Year-End Lists

Monica Castillo: Best Films of 2023, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

[see also 2025 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. American Fiction
   Cord Jefferson
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
3. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
4. A Thousand and One
   A.V. Rockwell
5. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
6. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
   Frederick Wiseman
7. May December
   Todd Haynes
8. Past Lives
   Celine Song
9. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
   Anna Hints
10. Rye Lane
    Raine Allen-Miller
11. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
12. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
13. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
14. King Coal
    Elaine McMillion Sheldon
15. Blue Jean
    Georgia Oakley
16. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    Nicole Newnham
17. The Eternal Memory
    Maite Alberdi
18. 20 Days in Mariupol
    Mstyslav Chernov
19. The Starling Girl
    Laurel Parmet
20. Something You Said Last Night
    Luis De Filippis

This list contributes to:

• Best Films of 2023 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll