Your top 20 films of 2023

Another brilliant year for film. My top 20 would look something like this:


Honoruable mentions to films like 'Pamfir', 'Falcon Lake', 'The Holdovers', 'Return to Seoul', 'The Blue Caftan', 'Afire'.

It's a shame that films like 'The Zone of Interest', 'Poor Things' and 'All of Us Strangers' aren't released where I am yet as they'd likely be in contention. And in years to come they'll be known as 2023 films, but they'll have to be in my 2024 list. Similarly some of those films above were made in 2022, but if it's only physically possible to see them in 2023, then they are going on my 2023 list!

What's on your list?

My top 20:

1. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
2. The Little Mermaid
3. Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
4. Oppenheimer
5. The Killer
6. Knock at the Cabin
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. May December
9. M3GAN
10. The Holdovers
11. Maestro
12. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
13. Cocaine Bear
14. The Slumber Party
15. The Color Purple
16. Asteroid City
17. Killers of the Flower Moon
18. No Hard Feelings
19. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
20. Stamped from the Beginning

Honourable mentions: American Symphony, Scream VI, and Infinity Pool.

Nice to see "Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie" - not seen many people mention that in 2023 round-ups.

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There's still a few I want to see, but I'm taking a break from new releases for a while, so here goes:

1. Past Lives
2. The Holdovers
3. BlackBerry
4. Asteroid City
5. Polite Society
6. They Cloned Tyrone
7. Rye Lane
8. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
9. Barbie
10. Bottoms
11. Chevalier
12. The Iron Claw
13. Theater Camp
14. Nimona
15. The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
16. Wham!
17. Sisu
18. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
19. Evil Dead Rise
20. Dumb Money

Still have five or six I want to catch up with, but thus far (in no particular order) Poor Things, Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Flora and Son, Saltburn, Fingernails, Past Lives, Fallen Leaves, You Hurt My Feelings, Asteroid City, Dicks: The Musical, Are You There, God, it's Me, Margaret?, Anatomy of a Fall, Cat Person, The Killer, Cocaine Bear, and Renfield.

Still want to see American Fiction, The Color Purple, Robot Dreams, She Came to Me, All of Us Strangers, Rotting in the Sun, and Bottoms.

Right now, gonna be tough for anything to top Poor Things as my number one. Just fleshing out the rest.

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I plan on watching Saltburn in the next couple of days. Still need to see the latest Scorsese picture, also.

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Your top 20 list sounds interesting. For me it's Dune, Poor things, Avatar and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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1. Barbie
2. Godzilla Minus 1
3. Across the Spoderverse
4. Guardians of the Galaxy pt 3

5. Five Nights at Freddys

6 M3GAN
7. Bottoms

8. Dungeons and Dragons
9. Oppenheimer
10. Elemental
11. Super Mario Bros
12. TMNT Mutant Mayhem
13. Creed 3
14. Trolls Band Together
15. A Haunting in Venice
16. The Boy and the Heron
17. Mission Impossible Dead Rrckoning pt 1
18. Wonka
19. Saw X
20. Scream 6

1. M3GAN
2. The Killer
3. Talk to Me
4. Eileen
5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
6. Barbie
7. Strays
8. No Hard Feelings
9. Sound of Freedom
10. Dumb Money
11. The Artifice Girl
12. Elemental
13. Bottoms
14. Air
15. Gran Turismo
16. Love Again
17. Totally Killer
18. Cobweb
19. The Pope's Exorcist
20. Blue Beetle

Oh no, you won't make me work for free.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Ahh - Okay, for me I picked only movies that have official 2023 release dates. There were some terrific 2022 films I saw in 2023 which were released in Australia later than elsewhere, but I just felt like keeping these films compartmentalized. Please note - as the years go by a lot of really great smaller films get seen by me, and will worm their way in over time.

MY TOP 2023 FILMS

1 - Past Lives
2 - Saltburn
3 - Killers of the Flower Moon
4 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5 - Oppenheimer
6 - Blackberry
7 - Asteroid City
8 - The Zone of Interest
9 - Poor Things
10 - Beau is Afraid
11 - Anatomy of a Fall
12 - The Old Oak
13 - The Holdovers
14 - Society of the Snow
15 - Evil Dead Rise
16 - Reality
17 - Theater Camp
18 - The Boy and the Heron
19 - The Killer
20 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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Is that the Korean one?

No, it's American one.

I think these are the title with a release date of 2023 that I saw, ranked from best to worst, with the last title being a DNF.

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Holdovers
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning: Part 1
6. Poor Things
7. American Fiction
8. Blackberry
9. Talk to Me
10. Creed III
11. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
12. No One Will Save You
13. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves
14. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
15. Totally Killer
16. Napolean
17. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
18. M3GAN
19. Scream VI
20. The Flash
21. The Marvels
22. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (DNF)

M3gan and Bottoms were indeed awesome! Glad to see they both made your list.

Past Lives, May December, and Dream Scenario I can agree with. The rest are all "hyperbole".

The Holdovers doesn't get an honorable mention. It takes the Top honors.

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1. Poor Things
2. The Holdovers
3. Oppenheimer
4. The Zone of Interest
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Barbie
7. Past Lives
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. All of Us Strangers
10. American Fiction
11. Flora + Son
12. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
13. Asteroid City
14. Fallen Leaves
15. How To Blow Up a Pipeline
16. They Cloned Tyrone
17. AIR
18. You Hurt My Feelings
19. The Color Purple
20. Cocaine Bear

1. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2. Oppenheimer
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
5. Tetris
6. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
7. Creed III
8. Extraction 2
9. Air
10. Maestro
11. Totally Killer
12. John Wick Chapter 4
13. Genie
14. Sound of Freedom
15. G Minus One
16. Hypnotic
17. May December
18. A Man Called Otto
19. Sly
20. The Family Plan



Made this list at the end of the year. Technically A Man Called Otto is 2022. I'd probably put American Fiction somewhere around there in its place.