Every Movie I Saw in 2023
Another year, another list. Likely the last list ever! GASP.
Well, sorta the last list. Long story short, I have a Letterboxd account now (@stevenspoints) and I tend to organize my thoughts about movies there now, and as a result, keeping a sporadically updated Google Doc that I transfer to a Squarespace website once a year has basically outlived its usefulness. I’ll probably have some sort of list over on Letterboxd for 2024. For those handful of you who have dutifully checked out my yearly thoughts every January(ish), thank you very much for your readership, and feel free to follow me on Letterboxd if you for some reason enjoy this inanity.
As for 2023, there were most definitely movies! Many of them even good movies! I’m ending this current form of the list on a new high of 97 films, up precisely 1 from last year’s previous personal best. I’m a tad disappointed I couldn’t stretch it to an even 100, but we can make that a resolution for 2024.
And without (much) further ado, the list. To put it in good/bad terms, I’d probably say I liked everything above Napoleon, and was generally negative on everything below Napoleon. Please feel free to send comments/complaints/vitriol to me through any social media system of your choosing.
The Killer
Passages
Eileen
Barbie
American Fiction
The Zone of Interest
Anatomy of a Fall
John Wick Chapter 4
Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Asteroid City
Killers of the Flower Moon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Rye Lane
Polite Society
Beau is Afraid
The Pigeon Tunnel
Theater Camp
Past Lives
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Fremont
Nimona
Bottoms
Evil Dead Rise
Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Oppenheimer
Skinamarkink
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
May December
Knock at the Cabin
Anyone But You
Godzilla Minus One
Quiz Lady
Brother
Leo
Rustin
Showing Up
Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
Joyland
The YouTube Effect
A Thousand and One
Maestro
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
You Hurt My Feelings
Extraction 2
Blackberry
Eight Eyes
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A Haunting in Venice
Priscilla
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
No Hard Feelings
Leave the World Behind
No One Will Save You
Totally Killer
Napoleon
The Boy and the Heron
Blue Beetle
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Poor Things
Elemental
The Pope’s Exorcist
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Wonka
Fallen Leaves
Flora and Son
Saltburn
The Flash
Flamin’ Hot
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Quicksand
The Exorcist: Believer
Air
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Iron Claw
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Scream VI
Boston Strangler
Slotherhouse
The Marvels
Meg 2: The Trench
Cocaine Bear
Murder Mystery 2
Fast X
65
Candy Cane Lane
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
The Mother
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
80 for Brady
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Renfield
Hypnotic
And to cap things off, a few fun little awards, as a treat:
Best Director: David Fincher, The Killer (Runner-up: Frederick Wiseman, Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros)
Best Actress: Alyssa Sutherland, Evil Dead Rise (Runner-up: Michelle Williams, Showing Up)
Best Actor: Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (Runner-up: Franz Rogowski, Passages)
The Chris Pine Award for Best Performance in a Bad Movie: Rosamund Pike, Saltburn (Runner-up: Alden Ehrenreich, Cocaine Bear)
Best Movie Featuring Issa Rae as One of a Multitude of Variations of the Same Character All Existing in a Shared World: Barbie (Runner-up: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
Worst Performance: Eddie Murphy, Candy Cane Lane (Runner-up: Barry Keoghan, Saltburn)
Best Dog: Snoopy, Anatomy of a Fall (Runner-up: Mr. Linguini, Quiz Lady)
Best Scene: The Whiskey Flight, The Killer (Runner-up: Look Under the Bed, Skinamarink)
Movies I Regretfully Never Got Around To: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Nyad, Aquaman: The Last Kingdom, The Little Mermaid, Four Daughters, Creed III, M3GAN, Migration, Wish, The Boys in the Boat, Sanctuary, The Creator, Plane, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Talk to Me, Dumb Money, Sisu, Next Goal Wins, Dream Scenario, Infinity Pool, Chevalier, All of Us Strangers, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Origin, Robot Dreams, The Eternal Memory, Chile ‘76, The Unknown Country, Ferrari, Familia, A Million Miles Away, Godland, About Dry Grasses, They Cloned Tyrone, Fair Play, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Master Gardener, Inside, De Humani Corporis Fabrica
