Year-End Lists

Slate: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023

The Top 10

• Succession
• How To with John Wilson
• Reservation Dogs
• The Bear
• Poker Face
• The Righteous Gemstones
• I'm a Virgo
• Telemarketers
• The Last of Us
• Beef

Honorable Mentions

• Mask Girl
• The Curse
• Happy Valley
• Jury Duty
• The Other Two
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• Barry

Slant Magazine: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2023

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

• Barry
• The Bear
• Beef
• The Curse
• Dead Ringers
• Fleishman Is in Trouble
• The Great
• I'm a Virgo
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• The Last of Us
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Party Down
• Pluto
• Poker Face
• Reservation Dogs
• Scavengers Reign
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Succession
• Unicorn: Warriors Eternal
• Warrior

Owen Gleiberman: The Best Movies of 2023, as published by Variety

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012]

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
3. Ferrari
   Michael Mann
4. Maestro
   Bradley Cooper
5. Past Lives
   Celine Song
6. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
   Guy Ritchie
7. Little Richard: I Am Everything
   Lisa Cortés
8. May December
   Todd Haynes
9. Fair Play
   Chloe Domont
10. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer

Peter Debruge: The Best Movies of 2023, as published by Variety

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

1. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
3. Chicken for Linda!
   Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach
4. Past Lives
   Celine Song
5. The Monk and the Gun
   Pawo Choyning Dorji
6. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
7. Origin
   Ava DuVernay
8. May December
   Todd Haynes
9. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
10. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng

10 more for good measure

• Afire
  Christian Petzold
• Asteroid City
  Wes Anderson
• The Color Purple
  Blitz Bazawule
• Dream Scenario
  Kristoffer Borgli
• The Eight Mountains
  Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Memory
  Michel Franco
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders
• Reality
  Tina Satter

Robert Lloyd: The 14 Best New TV Shows of 2023, as published by The Los Angeles Times

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

• I'm a Virgo
• Mrs. Davis
• Poker Face
• A Murder at the End of the World
• The Swarm
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
• The American Buffalo
• Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• School Spirits
• Deadloch
• Cunk on Earth
• Everyone Else Burns
• Still Up

Lorraine Ali: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The Los Angeles Times

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

• The Horror of Dolores Roach
• Reservation Dogs
• The Last of Us
• Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
• Poker Face
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Beef
• Tiny Beautiful Things
• Love & Death
• Top Boy

Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. The Retrievals
2. You Didn't See Nothin
3. Search Engine
4. If Books Could Kill
5. Murder on Sex Island
6. Skyline Drive
7. Louder Than a Riot: Season 2
8. My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
9. Popcast
10. The Scandoval Podcast-Industrial Complex

Uproxx: The Best Movies Of 2023

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

1. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
2. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
3. May December
   Todd Haynes
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
   Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
6. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
7. No Hard Feelings
   Gene Stupnitsky
8. Past Lives
   Celine Song
9. Bottoms
   Emma Seligman
10. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
11. They Cloned Tyrone
    Juel Taylor
12. Saltburn
    Emerald Fennell
13. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
14. Creed III
    Michael B. Jordan
15. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
16. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie

Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2023, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

• Auction
  Quan Barry
• From From
  Monica Youn
• Negro Mountain
  C.S. Giscombe
• Phantom Pain Wings
  Kim Hyesoon
• The Thomas Salto
  Timmy Straw

Justin Chang: The Best Movies of 2023, presented at The Los Angeles Times as a series of themed pairings

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

1. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
2. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
3. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
4. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
5. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
6. Afire
   Christian Petzold
7. Past Lives
   Celine Song
8. The Eight Mountains
   Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
9. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
10. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos

Honorable Mentions

• About Dry Grasses
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Godland
  Hlynur Pálmason
• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  Raven Jackson
• Earth Mama
  Savanah Leaf
• Anatomy of a Fall
  Justine Triet
• A Thousand and One
  A.V. Rockwell
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
  Kelly Fremon Craig
• Tótem
  Lila Avilés
• Maestro
  Bradley Cooper
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
  Frederick Wiseman
• Our Body
  Claire Simon
• Pacifiction
  Albert Serra
• R.M.N.
  Cristian Mungiu