Best Movies of 2023
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Poor ThingsLanthimos builds an entire world for one performance, and Emma Stone is worth every fisheye lens.Read the review
OppenheimerA three-hour talking picture that detonates; Nolan's densest and most haunted film.
Past LivesTwo people who were never going to work spend twenty-four years finding that out, very gently.
Anatomy of a FallA courtroom drama about a marriage, where the trial is really an audit of two writers' resentments.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseThe most inventive animation in American film, attached to about two thirds of a story.
The Zone of InterestThe horror is entirely off camera, and Glazer makes the wall between the two into the whole film.
Society of the SnowThe Andes survival story told with its dead at the center, a crash sequence of real horror and none of the sensationalism the story usually attracts.
12th FailAn underdog story built from the most familiar parts, made new by Vikrant Massey and by how exactly it knows the exam-factory world.
The HoldoversThree lonely people stuck in an empty boarding school, played with more grace than the shape deserves.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Gunn closes his trilogy with a devastating flashback and the best corridor fight the studio has ever staged.