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Time Magazine

10. Passages
9. Dreamin' Wild
8. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Past Lives
5. Revoir Paris
4. Priscilla
3. The Zone of Interest
2. Maestro
1. Fallen Leaves

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MANOHLA DARGIS

1. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (Martin Scorsese)
2. ‘Oppenheimer’ (Christopher Nolan)
3. ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ (Frederick Wiseman)
4. ‘Occupied City’ (Steve McQueen)
5. ‘A Thousand and One’ (A.V. Rockwell)
6. ‘Asteroid City’ (Wes Anderson)
7. ‘May December’ (Todd Haynes)
8. ‘Showing Up’ (Kelly Reichardt)
9. ‘Orlando: My Political Biography’ (Paul B. Preciado)
10. ‘Stonewalling’ (Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka)

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Esquire

10.The Killer
9.Fremont
8.The Holdovers
7.How to Blow Up a Pipeline
6.The Zone of Interest
5.Showing Up
4.Poor Things
3.Killers of the Flower Moon
2.Asteroid City
1.May December

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Time Out

1. Tár
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Oppenheimer
4. EO
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Return to Seoul
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. Past Lives
9. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
10. How to Have Sex

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Atlanta Film Critics

TOP 10 FILMS:
1. Oppenheimer
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. The Holdovers
4. Past Lives
5. Barbie
6. May December
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. American Fiction
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Poor Things


BEST LEAD ACTRESS:
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

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Sight & Sound
1. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese)
2. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer)
3. PAST LIVES (Celine Song)
4. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos)
=5. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig)
=5. OPPENHEIMER (Christopher Nolan)
7. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs)
8. ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet)
9. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude)
10. MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes)

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www.indiewire.com/features/best-of/best-movies-2023-critics-survey-poll-performances-1234933605/

Best Film

1. “Killers of the Flower Moon”
2. “Oppenheimer”
3. “Poor Things”
4. “Past Lives”
5. “May December”
6. “The Zone of Interest”
7. “Anatomy of a Fall”
8. “Barbie”
9. “The Holdovers”
10. “Asteroid City”

Best Director

1. Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
2. Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
3. Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
4. Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
5. Todd Haynes, “May December”
6. Greta Gerwig, “Barbie”
7. Celine Song, “Past Lives”
8. Wes Anderson, “Asteroid City”
9. Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”
10. Albert Serra, “Pacifiction”

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Film Comment Best Films of 2023

3. Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese, U.S.

Martin Scorsese is a connoisseur of terrible men—greedy, envious, racist men who believe that the good fortune of anyone else is a threat to their very existence. Merging the crime and western genres with a melodrama of marital love, disavowal, and betrayal, Scorsese mobilizes a lifelong passion for motion pictures, collaborators long dedicated to his vision (in particular, editor Thelma Schoonmaker), and a trio of bold and subtle actors—Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert De Niro—to reveal a buried episode in America’s dark history of exploitation and dehumanization of people of color. The robbery and mass murder of the Osage people in the 1920s is told with wrenching, tragic detail, but anyone who thinks this is the ancient past has missed the resemblance of smarmy “King” Hale (De Niro in his most chilling performance) to the current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and to dozens of other desperados of white male privilege.—Amy Taubin

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Molly Haskell (critic)

May December
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Orlando, My Political Biography
Anatomy of a Fall
Afire
Asteroid City
The Night of the 12th
Showing Up
Oppenheimer
The Pigeon Tunnel
You Hurt My Feelings

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www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/best-films-2023-barbie-b2463974.html

1. Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Scorsese’s gallery of gangster masterworks receives a new addition here, with the filmmaker dragging out into the light one of America’s great, suppressed evils. Killers of the Flower Moon adapts David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book on the massacre of indigenous people that took place within the Osage nation during the early 20th century. Dozens of the Osage were murdered for the oil rights that had made them the richest people per capita on earth, all by white co-conspirators who had married into their families. Scorsese’s film hones in on Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who arrived in Fairfax, Oklahoma, and married Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone) at the behest of his uncle, William Hale (Robert De Niro).

Here, Scorsese circles around his old obsessions, as he methodically chips away at the rotted core of a man’s heart. It’s no less unflinching in its depiction of violence, and his faithful collaborator, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, lends the film a sickly, apocalyptic propulsion. But it’s also, in part, so clearly the work of a filmmaker in his later years, who is a little more selfless and self-reflective than before.

This film belongs, just as much, to Gladstone as it does to Scorsese, who shapes the film’s tragedies around her fixed but shattering gaze. It belongs, too, to the Osage Nation, who helped form its narrative and worked extensively on its production. Scorsese looks to them, then looks back to himself – and, in the film’s stunning conclusion, attempts to reckon with both the power and futility of his storytelling.

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people.com/best-movies-of-2023-people-picks-the-top-10-8417094

02 of 10
'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Martin Scorsese directed the most sinister western ever to come out of Hollywood: an epic account, well over 3 hours long, about the systematic murder of members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma — it was a scheme by White men to gain control of the oil rights that had made the Osage colossally wealthy. The film is, in some ways, a cruel and excruciating exercise in suspense: Will a rich Osage woman named Mollie (Lily Gladstone, giving a fascinatingly enigmatic performance) survive the slow death being planned for her by her husband (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his uncle (Robert De Niro)? One of the greatest films ever by one of our greatest filmmakers.

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