Year-End Lists

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

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