Year-End Lists

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2023 Movies

The Playlist: The 21 Best Films of 2023

18 December 2023

The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer

The Playlist: The 21 Best Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

  1. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
  2. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  3. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
  4. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  5. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
  6. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
  7. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
  8. May December
    Todd Haynes
  9. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
  10. Passages
    Ira Sachs
  11. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
  12. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
  13. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
  14. The Delinquents
    Rodrigo Moreno
  15. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
  16. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
  17. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
  18. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
  19. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
  20. The Killer
    David Fincher
  21. Eileen
    William Oldroyd

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