TIER 1
The Zone of Interest

TIER 2
Poor Things

TIER 3
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer

TIER 4
Maestro

TIER 5
Past Lives

Past lives
Killers of the flower moon
Oppenheimer
Barbie
Anatomy of a killer
American fiction

Couldn’t finish holdovers or maestro
Haven’t seen poor things yet but if it’s anything like yorgos other movies it’ll be dead last for me

My personal rankings of best picture nominees:

Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Poor Things
Barbie
American Fiction
The Zone of Interest
Maestro

For the most part, I got enjoyment out of all of the movies here (even Maestro). I felt 2023 was a strong year in general for film as there were some I liked even more than some of these that didn’t make it

Poor Things

Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Barbie
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall

The Zone of Interest
The Holdovers

American Fiction
Maestro

The Holdovers
Killers of the flower moon
Poor things
Zone of interest
Oppenheimer
Past lives
Anatomy of a fall
Barbie
American fiction
Maestro

Really wish I liked anatomy of a fall more. I read positive reviews and agree and love what they say about the film but just in the theatre watching it and afterwards, I didn’t feel insanely strong about it sadly

real for putting past lives in the last tier

i didnt f*** with past lives like tht either

The Zone of Interest
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon

Keep the rest.

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Poor Things
4. The Holdovers
5. Past Lives
6. Killers of the Flower Moon
7. Barbie
8. Oppenheimer
9. American Fiction
10. Maestro

Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Zone of Interest

Past Lives
Poor Things
American Fiction

Barbie
Maestro

My brother in Christ putting American fiction on the same tier as Oppenheimer and killers of the flower moon is the most white lib s*** I’ve ever seen

It's a dramedy not a biopic. Much more comparable to Barbie or The Holdovers in that regard.

Killers and Opp are also for white libs btw. It's the Oscars not the Third International

Out of the ones I’ve seen

Killers of the flower moon
The zone of interest
Poor things
Oppenheimer
Barbie

I want to eventually watch the holdovers, anatomy of a fall, and American fiction

Killers and opp are not lib s*** at all, can you explain why you say that

Oppenheimer by a wide f***in margin

The Holdovers
Anatomy of a Fall

keep the rest

That dog s*** at the Oscar’s ensured I will never watch anatomy of a fall

it's actually a good movie too but that s*** was cringe for sure

It was okay but not best picture worthy in any sense imo

Killers of the Flower Moon is a book about the virtuous roots of the FBI Jesse Plemons is the CIA agent from Black Panther lol. The movie ends with Martin Scorsese appearing in person like "you're welcome" lol. It's definitely not for the Osage people. The movie follows the crime family that murdered them all.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-consultant-mixed-feelings-1235620231

Do you think Scorsese and PTA aren't libs? What's "communist" or "socialist" about the movie?

Nolan is honestly probably to the right of them.

The film employs the wave/particle concept just as Tenet employed the temporal pincer concept. Whereas Tenet is about the preemptive pursuit of a WMD preventing WMD development thus justifying aggression and validating a lie. Here, the manifestation of the bomb gives us the power to destroy ourselves- as well as to save ourselves. "A lasting peace" rings closer to "Ministry of Peace" in this context.

Nolan is obsessed with these paradoxes and contradictions for a reason. They are helpful disguises for a regressive politic. His superficial inclusiveness serves the same end. The man makes movies about CIA agents preventing the apocalypse, Pinkertons doing corporate sabotage, and good cops as vigilante heroes who are above the bureaucracy/law. It would follow that true injustice happens within the bureaucracy/law. These are just the Wikipedia plot synopses of his filmography. That doesn't get in the way of me loving some of them. I'm just not sure why people can't admit what he is?

Nolan movies like inception or memento being cited in relation to the perceptive technologies of the security state - derivative of the hitchcockian reflexive mise en abyme which according to deleuze characterizes modern cinema. Perfectly self serious films about batman doubling as expositions of the neoconservative theory of power which followed in the wake of the bomb. When really the feel of the thing would be better captured by following along the lines of the campy adam west batman of the 60s the proto mallgoth of tim burtons 1989 film or joel schumachers malligned but sufficiently toyetic secuels or better yet the batman lego movie which surpassed nolan at the box office truly breaking new grounds in terms of crosspromotion and transmedia IP brand synergy. Instead of trying to turn batman into a gritty realistic movie for grown ups show how serious adult political reality is really much like a comic book. Innervated by transmedia and branding design concepts immaterial economies of affect narrative and information

What is lib about any of his movies ? Taxi driver ? Lmaooo Wolf of Wall Street is a capitalist love note , live fast die young that inspired millions of grindset bros . Batman is a billionaire who chooses to become a vigilante because of “migrant” and mentally unwell people committing crimes, f***ing up his nepo money

What is incompatible between those films and liberalism? You brought this word up as a criticism. Not me. Disagreeing or agreeing with a film's politics is not a priority for me. I'd be miserable if it was.

Taxi Driver paints political dissidents as sociopaths or at least relegates fringe politics to vacuums for them to fill. It backs up lone wolf theories. Bickle might as well be a "deplorable". Scorsese has said everyone is Travis Bickle now. Guess what? Still a good movie.

You're just mad I called American Fiction the same mid I called Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon. I didn't love any of them. I wouldn't say I hate any of them either. None made my top 25 last year lol.

So you only loved 1 movie from last year ? They are not on the same level putting away the xenophobia. Is Judas and the black messiah racist/ anti Marxist because it’s from the pov of the guy who helped kill Fred Hampton ?

My 2023 ratings

(02) ★★★★★
(16) ★★★★
(23) ★★★
(15) ★★
(03) ★

18 negative opinions out of 59?

I didn't watch that movie? I also didn't call Killers of the Flower Moon racist? Lol

You had a problem that it included the pov of the fbi after they get called into investigate an entire race being murdered . Of course they seem like the good guys for trying to step in even if they are the pigs