Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: The Top Forty-Five Films Of 2023, which is "properly ranked" this year — although he wonders how important that is, "how potently does it signify?" — and includes supplementary notes throughout and additional lists of restorations and festival faves.

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
3. Fallen Leaves
   Aki Kaurismäki
4. Infinity Pool
   Brandon Cronenberg
5. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
6. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
7. Tori and Lokita
   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
8. The Killer
   David Fincher
9. Priscilla
   Sofia Coppola
10. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
11. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    Wes Anderson
12. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
13. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
14. Passages
    Ira Sachs
15. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
    Steven Soderbergh
16. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
17. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
18. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
19. Master Gardener
    Paul Schrader
20. Afire
    Christian Petzold
21. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
22. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
23. La Civil
    Teodora Mihai
24. It Ain't Over
    Sean Mullin
25. Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
    Roddy Bogawa & Storm Thorgerson
26. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
27. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
28. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
29. Anselm
    Wim Wenders
30. The Sweet East
    Sean Price Williams
31. Napoleon
    Ridley Scott
32. Thanksgiving
    Eli Roth
33. Silent Night
    John Woo
34. May December
    Todd Haynes
35. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
36. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie
37. Raid On The Lethal Zone
    Herman Yau
38. A Haunting in Venice
    Kenneth Branagh
39. Streetwise
    Na Jiazuo
40. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
41. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
42. The Iron Claw
    Sean Durkin
43. Mister Organ
    David Farrier
44. Joyland
    Saim Sadiq
45. Return to Dust
    Li Ruijun