Year-End Lists

Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023, as discussed on Kermode and Mayo's Take

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
3. Enys Men
   Mark Jenkin
4. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
5. One Fine Morning
   Mia Hansen-Løve

Also Absolutely Brilliant

• Polite Society
  Nida Manzoor
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  Daniel Goldhaber
• The Beasts
  Rodrigo Sorogoyen
• Pearl
  Ti West
• Close
  Lukas Dhont
• Broker
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Blue Jean
  Georgia Oakley
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• Beau Is Afraid
  Ari Aster
• Infinity Pool
  Brandon Cronenberg
• Rye Lane
  Raine Allen-Miller
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• Talk to Me
  Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Scrapper
  Charlotte Regan
• Dream Scenario
  Kristoffer Borgli
• Saltburn
  Emerald Fennell
• Bottoms
  Emma Seligman
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley

Documentaries

• The Automat
  Lisa Hurwitz
• In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
  Toby Amies
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
  Davis Guggenheim

Blockbusters

• Godzilla Minus One
  Takashi Yamazaki
• The Creator
  Gareth Edwards
• Barbie
  Greta Gerwig
• Oppenheimer
  Christopher Nolan
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski

Coming to the UK in 2024

• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer
• The Holdovers
  Alexander Payne