Year-End Lists

Sean Fennessey: Best Movies of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
   Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
3. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
4. May December
   Todd Haynes
5. The Taste of Things
   Trần Anh Hùng
6. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
7. The Killer
   David Fincher
8. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
9. John Wick: Chapter 4
   Chad Stahelski
10. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
11. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
12. The Iron Claw
    Sean Durkin
13. Past Lives
    Celine Song
14. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Daniel Goldhaber
15. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
16. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
17. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
18. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie
19. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
20. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
21. R.M.N.
    Cristian Mungiu
22. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
23. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
24. Passages
    Ira Sachs
25. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
26. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
27. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
28. Talk to Me
    Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
29. Maestro
    Bradley Cooper
30. Dream Scenario
    Kristoffer Borgli
31. Master Gardener
    Paul Schrader
32. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    William Friedkin
33. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
34. Leave the World Behind
    Sam Esmail
35. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
36. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
37. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
38. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
39. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
40. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
41. Napoleon
    Ridley Scott
42. Afire
    Christian Petzold
43. Air
    Ben Affleck
44. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
45. The Royal Hotel
    Kitty Green
46. They Cloned Tyrone
    Juel Taylor
47. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
48. The Artifice Girl
    Franklin Ritch
49. The Quiet Girl
    Colm Bairéad
50. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    James Gunn
51. Sick
    John Hyams
52. When Evil Lurks
    Demián Rugna
53. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
54. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Jeff Rowe
55. Creed III
    Michael B. Jordan
56. 20 Days in Mariupol
    Mstyslav Chernov
57. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
58. Evil Dead Rise
    Lee Cronin
59. The Covenant
    Guy Ritchie
60. Sick of Myself
    Kristoffer Borgli
61. Thanksgiving
    Eli Roth
62. Infinity Pool
    Brandon Cronenberg
63. Dreamin' Wild
    Bill Pohlad
64. Fair Play
    Chloe Domont
65. Knock at the Cabin
    M. Night Shyamalan
66. The Pigeon Tunnel
    Errol Morris
67. The Equalizer 3
    Antoine Fuqua
68. Rye Lane
    Raine Allen-Miller
69. No Hard Feelings
    Gene Stupnitsky
70. Fremont
    Babak Jalali
71. The Civil Dead
    Clay Tatum
72. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    Wes Anderson
73. The Burial
    Maggie Betts
74. Palm Trees and Power Lines
    Jamie Dack
75. Suzume
    Makoto Shinkai
76. Beyond Utopia
    Madeleine Gavin
77. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
    Davis Guggenheim
78. Memory
    Michel Franco
79. No One Will Save You
    Brian Duffield
80. Unrest
    Cyril Schäublin
81. Personality Crisis: One Night Only
    Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi
82. Scream VI
    Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
83. El Conde
    Pablo Larraín
84. Alcarràs
    Carla Simón
85. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    Nicole Newnham
86. Society of the Snow
    J.A. Bayona
87. Earth Mama
    Savanah Leaf
88. M3GAN
    Gerard Johnstone
89. Birth/Rebirth
    Laura Moss
90. Eileen
    William Oldroyd
91. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
    Rob Reiner
92. The Five Devils
    Léa Mysius
93. The Sweet East
    Sean Price Williams
94. Sanctuary
    Zachary Wigon
95. Theater Camp
    Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
96. Divinity
    Eddie Alcazar
97. Kokomo City
    D. Smith
98. Joy Ride
    Adele Lim
99. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
    Steven Soderbergh
100. Skinamarink
     Kyle Edward Ball