Best movies 2023: Oppenheimer was even more terrifying when I rewatched it.
SlateIn Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. I too felt Dana’s “haze of generalized goodwill” that weekend, especially because, as she notes, I was completely wowed by Oppenheimer, which is an easy movie with which to get obsessed. At the moment, this is what it looks like: Oppenheimer The Holdovers Ferrari Perfect Days About Dry Grasses Origin Fallen Leaves Passages Asteroid City Anatomy of a Fall The Promised Land Monster Air Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves May December The Taste of Things Showing Up The Teachers’ Lounge El Conde Creed III I would have loved to include more obscure or left-field titles on this list, but I’m not sure what they would replace. It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me, Bilge Read the next entry in the 2023 Movie Club: One of the Best Movies of 2023 Was the Dungeons & Dragons Comedy