The 10 Best Movies of 2023
SlateMovies were big in 2023, in every sense. Barbie By the laws of box-office karma, every Top 10 list that includes Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer should also include Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and vice versa. Barbie isn’t even my favorite Greta Gerwig movie—that would be Little Women—but it’s nothing if not a leveling-up for this wildly gifted filmmaker still near the beginning of her career. Killers of the Flower Moon To those who found Martin Scorsese’s sprawling, lyrical, anguished adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same title lacking—who wanted it to recount the same terrible true story, but do it somehow differently—I feel like asking, not facetiously but in real wonderment: How much better a movie could you possibly want to see? Yes, the mockumentary-style framing device is overfamiliar and distracting, but it falls away after the first few scenes, and the camp’s big end-of-summer production Joan, Still—a deranged original musical with at least two songs I still burst into at random six months later—achieves the rare trick of creating a fictional work-within-the-work that is supposed to be really good, and actually is.
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