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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. 2023

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List compiled from (article and podcast): https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/949-best-films-of-2023

Four Top 10 lists - from Adam, Josh, Michael Phillips and Marya E. Gates

Ranked by number of consensus Top 10 selections (most Top 10 selections first), then average place from all the lists
1: Past Lives - Michael (#1), Marya (#3)
2: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Josh (#5), Marya (#1)
3: Killers of the Flower Moon - Adam (#3), Michael (#3)
4: All of Us Strangers - Adam (#1), Josh (#6)
5: Asteroid City - Adam (#4), Josh (#3)
6: Anatomy of a Fall - Adam (#7), Josh (#2)
7: Oppenheimer - Adam (#2), Michael (#9)
8: Barbie - Josh (#10), Michael (#4)
9: The Zone of Interest - Adam (#10), Michael (#6)
10: May December - Adam (#8), Michael (#10)

Besides the 10 consensus movies, there are some outliers that only made it to one Top 10 list
11: The Holdovers - Adam (#5)
12: The Taste of Things - Adam (#6)
13: The Teachers’ Lounge - Adam (#9)
14: The Boy and the Heron - Josh (#1)
15: You Hurt My Feelings - Josh (#4)
16: Skinamarink - Josh (#7)
17: Priscilla - Josh (#8)
18: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Josh (#9)
19: The Boy - Michael (#2)
20: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. - Michael (#5)
21: Return to Seoul - Michael (#7)
22: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Michael (#8)
23: Plan 75 - Marya (#2)
24: Amanda - Marya (#4)
25: Fremont - Marya (#4)
26: The Blue Caftan - Marya (#5)
27: Godland - Marya (#6)
28: La Chimera - Marya (#7)
29: Kokomo City - Marya (#8)
30: Lakota Nation vs. United States - Marya (#9)
31: BlackBerry - Marya (#10)

Finally, below are the movies that made it to the 11-20 of at least one critic
32: Showing Up - Adam, Michael
33: Poor Things - Adam, Michael
34: Suzume - Adam, Josh
35: Four Daughters - Josh, Michael
36: The Iron Claw - Adam
37: The Killer - Adam
38: Menus-Plaisirs: Les Les Troisgros - Adam
39: Godzilla Minus One - Josh
40: Rodeo - Josh
41: Fair Play - Michael
42: I’m a Virgo - Michael
43: In the Rearview - Michael
44: The Royal Hotel - Michael
45: A Thousand and One - Michael
46: The Unknown Country - Michael
47: Blue Jean - Marya
48: Passages - Marya
49: Origin - Marya
50: Hannah Ha Ha - Marya
51: Brother - Marya
52: King Coal - Marya
53: Bottoms - Marya

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The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the US during 2023

List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/05/the-50-best-movies-of-2023-in-the-us

Ranked as in the list

1: Past Lives
2: Killers of the Flower Moon
3: The Zone of Interest
4: The Holdovers
5: All of Us Strangers
6: 20 Days in Mariupol
7: Poor Things
8: The Boy and the Heron
9: Godland
10: Anatomy of a Fall
11: Showing Up
12: The Eight Mountains
13: Maestro
14: Alcarràs
15: Amanda
16: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
17: After Love
18: Full Time
19: Monster
20: Incredible But True
21: Pacifiction
22: Joyland
23: Fremont
24: Love Life
25: May December
26: Nostalgia
27: Pretty Red Dress
28: The Teachers’ Lounge
29: Oppenheimer
30: Memory
31: Wonka
32: You Hurt My Feelings
33: Napoleon
34: Strange Way of Life
35: Passages
36: The Taste of Things
37: Bad Press
38: Rodeo
39: The Deepest Breath
40: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
41: The Future Tense
42: Orlando, My Political Biography
43: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
44: War Pony
45: The Beasts
46: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
47: American Fiction
48: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
49: Anselm
50: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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Movies released in 2023, ranked from latest to oldest releases.

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My ranking of films released in 2023.

Notes:
-No short films (1 hour minimum runtime)
-Films included are based on the year the film first premiered
-Ranking is based more on my personal enjoyment of a film rather than what rating I gave it

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This list was create using reTraktarr (https://github.com/zakkarry/reTraktarr)

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Family movies and TV shows. Including Hidden Gems.

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Movies culled from various best of 2023 lists

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