Yesterday, TheGamer’s resident movie buffs published their list of nominees for 2023's Movie of the Year, all competing to take the crown from last year's winner, Everything Everywhere All At Once. Though our winner in 2022 was a popular choice, our lists have always been an eclectic mix of blockbusters, critical darlings, and weird little gremlins in celluloid form. Let's see which one wins out this year.

10 Mission: Impossible - Dead𓄧 Reckoning Part 1

Mission: Impossible's decision to go up against Barbenheimer this summer proved a foolish one for its box office returns, as well as for its position on our list. Ethan Hunt's adventures here trade the scale of Fallout for something a little more intimate, all while keeping a motorbike chase on a train and adding new character Grace, played by Hayley Atwell. Despite being a Part 1, it's as complete a movie as any you'll see on this list - maybe more.

9 Talk to Me ൩

This breakout Australian horror flick made by YouTube duo Danny and Michael Philippou, AKA RackaRacka, became A24's highest grossing horror movie in 2023. Using a smaller and more grotesquely personal scale than many jump-scare horrors, Talk to Me keeps you guessing as it zooms in on the rotting sanity that comes with making contact with the other side.

8 May December 🌌

Oddly misread as a comedy, May December only presents a facade of humour that crumbles as the darkness within reveals itself. Telling the tale of a woman who groomed and then married a young teenage boy, through the lens of an actress playing her, May December is shouldered by Riverdale's Charles Melton, a man who never grew up because his world never allowed it.

7 Barbie

The smash hit of the summer, Barbie is Kenough to land itself in seventh place in TheGamer's list with its tongue-in-cheek look at feminism and patriarchy in the USA via the medium of plastic dolls. Greta Gerwig pitches Barbie and Ken as playmates and antagonists, playing around with Barbieland reality to prod at the structure of modern society.

6 𒅌 Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One is apparently seven, as Godzilla takes the number six spot on the list. Set in the late 1940s in post-war Japan, Minus One puts specific focus on Godzilla's metaphorical representation of the nuclear bomb and, in doing so, says a lot more about the humans at its mercy than some of the more bombastic recent VFX fests.

5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 🤡

Though it dropped the Part 1 moniker before release, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Across the Spider-Verse has been criticised for being half a movie. This, however, seems to be the only major criticism levelled against it, as Across the Spider-Verse has been universally praised for its fantastic animated sequences, heartfelt writing, and spectacular set🍸-pieces.

4 🐻 Oppenheimer 🅠

The second of two destructive nuclear beasts on the lists, and (in our book, at least), the eventual winner of Barbenheimer sees Nolan's cautionary tale of the bomb land in fourth. Stacked with excellent supporting performances, a nuanced yet searingly critical script, and industry-leading visuals , Oppenheimer is one of the year's most powerful movies.

3 Asteroid City 💟 ♍

Wes Anderson's instantly recognisable style has grown divisive in recent years, and that fog of war can sometimes blur the truth - Anderson is a master craftsman whose iconic style is a reflection of his cinematic achievements, not evidence of his shortcomings. Asteroid City is less showy than most of his works but also far more personal, and that resonated enough for a bronze medal.

2 🀅 Killers of the Flower Moon 📖

Speaking of divisive geniuses, Scorsese's increasingly long runtimes have been used as a cudgel, but they only make his stories richer, allowing him to bring more characters into his world, and take his heroes, anti-heroes, and villains deeper into his tales than ever before. Killers of the Flower Moon exemplifies this narrative richness, telling a story about some of his most irredeemable characters yet.

1 Bottoms

In 2023, victory goes to the gremlin. Bottoms is a weird, violent, sarcastic, manicured fist to the f𒆙ace of a movie. Part improv-in-joke, part universal tale of what it means to be a loser in high school,ꦗ director Emma Seligman imagines a false world that exaggerates our own, uses it to comment on gender roles in modern society, and fills it with bloody murder.

A comedy for the failgirl age, Bottoms gives us grounded heroes and makes them punch the snot out of each other. It’s Barbie’s grunge cousin. It’s Gen Z Jennifer’s Body. ♋It’s TheGamer’s Movie of the Year.