Here’s an interesting list, which also happens to be the first top ten of 2023 from any major outlet. We’ll be getting plenty of these in the coming days and weeks (including my own).
IndieWire’s David Ehrlich and Kate Erbland got the ball rolling with their very indie-centric best of the year list. There’s no “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” or “Killers of the Flower Moon” in the final ten. There are also a few films I would disagree with here, but this is a fairly solid summary of a strong year at the movies.
1. Past Lives
2. The Taste of Things
3. Asteroid City
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. May December
6. Poor Things
7. Passages
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. All of Us Strangers
10. The Zone of Interest11. A Thousand and One
12. Barbie
13. The Delinquents
14. Oppenheimer
15. Killers of the Flower Moon
16. R.M.N
17. Love Life
18. Pacification
19. Kokomo City
20. La Chimera21. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
22. Earth Mama
23. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
24. Godland
25. Beau is Afraid
Note: Ehrlich has specified that this is not his personal list and that he’ll be releasing his own in January.