Best Films of 2023: Our Individual Top 10 Lists

The Loud and Clear writers’ individual top 10 lists for the best films of 2023, with 82 great movies that were all released this year. Read our picks!

What were the best films of 2023? If you ask our writers, every single one of them will come up with a different answer, because this year was a fantastic year for movies! Take a look at 23 of our writers’ individual top 10 lists, as you wait for our official list of best films of 2023 later this week! It will give you a total of 82 great films to add to your watchlists!

Please note: our individual top 10 lists only include movies that have had their first U.S. or U.K. release in the year 2023, not counting film festival debuts. Not all of our critics have been able to see all of this year’s releases.

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AARON MURRAY

1. Oppenheimer
2. Killers of The Flower Moon
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
5. Talk to Me
6. Anatomy of A Fall
7. Skinamarink
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. Knock At The Cabin
10. Blackberry

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BETHANY LOLA

1. The Sweet East
2. The Holdovers
3. Killers of The Flower Moon
4. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
5. Amanda
6. Saltburn
7. Fallen Leaves
8. Evil Dead Rise
9. Scrapper
10. Oppenheimer

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BRANYAN TOWE

1. Bottoms
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Poor Things
4. Oppenheimer
5. Barbie
6. Killers of The Flower Moon
7. Scream VI
8. Maestro
9. Saltburn
10. The Iron Claw

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CLOTILDE CHINNICI

1. The Old Oak
2. Past Lives
3. The Holdovers
4. All of Us Strangers
5. Four Daughters
6. Perfect Days
7. Saltburn
8. How to Have Sex
9. Killers of The Flower Moon
10. Barbie

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CONNOR LIGHTBODY

1. Past Lives
2. Origin
3. Poor Things
4. Monica
5. Monster
6. Asteroid City
7. The Blue Caftan
8. Reality
9. The Killer
10. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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DANIEL ALLEN

1. All of Us Strangers
2. Oppenheimer
3. Past Lives
4. The Taste of Things
5. The Holdovers
6. Blue Jean
7. The Saint of Second Chances
8. Rye Lane
9. Killers of The Flower Moon
10. Other People’s Children

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EDGAR ORTEGA

1. Past Lives
2. Oppenheimer
3. May December
4. Saltburn
5. John Wick: Chapter 4
6. Anatomy of A Fall
7. Poor Things
8. Killers of The Flower Moon
9. Barbie
10. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

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GEORGI PETKOV

1. Past Lives
2. Talk to Me
3. May December
4. Anatomy of A Fall
5. Saltburn
6. Mutt
7. Sick of Myself
8. The Holdovers
9. Barbie
10. Killers of The Flower Moon

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HECTOR A. GONZALEZ

1. The Zone of Interest
2. La Chimera
3. Pacifiction
4. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
5. One Fine Morning
6. About Dry Grasses
7. Godland
8. Trenque Lauquen
9. Priscilla
10. Past Lives

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JACK WALTERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Past Lives
3. Anatomy of A Fall
4. Killers of The Flower Moon
5. The Holdovers
6. John Wick: Chapter 4
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. Godzilla Minus One
9. Saltburn
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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JONATHAN VARGAS

1. Anatomy of A Fall
2. Oppenheimer 
3. The Iron Claw
4. Past Lives
5. Poor Things
6. Barbie
7. Bottoms 
8. Fair Play
9. Maestro
10. Saltburn

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JOSEPH TOMASTIK

1. Oppenheimer
2. Monster
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Bottoms
6. Fair Play
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. Saltburn
9. Anatomy of A Fall
10. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

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JOSHUA STEVENS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Killers of The Flower Moon
3. Asteroid City
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
6. Past Lives
7. May December
8. Infinity Pool
9. John Wick: Chapter 4
10. Napoleon

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KEELEY BROOKS

1. Oppenheimer
2. John Wick: Chapter 4
3. Sisu
4. Beau Is Afraid
5. Godzilla Minus One
6. The Holdovers
7. Saltburn
8. Killers of The Flower Moon
9. Poor Things
10. Blow Up My Life

LANEY GIBBONS

1. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
2. Theater Camp
3. Scrapper
4. Blue Jean
5. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
6. May December
7. Past Lives
8. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
9. Rye Lane
10. Femme

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LOUIS ROBERTS

1. Anatomy of A Fall
2. The Beasts
3. Killers of The Flower Moon
4. May December
5. Saint Omer
6. Past Lives
7. One Fine Morning
8. Passages
9. How to Have Sex
10. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

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MICHAEL CARVELLI

1. Past Lives
2. Killers of The Flower Moon
3. Oppenheimer
4. Maestro
5. Barbie
6. Anatomy of A Fall
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. The Killer
9. Asteroid City
10. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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NADINE WHITNEY

1. Tótem
2. Return to Seoul
3. Shayda
4. The Sweet East
5. Scrapper
6. Past Lives
7. Talk to Me
8. Reality
9. Godland
10. Trenque Laquen

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SERENA SEGHEDONI

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. Past Lives
4. Perfect Days
5. The Holdovers
6. Femme
7. Barbie
8. American Fiction
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. Passages

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TOM SPOORS

1. Killers of The Flower Moon
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Past Lives
4. John Wick: Chapter 4
5. 5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
6. Oppenheimer
7. The Holdovers
8. May December
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. Blackberry

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TYLER STRANDBERG

1. Barbie
2. Saltburn
3. Maestro
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Past Lives
6. All of Us Strangers
7. May December
8. Oppenheimer
9. American Fiction
10. Bottoms

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WESLEY HUNT

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Nimona
4. Oppenheimer
5. The Holdovers
6. Robot Dreams
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
8. The Peasants
9. Fist of the Condor
10. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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WILLIAM STOTTOR

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. The Zone of Interest
4. Saint Omer
5. Past Lives
6. Fallen Leaves
7. Trenque Lauquen
8. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
9. Beyond Utopia
10. The Holdovers

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