Mike's 2023 Movie List

I didn't see shit this year, but the top 7 are very good. The top 4 I think are as good as any other year. Iron Claw I'm nostalgic for and it works for me regardless of the inaccuracies.

1 Godzilla Minus One
2 Poor Things
3 Beau Is Afraid
4 The Boy and the Heron
5 The Iron Claw
6 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7 Air
8 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania
9 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
10 Teen Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
11 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
12 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
13 Migration
14 Wonka
15 Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
16 Blue Beetle
17 Shazam! Fury of the Gods
18 The Flash
19 The Super Mario Bros. Movie
20 Barbie
21 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
22 Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken
23 Haunted Mansion
24 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
25 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
26 Elemental
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Eric's 2023 Movie List

I've started thinking of these lists as "movies I want my kids to watch when they get older", and by that criterion there are quite a few classics on this year's list. The Holdovers was my favorite movie of the year, however I gave the edge to Oppenheimer for historical significance. As usual, I'm a sucker for Scorsese so Killers of the Flower Moon made my top 5 even though it's far from the top of my "Scorsese List". I think my top eight are very solid pictures, and beyond that, the top 25 or so are pretty decent as well. There are few gems to dig up that might not already be on your radar: TMNT-Mutant Mayhem is a perfect pre-teen action movie; Fool's Paradise is just straight-up funny and somehow poignant; A Thousand and One is an intruiging tale that won awards but didn't get a lot of audience attention, and 20 Days in Mariupol is a harrowing snapshot of the early days of the war in Ukraine that I feel a lot of people need to see. Anything below Barbie you don't need to watch unless you just happen to have a lot of time on your hands. Sadly, I missed The Taste of Things, Godzilla Minus One, The Teachers' Lounge, Beau is Afraid, Napoleon, and Four Daughters, but hope to catch up with them all soon.

1 Oppenheimer
2 The Holdovers
3 Killers of the Flower Moon
4 Poor Things
5 All of Us Strangers
6 Fair Play
7 Maestro
8 American Fiction
9 The Killer
10 Society of the Snow
11 A Haunting in Venice
12 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (and Dahl shorts)
13 Priscilla
14 A Thousand and One
15 Past Lives
16 Fool's Paradise
17 Asteroid City
18 The Iron Claw
19 AIR
20 Blackberry
21 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
22 Boston Strangler
23 All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
24 Nowhere
25 20 Days in Mariupol
26 Wonka
27 Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback
28 Take Care of Maya
29 The Saint of Second Chances
30 The Zone of Interest
31 Teeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
32 Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
33 The Jewel Thief
34 Being Mary Tyler Moore
35 Super Mario Brothers Movie
36 Big George Foreman
37 It Ain't Over
38 Last Stop Larrimah: Murder Down Under
39 Tetris
40 Nyad
41 Reality
42 Rustin
43 Anatomy of a Fall
44 Barbie
45 May December
46 Cocaine Bear
47 Sly
48 Silver Dollar Road
49 The Machine
50 Great Photo, Lovely Life
51 Big Mack: Gangsters and Gold
52 Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case
53 Leave the World Behind
54 David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived
55 Bank of Dave
56 Theater Camp
57 The Beanie Bubble
58 Victim/Suspect
59 Old Dads
60 South to Black Power
61 Pamela: A Love Story
62 Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
63 Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare
64 The Insurrectionist Next Door
65 Chowchilla
66 Time Bomb Y2K
67 The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker
68 Back to the Drive-In
69 The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring