# The best movies of 2023

The 2023 films that topped critics' year-end lists and Metacritic's best-reviewed ranking, ordered by consensus between critics and audiences.

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- Mar 6, 2024 · Rosie Atkinson
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## Top 20

1. **Past Lives** (181 · ▲193 ▼12) — Celine Song's debut about two childhood friends from Seoul reunited in New York; Metascore 94.
2. **Oppenheimer** (144 · ▲164 ▼20) — Christopher Nolan's biopic of the father of the atomic bomb, winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture.
3. **Anatomy of a Fall** (104 · ▲112 ▼8) — Justine Triet's courtroom drama that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
4. **The Zone of Interest** (101 · ▲116 ▼15) — Jonathan Glazer's chilling portrait of the Auschwitz commandant's family life; Oscar for Best International Feature.
5. **Killers of the Flower Moon** (100 · ▲123 ▼23) — Martin Scorsese's account of the Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma, with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio.
6. **The Boy and the Heron** (93 · ▲104 ▼11) — Hayao Miyazaki's return to directing, winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
7. **Poor Things** (76 · ▲85 ▼9) — Yorgos Lanthimos' Frankenstein-like fable starring Emma Stone, who won the Oscar for Best Actress.
8. **Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse** (67 · ▲90 ▼23) — The animated sequel that pushed the visual style of the first film even further across the multiverse.
9. **The Holdovers** (64 · ▲78 ▼14) — Alexander Payne's 1970s boarding-school Christmas comedy; Da'Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress.
10. **Barbie** (62 · ▲73 ▼11) — Greta Gerwig's pink satire, the highest-grossing film of 2023 worldwide.
11. **All of Us Strangers** (57 · ▲70 ▼13) — Andrew Haigh's ghostly love story with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal; Metascore 90.
12. **Fallen Leaves** (52 · ▲67 ▼15) — Aki Kaurismäki's deadpan Helsinki love story, Jury Prize at Cannes 2023.
13. **Godzilla Minus One** (52 · ▲67 ▼15) — Takashi Yamazaki's post-war Godzilla, winner of the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
14. **May December** (51 · ▲61 ▼10) — Todd Haynes' unsettling melodrama with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.
15. **American Fiction** (40 · ▲56 ▼16) — Cord Jefferson's satire of the publishing industry, Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
16. **Perfect Days** (39 · ▲55 ▼16) — Wim Wenders' quiet film about a Tokyo toilet cleaner; Kōji Yakusho won Best Actor at Cannes.
17. **Trenque Lauquen** (35 · ▲50 ▼15) — Laura Citarella's four-hour Argentine mystery, one of the best-reviewed films of the year (Metascore 94).
18. **The Taste of Things** (34 · ▲48 ▼14) — Trần Anh Hùng's culinary romance with Juliette Binoche; Best Director at Cannes.
19. **Society of the Snow** (33 · ▲45 ▼12) — J. A. Bayona's retelling of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, nominated for Best International Feature.
20. **Monster** (32 · ▲48 ▼16) — Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama told from three points of view; Best Screenplay at Cannes 2023.
21. **Asteroid City** (28 · ▲48 ▼20) — Wes Anderson's 1950s desert-town comedy about a junior stargazer convention.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.