Critically acclaimed movies of 2023

Past Lives(2023)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.



Polite Society(2023)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Ria Khan believes that she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting her friends' help, she attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists, in the name of independence and sisterhood.



Eileen(2023)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A woman's friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.



Chang Can Dunk(2023)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Zoe Renee, Mardy Ma, Bloom Li, Ben Wang,
Jingyi Shao,

A young Asian-American teen and basketball fanatic who just wants to dunk and get the girl ends up learning much more about himself, his best friends, and his mother.



Reality(2023)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.



You Hurt My Feelings(2023)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.



The Old Way(2023)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 48

An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.



All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt(2023)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A decades-spanning exploration of a woman's life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.



Jesus Revolution(2023)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 48

The true story of a national spiritual awakening in the early 1970's and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California.



Consecration(2023)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 47

After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.



Disco Boy(2023)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 47

After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. In the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the ...



Flora and Son(2023)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 46

It follows Flora, a single mom who is at war with her son, Max. Trying to find a hobby for Max, she rescues a guitar from a dumpster and finds that one person's trash can be a family's salvation.



At Midnight(2023)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 46

At Midnight is a romantic comedy about two people who have made the "safe" choice not to fall in love.



The Starling Girl(2023)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 45

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.



The Strays(2023)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A Black woman's meticulously-crafted life of privilege unravels when two strangers show up in her quaint suburban town.



Limbo(2023)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Simon Baker stars as Travis Hurley, a detective who arrives in a small Australian outback city to research a twenty-year-old unsolved homicide of a neighborhood Aboriginal lady. Forming ...



Cat Person(2023)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 43

The brief relationship between a twenty-year-old sophomore college student Margot, and an older man Robert, who is a regular at the movie theater where Margot works.



The Pod Generation(2023)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A New York couple wild ride to parenthood using a new tool developed by a tech giant, Pegazus.



Bad Behaviour(2023)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 43

The film is a dark comedy about Lucy (Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Whishaw) while she also navigates the close yet ...



Tótem(2023)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather's home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the ...




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