Best Movies Released in 2023

I’m gradually returning to posting lists like this one even though I missed doing so for the years 2022, 2021, and 2020. This is mainly because there are some movies in each of those other years that I haven’t seen and they’re difficult to access. I don’t want to produce incomplete lists so once they’re posted, they’ll be very belated.

And the movies you see here on this list I haven’t even posted reviews for yet but I eventually will. In any case, I use the Olympic medal standards for how I would rate the movies plus a list of honourable mentions. Here they are:

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Gold Medals: none

Silver Medals: Anatomy of a Fall (France); Killers of the Flower Moon (USA)

Bronze Medals: American Fiction (US Indie)

Honourable Mentions: Past Lives (US Indie / Korea); The Holdovers (US Indie); All of Us Strangers (UK); The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany); The Taste of Things (France);

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Outstanding Achievements:

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Directing: Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Screenplay: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall); Cord Jefferson (American Fiction) – based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett

Acting: the ensemble cast of “Anatomy of a Fall”

Other: the cinematography, set design, and costumes of “Killers of the Flower Moon”

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In the next two lists, the movies mentioned were produced in the USA unless otherwise mentioned:

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Great Old Movies Seen for the First Time in 2023

Sorcerer (1977); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974); My Brilliant Career (1979-Australia); Sweet Charity (1969); Faces (1968); The Bad Seed (1956); Two for the Road (1967-UK); The Wiz (1978); The Love Parade (1929); Rosita (1923 – Silent)

Great Old Movies Seen Again Time in 2023

An Unmarried Woman (1978); Brief Encounter (1945-UK); From Here to Eternity (1953); Pleasantville (1998); Fantasia (1940 / Animated); Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); Unforgiven (1992); Network (1976); The China Syndrome (1979); Midnight Cowboy (1969); On Golden Pond (1981); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Ninotchka (1939); To Be or Not to Be (1942)