Looking back on the year in movies, hardly a week went by without at least one good-to-great film, with a partial list including “Poor Things,” “The Iron Claw,” “The Boy and the Heron,” “Eileen,” “Leave the World Behind,” “Saltburn,” “Napoleon,” “Rustin,” “American Fiction,” “The Holdovers,” “The Royal Hotel,” “Fair Play,” “Dreamin’ Wild,” “The Blackening,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “BlackBerry,” “Knock at the Cabin,” “Infinity Pool” and “Are You There, God? It’s Me. Margaret.”
That’s a terrific list, covering just about every genre in the Extended Genre Universe — but each of the aforementioned films is in the Honorable Mention category. Here are my picks for the very best films of 2023.
