The best films of 2023 according to your ratings – Oppenheimer is overtaken by 5 other films

We have chosen the best films of 2023 in the editorial offices of Moviepilot and FILMSTARTS. At the same time, we also look at the ratings to find out which films are the Leader according to Moviepilot ratings are.

These are the best films of 2023 according to your ratings

The best films of 2022 already had a great mix. But who stood out this time? We looked at the films that will make a difference in 2023 German cinema, streaming, DVD or TV release had. Besides, the film had to at least 100 reviews collected to qualify. If there was a tie, the remaining invisible decimal places counted. You can now find the winners here. (Data as of December 20, 2023)

The best films of 2023: Places 30 to 19 The best films of 2023: Places 20 to 11 Place 10 of the best films of 2023: Holy Spider

Holy Spider impressed after its theatrical release in January as a serial killer thriller based on a true story: in Mashhad, Iran’s holiest city, a perpetrator murders sex workers to denounce the alleged decline in morals. While many local residents secretly approve of his brutal actions, journalist Rahimi (Tsar Amir-Ebrahimi) tries to get to the bottom of him.

9th place in the best films of 2023: Suzume

Suzume This year’s anime hit delivered visually stunning fantasy right through to the movingly epic finale: a 17-year-old student lives in a Japanese coastal town who follows a stranger on his unusual mission: he closes portals because otherwise catastrophes will strike. But Suzume can’t control her curiosity and makes the mistake of reaching for one of the mysterious door handles.

8th place in the best films of 2023: Mission Impossible 7

Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part One This year, Tom Cruise once again proved how spy action can be done properly. As the biggest action film of the year, Ethan Hunt’s seventh adventure made cinema competitors like Fast & Furious 10 look old and sent the spy alongside a thief into the fight against an artificial intelligence in a contemporary and frightening way.

7th place in the best films of 2023: Past Lives

Past Lives – In another life first made a name for itself as a festival favorite and then as a hit with audiences: Celine Song’s tender love story knows how to push the right buttons emotionally. She lets Nora (Greta Lee), who moved to New York from Korea and is in a happy relationship with Arthur (John Magaro), meet her childhood sweetheart Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) again after years.

6th place among the best films of 2023: Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is the most rated film of 2023 at Moviepilot. As a 180-minute excess, it demanded a lot of stamina from its audience, but rewarded it in return based on true events with a who’s who of scientists, including Robert J. Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy). accompanied him on his way to building the first atomic bomb.

5th best film of 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Rekindled Marvel joy this year as the final film for James Gunn’s unusual space troupe – and with it DC’s hopes for its upcoming projects. Despite unexpectedly disturbing scenes, the usual crazy adventure with Rocket Raccoon at the center was convincing and gave the heroes a worthy conclusion.

4th place in the best films of 2023: Close

Close is Lukas Dhont’s second feature film after Girl and turned out to be a sensitive drama that caused many tears. It tells the story of a close friendship between boys whose closeness is brought to the point of breaking by their environment after a carefree summer.

Third place in the best films of 2023: Anatomy of a Case

Anatomy of a case won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year and recommended German actress Sandra Hülser for a potential double Oscar nomination. She plays a crime writer whose husband is found dead in front of their lonely house in the mountains. As the wife, she is the main suspect and will be brought to justice. But what really happened? The only witness is her almost blind son.

Second place in the best films of 2023: Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One was released in cinemas at the beginning of December and has been making its way around the world ever since. Set in destroyed Japan after the Second World War, the 37th Godzilla film takes place before all other parts. Here, alongside an (almost) kamikaze pilot, he strikes an extraordinary note as a monster film full of destruction and heart and proves, after a seven-year break, that the iconic creature can reinvent itself again and again.

Number 1 of the best films of 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse elicited enthusiastic reactions from cinema audiences this year. The sequel to Spider-Man: A New Universe showed with immense creativity how experimental animated blockbusters can be and suddenly made the idea of ​​a multiverse exciting again. The fact that the story of Spider-Man Miles Morales, despite its visual power and clever wit, never loses its emotional core is a feat in itself.

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