Year-End Lists

David Fear: The 20 Best Movies of 2023, as published by Rolling Stone

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
4. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
6. The Quiet Girl
   Colm Bairéad
7. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
8. The Delinquents
   Rodrigo Moreno
9. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
   Raven Jackson
10. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
11. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
12. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
13. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
14. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
15. Skinamarink
    Kyle Edward Ball
16. Passages
    Ira Sachs
17. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
18. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
19. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
20. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan

some additional 2023 shout-outs

• American Symphony
  Matthew Heineman
• Earth Mama
  Savanah Leaf
• Infinity Pool
  Brandon Cronenberg
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
  Frederick Wiseman
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• R.M.N.
  Cristian Mungiu
• Smoking Causes Coughing
  Quentin Dupieux
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• A Thousand and One
  A.V. Rockwell