Best of 2023 - Part 2

Movies Are Reel

It’s that time again! Join us for Part 2 of the 8th annual Movies Are Reel Best Of deliberations, debating the best and not so great movies of 2023! - Most Disappointing: Fast X The Exorcist: Believer Scream VI Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom Magic Mike’s Last Dance Oppenheimer Suzume The Last Voyage of the Demeter The Outwaters V/H/S 85 The Boy and the Heron Poor Things Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Suzume Best Performance: Sofie Wilde as Mia in Talk to Me Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things Willem Dafoe as Godwin Baxter in Poor Things Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon Rober De Niro as William Hale in Killers of the Flower Moon Greta Lee as Nora in Past Lives Tee Yoo as Hae Sung in Past Lives Everyone who didn’t know what a Dracula was in The Last Voyage of the Demeter Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in The Holdovers Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham in The Holdovers Dominic Sess as Angus Tully in The Holdovers Grace Edwards as Dinah in Asteroid City Sandra Hüller as Sandra Voyter in Anatomy of a Fall Rachel McAdams as Barbara Simon in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw Mia Goth as Gabi Bauer in Infinity Pool Andrew Scott as Adam in All of Us Strangers Nathan Lane as Harris in Dicks: The Musical Nathan Lane as Roger in Beau is Afraid Joaquin Phoenix as Beau in Beau is Afraid Patti LuPone as Mona Wassermann in Beau is Afraid Tobin Bell as John Kramer in Saw X Nicolas Cage as Dracula in Renfield Russell Crowe as Father Gabriel Amorth in The Pope’s Exorcist Standout Moment: The opening of Asteroid City / Meeting the Cast / Last Train to San Fernando in Asteroid City That weird Jeffrey Wright speech in Asteroid City Alien appears in Asteroid City The “Break-Up” Skype Call in Past Lives Bar scene and saying good bye in Past Lives The Ending in Killers of the Flower Moon Anytime Willem Burps in Poor Things Mom confrontation in Eileen “Let me just get one last look at my son” - The Last Voyage of the Demeter The Ending in Skinamarink Members of the Bus in Infinity Pool The Opening in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, from title cards to how Gwen’s Peter Died. Elizabeth Berry becomes Gracie in May December The Big Argument in Anatomy of a Fall I’m a Vampire in Saltburn SLUUUUUUUUURP in Saltburn Muder on the Dancefloor in Saltburn First visit from Mom in Talk to Me The Trinity Test in Oppenheimer Oppie Swag / “You’re Not a Soldier” in Oppenheimer Ernest meets his uncle in Killers of the Flower Moon Anytime Robert and Leo Scheme and that Robbie Robertson score comes in idk in Killers of the Flower Moon “I was sent from Washington DC to see about these Murders” in Killers of the Flower Moon Always Be My Baby in Beau is Afraid Cock Monster in Beau is Afraid The first ⅓ of Beau is Afraid Cheese Grater in Evil Dead Rise "I'M FROM WATERLOO, WHERE THE VAMPIRES HANG OUT!!!" in Blackberry The end credits in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse I’m Just Ken in Barbie Rocket’s transformation in Guardians Vol 3 Atomic Breath Scene in Godzilla Minus One The Movie Just Fucking Ending in Skinamarink Titatinaum in M3GAN Welcome Mat Bit in Reinfield Do Not Go In There Award: Hundred Acre Woods - Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey The Moon from Rebel Moon Any room with Barry Keoghan in Saltburn The Skinamarink House The Boat from Boat Dracula Best Old Movie: Ryan- The Social Network / Pulse Jurge - To Live and Die in LA, The Exorcist Karrie- Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 / Lo Top 10 Movies of 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Past Lives Godzilla Minus One The Last Voyage of the Demeter Poor Things Killers of the Flower Moon The Holdovers Asteroid City The Taste of Things Anatomy of a Fall Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 Saltburn The Zone of Interest Talk to Me Oppenheimer Infinity Pool May December The Iron Claw -