A list that includes films that made millions of dollars alongside ones that are only now building an audience. A global list that elevates tales that speak to both undeniable specificity and universal truth at the same time. These are the movies that were chosen due to their outstanding performances. This year, the audience got to experience a diverse number of genres. The filmmakers created history at the box office with their blockbuster record-setting movies. Here are the films that were chosen as the top 2023 releases from those that stood out for the right reasons. Movies were big in 2023, in every sense.
Several viewers look up the list of the highest-grossing films on the internet each year. A film is listed in the Top 10 depending on its commercial success and other relevant factors. For the professionals involved in the film, receiving immediate high recognition is not an easy task. With dedication and positive fan feedback, a film can achieve success and rank among the top ten.
Best movies of 2023:
10. Barbie:
IMDB rating: 6.9/10
Director: Greta Gerwig
The backstory of a Mattel doll could have been exploited by a Hollywood hacker to make quick money. Rather than playing it safe, trailblazing director Greta Gerwig gives us a hot-pink fantasy of feminist art that will keep you thinking long after the laughs stop. Margot Robbie‘s doubt-ridden Barbie teams up with Ryan Gosling’s naive Ken.
9. Talk to me:
IMDB rating: 7.1/10
Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
A group of friends get hooked on the new, exciting, high-stakes party game of conjuring spirits with an embalmed hand until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
8. The Holdovers
IMDB rating: 8/10
Director: Alexander Payne
Warmth conveyed by Alexander Payne is not to be confused with weakness. Paul Giamatti excels in the role of a grumpy professor who must stay on campus over Christmas break in order to watch Dominic Sessa’s student Angus, who has nowhere to go.
7. Anatomy of a fall:
IMDB rating: 7.8/10
Director: Justine Triet
The film keeps you glued to your seat with its compelling story of a wife on trial for killing her husband by pushing him out of a window. Hüller puts on an unforgettable performance. The script written by Triet and her husband Arthur Harari, which blends a courtroom thriller with a brilliant battle of the sexes, is equally deviously clever.
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One:
IMDB rating: 7.7/10
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
A terrifying new weapon that, in the wrong hands, could endanger all of humanity must be found by Ethan Hunt and the IMF team. A deadly race around the world begins, with control over the future and the fate of the entire planet at stake. A mysterious, all-powerful enemy forces Ethan to realize that nothing, not even the lives of the people he loves the most, can matter more than the mission.
5. Maestro:
IMDB rating: 6.8/10
Director: Bradley Cooper
In this unvarnished and heartfelt film about conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein, Bradley Cooper—who also serves as director and co-writer—reaches the pinnacle of his career. Cooper is the Oscar winner for his heart-stopping performance as the maestro whose passions are unconstrained by a particular genre of music or a particular sex.
4. Poor Things:
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Get ready to be amazed by Emma Stone’s blatantly fearless performance in this wild and breathtakingly gorgeous feminist shit fest directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
3. Past Lives:
IMDB Rating: 8/10
Director: Celine Song
In her debut film, writer-director Celine Song masterfully captures the essence of her life as a 12-year-old girl leaving her family’s home and her romantic interest, Hae Sung, in South Korea to grow up in Canada through lyrical art.
2. Killers of the Flower Moon:
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese’s melancholic epic about the long history of Native Americans being mistreated by the United States. “Killers” is a quintessential Scorsese film, highlighted by outstanding performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Oscar favourite Lily Gladstone as an Osage oil heiress trapped in a murderous trap by avaricious white men.
1. Oppenheimer:
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
“Oppenheimer” is the quintessential Christopher Nolan; he was a generation younger than Scorsese but had the soul of a poet and the mind of a visionary. It is evident in Nolan’s witty and brutal portrayal of the conflicted man behind the atomic age, J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by the excellent Cillian Murphy).
