Sight & Sound Top 50 2023
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1. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 240,617
2. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 85,357
3. Past Lives (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Director: Celine Song | Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah
Votes: 115,929
4. Poor Things (2023)
R | 141 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef
Votes: 255,203
5. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 732,701 | Gross: $326.11M
6. Barbie (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon
Votes: 537,949 | Gross: $636.24M
7. Passages (2023)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Erwan Kepoa Falé
Votes: 11,373
8. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 123,301
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
163 min | Comedy
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrsan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazar
Votes: 1,477
10. May December (2023)
R | 117 min | Drama
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Natalie Portman, Chris Tenzis, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore
Votes: 52,967
11. Close Your Eyes (2023)
169 min | Drama
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Votes: 2,772
12. All of Us Strangers (2023)
R | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell
Votes: 46,177
13. Tár (2022)
R | 158 min | Drama, Music
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer
Votes: 93,976
14. Asteroid City (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 113,891
15. Saint Omer (2022)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama
Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Director: Alice Diop | Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit
Votes: 5,073
16. Fallen Leaves (2023)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu
Votes: 23,183
17. Totem (2023)
95 min | Drama
Seven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.
Director: Lila Avilés | Stars: Naíma Sentíes, Montserrat Marañon, Marisol Gasé, Saori Gurza
Votes: 2,485
18. Last Summer (2023)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau
Votes: 1,787
19. How to Have Sex (2023)
91 min | Drama
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Director: Molly Manning Walker | Stars: Anna Antoniades, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis
Votes: 14,038
20. Return to Seoul (2022)
R | 119 min | Drama
A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.
Director: Davy Chou | Stars: Park Ji-min, Oh Gwang-Rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young
Votes: 8,427
21. Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
106 min | Drama
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani
Votes: 3,636
22. La Chimera (2023)
130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 5,652
23. Afire (2023)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs
Votes: 7,362
24. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
179 min | Drama
A man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
Director: Thien An Pham | Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Votes: 1,101
25. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 51,234
26. Rotting in the Sun (2023)
Unrated | 109 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Sebastián Silva is detached from life, struggling to succeed in the art world and habitually taking ketamine. When he meets social media influencer Jordan Firstman at a nudist beach, the two discuss collaborating, but fate has other plans.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Jordan Firstman, Catalina Saavedra, Sebastián Silva, Mateo Riestra
Votes: 3,376
27. The Fabelmans (2022)
PG-13 | 151 min | Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch
Votes: 117,094
28. The Delinquents (2023)
Unrated | 189 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.
Director: Rodrigo Moreno | Stars: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán De Silva
Votes: 2,873
29. Beau Is Afraid (2023)
R | 179 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane
Votes: 60,853
30. The Beast (2023)
146 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
The plot is set partly in a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova
Votes: 1,740
31. Talk to Me (I) (2022)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Stars: Ari McCarthy, Hamish Phillips, Kit Erhart-Bruce, Sarah Brokensha
Votes: 144,581
32. Music (2023)
108 min | Drama
Abandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.
Director: Angela Schanelec | Stars: Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Argyris Xafis
Votes: 366
33. Hit Man (2023)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy
A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta, Austin Amelio
Votes: 1,184
34. The Taste of Things (2023)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger, Patrick d'Assumçao
Votes: 7,997
35. One Fine Morning (2022)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia
Votes: 6,937
36. Infinity Pool (2023)
R | 117 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
Director: Brandon Cronenberg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, Dunja Sepcic
Votes: 56,793
37. The Human Surge 3 (2023)
121 min | Drama
Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They are spending time together, trying to escape from their depressing jobs and to own the question of what to do with their time.
Director: Eduardo Williams | Stars: Bo-Kai Hsu, Meera Nadarasa, Sharika Navamani, Abel Navarro
Votes: 56
38. Trenque Lauquen (2022)
262 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.
Director: Laura Citarella | Stars: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Cecilia Rainero
Votes: 757
39. Samsara (I) (2023)
113 min | Drama
In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.
Director: Lois Patiño | Stars: Amid Keomany, Toumor Xiong, Simone Milavanh, Mariam Vuaa Mtego
Votes: 565
40. Suzume (2022)
PG | 122 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu, Shôta Sometani
Votes: 39,624
41. Rye Lane (2023)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two youngsters reeling from bad breakups connect over an eventful day in South London.
Director: Raine Allen-Miller | Stars: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah, Poppy Allen-Quarmby, Charlie Knight
Votes: 12,767
42. Reality (I) (2023)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama
A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.
Director: Tina Satter | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis, Benny Elledge
Votes: 20,649
43. Priscilla (2023)
R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 35,313
44. A Prince (2023)
82 min | Drama
Follows Pierre-Joseph, a student of horticulture, whose intercourse with his mentors and botany teacher leads to an original fusion of science, sex, and meditation.
Director: Pierre Creton | Stars: Antoine Pirotte, Pierre Creton, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Barré
Votes: 158
45. Our Body (2023)
168 min | Documentary
Follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France.
Director: Claire Simon | Star: Claire Simon
Votes: 218
46. Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (2023)
240 min | Documentary
A 93-year-old director embeds inside a French restaurant that's held three Michelin stars for more than 50 years.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Votes: 398
47. The Killer (2023)
R | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard
Votes: 183,627
48. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 140,447
49. Earth Mama (2023)
R | 101 min | Drama
An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.
Director: Savanah Leaf | Stars: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Keta Price, Doechii
Votes: 959
50. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
PG | 92 min | Drama
A decades-spanning exploration of a woman's life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.
Director: Raven Jackson | Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jayah Henry, Sheila Atim
Votes: 992
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