Year-End Lists

Brian Darr: Top Ten Films of 2023, as submitted to the Senses of Cinema World Poll where it appears alongside lists of films not yet distributed, moving image installation works, and shorts

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

• Asteroid City
  Wes Anderson
• Aurora's Sunrise
  Inna Sahakyan
• The Boy and the Heron
  Hayao Miyazaki
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
  Frederick Wiseman
• Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
  Amanda Kim
• Sam Now
  Reed Harkness
• Showing Up
  Kelly Reichardt
• Silver Dollar Road
  Raoul Peck
• Will-o'-the-Wisp
  João Pedro Rodrigues

And a 2022 film with wider theatrical release in 2023

• Return to Seoul
  Davy Chou

Brian Tallerico: Top Ten Films of 2023, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
3. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
4. Past Lives
   Celine Song
5. May December
   Todd Haynes
6. The Killer
   David Fincher
7. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
8. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
   Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
10. The Teachers' Lounge
    İlker Çatak

Runner-ups

• Anatomy of a Fall
  Justine Triet
• Asteroid City
  Wes Anderson
• Beyond Utopia
  Madeleine Gavin
• Ferrari
  Michael Mann
• The Holdovers
  Alexander Payne
• Infinity Pool
  Brandon Cronenberg
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski
• Passages
  Ira Sachs
• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• R.M.N.
  Cristian Mungiu

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2023

David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023, his annual video countown. I always wonder if Ehrlich adjusts his rankings a bit to create better back-to-back synergies. Which would be entirely worth it.

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

1. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
2. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
3. Past Lives
   Celine Song
4. The Taste of Things
   Trần Anh Hùng
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
6. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
7. Love Life
   Kôji Fukada
8. The Delinquents
   Rodrigo Moreno
9. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
10. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
11. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
12. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
13. Passages
    Ira Sachs
14. May December
    Todd Haynes
15. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
16. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
17. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
18. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie
19. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
20. Kokomo City
    D. Smith
21. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
22. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
23. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
24. The Iron Claw
    Sean Durkin
25. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola

Scott Renshaw: Best Movies of 2023, as published by Salt Lake City Weekly

[see also 2022]

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
3. May December
   Todd Haynes
4. Passages
   Ira Sachs
5. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
6. Robot Dreams
   Pablo Berger
7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
   Kelly Fremon Craig
8. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
10. The Mission
    Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss

Jessica Kiang: Top 50 Movies of 2023, as posted to Twitter in an epic thread with links to her (or others') reviews

[see also 2022]

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
2. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
3. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
4. The Delinquents
   Rodrigo Moreno
5. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
6. Tótem
   Lila Avilés
7. Past Lives
   Celine Song
8. Man in Black
   Wang Bing
9. Vera
   Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
10. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
11. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
12. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
13. The Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
14. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    Nicole Newnham
15. Sweet Dreams
    Ena Sendijarević
16. Passages
    Ira Sachs
17. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
18. Puan
    María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat
19. Here
    Bas Devos
20. Eileen
    William Oldroyd
21. Only the River Flows
    Wei Shujun
22. Afire
    Christian Petzold
23. Hollywoodgate
    Ibrahim Nash’at
24. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
25. Reality
    Tina Satter
26. Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
    Elene Naveriani
27. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
28. El Conde
    Pablo Larraín
29. House of the Seasons
    Jung Min Oh
30. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
31. Music
    Angela Schanelec
32. 12 Dares
    Izer Aliu
33. Daaaaaalí!
    Quentin Dupieux
34. A Strange Path
    Guto Parente
35. May December
    Todd Haynes
36. The Royal Hotel
    Kitty Green
37. The Shadowless Tower
    Zhang Lü
38. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
39. Inshallah a Boy
    Amjad Al Rasheed
40. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
41. About Dry Grasses
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
42. The Hypnosis
    Ernst De Geer
43. Goodbye Julia
    Mohamed Kordofani
44. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
45. City of Wind
    Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
46. Praying For Armageddon
    Tonje Hessen Schei and Michael Rowley
47. Birth/Rebirth
    Laura Moss
48. In Camera
    Naqqash Khalid
49. Achilles
    Farhad Delaram
50. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley

Unranked due to personal connections

• Fingernails
  Christos Nikou
• The Sweet East
  Sean Price Williams

Nick Schager: The 10 Best Movies of 2023, as published by The Daily Beast

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

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
3. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
4. Perfect Days
   Wim Wenders
5. Beau Is Afraid
   Ari Aster
6. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
7. Afire
   Christian Petzold
8. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
   Frederick Wiseman
9. The Killer
   David Fincher
10. The Eternal Memory
    Maite Alberdi

Honorable mentions

• American Fiction
  Cord Jefferson
• Anatomy of a Fall
  Justine Triet
• De humani corporis fabrica
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Infinity Pool
  Brandon Cronenberg
• Personality Crisis: One Night Only
  Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi
• The Promised Land
  Nikolaj Arcel
• Sanctuary
  Zachary Wigon
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer

Michael Sicinski: 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023, which he describes as "some of the experimental films and videos from this year that inspired, entertained, and challenged me in the course of my viewing"

[see also The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022 • The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s • Top 50 Films of 2018 • Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018 • Top 25 Films of 2017 • Top 10 Films of 2016 • Top 12 Films of 2014 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 12 Films of 2012]

• Ashes By Name Is Man
  Ewelina Rosinksa
• Color Negative
  Sara Sowell
• The Enlightenment
  Stephanie Barber
• Gush
  Fox Maxy
• Here & Elsewhere
  Bram Ruiter
• I Cannot Now Recall
  Kersti Jan Werdal
• If You Don't Watch the Way You Move
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• It follows It passes on
  Erica Sheu
• Laberint Sequences
  Blake Williams
• Let's Talk
  Simon Liu
• Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
  Tomonari Nishikawa
• The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings
  Damon Packard
• Muted Bridges
  Yan Wai Yin
• NYC RGB
  Viktoria Schmid
• Sea of Glass
  Francisco Rojas
• Shrooms
  Jorge Jácome
• Slow Shift
  Shambhavi Kaul
• Spark from a Falling Star
  Ross Meckfessel
• spoils
  Luciana Decker Orozco
• Stained Night
  Andrés Medina
• Sundown
  Steve Reinke
• Sunflower Siege Engine
  Sky Hopinka
• Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: 'Phony Wars'
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Trouble
  Miranda Pinnell
• We Don't Talk Like We Used To
  Joshua Gen Solondz

Scott Tobias: The Best Movies of 2023, as posted at The Reveal where it appears alongside fun selections like "Reason for Hope," "Reason for Despair," "Most Annoying Discourse," and "Most Anticipated Film" of next year

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

1. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
2. May December
   Todd Haynes
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
4. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
5. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
6. Our Body
   Claire Simon
7. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
8. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
9. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
10. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
11. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
12. Falcon Lake
    Charlotte Le Bon
13. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Frederick Wiseman
14. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
15. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig

Honorable Mentions (no order)

• The Royal Hotel
  Kitty Green
• Enys Men
  Mark Jenkin
• Skinamarink
  Kyle Edward Ball
• R.M.N.
  Cristian Mungiu
• The Eternal Memory
  Maite Alberdi
• Passages
  Ira Sachs
• Asteroid City
  Wes Anderson
• The Killer
  David Fincher
• Past Lives
  Celine Song
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• Priscilla
  Sofia Coppola
• All of Us Strangers
  Andrew Haigh
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
• M3GAN
  Gerard Johnstone
• The Pigeon Tunnel
  Errol Morris
• Barbie
  Greta Gerwig
• The Boy and the Heron
  Hayao Miyazaki
• Fallen Leaves
  Aki Kaurismäki
• The Mission
  Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss

Keith Phipps: The Best Movies of 2023, as posted at The Reveal where it appears alongside fun selections like "Reason for Hope," "Reason for Despair," "Most Annoying Discourse," and "Most Anticipated Film" of next year

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Fallen Leaves
   Aki Kaurismäki
3. May December
   Todd Haynes
4. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
5. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
   Kelly Fremon Craig
7. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
8. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
9. Past Lives
   Celine Song
10. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson
11. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
12. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
13. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
14. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
15. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne

Honorable mentions (in no particular order)

• Priscilla
  Sofia Coppola
• The Killer
  David Fincher
• Passages
  Ira Sachs
• The Royal Hotel
  Kitty Green
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer
• Suzume
  Makoto Shinkai
• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Dream Scenario
  Kristoffer Borgli
• The Eight Mountains
  Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
• The Starling Girl
  Laurel Parmet
• A Thousand and One
  A.V. Rockwell
• The Teachers' Lounge
  İlker Çatak
• You Hurt My Feelings
  Nicole Holofcener
• Ferrari
  Michael Mann
• M3GAN
  Gerard Johnstone
• Napoleon
  Ridley Scott
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• BlackBerry
  Matt Johnson
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
• Cassandro
  Roger Ross Williams
• Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
  Julien Chheng & Jean-Christophe Roger
• Beau Is Afraid
  Ari Aster
• Afire
  Christian Petzold
• Return to Seoul
  Davy Chou

Mike D’Angelo: Top Ten Films of 2023 as posted to Patreon where it's accompanied by a few bonus selections like "most overrated" and "most pleasant surprise"

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

1. Falcon Lake
   Charlotte Le Bon
2. Enys Men
   Mark Jenkin
3. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
4. In Water
   Hong Sang-soo
5. The Apartment with Two Women
   Kim Se-in
6. The Royal Hotel
   Kitty Green
7. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
8. The Five Devils
   Léa Mysius
9. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
10. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt