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Best Films of 2023: Individual Ballots

By Film Comment on December 15, 2023

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment's contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2023 category, covering features that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United States. To see which films came out on top, check out our Best Films of 2023 list, which features original appreciations from critics, as well as links to features, reviews, and interviews about these films and directors from across the year.

Don’t see your favorite? Check out our Best Undistributed Films of 2023 list, featuring films that premiered this year but have not yet announced stateside distribution.

Also online: critic Leo Goldsmith’s list of Best Short Films of 2023, and filmmaker and programmer Gina Telaroli’s list of Best Restorations of 2023.

And finally, don’t miss our Best of 2023 Countdown Podcast, featuring guest critics Amy Taubin and Bilge Ebiri.

 

Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023)

Jamsheed Akrami (critic, scholar)

  1. The Taste of Things
  2. Past Lives
  3. Fallen Leaves
  4. The Zone of Interest
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon
  6. Oppenheimer
  7. Anatomy of a Fall
  8. About Dry Grasses
  9. The Teachers’ Lounge
  10. The Holdovers
  11. Io Capitano
  12. Four Daughters
  13. Leila’s Brothers
  14. A Revolution on Canvas
  15. Chile ’76
  16. Inshallah a Boy
  17. The Eight Mountains
  18. Tótem
  19. The Settlers

Jonathan Ali (programmer, True/False and Third Horizon)

Orlando, My Political Biography
Our Body
De humani corporis fabrica
Rewind & Play
Mutzenbacher
Pacifiction
The Killer

Julien Allen (critic, Reverse Shot)

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
  2. The Sweet East
  3. Enys Men
  4. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  5. Anatomy of a Fall
  6. Sisu
  7. Fallen Leaves
  8. The Creator
  9. The Killer
  10. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  11. Asteroid City
  12. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  13. The Goldman Case
  14. Evil Dead Rise

Florence Almozini (Senior Director of Programming, Film at Lincoln Center)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. Anatomy of a Fall
  3. Afire
  4. Showing Up
  5. May December
  6. Unrest
  7. Stonewalling
  8. Dry Ground Burning
  9. Trenque Lauquen
  10. One Fine Morning
  11. Suzume
  12. Past Lives
  13. Enys Men
  14. Chile ’76
  15. Scarlet
  16. The Boy and the Heron
  17. Return to Seoul

Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing, 2023)

Margaret Barton-Fumo (critic)

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
  2. Our Body
  3. You Hurt My Feelings
  4. Priscilla
  5. Fallen Leaves
  6. Chile ’76
  7. Evil Does Not Exist
  8. Passages
  9. Showing Up
  10. The Zone of Interest
  11. Scarlet
  12. The Delinquents
  13. Afire
  14. Trenque Lauquen
  15. Anatomy of a Fall
  16. Master Gardener
  17. Revoir Paris
  18. Ferrari
  19. The Killer
  20. Inside

Richard Brody (critic, The New Yorker)

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
  2. Asteroid City
  3. Barbie
  4. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  5. Showing Up
  6. Passages
  7. Civic
  8. A Thousand and One
  9. Earth Mama
  10. Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
  11. The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar
  12. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  13. Petite Solange
  14. Ferrari
  15. Orlando, My Political Biography
  16. Walk Up
  17. Origin
  18. Priscilla
  19. The Color Purple
  20. Our Body

Maya Cade (programmer)

  1. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
  3. May December
  4. The Zone of Interest
  5. The Boy and the Heron
  6. All of Us Strangers
  7. Passages
  8. Anatomy of a Fall
  9. A Thousand and One
  10. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  11. Origin

Giovanni Marchini Camia (critic; programmer, Locarno; publisher, Fireflies Press)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. May December
  3. Showing Up
  4. Unrest
  5. Anatomy of a Fall
  6. in water
  7. Dry Ground Burning
  8. Trenque Lauquen
  9. The Delinquents
  10. De humani corporis fabrica
  11. Orlando, My Political Biography
  12. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
  13. The Zone of Interest
  14. Fallen Leaves
  15. Mutzenbacher
  16. The Beasts
  17. Nobody’s Hero
  18. Youth (Spring)
  19. Human Flowers of Flesh

Monica Castillo (critic; curator, Jacob Burns Film Center)

  1. American Fiction
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
  3. All of Us Strangers
  4. A Thousand and One
  5. The Holdovers
  6. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  7. May December
  8. Past Lives
  9. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  10. Rye Lane
  11. Fallen Leaves
  12. Return to Seoul
  13. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  14. King Coal
  15. Blue Jean
  16. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
  17. The Eternal Memory
  18. 20 Days in Mariupol
  19. The Starling Girl
  20. Something You Said Last Night

Edo Choi (programmer, Museum of the Moving Image)

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
  2. The Killer
  3. Asteroid City
  4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  5. May December
  6. Tori and Lokita
  7. Our Body
  8. Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
  9. De humani corporis fabrica
  10. Youth (Spring)
  11. The Zone of Interest
  12. Oppenheimer
  13. Dry Ground Burning
  14. Anatomy of a Fall
  15. Scarlet
  16. Pacifiction
  17. Fallen Leaves
  18. The Boy and the Heron
  19. Showing Up
  20. in water

I’ve selected The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar as a stand-in for all four of Wes Anderson’s Dahl adaptations, which I think would be best experienced as a collection in a theater. It’s disappointing Netflix isn’t making them available that way. I also want to mention Unrest, Unclenching the Fists, One Fine Morning, Love Life, Ferrari, Priscilla, Nobody’s Hero, and the final season of Succession. Apologies to those films, the Wiseman and Citarella especially, with which I’ve not yet caught up.

Jordan Cronk (critic; programmer, Acropolis Cinema)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. Fallen Leaves
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. De humani corporis fabrica
  5. Showing Up
  6. Human Flowers of Flesh
  7. Trenque Lauquen
  8. The Plains
  9. Youth (Spring)
  10. Master Gardener
  11. The Delinquents
  12. May December
  13. in water
  14. Afire
  15. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  16. The Adults
  17. Unrest
  18. Mutzenbacher
  19. Dry Ground Burning
  20. Will-o'-the-Wisp

Adrian Curry (critic)

  1. Godland
  2. The Zone of Interest
  3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  4. May December
  5. Four Daughters
  6. Beau Is Afraid
  7. Emily
  8. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
  9. Close to Vermeer
  10. R.M.N.

Poulomi Das (critic)

  1. Past Lives
  2. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  3. Anatomy of a Fall
  4. Earth Mama
  5. Passages
  6. Monster
  7. Poor Things
  8. The Zone of Interest
  9. All of Us Strangers
  10. Against The Tide
  11. Afire
  12. Fallen Leaves
  13. Priscilla
  14. The Killer
  15. Fremont
  16. Showing Up
  17. Kokomo City
  18. Rye Lane
  19. Polite Society
  20. The Delinquents

Bedatri Datta Choudhury (critic; programmer, DOC NYC; editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  1. Four Daughters
  2. Orlando, My Political Biography
  3. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  4. Mami Wata
  5. Perfect Days
  6. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
  7. The Boy and the Heron
  8. May December
  9. Our Body
  10. Anselm
  11. The Taste of Things
  12. Joyland
  13. Argentina 1985
  14. Against the Tide
  15. Alcarrás
  16. Waikiki
  17. Showing Up
  18. Fremont
  19. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  20. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2023)

Jessica Dunn Rovinelli (filmmaker)

John Wick: Chapter 4
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Human Flowers of Flesh
Afire
Bottoms
Rimini
Trenque Lauquen
Barbie
Unrest
Queens of the Qing Dynasty

Daniel Eagan (critic)

  1. Past Lives
  2. Oppenheimer
  3. John Wick: Chapter 4
  4. Monster
  5. The Round-Up: No Way Out
  6. Stonewalling
  7. Sakra

Nicholas Elliott (critic, programmer, translator)

  1. Showing Up
  2. May December
  3. Fallen Leaves
  4. Passages
  5. Nobody’s Hero

I saw at most 15 new releases this year. These are the ones I can unqualifiedly recommend.

Matthew Eng (critic)

  1. May December
  2. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  3. The Taste of Things
  4. Passages
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon
  6. The Zone of Interest
  7. Asteroid City
  8. Pacifiction
  9. Other People’s Children
  10. R.M.N.
  11. Anatomy of a Fall
  12. Dry Ground Burning
  13. Showing Up
  14. Trenque Lauquen
  15. Earth Mama
  16. Fallen Leaves

Sarah Fensom (critic)

Trenque Lauquen
Rotting in the Sun
Passages
Walk Up
Pacifiction
Godland
Stonewalling
A Little Love Package
The Round-up: No Way Out
The Eight Mountains

Jason Fox (editor, World Records Journal)

Dry Ground Burning
Rewind & Play
Drylongso
Creed III

Jean-Michel Frodon (critic)

Killers of the Flower Moon
Fallen Leaves
Anatomy of a Fall
L’Amour fou
Brief Encounters
Return to Dust
Oppenheimer
Nobody’s Hero
Unrest
One Fine Morning
Showing Up
De humani corporis fabrica
Trenque Lauquen
R.M.N.
Winter Boy
Rewind & Play
Tori and Lokita
Godland

Lawrence Garcia (critic)

  1. De humani corporis fabrica
  2. Walk Up
  3. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
  4. May December
  5. Nobody’s Hero
  6. The Plains
  7. Tótem
  8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  9. Our Body
  10. in water

Caden Mark Gardner (critic)

Asteroid City
May December
The Killer
Afire
The Taste of Things
Casa Susanna
Showing Up
Beau Is Afraid
The Civil Dead

Annie Geng (critic)

  1. The Zone of Interest
  2. The Taste of Things
  3. Afire
  4. Last Summer
  5. Tótem
  6. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  7. In Our Day
  8. Anatomy of a Fall
  9. Music
  10. in water
  11. Hit Man
  12. The Boy and the Heron
  13. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
  14. AGGRO DR1FT
  15. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  16. May December
  17. Orlando, My Political Biography
  18. Evil Does Not Exist
  19. Fallen Leaves

May December (Todd Haynes, 2023)

Devika Girish (editor, Film Comment)

  1. May December
  2. Pacifiction
  3. Showing Up
  4. Youth (Spring)
  5. Human Flowers of Flesh
  6. Afire
  7. Unrest
  8. Earth Mama
  9. Our Body
  10. Will-o'-the-Wisp
  11. Orlando, My Political Biography
  12. Trenque Lauquen
  13. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  14. Dry Ground Burning
  15. The Delinquents
  16. It Is Night in America
  17. Against the Tide
  18. Rewind & Play
  19. Cette Maison
  20. Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation

Best New Old Pick: The Dupes; Best TV: I’m a Virgo

Leonardo Goi (critic)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. The Plains
  3. Trenque Lauquen
  4. The Zone of Interest
  5. Showing Up
  6. Killers of the Flower Moon
  7. Fallen Leaves
  8. Return to Seoul
  9. All of Us Strangers
  10. Human Flowers of Flesh
  11. Dry Ground Burning
  12. Our Body
  13. Enys Men
  14. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  15. Afire
  16. The Eight Mountains
  17. Unrest
  18. The Sweet East
  19. Passages
  20. Priscilla

Leo Goldsmith (critic, scholar)

  1. Dry Ground Burning
  2. Showing Up
  3. Rewind & Play
  4. Unrest
  5. Hello Dankness
  6. May December
  7. De humani corporis fabrica
  8. Still Film
  9. Ferrari
  10. Shin Ultraman

Caroline Golum (filmmaker, critic, programmer)

New Strains
Honeycomb
The Apocalyptic is the Mother of All Christian Theology
Darkness, Darkness Burning Bright
Hello Dankness
Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Showing Up
A Woman Escapes
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Emerson Goo (critic)

  1. I Didn’t See You There
  2. Small, Slow, but Steady
  3. Stonewalling
  4. Dry Ground Burning
  5. The Potemkinists
  6. May December
  7. Remembering Every Night
  8. Against the Tide
  9. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Jessica Green (programmer)

Afire
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
A Thousand and One
Barbie
Cypher
Dry Ground Burning
Earth Mama
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Killers of the Flower Moon
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
M3GAN
Orlando, My Political Biography
Return to Seoul
Rewind & Play
Rye Lane
Silver Dollar Road
South to Black Power
Wham!
You Hurt My Feelings

Victor Guimarães (critic, programmer)

  1. Trenque Lauquen
  2. Dry Ground Burning
  3. Rewind & Play
  4. Fallen Leaves
  5. Mami Wata
  6. Barbie
  7. Unrest
  8. Showing Up
  9. The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra
  10. Killers of the Flower Moon
  11. in water
  12. Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation
  13. Knock at the Cabin
  14. Mutzenbacher
  15. Orlando, My Political Biography

Writing from Brazil, the division between distributed and undistributed films feels very alien. I understand the logic of it for American readers, but I have to say that in my experience I see no hierarchy between films I’ve seen at festivals, at the commercial circuit, or through piracy.

Jawni Han (critic)

  1. The First Slam Dunk
  2. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  3. in water
  4. Fallen Leaves
  5. Afire
  6. Trenque Lauquen
  7. The Killer
  8. Showing Up
  9. May December
  10. Monster

Honorable mention: Ban Heesoo’s YouTube channel.

Malcolm Harris (writer)

  1. Dry Ground Burning
  2. Pacifiction
  3. Afire
  4. Unrest
  5. Showing Up
  6. Rotting in the Sun
  7. Smoking Causes Coughing
  8. Lakota Nation v. The United States
  9. Walk Up
  10. Reality

Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2023)

Molly Haskell (critic)

  1. May December
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
  3. Past Lives
  4. Orlando, My Political Biography
  5. Anatomy of a Fall
  6. Afire
  7. Asteroid City
  8. The Night of the 12th
  9. Showing Up
  10. Oppenheimer
  11. The Pigeon Tunnel
  12. You Hurt My Feelings

Maggie Hennefeld (critic)

  1. Barbie
  2. M3GAN
  3. Bottoms
  4. Showing Up
  5. Bird Box: Barcelona
  6. Past Lives
  7. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  8. Passages
  9. Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
  10. Afire
  11. Anatomy of a Fall
  12. The Blue Caftan

Eugene Hernandez (Festival Director, Sundance)

  1. Earth Mama
  2. Past Lives
  3. Passages
  4. Rotting in the Sun
  5. Kokomo City
  6. Our Father, The Devil
  7. The Stroll
  8. Mutt
  9. Chrissy Judy
  10. All of Us Strangers
  11. Oppenheimer

J. Hoberman (critic)

  1. The Zone of Interest
  2. Youth (Spring)
  3. Unrest
  4. Victims of Sin
  5. May December
  6. Pacifiction

Can’t endorse any of the year’s big films. Didn’t see enough of the others to list 10, let alone 20. Please note that although it was made in 1951, Victims of Sin got a U.S. release only this year.

Darren Hughes (critic; Artistic Director, Film Fest Knox)

  1. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
  2. Fallen Leaves
  3. Pacifiction
  4. Dry Ground Burning
  5. Our Body
  6. Rewind & Play
  7. Fire
  8. Unrest
  9. The Killer

A.E. Hunt (critic)

The Bride
Three Sparks
Nowhere Near
#MITO
Mast-del
Rejeito
The Boy and the Heron
May December
Bold Eagle

Eric Hynes (programmer, Museum of the Moving Image)

  1. Our Body
  2. May December
  3. All of Us Strangers
  4. Poor Things
  5. The Zone of Interest
  6. Menus-Plaisirs Les — Troisgros
  7. A Still Small Voice
  8. The Taste of Things
  9. De humani corporis fabrica
  10. Beau Is Afraid
  11. Pacifiction
  12. Killers of the Flower Moon
  13. R.M.N.
  14. Fallen Leaves
  15. Asteroid City
  16. Dry Ground Burning
  17. Fremont
  18. A Thousand and One
  19. Mami Wata
  20. The Holdovers

Azadeh Jafari (critic)

  1. About Dry Grasses
  2. Anatomy of a Fall
  3. Perfect Days
  4. One Fine Morning
  5. Oppenheimer
  6. Afire
  7. Kidnapped
  8. R.M.N.
  9. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  10. The Taste of Things

Radu Jude (filmmaker)

L’Amour fou
Youth (Spring)
Killers of the Flower Moon

Sona Karapoghosyan (critic; programmer, Golden Apricot Film Festival)

  1. Anatomy of a Fall
  2. Pacifiction
  3. Our Body
  4. The Delinquents
  5. Afire
  6. Occupied City
  7. Medusa Deluxe
  8. Unrest
  9. Piaffe

Daniel Kasman (editor, MUBI Notebook)

  1. Fallen Leaves
  2. Dry Ground Burning
  3. A Thousand and One
  4. Our Body
  5. Writhing City
  6. The Taste of Things
  7. Showing Up
  8. The Teachers’ Lounge
  9. Shin Ultraman
  10. Rewind & Play
  11. Killers of the Flower Moon
  12. May December
  13. Return to Seoul
  14. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  15. Unrest
  16. Knock at the Cabin
  17. Nostalgia
  18. Pilgrims
  19. The Boy and the Heron
  20. Polite Society

Jonathan Kiefer (critic)

The Adults
Afire
Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Enys Men
Fallen Leaves
Fremont
De humani corporis fabrica
One Fine Morning
Pacifiction
Poor Things
Rewind & Play
Godland
Showing Up
Sick of Myself
The Teachers’ Lounge
Tori and Lokita
Trenque Lauquen
Walk Up
The Zone of Interest

Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman, 2023)

Nellie Killian (programmer, critic)

Fallen Leaves
Hello Dankness
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
One Fine Morning
Perfect Days
Asteroid City
Showing Up

John Klacsmann (archivist, Anthology Film Archives)

  1. May December
  2. Showing Up
  3. The First Year
  4. M3GAN
  5. The Apocalyptic Is the Mother of All Christian Theology
  6. Killers of the Flower Moon
  7. Barbie
  8. The YouTube Effect
  9. My Animal
  10. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

2023: Regal Essex still the best theater to see films receiving qualifying runs.

Clinton Krute (editor, Film Comment)

  1. Showing Up
  2. Pacifiction
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. Youth (Spring)
  5. Our Body
  6. Walk Up
  7. Earth Mama
  8. May December
  9. Will-o'-the-Wisp
  10. Rewind & Play
  11. Maestro
  12. Dry Ground Burning
  13. Fallen Leaves
  14. Priscilla
  15. Scarlet
  16. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  17. The Zone of Interest
  18. Orlando, My Political Biography
  19. The Delinquents
  20. The Adults

Best New Old Pick: L’Amour fou; Best TV: The Curse

Kevin B. Lee (filmmaker; critic; professor, Locarno International Film Festival)

  1. Return to Seoul
  2. De humani corporis fabrica
  3. Orlando, My Political Biography
  4. Bottoms
  5. Showing Up
  6. Barbie
  7. May December
  8. Matter Out of Place
  9. Anatomy of a Fall
  10. Passages

Nathan Lee (critic, scholar)

John Wick: Chapter 4

Chloe Lizotte (editor, MUBI Notebook)

  1. Showing Up
  2. Still Film
  3. The Plains
  4. Killers of the Flower Moon
  5. May December
  6. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
  7. Trenque Lauquen
  8. Priscilla
  9. Return to Seoul
  10. Rotting in the Sun

Beatrice Loayza (critic)

  1. May December
  2. Dry Ground Burning
  3. Pacifiction
  4. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
  5. The Delinquents
  6. Showing Up
  7. Fallen Leaves
  8. Trenque Lauquen
  9. Afire
  10. Anatomy of a Fall
  11. Our Body
  12. Evil Dead Rise
  13. The Killer
  14. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  15. Passages
  16. The Taste of Things
  17. Our Father, the Devil
  18. Full Time
  19. Will-o'-the-Wisp
  20. Rimini

Dessane Lopez Cassell (critic)

  1. The Tuba Thieves
  2. Anatomy of a Fall
  3. Kokomo City
  4. A Thousand and One
  5. The Zone of Interest
  6. Of an Age
  7. Earth Mama
  8. Time Bomb Y2K
  9. Barbie
  10. Fallen Leaves
  11. The Taste of Things
  12. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
  13. Bad Press
  14. May December
  15. Orlando, My Political Biography
  16. Fair Play

Mackenzie Lukenbill (archivist, critic)

  1. Showing Up
  2. Dry Ground Burning
  3. Geographies of Solitude
  4. Human Flowers of Flesh
  5. Priscilla
  6. Rewind & Play
  7. Calamity Jane and Delphine Seyrig: A Story
  8. Walk Up
  9. Kokomo City
  10. Topology of Sirens
  11. The Adults
  12. Hello Dankness
  13. John Wick: Chapter 4
  14. A Woman Escapes

Jonathan Mackris (critic, scholar)

Fallen Leaves
Our Body
Padre Pio
Youth (Spring)

About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)

Willow Catelyn Maclay (critic)

May December
Priscilla
Killers of the Flower Moon
Asteroid City
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Showing Up
Fallen Leaves
The Boy and the Heron
Revoir Paris
Kokomo City
Evil Does Not Exist
John Wick: Chapter 4

Saffron Maeve (critic)

  1. May December
  2. The Zone of Interest
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. Orlando, My Political Biography
  5. The Super 8 Years
  6. Priscilla
  7. Fallen Leaves
  8. Anatomy of a Fall
  9. Afire
  10. Mami Wata

Steven Mears (critic; copy editor, Film Comment)

  1. May December
  2. Anatomy of a Fall
  3. Afire
  4. Killers of the Flower Moon
  5. BlackBerry
  6. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  7. The Holdovers
  8. Fallen Leaves
  9. Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
  10. The Delinquents
  11. Pacifiction
  12. A Thousand and One
  13. Perfect Days
  14. Godland
  15. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  16. R.M.N.
  17. Blue Jean
  18. The Eternal Memory
  19. Past Lives
  20. Joyland

Olaf Möller (critic, programmer)

Candy Land
Extraction 2
Gojira-1.0
In viaggio
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Boy and the Heron
Das Lehrerzimmer
Little Dixie
Mǎnjiānghóng
Minamata Mandala
One Day As a Lion
Paṭhān
Ponniyin Selvan: Part II
Poor Things
El puño del cóndor
Shin Ultraman
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sri Asih
Suzume
Tuṇivu

Vikram Murthi (critic, Downtime)

Afire
Anatomy of a Fall
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
De humani corporis fabrica
The Delinquents
Enys Men
Falcon Lake
Full Time
Godland
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Master Gardener
Oppenheimer
Perfect Days
The Plains
R.M.N.
Shortcomings
Showing Up

Cristina Nord (programmer)

  1. Nobody’s Hero
  2. Our Body
  3. Dry Ground Burning
  4. Will-o'-the-Wisp
  5. Pacifiction
  6. Orlando, My Political Biography
  7. Unrest
  8. The Trial
  9. De humani corporis fabrica
  10. Asteroid City
  11. Anatomy of a Fall
  12. Enys Men
  13. Remembering Every Night
  14. Rewind & Play
  15. Trenque Lauquen
  16. Geographies of Solitude
  17. One Fine Morning
  18. R.M.N.
  19. The Zone of Interest
  20. Piaffe

Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer (critic)

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
A Common Sequence
De humani corporis fabrica
Fallen Leaves
Killers of the Flower Moon
Man in Black
Poor Things
Showing Up
Skinamarink
The Boy and the Heron
The Delinquents
The Zone of Interest
Tori and Lokita
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Trenque Lauquen

Savina Petkova (critic)

  1. Afire
  2. Poor Things
  3. All of Us Strangers
  4. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  5. Fallen Leaves
  6. Our Body
  7. Human Flowers of Flesh
  8. Past Lives
  9. The Zone of Interest
  10. Showing Up
  11. Unrest
  12. Master Gardener
  13. Of an Age
  14. Orlando, My Political Biography
  15. Priscilla
  16. May December
  17. Birth/Rebirth
  18. Barbie
  19. Maestro
  20. Padre Pio

Matías Piñeiro (filmmaker)

  1. in water
  2. Walk Up
  3. The Boy and the Heron
  4. Anatomy of a Fall
  5. Dry Ground Burning
  6. Fallen Leaves
  7. Orlando, My Political Biography
  8. Youth (Spring)
  9. Trenque Lauquen
  10. The Delinquents
  11. Unrest
  12. De humani corporis fabrica
  13. Afire
  14. Our Body
  15. May December
  16. The Killer
  17. Human Flowers of Flesh
  18. Showing Up
  19. Alcarràs

Adam Piron (programmer, Sundance)

The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Priscilla
Asteroid City
Oppenheimer

Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023)

Inney Prakash (critic; programmer, Prismatic Ground)

May December
Youth (Spring)
Killers of the Flower Moon
Fallen Leaves
Kokomo City
Our Body
Scarlet
A Woman Escapes
Asteroid City
Queens of the Qing Dynasty
Master Gardener
Showing Up
The Zone of Interest
The Apocalyptic is the Mother of All Christian Theology
Human Flowers of Flesh
Dry Ground Burning
R.M.N.
Rewind & Play
in water
Walk Up

Caitlin Quinlan (critic)

  1. May December
  2. Showing Up
  3. The Taste of Things
  4. Our Body
  5. Remembering Every Night
  6. The Adults
  7. Passages
  8. The Delinquents
  9. Trenque Lauquen
  10. Afire

Jordan Raup (editor, The Film Stage)

  1. Afire
  2. Pacifiction
  3. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  4. The Boy and the Heron
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon
  6. Priscilla
  7. May December
  8. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  9. The Holdovers
  10. The Killer
  11. All of Us Strangers
  12. Showing Up
  13. R.M.N.
  14. The Plains
  15. Passages
  16. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  17. Fallen Leaves
  18. A Still Small Voice
  19. De humani corporis fabrica
  20. Other People’s Children

Vadim Rizov (editor, Filmmaker Magazine)

  1. Showing Up
  2. Anatomy of a Fall
  3. Dry Ground Burning
  4. Unrest
  5. Asteroid City
  6. The Killer
  7. The Passengers of the Night
  8. The Plains
  9. Rewind & Play
  10. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  11. Vera
  12. The Adults
  13. Afire
  14. Still Film
  15. The Sweet East
  16. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
  17. Occupied City
  18. Fallen Leaves
  19. Full Time
  20. A Woman Escapes

Jonathan Romney (critic)

  1. The Zone of Interest
  2. Trenque Lauquen
  3. Pacifiction
  4. The Delinquents
  5. Poor Things
  6. Fallen Leaves
  7. The Eternal Memory
  8. Alcarràs
  9. Godland
  10. Passages
  11. The Killer
  12. R.M.N.
  13. Origin of Evil
  14. Afire
  15. Infinity Pool
  16. Walk Up
  17. La Bête
  18. The Taste of Things
  19. Dream Scenario

Julian Ross (critic, programmer)

  1. The Plains
  2. Our Body
  3. Dry Ground Burning
  4. Orlando, My Political Biography
  5. The Trial
  6. Geographies of Solitude
  7. Pacifiction
  8. Rewind & Play
  9. The First Slam Dunk
  10. Still Film

B. Ruby Rich (editor, Film Quarterly)

Afire
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
El conde
Four Daughters
Fremont
Kokomo City
Little Richard
Monster
Orlando, My Political Biography
May December
Past Lives
Pictures of Ghosts
Rustin
The Delinquents
The Eternal Memory
The Persian Version
The Zone of Interest
32 Sounds

Isabel Sandoval (filmmaker)

The Zone of Interest
Pacifiction
Poor Things
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Joyland
Fallen Leaves
Monster
May December
Perfect Days
Anatomy of a Fall
Orlando, My Political Biography
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Passages
Rotting in The Sun
De humani corporis fabrica
One Fine Morning
The Taste of Things
Asteroid City

David Schwartz (programmer)

  1. May December
  2. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. Fallen Leaves
  5. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  6. Fremont 
  7. The Boy and the Heron
  8. Barbie
  9. Passages
  10. Asteroid City
  11. The Delinquents
  12. A Thousand and One
  13. Showing Up
  14. Ferrari
  15. R.M.N.
  16. Walk Up
  17. Oppenheimer
  18. Our Father, the Devil
  19. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  20. The Killer

Dash Shaw (filmmaker)

  1. The Boy and the Heron
  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
  3. Suzume
  4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
  5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  6. My Love Affair with Marriage
  7. Pacifiction
  8. Passages
  9. May December
  10. Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)

Chris Shields (critic)

Trenque Lauquen
Walk Up
The Eight Mountains
Rotting in the Sun
War Pony
A Little Love Package
Pacifiction
The Blue Caftan
Passages
The Round-Up: No Way Out
Godland
Tori and Lokita

Michael Sicinski (critic)

  1. Showing Up
  2. Robe of Gems
  3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  4. Orlando, My Political Biography
  5. Unrest
  6. Kokomo City
  7. in water
  8. Will-o'-the-Wisp
  9. Afire
  10. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  11. The Passengers of the Night
  12. Bottoms
  13. Nobody’s Hero
  14. Rewind & Play
  15. Barbie
  16. Mutt
  17. Astrakan
  18. De humani corporis fabrica
  19. You Hurt My Feelings
  20. Human Flowers of Flesh

Gavin Smith (critic)

  1. A Thousand and One
  2. Dream Scenario
  3. Astrakan
  4. The Quiet Girl
  5. You Hurt My Feelings
  6. Air
  7. Killers of the Flower Moon
  8. Ferrari
  9. Bottoms
  10. The Five Devils
  11. Tori and Lokita
  12. The Worst Ones
  13. Love Life
  14. Oppenheimer
  15. R.M.N.
  16. Other People’s Children
  17. Showing Up
  18. All of Us Strangers
  19. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  20. Fallen Leaves

Michael Sragow (critic)

  1. Revoir Paris
  2. Maestro
  3. Other People’s Children
  4. Ferrari
  5. Air
  6. Nyad
  7. The Covenant
  8. The Night of the 12th
  9. Anatomy of a Fall
  10. The Teachers’ Lounge
  11. R.M.N.
  12. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  13. Creed III
  14. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  15. Beyond Utopia

Srikanth Srinivasan (critic)

  1. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam
  2. Matter Out of Place
  3. Saturn Bowling
  4. Orlando, My Political Biography
  5. Nobody’s Hero
  6. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  7. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
  8. Godland
  9. Mutzenbacher

R. Emmet Sweeney (critic; producer, Kino Lorber)

  1. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
  3. Trenque Lauquen
  4. Mad Fate
  5. Ponniyin Selvan: Part II
  6. Boudica: Queen of War
  7. Joe Pera: Slow & Steady
  8. Afire
  9. Fist of the Condor
  10. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  11. Plane
  12. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
  13. De humani corporis fabrica
  14. Showing Up
  15. Limbo
  16. Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
  17. Maaveeran
  18. Champions
  19. One Ranger
  20. Viduthalai: Part I

Ryan Swen (critic)

  1. Walk Up
  2. Pacifiction
  3. Showing Up
  4. Anatomy of a Fall
  5. May December
  6. De humani corporis fabrica
  7. Asteroid City
  8. Fallen Leaves
  9. Afire
  10. Youth (Spring)
  11. The Delinquents
  12. Trenque Lauquen
  13. in water
  14. Limbo
  15. Ferrari
  16. The Boy and the Heron
  17. Occupied City
  18. The Adults
  19. Queens of the Qing Dynasty

Amy Taubin (critic)

  1. Oppenheimer
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
  3. A Thousand and One
  4. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  5. Fallen Leaves
  6. Tótem
  7. Anatomy of a Fall
  8. Showing Up
  9. May December
  10. Earth Mama
  11. Orlando, My Political Biography
  12. Polite Society
  13. Tori and Lokita
  14. Pictures of Ghosts
  15. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
  16. The Eight Mountains
  17. Rustin
  18. The Master Gardener
  19. The Sweet East

Gina Telaroli (critic, programmer, filmmaker)

All of Us Strangers
Geographies of Solitude
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
in water
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
No Hard Feelings
Our Body
Stephen Curry: Underrated
The Taste of Things
Unrest

The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)

Antoine Thirion (critic, programmer)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. Youth (Spring)
  3. Anatomy of a Fall
  4. in water
  5. Walk Up
  6. Unrest
  7. De humani corporis fabrica
  8. The Plains
  9. Showing Up
  10. Nobody’s Hero
  11. Mutzenbacher
  12. The Zone of Interest
  13. Rewind & Play
  14. Fallen Leaves
  15. Killers of the Flower Moon
  16. Dry Ground Burning
  17. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  18. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
  19. Human Flowers of Flesh
  20. Will-o'-the-Wisp

Matene Toure (critic)

Joyland
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Anatomy of a Fall
Priscilla
All of Us Strangers
Rye Lane
Black God, White Devil
Passages
Youth (Spring)

Carlos Valladares (critic)

  1. The Trial
  2. The Boy and the Heron
  3. Showing Up
  4. Our Body
  5. Fallen Leaves
  6. Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
  7. Asteroid City
  8. Happer’s Comet
  9. Dick Tracy: Tracy Zooms In
  10. Killers of the Flower Moon
  11. How to Have Sex
  12. Passing Time
  13. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  14. Passages
  15. The Old Oak
  16. Master Gardener
  17. Barbie

Muyan Wang (critic)

Youth (Spring)
The Sweet East
Fallen Leaves
Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
Anatomy of a Fall
The Delinquents
Killers of the Flower Moon
Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation
Minamata Mandala
Oppenheimer
Showing Up
The Night of the 12th
Sick of Myself
Tori and Lokita
Walk Up
Godland
Pacifiction

Kelli Weston (critic, scholar)

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Earth Mama
Last Summer
Fallen Leaves
Jill, Uncredited
Passages
May December
A Thousand And One
Menus-Plaisirs  — Les Troisgros

Madeline Whittle (programmer, Film at Lincoln Center)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. May December
  3. De humani corporis fabrica
  4. Fallen Leaves
  5. The Delinquents
  6. Showing Up
  7. Killers of the Flower Moon
  8. Rewind & Play
  9. About Dry Grasses
  10. The Zone of Interest
  11. Unrest
  12. Unclenching the Fists
  13. Other People’s Children
  14. Orlando, My Political Biography
  15. Mutzenbacher
  16. Asteroid City
  17. R.M.N.
  18. Poor Things
  19. Priscilla
  20. Anatomy of a Fall

Manu Yáñez Murillo (critic)

  1. Pacifiction
  2. The Zone of Interest
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. Asteroid City
  5. De humani corporis fabrica
  6. Nobody’s Hero
  7. Passages
  8. Godland
  9. Master Gardener
  10. Unrest
  11. Fallen Leaves
  12. The Killer
  13. Anatomy of a Fall
  14. May December
  15. Scarlet
  16. Orlando, My Political Biography
  17. Poor Things
  18. Maestro
  19. El agua