Year-End Lists

Sean Burns: The Best Films of 2023, as published by WBUR

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

• Oppenheimer
  Christopher Nolan
• Killers of the Flower Moon
  Martin Scorsese
• Asteroid City
  Wes Anderson
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• Master Gardener
  Paul Schrader
• Afire
  Christian Petzold
• Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
  Frederick Wiseman
• Beau Is Afraid
  Ari Aster
• Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski

Honorable mentions

• 20 Days in Mariupol
  Mstyslav Chernov
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
  Kelly Fremon Craig
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Ferrari
  Michael Mann
• The Holdovers
  Alexander Payne
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Past Lives
  Celine Song
• Priscilla
  Sofia Coppola
• Showing Up
  Kelly Reichardt
• Tori and Lokita
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne