeff Rowe
29. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
30. Skinamarink
    Kyle Edward Ball
31. Talk to Me
    Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
32. Polite Society
    Nida Manzoor
33. When Evil Lurks
    Demián Rugna
34. M3GAN
    Gerard Johnstone
35. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    Wes Anderson
36. Earth Mama
    Savanah Leaf
37. Eileen
    William Oldroyd
38. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
39. Theater Camp
    Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
40. Master Gardener
    Paul Schrader
41. Infinity Pool
    Brandon Cronenberg
42. Creed III
    Michael B. Jordan
43. Broker
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
44. They Cloned Tyrone
    Juel Taylor
45. The Origin of Evil
    Sébastien Marnier
46. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
    Francis Lawrence
47. The Fist of the Condor
    Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
48. Passages
    Ira Sachs
49. Missing
    Will Merrick and Nick Johnson
50. Shin Kamen Rider
    Hideaki Anno

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Polygon: Matt Patches: The Best Movies of 2023
• Polygon: Tasha Robinson: The Best Movies of 2023