Year-End Lists

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