Best movies of 2023 - post-Oscars update

[dougo]

As I mentioned in my best-of-year movies post, I consider the Oscars ceremony to be the unofficial end of the season for watching 2023 movies. So here's my "final" ranked list. This time I'm including ratings (out of 10) so you can see how I measure things on an absolute scale too. As usual, an asterisk means I watched it streaming online instead of in the theater; bolded movies are the ones I saw after my previous list.

9:

1. Inside
   
2. Robot Dreams
   
3. The Teachers' Lounge
   
   8:
   
4. Dream Scenario
   
5. Asteroid City
   
6. The Venture Brothers: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart*
   
7. Leave the World Behind
   
8. Anatomy of a Fall
   
9. Return to Seoul
   
10. Blue Beetle
    
11. Monster
    
12. The Killer
    
13. The Iron Claw
    
14. Past Lives
    
15. Knock at the Cabin
    
16. Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
    
17. Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
    
18. Aporia*
    
19. Johnny Keep Walking!
    
20. Magic Mike's Last Dance
    
21. The Taste of Things
    
22. Emily
    
23. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    
24. M3GAN
    
25. A Haunting in Venice
    
26. The Marvels
    
27. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    
    7:
    
28. The Eight Mountains
    
29. Theater Camp
    
30. The Promised Land
    
31. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    
32. Perfect Days
    
33. The Holdovers
    
34. Killers of the Flower Moon
    
35. The Royal Hotel
    
36. 65
    
37. Foe
    
38. BlackBerry
    
39. Showing Up*
    
40. The Boy and the Heron
    
41. Four Daughters*
    
42. Io Capitano
    
43. Murder Mystery 2*
    
44. Jules
    
45. To Kill a Tiger
    
46. The Blackening
    
47. How to Have Sex
    
48. Being Mary Tyler Moore*
    
49. The Flash
    
50. Joy Ride
    
51. They Cloned Tyrone*
    
52. Gran Turismo
    
53. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    
54. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
    
55. Creed III
    
56. All of Us Strangers
    
57. May December
    
58. Freud's Last Session
    
59. American Fiction
    
60. Origin
    
61. 20 Days in Mariupol*
    
62. Eileen
    
63. Bobi Wine: The People's President*
    
64. Rye Lane*
    
65. The Mission*
    
66. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
    
67. The Pigeon Tunnel*
    
68. Stan Lee*
    
    6:
    
69. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    
70. Barbie
    
71. Society of the Snow
    
72. Napoleon
    
73. John Wick: Chapter 4
    
74. The Creator
    
75. Anselm
    
76. Fallen Leaves
    
77. Alice, Darling
    
78. Beau Is Afraid
    
79. The End We Start From
    
80. Somebody I Used to Know
    
81. Love at First Sight
    
82. Fair Play
    
83. Silent Night
    
84. The Zone of Interest
    
85. El Conde*
    
86. Nyad*
    
87. Golda*
    
88. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
    
89. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
    
90. You Hurt My Feelings
    
91. Full River Red
    
92. Paint*
    
93. Saltburn
    
94. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    
    5:
    
95. Bottoms
    
96. Sanctuary
    
97. Maestro
    
98. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
    
99. The Eternal Memory*
    
100. No One Will Save You*
     
101. Rustin*
     
102. Priscilla
     
103. Master Gardener
     
104. Flamin' Hot*
     
105. American Symphony*
     
106. Dumb Money
     
107. What Happens Later
     
108. Godzilla Minus One
     
109. Ferrari
     
110. Anyone But You
     
     4:
     
111. Air
     
112. Nimona*
     
113. The Color Purple*
     
114. Poor Things
     
115. Hidden Blade
     
116. No Hard Feelings
     
117. Elemental*
     
118. Wonka
     
119. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
     
120. Tetris*
     
121. Oppenheimer
     
     2:
     
122. The Shift

For the record, here's my full list of 2023 releases that I didn't get around to watching. It's almost as long as the list of movies I did watch! There just aren't enough hours in the day...

32 Sounds
A Good Person
A Million Miles Away
A Thousand and One
Afire
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Amanda
Another Body
Artifice Girl
Between Two Worlds
Bikeriders
Biosphere
Caine Mutiny Court Martial
Carmen
Close Your Eyes
Daliland
Divinity
Dreamin' Wild
Energy: A Documentary About Damo Suzuki
Earth Mama
Even Hell Has Its Heroes
Fingernails
Flora and Son
Foremost By Night
Fremont
Frybread Face and Me
Godland
Good Grief
Head Count
Human Flowers of Flesh
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Hypnotic
I Used To Be Funny
Immediate Family
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
Infinity Pool
It Lives Inside
Jackals & Fireflies
Jagged Mind
La Chimera
Landscape with Invisible Hand
Linoleum
Lynch/Oz
Made in Massachusetts: 100 Years of Filmmaking in the Bay State
Mafia Mamma
Maggie Moore(s)
Marsh King's Daughter
Memory
Miguel Wants to Fight
Missing
Mon Crime
Monica
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Mutiny in Heaven
My Love Affair With Marriage
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose
Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody
Occupied City
Once Within A Time
One Fine Morning
Orphan Black Echoes
Outlaw Johnny Black
Pacifiction
Passages
Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
Plane
Polite Society
Quicksand
Rebel Moon
Reptile
Revoir Paris
Ride On
Sharper
She Came To Me
Shortcomings
Sick
Sick of Myself
Sisu
Stamped from the Beginning
Strange Way of Life
Suitable Flesh
Suzume
The Adults
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
The Baker
The Book of Solutions
The Delinquents
The Five Devils
The Goldfinger
The Good Mother
The Hollars
The Innocent
The Mother of All Lies
The Night of the 12th
The Origin of Evil
The Other Zoey
The Retirement Plan
The Starling Girl
The Sweet East
The Unknown Country
The YouTube Effect
Then You Run
Totally Killer
Trenque Lauquen
Unrest
War Pony
We Grown Now
What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
When You Finish Saving the World
Wildcat
You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah