Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2023 Movies

Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2023

21 December 2023

May December - Todd Haynes

Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

  1. May December
    Todd Haynes
  2. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
  3. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  4. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
  5. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
  6. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
  7. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
  8. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
  9. The Killer
    David Fincher
  10. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
  11. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
  12. Passages
    Ira Sachs
  13. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  14. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
  15. Trenque Lauquen
    Laura Citarella
  16. Polite Society
    Nida Manzoor
  17. Earth Mama
    Savanah Leaf
  18. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
  19. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Daniel Goldhaber
  20. Afire
    Christian Petzold
  21. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
  22. Samsara
    Lois Patiño
  23. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
  24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Jeff Rowe
  25. Evil Dead Rise
    Lee Cronin
  26. Rye Lane
    Raine Allen-Miller
  27. Napoleon
    Ridley Scott
  28. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
  29. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
  30. Typist Artist Pirate King
    Carol Morley

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