Year-End Lists

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
3. May December
   Todd Haynes
4. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
5. Pacifiction
   Albert Serra
6. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
7. Afire
   Christian Petzold
8. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
9. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
10. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
11. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
12. Past Lives
    Celine Song
13. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
14. The Killer
    David Fincher
15. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
16. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Frederick Wiseman
17. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
18. De humani corporis fabrica
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
19. Passages
    Ira Sachs
20. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
21. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
22. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
23. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
24. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
25. Youth (Spring)
    Wang Bing
26. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
27. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson
28. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
29. Here
    Bas Devos
30. The Delinquents
    Rodrigo Moreno
31. The Plains
    David Easteal
32. Trenque Lauquen
    Laura Citarella
33. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Daniel Goldhaber
34. Our Body
    Claire Simon
35. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
36. Samsara
    Lois Patiño
37. The Iron Claw
    Sean Durkin
38. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
39. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
40. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
41. Knock at the Cabin
    M. Night Shyamalan
42. The Human Surge 3
    Eduardo Williams
43. Unrest
    Cyril Schäublin
44. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    William Friedkin
45. Geographies of Solitude
    Jacquelyn Mills
46. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
47. Hello Dankness
    Soda_Jerk
48. Walk Up
    Hong Sang-soo
49. After Love
    Aleem Khan
50. Sick of Myself
    Kristoffer Borgli