David’s TOP 10 Movies of 2023

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The year of “Barbenheimer” has come to an end. If somehow you escaped the media’s relentless use of the term and can’t understand how a sea of Mattel pink has anything to do with the atomic bomb, you should know BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER are forever linked due to their simultaneous theatrical release on July 21 … and that they both helped rejuvenate the post-COVID box office for the movie industry. Greta Gerwig’s BARBIE easily surpassed one billion in ticket sales, and OPPENHEIMER is knocking at the door.

My Top 10 movies of the year were fairly easy to identify, but you should know that after the first four, I had a heckuva time finalizing the order. If asked to compile this list again next week, I can’t promise that numbers five through ten would end up in the same order. This cuts to the challenge of “ranking” movies. So much depends not just on one’s taste and preferences, but also on one’s mood in the moment. Timing matters. So please understand that this is my personal list, and I publish it each year in hopes that some of you will be inspired to check out a movie that might have otherwise been skipped over.

1. OPPENHEIMER
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-oppenheimer-2/

2. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-killers-of-the-flower-moon/

3. POOR THINGS
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-poor-things/

4. THE HOLDOVERS
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-the-holdovers-2/

5. THE ZONE OF INTEREST
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-the-zone-of-interest/

6. PAST LIVES
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-past-lives/

7. AMERICAN FICTION
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-american-fiction/

8. ANATOMY OF A FALL
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-anatomy-of-a-fall/

9. THE COLOR PURPLE
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-the-color-purple/

10. DREAM SCENARIO
https://redcarpetcrash.com/movie-review-dream-scenario/

Best of the Rest:
ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
MAESTRO
THE BOY AND THE HERON (animated)
THE ETERNAL MEMORY (documentary)
THE IRON CLAW

See you at the movies!
David Ferguson
Red Carpet Crash
Dallas-Ft Worth Film Critics Association
fergusontx@gmail.com