Thrillers and anxiety inducing flicks.
Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
UPDATED: 1/2/2024
Latest releases with IMDB score 6.7+ and minimum votes 10000+
39th Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Feature: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06. | 01 - Past Lives (Celine Song).
- Best First Feature: 07, 08, 09, 10, 11. | 07 - A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell).
- Best International Film: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. | 12 - Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet).
- Best Director: 01, 03, 05, 06, 17. | 01 - Past Lives (Celine Song).
- Best Lead Performance: 01, 01, 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 18, 19, 20. | 02 - American Fiction (Jeffrey Wright).
- Best Supporting Performance: 02, 02, 03, 06, 17, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24. | 21 - The Holdovers (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).
- Best Screenplay: 01, 02, 19, 21, 25. | 02 - American Fiction (Cord Jefferson).
- Best First Screenplay: 03, 09, 10, 23, 26. | 03 - May December (Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik).
- Best Cinematography: 13, 14, 15, 16, 21. | 21 - The Holdovers (Eigil Bryld).
- Best Editing: 04, 09, 23, 24, 27. | 27 - How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Garber).
- Best Documentary: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. | 36 - Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania).
- Robert Altman Award (ensemble cast, dir. and casting dir.): 28. | 28 - Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, Gayle Keller).
- John Cassavetes Award (best feature under $1,000,000): 24, 29, 30, 31, 32. | 29 - Fremont (Babak Jalali).
- Someone to Watch Award: 19, 33, 34. | 34 - Mountains (Monica Sorelle).
- Truer Than Fiction Award: 35, 41, 42. | 35 - Unseen (Set Hernandez).
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87 2023 releases seen.
12 The Creator - While granted, it didn't do much original with the story. For me at least, it was solid world-building, that felt complete and I'll always have a bias to an original IP Sci-fi with a mid-budget that looked as good as it did. Because if you don't support them, enjoy the only sci-fi's we get to be more superhero stuff.
11 How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Small budget, felt real, good messaging without feeling over the top since all the characters had different motivations for the actions.
10 Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. - The first of two coming-of-age movies, set in 1970/1 released in 2023. Heartfelt with some really top-shelf performances, Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams.
9 Asteroid City - One that seemed to be quite polarizing, and while I understand why it might not make someone's top list, I have zero clue how it made some people's worst lists. If this is on your worst movies of the year list, you need to watch more things like Expenfourbles.
8 Sisu - Good by John Wick 4, hello Sisu for my top action movie of the year by a significant margin. Not too much to say, apart from its tight 91-minute runtime, loaded full of brutal Nazi murder.
7 Full Time - I saw a trailer for Anatomy of a Fall which it was labeled "The Most Tense Movie of the year", unfortunately for Anatomy of a Fall for me, that award goes firmly to Full Time. I had to pause the movie at a certain point because my nerves needed a break, only to see I was only 20 minutes into the movie. Phenomenal.
6 The Artifice Girl - Small budget, bottle sci-fi movie, tiny cast, tightly written. I am biased with this one, as I love those really small intimate, sci-fi movies set in 1-2 rooms with a small cast.
5 Leave the World Behind - Another one that I know was fairly polarizing, but I know my own biases to movies and games where the viewer/player has the same knowledge as the characters on screen. I went in completely blind to the movie, not knowing a thing, and loved it. Ending was the weakest part, but I also love Netflix making a movie about the pro's of owning physical media.
4 Godzilla Minus One - I like a lot of people were surprised by this one, not only was it a better Godzilla movie than the Western releases, it had a human side that for the first time for me, made me care and invest into those human characters.
3 The Holdovers - The second coming-of-age movie set in 1970/1 to make my list. I adored this movie, it felt like an instant classic, and while there was some obvious nostalgia bait, what they also remembered to do, was tell a good story, with great characters and great performances.
2 Oppenheimer - This was always going to rate pretty high for me as I enjoy that period of history, Space Race, Atomic Race, Cold War etc so getting to see an incredibly produced biopic, all star cast with top tier perfomances.
1 Killers of the Flower Moon - Honestly surprised me that it took top spot, since I first finalise what's on my list and then work out ordering. This one just kept creeping up, didn't love it as much when I walked out of the cinema but it was one that I just kept thinking about long after.
Honourable Mentions:
Godland
Anatomy of a Fall
Shortcomings
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Door Mouse
The Killer
Rye Lane
Dream Scenario
Nimona
Past Lives
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These are the movies I watched in 2024, in the order I watched them.
Every movie nominated for any Spirit Award
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edgarwright UPDATED: On the very night of the BAFTA's, as we near the end of the 2023/2024 awards cycle, you will have already heard about several excellent films that are nominated, or have already won some hardware. But that's never the full story of the cinematic year.
With that in mind, here's 40 or so movies I saw in the last year that I enjoyed, was impressed by, or I think are of note, that were NOT nominated for either a BAFTA or an Oscar.
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Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
Academy, Bafta, Bifa, Critics Choice, DGA, Golden Globes, Gotham, Spirit, PGA, SAG, & Satellite
My ranking of films released in 2022.
Notes:
-No short films (1 hour minimum runtime)
-Films included are based on the year the film first premiered
-Ranking is based more on my personal enjoyment of a film rather than what rating I gave it
A ranking of movies by the number of awards won, and their respective categories, including all the major professional guild awards and the groups that qualify for membership on Rotten Tomatoes.
Last Updated 3/23/2024
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/awards-leaderboard-top-movies-of-2023/
The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the US during 2023
List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/05/the-50-best-movies-of-2023-in-the-us
Ranked as in the list
1: Past Lives
2: Killers of the Flower Moon
3: The Zone of Interest
4: The Holdovers
5: All of Us Strangers
6: 20 Days in Mariupol
7: Poor Things
8: The Boy and the Heron
9: Godland
10: Anatomy of a Fall
11: Showing Up
12: The Eight Mountains
13: Maestro
14: Alcarràs
15: Amanda
16: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
17: After Love
18: Full Time
19: Monster
20: Incredible But True
21: Pacifiction
22: Joyland
23: Fremont
24: Love Life
25: May December
26: Nostalgia
27: Pretty Red Dress
28: The Teachers’ Lounge
29: Oppenheimer
30: Memory
31: Wonka
32: You Hurt My Feelings
33: Napoleon
34: Strange Way of Life
35: Passages
36: The Taste of Things
37: Bad Press
38: Rodeo
39: The Deepest Breath
40: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
41: The Future Tense
42: Orlando, My Political Biography
43: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
44: War Pony
45: The Beasts
46: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
47: American Fiction
48: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
49: Anselm
50: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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