Year-End Lists

Clarisse Loughrey: The Best Films of 2023, as published by The Independent, drawing from films released in the UK over the past year

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
4. Pearl
   Ti West
5. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
6. Babylon
   Damien Chazelle
7. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
8. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
9. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
10. Rotting in the Sun
    Sebastián Silva
11. Passages
    Ira Sachs
12. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
13. May December
    Todd Haynes
14. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
15. Reality
    Tina Satter