The best thriller movies of 2023
The top 3 according to 2,078 votes from people: Anatomy of a Fall · Oppenheimer · The Killer. (Updated May 5, 2024.)
Anatomy of a Fall, The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon: the thrillers of 2023 critics rated highest (Digital Trends, Screen Rant, Rotten Tomatoes, Taste of Cinema).
Top 10
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Anatomy of a Fall
A woman on trial for her husband's death; Palme d'Or winner.
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Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan's most ambitious film.
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The Killer
Michael Fassbender as David Fincher's methodical assassin.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese and the Osage murders.
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Young activists plan a sabotage, loosely based on Andreas Malm's book.
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Saltburn
Emerald Fennell's twisted summer at an aristocratic estate.
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No One Will Save You
A nearly wordless alien home invasion, praised by Stephen King.
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Leave the World Behind
A holiday rental, strangers at the door and a blackout.
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Fair Play
A couple at a hedge fund, and a promotion that ruins everything.
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Missing
A teenager searches for her missing mother entirely through screens.
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Comments (14)
Anatomy of a Fall is a masterclass, I still don't know what I think happened.
That's the point, the film never tells you. Sandra Hüller is incredible.
Saltburn is more provocative than good, but I couldn't stop watching.
Oppenheimer as a thriller is a stretch, but the Trinity test sequence is pure tension.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is the most tense heist-style movie of the year and nobody saw it.
Missing is so much better than it has any right to be, the screen format works.
Leave the World Behind gave me anxiety for a week.
The Killer is Fincher in cold, precise mode. Loved every minute.
Fair Play is brutal, that couple's dynamic is terrifying.
I found The Killer kind of boring honestly, too much voiceover.
The voiceover is the joke, he keeps breaking his own rules.
Killers of the Flower Moon is three and a half hours and I didn't check my phone once.
Lily Gladstone carries that whole film.
No One Will Save You is such a cool idea, almost no dialogue at all.