Top 10 of 2023

[Peng]

Another annual thread after half a year's over.

[Peng]

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. John Wick: Chapter 4
3. Diary of a Fleeting Affair
4. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
6. Full Time
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
8. A Thousand and One
9. You & Me & Me
10. Joyland

[MadMan]

Top 5 cause I've only seen 11 movies so far from 2023, I usually aim for quality over quantity. Actually that's not true, either.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Asteroid City
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3
5. Dugeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

[Ivan Drago]

15. Pathaan
14. Talk To Me
13. John Wick Chapter 4
12. Infinity Pool
11. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
10. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
09. Showing Up
08. Sisu
07. The Starling Girl
06. Blackberry
05. Beau Is Afraid
04. Polite Society
03. Sick of Myself
02. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
01. Past Lives

[Peng]

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Asteroid City
4. John Wick: Chapter 4
5. Diary of a Fleeting Affair
6. Past Lives
7. Falcon Lake
8. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
9. Showing Up
10. Barbie

[Idioteque Stalker]

Movies I had reasonable access to for the first time in 2023 (USA release not counting festivals/NY/LA).

1. Barbie
2. Asteroid City
3. No Bears
4. Women Talking
5. Close
6. Past Lives
7. Spiderman
8. Showing Up
9. The Artifice Girl
10. Oppenheimer

[Peng]

1. The Swan
2. Oppenheimer
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Asteroid City
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. Diary of a Fleeting Affair
9. Past Lives
10. Falcon Lake

[Peng]

1. The Swan
2. Oppenheimer
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. Not Friends
7. Asteroid City
8. May December
9. Fallen Leaves
10. Killers of the Flower Moon

[Skitch]

I added several 2023 movies to my list, but overall my list is more like "I have seen these releases" than "these are good movies" lol. Checkoff list stuff

[baby doll]

Premieres (features)

Warm
Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao)
Music (Angela Schanelec)
Passages (Ira Sachs)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Orlando, ma biographie politique (Paul B. Preciado)
Roter Himmel (Christian Petzold)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

Mild
Anatomie d'une chute (Justine Triet)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli)
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki)
The Killer (David Fincher)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Denis Cote)
May December (Todd Haynes)
The Mother of All Lies (Asmae El Moudir)
Once Within a Time (Godfrey Reggio)
Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
Together 99 (Lukas Moodysson)

Cold
City of Wind (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
He Thought He Died (Isiah Medina)
Here (Bas Devos)
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Ishaya Bako)
Kein Wort (Hanna Antonina Wojcik-Slak)
The Monk and the Gun (Pawo Choyning Dorji)
Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
Snow Leopard (Pema Tseden)

NYC Commercial Releases

Spicy
Unrueh (Cyril Schaublin)

Warm
Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayo)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Verena Paravel)
Passages (Ira Sachs)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Orlando, ma biographie politique (Paul B. Preciado)
Roter Himmel (Christian Petzold)
Twist a Bamako (Robert Guediguian)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

Mild
Anatomie d'une chute (Justine Triet)
El Agua (Elena Lopez Riera)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli)
Les Enfants des autres (Rebecca Zlotowski)
L'Etrange Monsieur Victor (Jean Gremillon [1938])
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki)
Joyland (Saim Sadiq)
The Killer (David Fincher)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
The Long Farewell (Kira Muratova [1971])
Love Life (Fukada Koji)
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
May December (Todd Haynes)
Once Within a Time (Godfrey Reggio)
RMN (Cristian Mungiu)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
Walk Up (Hong Sangsoo)
Will-O'-the-Wisp (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)

Cold
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha [1964])
The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)

[Peng]

"Mostly" finalized list, to be edited later as there are some big pending blindspots, but I feel this is late enough to make this post now lol

1. The Swan (Wes Anderson)
2. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
4. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
6. The First Slam Dunk (Takehiko Inoue)
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson)
8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson)
9. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
10. Not Friends (Atta Hemwadee)

11. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
12. Perfect Days (Wim Winders)
13. Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
14. May December (Todd Haynes)
15. Blue Giant (Yuzuru Tachikawa)
16. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
17. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurism?ki)
18. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
19. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
20. Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret)

HM: Past Lives (Celine Song), Undertaker (Thiti Srinuan), Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon), Once Upon a Star (Nonzee Nimibutr), Theater Camp (Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman)

Pending: Occupied City, Anselm, Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, Godzilla Minus One, Renaissance