Best movies of 2023 - post-Oscars update

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
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    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...
    
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