By Ben Reiser, Cinematheque Programmer & Director of Operations and Programmer, Wisconsin Film Festival
In alphabetical order, here is a list of 23 movies I saw that were released in 2023 (unless otherwise noted). These are the movies that stuck with me.
THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy DeFa)
AFIRE (Christian Petzold)
ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet)
BEAU IS AFRAID (Ari Aster)
BOTTOMS (Emma Seligman)
CREED III (Michael B. Jordan)
DAD & STEP-DAD (Tynan DeLong)
THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno)
FALCON LAKE (Charlotte Le Bon)
FAST X (Louis Leterrier)
FREMONT (Babak Jalali)
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Takashi Yamazaki)
THE GOOD BOSS (2022, Fernando Leon de Aranoa)
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 (James Gunn)
THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne)
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (James Mangold)
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese)
ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve)
OPPENHEIMER (Christopher Nolan)
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers)
TEACHERS LOUNGE (Ilker Catak)
WHEN EVIL LURKS (Demian Rugna)