Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year. My top 10 is relatively familiar at this point, but the sheer breadth of recommendations you can peruse is equally deserving of your curiosity.

Top Ten Movies of 2023

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023)
La passion de Dodin Bouffant (The Taste of Things, Trần Anh Hùng, 2023)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, 2023)
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki, 2023)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Radu Jude, 2023)
Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
The Swan (Wes Anderson, 2023) / Incident (Bill Morrison, 2023)

I loved going to the movies this past year. The titles on this year’s list form an ecstasy I didn’t see coming. None more so than Perfect Days, but also The Taste of Things, a sumptuous tale of a French gourmand from Trần Anh Hùng; Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ weird and wild spin on Frankenstein, social consciousness and sexual relations; and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Radu Jude’s clever ding at soulless capitalism. Then there’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, a movie loaded with voltage the way Oppenheimer is loaded with bombast. Walking out of those theatres left me dizzy.