After a few rocky years post covid, we were richly rewarded this year.
10 best
films of 2023
10 – No Hard
Feelings: An amazing Jennifer
Lawrence lets it all hang out in a spectacular return for the raunchy comedy
genre.
9 – Suitable
Flesh: A strange but fulfilling tale
of horror.
8 – Air: You wouldn’t think a movie about signing a
guy to sell shoes would be entertaining, but somehow it manages to grab you.
7 – Renfield: A wildly over the top Nick Cage makes the
cherry on top of a fun new angle on boring ol’ Dracula.
6 – Golda: A surprisingly good retelling of the days of
former Israeli PM Golda Meir during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
5 – Bottoms: Two devastatingly unpopular young lesbians
start an all girl high school fight club to ensure “female empowerment”, when in truth just
trying to score with their cheerleader crushes.
Hilarity ensues.
4 – Barbie: A tale of what it is, and what it means, to be
a woman in our society. Brilliantly
subversive, bright, colorful, fun and touching.
More than anyone would have expected.
3 – Godzilla:
Minus One: A failed and shamed kamikaze
pilot returns home after WWII and an incident that shook him far more than the
war did. Once that incident shows itself
in its giant, mutated form, he gets a second chance at honor. Utterly brilliant.
The next two
were really tough, but after some thought, here we go.
2 – Oppenheimer: A brisk, deep, full bore look into the life
of the man who brought us the nuclear age.
Rarely has 3 hours moved so fast and been so magnificent, so
breathtaking, so eyecatching.
1 – The Holdovers: A jaded teacher, a grieving mother and cook
and the only student who couldn’t get back home for Christmas break from an
exclusive private high school grow into the family all so desperately needed
over those two weeks. An enriching, beautiful
tale of hope, love and how family doesn’t have to be blood. A longlasting, emotional best film of
2023.
