The 25 Best Films of 2023
The best films of the year include gritty crime dramas, auteurs returning with bold new works, and quirky comedies.
The best films of the year include gritty crime dramas, auteurs returning with bold new works, and quirky comedies.
The chronicling of the Osage Nation’s early 20th-century tragedy proves powerful and prescient.
Even when he’s not making musical movies, the Aussie auteur’s movies are always musical.
Baz Luhrmann’s hyper-stylized take on Shakespeare makes some odd choices, but not in the casting of some of its key characters
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Soleil Moon Frye directs this bittersweet albeit breezy look back at the Hollywood teen stars of the ’90s, and their difficult road to now.
Sam Raimi and Sharon Stone’s quickdraw revenger is stylish and skillfully crafted.
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Who should win, who will win, and who was left out.
Sam Mendes’s tale of forlorn love works best as a study of the pitfalls that litter the American Dream.
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Martin Scorsese turned his camera to the grotesque excesses of the ultra-rich in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Martin Scorsese followed up The Departed with Shutter Island, a claustrophobic psychological thriller about the madness of loss.
Scorsese recovered from the brutal conditions of Gangs of New York with an intimate, tragic portrait of the foibles of genius.
Martin Scorsese’s 2002 historical drama is big, brassy and full of great performances, but its runtime and tone leave it unfocused.
Pedro Almodóvar graces us with a shaggy but rewarding portrait of a middle-aged director wrestling with his demons, with an arresting turn by Banderas.
Haley Joel Osment’s gripping performance elevated M. Night Shyamalan’s second feature to a horror masterpiece.
While “The Lion King” dropped like Mufasa off a cliff in its second weekend, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” kicked off Tarantino’s biggest opening.
Quibbles about violence and the n-word aside, Quentin Tarantino’s slave-era blaxploitation film remains one of his most exciting works.
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film is a sun-soaked return to his roots, an energetic elegy for Old Hollywood that plays fast and loose with its history.