Reeling Review's 10 Movies of 2023


Laura Clifford

  1. Pacifiction
  2. May December
  3. Trenque Lauquen
  4. Asteroid City
  5. About Dry Grasses
  6. All of Us Strangers
  7. The Zone of Interest
  8. Perfect Days
  9. Air
  10. Oppenheimer

Robin Clifford

  1. Oppenheimer
  2. Trenque Lauquen
  3. Pacifiction
  4. May December
  5. The Zone of Interest
  6. All of Us Strangers
  7. The Color Purple
  8. American Fiction
  9. A Thousand and One
  10. Poor Things

Additional titles on Laura’s list would include “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Teacher’s Lounge,” “The Blue Caftan” and “One Thousand and One,” with a special mention of four under the radar films which deserve a spotlight – “After Love,” “Out and About,” “Where the Devil Roams” and “Of an Age.”  Laura’s top documentaries are “Geographies of Solitude,” “Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,” “20 Days in Mariupol” and “Beyond Utopia.”   Her top animations are “My Love Affair with Marriage,” “Robot Dreams” and “The Peasants.”

Robin’s top documentaries are “Beyond Utopia,” “Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros,” and “American Symphony.”  His top animations are “My Love Affair with Marriage,” “The Boy and the Heron” and “Robot Dreams.”