We are one year out of 2023, and I've found that I really need a year to both digest all the movies I've seen and to actually get a chance to see them all. I don't want to get into every single one of these because I think we'll get to that in ten years anyway, but here we go, with a few snippets:
First of all, Creed III would be on here if Jonathan Majors had won. Like, that would have brought the entire Rocky series full circle, his character needed to win to finish his arc, and Creed needed to lose to complete his. It ends up just being a terrible movie.
This gets in but I don't feel great about it:
Poor Things - I don't actually know if this is good or not. I think I liked it.
These are locks.
The Holdovers
May December - wins for having the best ending of any of these
Oppenheimer - this is good but it's not like super great when I think about it
Killers of the Flower Moon - this is definitely too long and I think not that fun but good
Napoleon
Anatomy of a Fall
Godzilla Minus One
Beau is Afraid
Saltburn - I might be thinking about Saltburn more than Beau is Afraid but I really love both these films that everyone else seemed to hate. Thank goodness I am not put off by weird shit.
This goes for Napoleon and May December, too. I do really think these were great. I love Joaquin Phoenix, I really don't care about him probably being an unreliable asshole.
I had seventeen movies on this list originally before I whittled it down, and I feel like this is the kind of year where any of these would be hard to boot. Across the Spider-Verse just misses out again. I don't know if it should. The Creator ain't that great, but I kind of want to highlight it here. I watched it in a fatherhood late night child crying fever dream and I liked it. I think American Fiction and Barbie come close, too.
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