Best movies of 2023

[Chris Knipp]

Thanks, Oscar,
Happy New Year to you too!

Glad Filmleaf got back up, it was down for some hours.

I hadn't digested the Golden Globes yet - you beat me to it. I was listening to classical music for a change. It's on the awards thread now. They look pretty close to predictions - with the big snubs being to Barbie.

Thank you. It's my pleasure to cover films. I've seen a lot of the good ones and awards-listed but there are many I haven't seen too.

I would be interested if you see Moreno's The Delinquents and to know what you think. It was a disappointment to me. I had read very intriguing descriptions prior to its NYFF showing, but it just seemed to drag. I like Anatomy of a Fall and am happy it won the Golden Globes foreign feature category. I have seen it twice and it completely held up the second time. I wonder if The Zone of Interest will hold up as well.

I rely a lot on Cole and Justin Jaeger of YouTube's The Oscar Expert lately for the latest about the awards categories. They live in New York and have attended Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. They majored in film in college and their evaluations of films are quite intelligent. They, like me, favor Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest. But their main aim is to predict what will win, regardless of our taste. And they have a wealth of detail about the current crop of movies in their heads.