Year-End Lists

The Guardian: The 50 Best Films of 2023, drawn from films released this year in the US and posted alongside a similar list based on UK releases

[see also 2024 • 2021 • 2017 • 2015]

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
3. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
4. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
5. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
6. 20 Days in Mariupol
   Mstyslav Chernov
7. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
8. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
9. Godland
   Hlynur Pálmason
10. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
11. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
12. The Eight Mountains
    Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
13. Maestro
    Bradley Cooper
14. Alcarràs
    Carla Simón
15. Amanda
    Carolina Cavalli
16. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    Haruki Murakami
17. After Love
    Aleem Khan
18. Full Time
    Éric Gravel
19. Monster
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
20. Incredible But True
    Quentin Dupieux
21. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
22. Joyland
    Saim Sadiq
23. Fremont
    Babak Jalali
24. Love Life
    Kôji Fukada
25. May December
    Todd Haynes
26. Nostalgia
    Mario Martone
27. Pretty Red Dress
    Dionne Edwards
28. The Teachers' Lounge
    İlker Çatak
29. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
30. Memory
    Michel Franco
31. Wonka
    Paul King
32. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
33. Napoleon
    Ridley Scott
34. Strange Way of Life
    Pedro Almodóvar
35. Passages
    Ira Sachs
36. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
37. Bad Press
    Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler
38. Rodeo
    Lola Quivoron
39. The Deepest Breath
    Laura McGann
40. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson
41. The Future Tense
    Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy
42. Orlando, My Political Biography
    Paul B. Preciado
43. Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
    Amanda Kim
44. War Pony
    Riley Keough and Gina Gammell
45. The Beasts
    Rodrigo Sorogoyen
46. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Daniel Goldhaber
47. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
48. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
49. Anselm
    Wim Wenders
50. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson