Best Movies of 2023 – Best of the Genres
Continuing to look back at the best movies of 2023, we will now be looking at the best movies from each genre. I will be looking at my favorite foreign-language films, comedies, action movies, and a few other genres and categories. Each category will have five “nominees” (a.k.a my personal top five) with my “winner” (my favorite) in bold, followed by short reasoning as to why I picked it the best. Here are my picks for the best movies from each genre in 2023.
BEST ANIMATED MOVIE
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
The First Slam Dunk
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- 2023 was a great year for animated movies and while we did get a new classic from Hayao Miyazaki, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an epic film with game-changing animation.
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Godzilla Minus One
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- John Wick: Chapter 4 is as big as action movies get and features immaculately constructed action scenes.
BEST SCI-FI
Biosphere
Divinity
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
They Cloned Tyrone
- Godzilla Minus One is the best Godzilla movie in nearly a decade and one of the best ever made.
BEST HORROR/THRILLER
Brooklyn 45
Divinity
Knock at the Cabin
- M. Night Shyamalan continues his great run as a director with this tense apocalyptic, religious-focused chamber piece.
BEST COMEDY
80 for Brady
The Holdovers
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
- It was another weak year for comedies, but Alexander Payne’s features loads of humor and the funniest moment in any movie in 2023 when Paul Giamatti’s Paul Hunham throws a football in the most unathletic way possible.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
The First Slam Dunk
Godzilla Minus One
The Zone of Interest
- So many great international films in 2023, but Justine Triet’s stirring Palme de ‘Or winner is simply one of the year’s best films.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Eternal Memory
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis
A Still Small Voice
- I admittedly didn’t see as many documentaries as I should have in 2023, but Maite Alberdi’s film about a couple coping with Alzheimer’s was one of the most heartbreaking experiences I had in 2023.
BEST SEQUEL
Godzilla Minus One
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an epic, game-changing sequel that is trying to subvert sequel expectations and superhero movie tropes.
FIVE MOVIES I LIKED MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE
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The Haunted Mansion
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Murder Mystery 2
- Five films that got mediocre to bad reviews or did poorly at the box office (or a combo of both) that I had a good time with.
FIVE MOVIES EVERYONE LIKED MORE THAN ME
M3GAN
Talk to Me
- These aren’t bad movies in my opinion, but they are five movies that I didn’t like as much as most people for one reason or another.
FIVE UNDERRATED/UNDERSEEN MOVIES
Brooklyn 45
Brother
The First Slam Dunk
RMN
Scrapper
- Five movies that didn’t get watched as much as they should have.
FIVE GREAT 2023 MOVIES YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF
The Crime is Mine
Divinity
- Five under-the-radar movies that everyone should check out.
FIVE 2023 MOVIES THAT DO NOT EXIST
The Boogeyman
Inside
The Machine
The Outlaws
To Catch a Killer
- Are we sure these movies were released?
FIVE MOVIES I HATED IN 2023
About My Father
Ghosted
The Mother
White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
You People
- The worst.
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