The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. and Three More: "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison" by Roald Dahl(Wes Anderson)
Poor Things(Yorgos Lanthimos)
in water(Hong Sangsoo)
The Royal Hotel(Kitty Green)
Hit Man(Richard Linklater)
Occupied City(Steve McQueen)
Anatomy of a Fall(Justine Triet)
Perfect Days(Wim Wenders)
Bottoms(Emma Seligman)
Killers of the Flower Moon(Martin Scorsese)
Additional 2023 Films By Rating
Asteroid City(Wes Anderson)
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros(Frederick Wiseman)
Reality(Tina Satter)
Pictures of Ghosts(Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Evil Does Not Exist(Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Last Summer(Catherine Breillat)
The Zone of Interest(Jonathan Glazer)
Anselm(Wim Wenders)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.(Kelly Fremon Craig)
Air(Ben Affleck)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World(Radu Jude)
American Fiction(Cord Jefferson)
The Holdovers(Alexander Payne)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves(Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley)
Silent Night(John Woo)
The Beast(Bertrand Bonello)
A Thousand and One(A.V. Rockwell)
The Killer(David Fincher)
Wham!(Chris Smith)
The Delinquents(Rodrigo Moreno)
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One(Christopher McQuarrie)
Fallen Leaves(Aki Kaurismäki)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse(Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)
No Hard Feelings(Gene Stupnitsky)
Janet Planet(Annie Baker)
All of Us Strangers(Andrew Haigh)
The Pigeon Tunnel(Errol Morris)
Lumberjack the Monster(Takashi Miike)
Past Lives(Celine Song)
About Dry Grasses(Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Full River Red(Zhang Yimou)
The Boy and the Heron(Hayao Miyazaki)
Oppenheimer(Christopher Nolan)
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial(William Friedkin)
Polite Society(Nida Manzoor)
Tuesday(Daina O. Pusić)
John Wick Chapter 4(Chad Stahelski)
Eileen(William Oldroyd)
Green Border(Agnieszka Holland)
No One Will Save You(Brian Duffield)
The Taste of Things(Tran Anh Hung)
Four Daughters(Kaouther Ben Hania)
The Iron Claw(Sean Durkin)
Barbie(Greta Gerwig)
May December(Todd Haynes)
The Crime Is Mine(François Ozon)
G Minus One(Takashi Yamazaki)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3(James Gunn)
Beau Is Afraid(Ari Aster)
Io capitano(Matteo Garrone)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny(James Mangold)
Kidnapped(Marco Bellocchio)
Coup de chance(Woody Allen)
Gasoline Rainbow(Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross)
Maestro(Bradley Cooper)
Orlando, My Political Biography(Paul B. Preciado)
The Shadowless Tower(Zhang Lu)
You Hurt My Feelings(Nicole Holofcener)
La chimera(Alice Rohrwacher)
Ferrari(Michael Mann)
Monster(Kore-eda Hirokazu)
Tótem(Lila Avilés)
Together 99(Lukas Moodysson)
BlackBerry(Matt Johnson)
El Conde(Pablo Larraín)
Afire(Christian Petzold)
The Old Oak(Ken Loach)
The Settlers(Felipe Gálvez)
Youth (Spring)(Wang Bing)
Napoleon(Ridley Scott)
Firebrand(Karim Aïnouz)
Passages(Ira Sachs)
Magic Mike's Last Dance(Steven Soderbergh)
In Our Day(Hong Sangsoo)
Banel & Adama(Ramata-Toulaye Sy)
Club Zero(Jessica Hausner)
Here(Bas Devos)
Priscilla(Sofia Coppola)
Saltburn(Emerald Fennell)
Asphalt City(Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
Origin(Ava DuVernay)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt(Raven Jackson)
Music(Angela Schanelec)
Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list.