Hollywood Reporter lists '10 Best Movies' of 2023

[Ali Gator]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, these are the 10 BEST movies for 2023 :

 

10- Passages

9- Perfect Days

8- Anatomy of a Fall

7- Showing Up

6- The Zone of Interest

5- Fallen Leaves

4- Killers of the Flower Moon

3- All of us Strangers

2- Poor Things

1- Past Lives

[Rod Hagen]

Two gay movies!  I thought Passages was ok and All of us Strangers was excellent/moving.

[+ Cash4Trash]

Seeing The Zone of Interest and All Of Us Strangers this week. That makes me 9 out of 10 with Perfect Days still to go. 

[Becket]

I really liked Saltburn. So many twists and turns. And Jacob Elordi is gorgeous.

[pubic_assistance]

On 1/2/2024 at 8:32 AM, Becket said:

I really liked Saltburn. So many twists and turns.

Brideshead Revisited meets Running with Scissors.

[TonyDown]

The gossip rags claim Timothee Chalamet was considered for the lead in Saltburn.  If so, I believe he dodged a bullet.   I thought it was awful.

Side note: there would  not have been any peen if T.C. had been cast.

[Becket]

Many say Saltburn reminds them of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I loved them both.

[Simon Suraci]

12 minutes ago, Becket said:

Many say Saltburn reminds them of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I loved them both.

I like The Talented Mr Ripley, both the book series and film. Gotta check out Saltburn, then.

[+ nycman]

I loved parts of Saltburn. 

Overall it’s a bit strained and a "B+" in my book, but parts of it are spectacular.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

6 minutes ago, nycman said:

I loved parts of Saltburn. 

Overall it’s a bit strained and a "B+" in my book, but parts of it are spectacular.

Agree.  Parts were inspired.  Very few parts, but they're there.

The movie pandered and that became annoying as it went on. 

I wanted to see more of the writing given to Rosamund Pike, who delivered it like a fucking pro.  She knew the assignment.

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18 hours ago, TonyDown said:

The gossip rags claim Timothee Chalamet was considered for the lead in Saltburn.  If so, I believe he dodged a bullet.   I thought it was awful.

I thought the casting was great, as well as the film overall. I agree with @nycman B+  I don't see Chalamet convincing me that he's a young aristocrat. 

To me the film was Brideshead Revisited meets Running with Scissors 

[Becket]

29 minutes ago, Simon Suraci said:

I like The Talented Mr Ripley, both the book series and film. Gotta check out Saltburn, then.

Off topic I know. But I remember having a probably unhealthy obsession of my own in college with the blond stud muffin guy in my frat. Nothing to the level of these two movies, but I would take any opportunity to be around the guy. We became friendly, if not friends. Once, to my great surprise, we ended up walking together alone through a wooded area of my college town. He jumped up an embankment, then became a little worried about how he was gonna get down. I looked up at those dreamy blue eyes and replied, "Don't worry, I'll catch you." He then jumped down and, for a brief moment, was in my arms. My left hand had caught him at his navel, and I remember lingering there as long as I dared on that glorious treasure trail. The moment was over and that was that. But the memory of that brief touch stayed with me for years.

[+ Pensant]

I saw The Zone of Interest yesterday. I enjoyed it, if one can enjoy a movie about a genocidal SS commandant who lives a rather conventional life otherwise. It recalls Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil”. Polish production scripted in German with English subtitles.