Year-End Lists

Scott Tobias: The Best Movies of 2023, as posted at The Reveal where it appears alongside fun selections like "Reason for Hope," "Reason for Despair," "Most Annoying Discourse," and "Most Anticipated Film" of next year

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
2. May December
   Todd Haynes
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
4. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
5. The Holdovers
   Alexander Payne
6. Our Body
   Claire Simon
7. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
8. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
9. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
10. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
11. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
12. Falcon Lake
    Charlotte Le Bon
13. Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
    Frederick Wiseman
14. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
15. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig

Honorable Mentions (no order)

• The Royal Hotel
  Kitty Green
• Enys Men
  Mark Jenkin
• Skinamarink
  Kyle Edward Ball
• R.M.N.
  Cristian Mungiu
• The Eternal Memory
  Maite Alberdi
• Passages
  Ira Sachs
• Asteroid City
  Wes Anderson
• The Killer
  David Fincher
• Past Lives
  Celine Song
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• Priscilla
  Sofia Coppola
• All of Us Strangers
  Andrew Haigh
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
• M3GAN
  Gerard Johnstone
• The Pigeon Tunnel
  Errol Morris
• Barbie
  Greta Gerwig
• The Boy and the Heron
  Hayao Miyazaki
• Fallen Leaves
  Aki Kaurismäki
• The Mission
  Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss