The best movies of 2023
The top 3 according to 2,061 votes from people: Past Lives · Oppenheimer · Anatomy of a Fall. (Updated May 16, 2024.)
The 2023 films that topped critics' year-end lists and Metacritic's best-reviewed ranking, ordered by consensus between critics and audiences.
Top 20
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1
Past Lives
Celine Song's debut about two childhood friends from Seoul reunited in New York; Metascore 94.
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2
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan's biopic of the father of the atomic bomb, winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture.
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3
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet's courtroom drama that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
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4
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer's chilling portrait of the Auschwitz commandant's family life; Oscar for Best International Feature.
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5
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese's account of the Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma, with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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6
The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki's return to directing, winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
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7
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos' Frankenstein-like fable starring Emma Stone, who won the Oscar for Best Actress.
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8
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The animated sequel that pushed the visual style of the first film even further across the multiverse.
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9
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne's 1970s boarding-school Christmas comedy; Da'Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress.
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10
Barbie
Greta Gerwig's pink satire, the highest-grossing film of 2023 worldwide.
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11
All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh's ghostly love story with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal; Metascore 90.
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12
Fallen Leaves
Aki Kaurismäki's deadpan Helsinki love story, Jury Prize at Cannes 2023.
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13
Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki's post-war Godzilla, winner of the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
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14
May December
Todd Haynes' unsettling melodrama with Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.
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15
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson's satire of the publishing industry, Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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16
Perfect Days
Wim Wenders' quiet film about a Tokyo toilet cleaner; Kōji Yakusho won Best Actor at Cannes.
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17
Trenque Lauquen
Laura Citarella's four-hour Argentine mystery, one of the best-reviewed films of the year (Metascore 94).
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18
The Taste of Things
Trần Anh Hùng's culinary romance with Juliette Binoche; Best Director at Cannes.
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19
Society of the Snow
J. A. Bayona's retelling of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, nominated for Best International Feature.
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20
Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama told from three points of view; Best Screenplay at Cannes 2023.
Candidates
They don't make it into the top 20… yet. Vote for them to move them up.
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21
Asteroid City
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.
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Comments (13)
Barbenheimer summer, both great in different ways.
Godzilla Minus One is still the best Godzilla movie ever made.
The Zone of Interest gets more haunting every time I think about it.
Oppenheimer in IMAX was the movie event of the decade.
Rewatched Past Lives this month, still the best movie of that year for me.
Perfect Days is a quiet masterpiece. Koji Yakusho is incredible.
Past Lives at #1 is a bold and beautiful choice.
Glad to see Godzilla Minus One here, it's a genuinely great movie.
Past Lives at #1, love to see it. That ending at the Uber stop wrecked me.
Oppenheimer should be first. Best picture for a reason.
The Oscars aren't the final word on anything though.
The Zone of Interest is the most disturbing film I've ever seen without seeing anything violent on screen. The sound design is everything.
Barbie in a best of list lmao