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2023 Movies

ScreenCrush: Matt Singer: The Best Movies of 2023

05 December 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Matt Singer: The Best Movies of 2023, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
  2. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  3. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
  4. May December
    Todd Haynes
  5. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
  6. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Frederick Wiseman
  7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
  8. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
  9. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
  10. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
  11. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  12. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
  13. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
  14. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
  15. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
  16. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
  17. The Killer
    David Fincher
  18. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
  19. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
  20. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie

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