The Skinny's Films of 2023: Our Writers' Top 10s

By now, you've probably seen The Skinny's top ten films of 2023 list featuring much-praised titles like Past Lives, Killers of the Flower Moon and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. But how did we come up with that list? Below you'll find the individual ballots from our film writers, which have been aggregated to create the top ten. Digging through our lists you'll find we're an eclectic bunch with catholic taste, with films like Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn), The Five Devils (Léa Mysius), No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky), and Suzume (Makoto Shinkai) among the films nominated that didn't break the top ten.

Eilidh Akilade
1. How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)
2. Pearl (Ti West)
3. Passages (Ira Sachs)
4. Past Lives (Celine Song)
5. Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
6. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)
7. Girl (Adura Onashile)
8. Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva)
9. Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman)
10. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)

Nathaniel Ashley
1. Past Lives (Celine Song)
2. God's Creatures (Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson)
5. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
6. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn)
8. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
9. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)
10. The Fablemans (Steven Spielberg)

Honourable mentions: Barbie (Greta Gerwig), The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (Martin Bourboulon), Cocaine Bear (Elizabeth Banks), The Creator (Gareth Edwards)

Anahit Behrooz
1. All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
2. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
3. Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
4. Past Lives (Celine Song)
5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp)
6. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
7. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
8. May December (Todd Haynes)
9. How To Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
10. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)

Honourable mentions: Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson), Women Talking (Sarah Polley), Eileen (William Oldroyd), Fremont (Babak Jalali), Passages (Ira Sachs)

Rerelease of the Year: The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

Stinker of the Year: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold)

Louis Cammell
1. Passages (Ira Sachs)
2. The Innocent (Louis Garrel)
3. Broker (Hirokazu Koreeda)
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
5. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)
6. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
7. May December (Todd Haynes)
8. Oppenheimer (Chrisptopher Nolan)
9. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
10. Kokomo City (D. Smith)

Honourable mentions: BlackBerry (Matt Johnson), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber), Past Lives (Celine Song), Meet Me in the Bathroom (Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern), Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Sam Fell)

Rereleases of the Year: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993), Christine (John Carpenter, 1983), Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)

Stinkers of the Year: Bottoms (Emma Seligman), Joyride (Adele Lim)

Eleanor Capaldi
1. How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)
2. The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green)
3. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
4. Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
5. The Five Devils (Léa Mysius)
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
7. Scrapper (Charlotte Regan)
8. Typist Artist Pirate King (Carol Morley)
9. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)
10. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints)

Honourable mentions: Leonor Will Never Die (Martika Ramirez Escobar), Reality (Tina Satter), Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller), Joyland (Saim Sadiq)

Tom Charles
1. Past Lives (Celine Song)
2. Tár (Todd Field)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Davis Guggenheim)
5. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3  (James Gunn)
7. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
8. Dungens & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein)
9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson)
10. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)

Honourable mentions: Polite Society (Nida Manzoor), Nimona (Troy Quane, Nick Bruno), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Jeff Rowe), Creed III (Michael B. Jordan), Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)

Philip Concannon
1. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
2. Godland (Hlynur Pálmason)
3. Tár (Todd Field)
4. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
5. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
6. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
7. May December (Todd Haynes)
8. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
9. The Eight Mountains (Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch)
10. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)

Honourable mentions: Afire (Christian Petzold), Close (Lukas Dhont), Other People's Children (Rebecca Zlotowski), Past Lives (Celine Song), While We Watched (Vinay Shukla)

Rereleases of the Year: The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993), Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960), Pressure (Horace Ové, 1976)

Stinker of the Year: Women Talking (Sarah Polley)

Zoe Crombie
1. Suzume (Makoto Shinkai)
2. Past Lives (Celine Song)
3. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Kelly Fremon Craig)
4. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
5. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Pierre Földes)
6. The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)
7. The Eight Mountains (Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch)
8. The Nettle Dress (Dylan Howitt)
9. Pearl (Ti West)
10. Love Life (Kōji Fukada)

Rory Doherty
1. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
2. Tár (Todd Field)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
6. May December (Todd Haynes)
7. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
8. Past Lives (Celine Song)
9. The First Slam Dunk (Takehiko Inoue)
10. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)

Honourable mentions: Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan), How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker), Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball), John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski), Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson)

Stinker: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic)

Jamie Dunn
1. May December (Todd Hayes)
2. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
3. Tár (Todd Field)
4. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)
5. Theatre Camp (Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman)
6. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
7. Passages (Ira Sachs)
8. Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva)
9. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)

Honourable mentions: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret (Kelly Fremon Craig), Saint Omer (Alice Diop), No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky), Love Life (Kōji Fukada), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)

Rereleases of the Year: Variety (Bette Gordon), Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien), Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)

Stinker of the Year: Renfield (Chris McKay)

Lucy Fitzgerald
1. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
2. Past Lives (Celine Song)
3. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
4. Bottoms (Emma Seligman)
5. You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener)
6. Fremont (Babak Jalali)
7. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers)
9. BlackBerry (Matthew Johnson)
10. Theater Camp (Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman)

Honourable mentions: Passages (Ira Sachs), Cocaine Bear (Elizabeth Banks), You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (Sammi Cohen), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Jeff Rowe), Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Kelly Fremon Craig)

Stinker of the Year: Magic Mike's Last Dance (Steven Soderbergh)

Fernando García
1. Past Lives (Celine Song)
2. Godland (Hlynur Pálmason)
3. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. Tár (Todd Field)
5. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
6. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
7. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
8. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
9. Tótem (Lila Aviles)
10. Passages (Ira Sachs)

Stinker of the Year: Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)

Tony Inglis
1. Passages (Ira Sachs)
2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
5. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)
6. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
7. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
8. Broker (Hirokazu Koreeda)
9. Polite Society (Nida Manzoor)
10. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)

Honourable mentions: Alcarràs (Carla Simón), Afire (Christian Petzold), Barbie (Greta Gerwig), The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg), Tár (Todd Field)

Rereleases of the Year: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984), Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973), Variety (Bette Gordon, 1993)

Stinker of the Year: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)

Patrick Gamble
1. The Plains (David Easteal)
2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
3. R.M.N (Cristian Mungiu)
4. Godland (Hlynur Pálmason)
5. The Super 8 Years (David Ernaux-Briot, Annie Ernaux)
6. Small, Slow but Steady (Sho Miyake)
7. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
8. Past Lives (Celine Song)
9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
10. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)

Honourable mentions: Silence of Reason (Kumjana Novakova), The Angel of Forms (Rushnan Jaleel), Mast-Del (Maryam Tafakory), The Trial (Ulises de la Orden), Quiet as it's Kept (Ja’Tovia Gary)

Ross Mcindoe
1. Past Lives (Celine Song)
2. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp)
3. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
4. The Killer (David Fincher)
5. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
6. You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener)
7. Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)
8. Tár (Todd Field)
9. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
10. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)

Honourable mentions: Kill Boksoon (Byun Sung-hyun), Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan), Talk to Me (Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou), Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie), Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers)

Re-Release of the Year: Christine (1983)

Stinker of the Year: Big George Foreman (George Tillman Jr.)

Ben Nicholson
1. Pamfir (Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk)
2. Incident (Bill Morrison)
3. Still Film (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
4. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
5. NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid)
6. A Kind of Testament (Stephen Vuillemin)
7. Tár (Todd Field)
8. Knit's Island (Ekiem Barbier , Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h)
9. Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
10. Music (Angela Schanelec)

Honourable mentions: Tito (Taylor McIntosh, Kervens Jimenez), Southern Storm (Daniel Casabe, Edgardo Dieleke), Theta (Lawrence Lek), Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese), The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan (Martin Bourboulon)

Rereleases of the Year: Variety (Bette Gordon, 1983), Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien, 1991), Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004).

Stinker of the Year: The Flash (Andy Muschietti)

Bart Owl
1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
2. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
3. Cassandro (Roger Ross Williams)
4. The Five Devils (Léa Mysius)
5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp)
6. Passages (Ira Sachs)
7. Past Lives (Celine Song)
8. Please Baby Please (Amanda Kramer)
9. Polite Society (Nida Manzoor)
10. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)

Rerelease of the Year: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)

Carmen Paddock
1. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
2. Tár (Todd Field)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. Afire (Christian Petzold)
5. Passages (Ira Sachs)
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
7. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
8. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)
9. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
10. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)

Honourable mentions: Fremont (Babak Jalali), Scrapper (Charlotte Regan), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers), BlackBerry (Matt Johnson)

Rerelease of the Year: The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola), Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott)

Stinker of the Year: War Pony (Gina Gammell, Riley Keough)

Ellie Robertson
1. Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
2. BlackBerry (Matt Johnson)
3. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
4. How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)
5. All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
6. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
7. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
8. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Joel Crawford)
9. How to Blow Up A Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
10. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein)

Honourable mentions: Barbie (Greta Gerwig), Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese), Asteroid City (Wes Anderson), Full Time (Eric Gravel)

Josh Slater-Williams
1. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
2. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
3. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
4. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
6. Brother (Clement Virgo)
7. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
8. Small, Slow but Steady (Shô Miyake)
9. Tótem (Lila Avilés)
10. Past Lives (Celine Song)

Honourable mentions: BlackBerry (Matt Johnson), Tár (Todd Field), Asteroid City (Wes Anderson), Broker (Hirokazu Koreeda), The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (Tomohisa Taguchi)

Rereleases of the Year: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme), I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger), The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)

Stinkers of the Year: Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley), Gran Turismo (Neill Blomkamp)

Stefania Sarrubba
1. Past Lives (Celine Song)
2. Evil Dead Rise (Lee Cronin)
3. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
4. Pearl (Ti West)
5. May December (Todd Haynes)
6. How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)
7. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
8. Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
9. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
10. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)

Honourable mentions: M3GAN (Gerard Johnstone), Scream VI (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett), John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn), Talk to Me (Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou)

Re-releases of the Year: Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953), School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2004), The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)

Stinker of the Year: Foe (Garth Davis)

Rafa Sales Ross
1. Fingernails (Christos Nikou)
2. May December (Todd Hayes)
3. The Eight Mountains (Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch)
4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
5. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
6. Fremont (Babak Jalali)
7. Afire (Christian Petzold)
8. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
9. The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi)
10. Tár (Todd Field)

Honourable mentions: My Imaginary Country (Patricio Guzmán), Other People's Children (Rebecca Zlotowski), Kokomo City (D. Smith), Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints)

Rereleases of the Year: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950), Titanic (James Cameron, 1997), Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)

Stinker of the Year: Cat People (Susanna Fogel)

Peter Simpson
1. How To Blow Up A Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
2. All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
3. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)
4. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
5. John Wick 4 (Chad Stahelski)
6. Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)
7. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
8. BlackBerry (Matt Johnson)
9. Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
10. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)

Rerelease of the Year: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)

Xuanlin Tham
1. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
2. All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
3. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
4. Kokomo City (D. Smith)
5. Tár (Todd Field)
6. May December (Todd Haynes)
7. How To Blow Up A Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
8. Passages (Ira Sachs)
9. Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva)
10. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)

Honourable mentions: Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese), Fremont (Babak Jalali), Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller)

Stinker of the Year: Joy Ride (Adele Lim)