Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top movie lists of 2023. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top films of the year and we’ll include it here.

 

Peg Aloi’s Top 25 Films of 2023 

All of Us Strangere
All of Us Strangers
  1. All of Us Strangers
  2. The Taste of Things
  3. Society of the Snow
  4. Monster
  5. The Holdovers
  6. Past Lives
  7. Falling Lives
  8. Poor Things
  9. Godland
  10. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
  11. The Five Devils
  12. Anatomy of a Fall
  13. Origin
  14. May December
  15. The Starling Girl
  16. The Iron Claw
  17. Memory
  18. Wilding
  19. You Hurt My Feelings
  20. Beau is Afraid
  21. Scrapper
  22. Le Chimera
  23. 20 Days in Mariupol
  24. Satan Wants You
  25. Perpetrator

 

Aaron Beatty’s Top 20 Films of 2023

  1. Anatomy of a Fall
    Anatomy of a Fall

    Anatomy of a Fall

  2. Monica
  3. The Promised Land
  4. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
  5. Perfect Days
  6. Flora and Son
  7. The Holdovers
  8. Sanctuary
  9. Dumb Money
  10. The Teachers’ Lounge
  11. Green Border
  12. Upon Entry
  13. Maestro
  14. Priscilla
  15. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  16. Blue Jean
  17. Showing Up
  18. Afire
  19. The Eight Mountains
  20. Past Lives

 

Julie Blumenthal’s Top 25 Films of 2023 (in no particular order)

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Fallen Leaves
  • Fallen Leaves
  • The Five Devils
  • Fremont
  • After Love
  • The Artifice Girl
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Afire
  • Linoleum
  • We Might as Well Be Dead
  • BlackBerry
  • Full Time
  • The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
  • Passages
  • The Quiet Girl
  • All of Us Strangers
  • Aloners
  • The Holdovers
  • The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
  • Return to Seoul
  • Rotting in the Sun

Top Docs of 2023

  1. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
  2. Turn Every Page: the Adventures of Robert Caro   and Robert Gottlieb
  3. 20 Days in Mariupol
  4. Beyond Utopia
  5. American Symphony

 

Michael Colford’s Top 25 of 2023

Afire
Afire
  1. Afire
  2. Monster
  3. Past Lives
  4. Rotting in the Sun
  5. The Quiet Girl
  6. Showing Up
  7. Fremont
  8. Bottoms
  9. Falling Leaves
  10. R.M.N.
  11. Anatomy of a Fall
  12. The Novelist’s Film
  13. May December
  14. You Hurt My Feelings
  15. A Thousand and One
  16. We Might As Well Be Dead
  17. The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
  18. Return to Dust
  19. No Bears
  20. Pacifiction
  21. The Artifice Girl
  22. All of Us Strangers
  23. Aloners
  24. The Five Devils
  25. Scrapper
Fremont
Fremont

Also recommended: The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future, Poor Things, After Love, Of An Age, American Fiction, Full Time, Plan 75, Happer’s Comet, Blue Jean, Passages, Walk Up, Barbie, Rye Lane

Top 5 Documentaries of 2022

  1. All That Breathes
  2. 20 Days in Mariupol
  3. After the Bite
  4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  5. Aurora’s Sunrise

 

 

Cheryl Eagan-Donovan’s Top 21 Films of 2023 (alphabetical)

American Fiction
American Fiction
  • A Thousand and One
  • After the Bite
  • All of Us Strangers
  • American Fiction
  • American Symphony
  • Barbie
  • BlackBerry
  • Bottoms
  • Concrete Utopia
  • Egoist
  • Fallen Leaves
  • The Holdovers
  • Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
  • Lil Naz X: Live Live Montero
  • One Life
  • Past Lives
  • The Pigeon Tunnel
  • Playland
  • Queen of My Dreams
  • Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
  • We Grown Now

 

 

Chris Kriofske’s Top 23 Films of 2023

May December
May December
  1. May December
  2. All of Us Strangers
  3. The Holdovers
  4. Monster
  5. Showing Up
  6. Afire
  7. Past Lives
  8. Anatomy of a Fall
  9. Rye Lane
  10. Give Me Pity!
  11. The Unknown Country
  12. Close
  13. Killers of the Flower Moon
  14. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  15. Rotting in the Sun
  16. The Novelist’s Film
  17. Fallen Leaves/li>
  18. No Bears
  19. The Zone of Interest
  20. Tori and Lokita
  21. Linoleum
  22. Bottoms
  23. A Thousand and One

Also Recommended: Fremont, The Kings of The World, Pacifiction, Passages, R.M.N., Scrapper, You Hurt My Feelings

 

Tom Meek’s Top 10 of 2023

Zone of Interest
Zone of Interest
  1. Anatomy of a Fall
  2. Zone of Interest
  3. You Hurt My Feelings
  4. The Holdovers
  5. Oppenheimer
  6. Killers of the Flower Moon
  7. Geographies of Solitude
  8. 20 Days in Mariupol
  9. Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
  10. The Taste of Things

Close and in the hunt: Poor Things, Past Lives, May December, Infinity Pool, Robot Dreams, Full Time, The Iron Claw, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Promised Land, Perfect Days

 

Vicki Oleskey’s Top Films of 2023

20 Days in Mariupol
20 Days in Mariupol
  1. Society of the Snow
  2. 20 Days in Mariupol
  3. Anatomy of a Fall
  4. The Holdovers
  5. American Fiction
  6. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  7. Beyond Utopia’
  8. Past Lives
  9. The Quiet Girl
  10. Killers of the Flower Moon
  11. The Zone of Interest
  12. Fremont
  13. Return to Seoul
  14. The Promised Land
  15. May December
  16. The Boy and the Heron

 

Jeffrey Pike’s Nearly Top 20 Films of 2023

Pacifiction
Pacifiction
  1. Pacifiction
  2. Kings of the World
  3. The Novelist’s Film
  4. Fallen Leaves
  5. Fremont
  6. The Quiet Girl
  7. The Artifice Girl
  8. Jethica
  9. Blue Jean
  10. The Five Devils
  11. Rotting in the Sun
  12. How to Rob
  13. Brother
  14. Rye Lane
  15. Lola
  16. Enys Men
  17. Door Mouse
  18. The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
  19. American Fiction

Honorable, but not Chlotrudis-eligible mentions: Asteroid City, Barbie, Bottoms

 

The Holdovers
The Holdovers

Garrett Quinn’s Top Films of 2023

  1. The Holdovers
  2. Blackberry
  3. Oppenheimer
  4. Full Time
  5. Past Lives
  6. Killers of the Flower Moon
  7. The Quiet Girl
  8. May December 
  9. How to Blow Up A Pipeline
  10. Scrapper

Honorable mentions: Fremont, The Boy and The Heron, American Fiction, and The Zone of Interest

 

Brett Reliford’s Top 8 Films of 2023

Past Lives
Past Lives
  1. Past Lives
  2. Monster
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
  4. May December 
  5. Oppenheimer 
  6. The Quiet Girl
  7. Fallen Leaves 
  8. Showing Up

 

 

 

Diane Young’s Top 10 Films of 2023 (in alphabetical order)

A Thousand and One
A Thousand and One
  1. A Thousand and One
  2. Afire
  3. American Fiction
  4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  5. No Bears
  6. Pacifiction
  7. Past Lives
  8. R.M.N.
  9. The Quiet Girl
  10. Turn Every Page