Return to Seoul 2022

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

Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/

UPDATED: 1/2/2024

Personal favorites released in 2022 with a rating of 8 or higher.

Rating Scale:
10 - One of my all time favorites!
9 - Easily one of the best of the year.
8 - High quality film, it was a good time and worth a watch

Movies released since 2018 to watch

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Non-English based movies.

Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/

As listed by Otavio Uga at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYinTXcLS_w
Organized by genre:
1-8 - Action / Adventure
9-16 - Animation
17-24 - Comedy
25-32 - Documentary
33-40 - Drama
41-48 - Foreign drama
49-56 - Suspense
57-64 - Horror

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

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

Ranked as in the list

1: Past Lives
2: Tár
3: Killers of the Flower Moon
4: 20 Days in Mariupol
5: The Boy and the Heron
6: Godland
7: Saint Omer
8: Anatomy of a Fall
9: All the Beauty & the Bloodshed
10: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
11: The Eight Mountains
12: Maestro
13: Alcarràs
14: Return to Seoul
15: Amanda
16: The Eternal Daughter
17: Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
18: Full Time
19: Incredible But True
20: Pacifiction
21: Joyland
22: Typist Artist Pirate King
23: The Fabelmans
24: Law of Tehran
25: Creature
26: Fremont
27: Love Life
28: May December
29: My Imaginary Country
30: Nostalgia
31: Pretty Red Dress
32: Oppenheimer
33: My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
34: Wonka
35: You Hurt My Feelings
36: Napoleon
37: One Fine Morning
38: Strange Way of Life
39: Passages
40: Name Me Lawand
41: Rodeo
42: On the Adamant
43: The Deepest Breath
44: The Future Tense
45: The Damned Don’t Cry
46: Tish
47: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
48: War Pony
49: Mother and Son
50: The Beasts

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