{"id":24001,"date":"2023-12-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=24001"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:23:47","slug":"top-10-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/top-10-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2023 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

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  1. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine)<\/li>\n
  2. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)<\/li>\n
  3. A Prince (Pierre Creton)<\/li>\n
  4. Our Body (Claire Simon)<\/li>\n
  5. May December (Todd Haynes)<\/li>\n
  6. Close Your Eyes (V\u00edctor Erice)<\/li>\n
  7. Last Summer… (Catherine Breillat)<\/li>\n
  8. About Thirty (Mart\u00edn Shanly)<\/li>\n
  9. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)<\/li>\n
  10. Here (Bas Devos)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (Eligible titles [will] appear here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. The Plains (2022, David Easteal)<\/li>\n
    2. Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt)<\/li>\n
    3. Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella)<\/li>\n
    4. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, V\u00e9r\u00e9na Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)<\/li>\n
    5. First Time \u2014 The Time for All but Sunset [Violet] (2021, Nicolaas Schmidt)<\/li>\n
    6. Un monde flottant (2021, Jean-Claude Rousseau)<\/li>\n
    7. Our Body (2023, Claire Simon)<\/li>\n
    8. Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021, Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval)<\/li>\n
    9. May December (2023, Todd Haynes)<\/li>\n
    10. Who\u2019s Stopping Us (2021, Jon\u00e1s Trueba)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My Top 10 “Oldies”<\/span><\/strong> (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Slow Glass (1991, John Smith)<\/li>\n
      2. L\u2019Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)<\/li>\n
      3. My Little Loves (1974, Jean Eustache)<\/li>\n
      4. To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)<\/li>\n
      5. Falling Lessons (1992, Amy Halpern)<\/li>\n
      6. Order (1980, Sohrab Shahid Saless)<\/li>\n
      7. Diaries (1971-1976) (1982, Ed Pincus)<\/li>\n
      8. La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)<\/li>\n
      9. Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)<\/li>\n
      10. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2023 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        • Music (Angela Schanelec) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • An Evening Song (for three voices) (Graham Swon) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Club Zero (Jessica Hausner) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Rotting in the Sun (Sebasti\u00e1n Silva) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • The Killer (David Fincher) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Riddle of Fire (Weston Razooli) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • The Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Samsara (Lois Pati\u00f1o) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Anselm (Wim Wenders) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • The Practice (Mart\u00edn Rejtman) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • He Thought He Died\u00a0(Isiah Medina)\u00a0\u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Thien An Pham) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • The Adults (Dustin Guy Defa) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Occupied City (Steve McQueen) \u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • Eureka (Lisandro Alonso) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World\u00a0(Radu Jude)\u00a0\u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Forms of Forgetting (Burak \u00c7evik) ~ 6.0<\/li>\n
        • In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • The Beast\u00a0(Bertrand Bonello) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • The Echo (Tatiana Huezo) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Gush (Fox Maxy) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Evil Does Not Exist\u00a0(Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi)\u00a0\u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing) – 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Janet Planet (Annie Baker) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • The Pot-au-Feu (Tr\u1ea7n Anh H\u00f9ng) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Republic (Jin Jiang) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser) – 5.8<\/li>\n
        • T\u00f3tem (Lila Avil\u00e9s) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros\u00a0(Frederick Wiseman) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Reptile\u00a0(Grant Singer)\u00a0\u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Man in Black (Wang Bing) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Mademoiselle Kenopsia\u00a0(Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Regardless of Us (Yoo Heong-jun) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Hit Man\u00a0(Richard Linklater) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Dream Scenario\u00a0(Kristoffer Borgli) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Silent Witnesses (Luis Ospina & Jer\u00f3nimo Atehort\u00faa Arteaga) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Seven Veils\u00a0(Atom Egoyan)\u00a0\u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Grace (Ilya Povolotsky) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • The Trial (Ulises de la Orden) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Asteroid City (Wes Anderson) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Mission: Impossible\u2014Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Lousy Carter (Bob Byington) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Last Things (Deborah Stratman) – 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Till the End of the Night (Christoph Hochh\u00e4usler) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Boy and the Heron\u00a0(Hayao Miyazaki)\u00a0\u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Gasoline Rainbow (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross)\u00a0\u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • White Plastic Sky (Tibor B\u00e1n\u00f3czki & Sarolta Szab\u00f3) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Plough (Philippe Garrel) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Island (Damien Manivel)\u00a0\u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • This Closeness (Kit Zauhar) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Memory\u00a0(Michel Franco)\u00a0\u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Family Portrait (Lucy Kerr) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Barbie (Greta Gerwig)\u00a0\u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Arthur&Diana (Sara Summa)\u00a0\u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • The Holdovers\u00a0(Alexander Payne) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Homecoming (Catherine Corsini) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Godard by Godard (Florence Platarets) – 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Melting Ink (Dominik Graf) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Afire (Christian Petzold) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Still Film (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Kubi (Takeshi Kitano) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Mountains (Monica Sorelle) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • The Human Surge 3\u00a0(Eduardo Williams)\u00a0\u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • The Settlers\u00a0(Felipe G\u00e1lvez Haberle) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Lost in the Night (Amat Escalante) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (Neo Sora) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • in water (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Ferrari (Michael Mann) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • His Three Daughters\u00a0(Azazel Jacobs) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Priscilla (Sofia Coppola) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Breath (J\u00e9ro Yun) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Peak Season (Henry Loevner & Steven Kanter) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)\u00a0\u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Air (Ben Affleck) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Passages (Ira Sachs) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The Old Oak (Ken Loach) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Shadow of Fire\u00a0(Shinya Tsukamoto)\u00a0\u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Bad Living (Jo\u00e3o Canijo) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Mambar Pierrette\u00a0(Rosine Mbakam)\u00a0\u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • On the Adamant (Nicolas Philibert) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • The Quiet Migration (Malene Choi) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Deserts (Faouzi Bensa\u00efdi) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Jeanne du Barry (Ma\u00efwenn) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Home Invasion (Graeme Arnfield) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Nowhere Near\u00a0(Miko Revereza)\u00a0\u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Past Lives (Celine Song) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Sweet Dreams\u00a0(Ena Sendijarevi\u0107) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • Notes from Eremocene (Viera \u010c\u00e1kanyov\u00e1) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Living Bad (Jo\u00e3o Canijo) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Mimang (Kim Tae-yang) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • American Fiction\u00a0(Cord Jefferson)\u00a0\u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Firebrand (Karim A\u00efnouz) \u2013 3.7<\/li>\n
        • Manodrome (John Trengove) \u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • The Book of Solutions (Michel Gondry) \u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • Green Border\u00a0(Agnieszka Holland) \u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • The Beast in the Jungle (Patric Chiha) \u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • BlackBerry (Matt Johnson) \u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • Poolman\u00a0(Chris Pine)\u00a0\u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • The Royal Hotel\u00a0(Kitty Green) \u2013 3.3<\/li>\n
        • Black Flies (Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n
        • The Pigeon Tunnel\u00a0(Errol Morris) \u2013 2.8<\/li>\n
        • A Brighter Tomorrow (Nanni Moretti) \u2013 2.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          *Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years. This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2023 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24001"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25590,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001\/revisions\/25590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}