2023: My Year in Review

My Top 20 Movies of 2023

• The Creator

• The Boys in the Boat

• You Hurt My Feelings

• BlackBerry

• Oppenheimer

• Scrapper

They Cloned Tyrone

• No Hard Feelings

• Past Lives

• Priscilla

• Killers of the Flower Moon

• Bottoms

• A Thousand and One

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

• Rye Lane

• The Iron Claw

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

• Barbie

• Mr. Dress-Up: The Magic of Make Believe (doc)

• The Holdovers

Honourable Mentions: (doc),

My Bottom 5 of 2023

1. Mumbai Mafia (doc)

2. Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation

3. Beau is Afraid 

4. Your Place or Mine

5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

My Top 10 Favourite Performances of 2023

1. Harry Dickinson as David Von Erich in

2. Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in

3. Ayo Edebiri as Josie in

4. Paul Giamati as Paul Hunham in

5. Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie in

6. Jamie Foxx as Slick Charles in

7. Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Straus in

8. Greta Lee as Nora in

9. Matthew Johnson as Doug Fregin in

10. Ryan Gosling as Ken in

Honourable Mentions: Jack Black as Bowser in Jamie Foxx as Willie Gary in Lola Campbell as Georgie in Casey Metcalfe as Marlon in Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon in

And some superlatives:

• Best Animated: 

• Best Romance: 

• Best Documentary:

• Best Horror: I actually didn’t watch any new movies in this genre last year. The closest I could come to is . I really enjoyed it, but not a horror.

• Best Action:

• Best comedy: (Big shout out to , and They were hilarious!)

• Best Biopic: (Honourable mention to )

• Best SciFi:

• Most Inspirational:

• Biggest Letdown:

• Biggest Letup(opposite of letdown?):

Congratulations . 2023 was definitely your year. But this is your week.

Best Actress:

Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy in

Best Actor: Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong in

Best Quote: “Does the label “long-term long-distance low-commitment casual girlfriend” mean nothing to her?” – Ryan Gosling as Ken in

One final list…My top 10 favourite non-2023 movies that I watched for the first time in 2023:

1. Where to Invade Next (2015, doc)

2. The Killing (1956)

3. The Thin Red Line (1998)

4. Descendant (2022, doc)

5. Fall (2022)

6. Till (2022)

7. Halloween (1978)

8. Women Talking

9. Kajillionaire (2022)

10. Mass (2021)