Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023, a poll of more than 100 contributors

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

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
3. Past Lives
   Celine Song
4. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
5. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
7. Passages
   Ira Sachs
8. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
10. May December
    Todd Haynes
11. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
12. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
13. Tár
    Todd Field
13. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
15. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
15. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
17. Tótem
    Lila Avilés
17. Last Summer
    Catherine Breillat
17. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
20. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
20. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
20. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
20. Afire
    Christian Petzold
24. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
24. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
26. Rotting in the Sun
    Sebastián Silva
26. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
26. The Delinquents
    Rodrigo Moreno
26. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
26. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
31. Talk to Me
    Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
31. Music
    Angela Schanelec
31. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
34. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
34. One Fine Morning
    Mia Hansen-Løve
34. Infinity Pool
    Brandon Cronenberg
34. The Human Surge 3
    Eduardo Williams
38. Trenque Lauquen
    Laura Citarella
38. Samsara
    Lois Patiño
38. Suzume
    Makoto Shinkai
38. Rye Lane
    Raine Allen-Miller
38. Reality
    Tina Satter
38. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
38. A Prince
    Pierre Creton
38. Our Body
    Claire Simon
38. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Frederick Wiseman
38. The Killer
    David Fincher
38. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
38. Earth Mama
    Savanah Leaf
38. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Beatrice Loayza: Best Films of 2023
• Sight & Sound Poll: Erika Balsom: Best Films of 2023