Year-End Lists

IndieWire: The 50 Best Movies of 2023, as voted by 158 film critics from around the world

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1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
3. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
4. Past Lives
   Celine Song
5. May December
   Todd Haynes
6. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
7. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
8. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
9. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
10. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
11. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
12. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
13. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
14. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
15. Passages
    Ira Sachs
16. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
17. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
18. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
19. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
20. Afire
    Christian Petzold
21. The Killer
    David Fincher
22. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
23. Maestro
    Bradley Cooper
24. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
25. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
26. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
27. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
28. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson
29. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
30. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
31. Kokomo City
    D. Smith
32. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
33. De humani corporis fabrica
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
34. Trenque Lauquen
    Laura Citarella
35. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
36. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
37. About Dry Grasses
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
38. 20 Days in Mariupol
    Mstyslav Chernov
39. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Frederick Wiseman
40. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
41. A Still Small Voice
    Luke Lorentzen
42. Four Daughters
    Kaouther Ben Hania
43. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
44. The Eight Mountains
    Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
45. Saltburn
    Emerald Fennell
46. The Eternal Memory
    Maite Alberdi
47. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
48. The Settlers
    Felipe Gálvez Haberle
49. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
50. Eileen
    William Oldroyd