Your top five films of 2023

[MBV]

1. Eight Mountains
2. Past Lives
3. Burial
4. You Hurt My Feelings
5. Sharper

 

[Elpenor]

1. Eight Mountains

I was going to see that tomorrow but it will finish a bit late and I’ve been tired for weeks so returned my ticket

 

[MBV]

I was going to see that tomorrow but it will finish a bit late and I’ve been tired for weeks so returned my ticket

It would be amazing on a big screen. I watched it at home and it blew me away.

 

[Elpenor]

It would be amazing on a big screen. I watched it at home and it blew me away.

I may rebook it then

 

[Jeff Robinson]

My top 10 for good measure:

10. How to Blow up a Pipeline

9. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

8. Dream Scenario

7. Cairo Conspiracy

6. Missing

5. Barbie

4. Oppenheimer

3. Killers of the Flower Moon

2. Past lives

1. How to Have Sex

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It's been mostly mubi picks for me this year, so quite a limited sample. Three hits, three misses.

Three films that I really liked:

Falling Leaves
How to Have Sex
Alcarrás

Three that lots liked but I wasn't so sure about:

Eight Mountains (what should have been the ending came a way before the actual ending - not a bad film, but if I'm honest, I was bored by it, five mountains would have been enough)
Holy Spider (just grim, in a way that I don't want to watch)
Saltburn (less to it than meets the eye, with several bum notes that appear to be there to cater to a US market and a whole scene lifted from Remains of the Day. Lazy.)

 

[krtek a houby]

Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Killer
Spiderman Across the Spiderverse
Killers of the Flower Moon

 

[MBV]

I forgot Reality with Sidney Sweeney - very good and unsettling.

Reality (2023) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama

1h 23m | 12A

www.imdb.com

 

[scifisam]

Top five:

Barbie
Polite Society
Oppenheimer
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Cocaine Bear
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Honourable Mentions:

Renfield
Bottoms
Killers of the Flower Moon
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Past Lives
Asteroid City

Dishonourable mentions:

The Flash - just bad. It made Gal Gadot look like an excellent actor for the brief time she was in it
A Haunting in Venice - Fuck off Branagh
Across the Spiderverse - not quite dishonourable, but just didn't merit the hype

Cannot watch Anatomy of a Fall because the resemblance of the lead actress to my ex-ex - who I'm fine with - is SO strong that it's literally like seeing her on screen pretending to not be her. And it's a distinctive look.

 

[scifisam]

Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Killer
Spiderman Across the Spiderverse
Killers of the Flower Moon

Are you using Japan release dates?

 

[hitmouse]

I forgot Reality with Sidney Sweeney - very good and unsettling.

Reality (2023) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama

1h 23m | 12A

www.imdb.com

Oh, I'd not heard of that until now, but I know the actual story, and am still amazed every time I remember Reality Winner is a real person.

 

[krtek a houby]

Are you using Japan release dates?

Sure am!

And we still haven't got a release date for Oppenheimer...

 

[Elpenor]

It would be amazing on a big screen. I watched it at home and it blew me away.

It was. Thanks for the prompt, I’m glad I saw it on a big screen. Some incredible camerawork, and rather moving.

 

[belboid]

Barbie
Bottoms
Women Talking
Enys Men
Falling Leaves

Special mention to Oppenheimer for being way better than expected and worth a rewatch.

 

[Spandex]

New favourite film of the year: Sazume

My daughter wanted to watch it last night and it's absolutely wonderful. An beautifully animated anime film about a teenage girl having to travel across Japan closing doors to the afterlife to stop a giant worm coming through and causing earthquakes, accompanied by a cat/god and a walking, talking chair. Genuinely brilliant.