Sight & Sound Unveils The 50 Best Movies of 2023

Sight & Sound Magazine has unveiled its 50 best movies of the year-end list, with Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon crowned as the best movie of 2023. Over 100 contributors voted on the year-end list, encouraging readers to “dig beyond those films blessed with multimillion-pound marketing muscle and giant awards-season promo budgets, to find new films and directors rather than simply those that shout the loudest.”

Here is the full list of films:

1. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
3. Past Lives (Celine Song)
4. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
6. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
7. Passages (Ira Sachs)
8. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude)
10. May December (Todd Haynes)
11. Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
12. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
13. TÁR (Todd Field)
14. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
15. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
16. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
17. Totem (Lisa Avilés)
18. Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
19. How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)
20. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
21. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
22. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
23. Afire (Christian Petzold)
24. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An)
25. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)
26. Rotting in the Sun (Sebastian Silva)
27. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
28. The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
29. Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster)
30. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
31. Talk to Me (Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou)
32. Music (Angela Schanelec)
33. Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
34. The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung)
35. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
36. Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg)
37. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
38. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
39. Samsara (Lois Patiño)
40. Suzume (Makoto Shinkai)
41. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)
42. Reality (Tina Satter)
43. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
44. A Prince (Pierre Créton)
45. Our Body (Claire Simon)
46. Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
47. The Killer (David Fincher)
48. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
49. Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf)
50. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)

Source: Sight & Sound