Best 2023 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2023 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. Io Capitano
- Stacker score: 89.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Matteo Garrone
- Actors: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $150,048

#19. The Teachers' Lounge
- Stacker score: 90.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Ilker Çatak
- Actors: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $628,218

#18. American Fiction
- Stacker score: 90.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 113,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Cord Jefferson
- Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Skyler Wright, John Ales
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $21,098,470

#17. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 35,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
- Actors: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $20,372,406

#16. Monster
- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 37,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
- Actors: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $434,585

#15. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 309,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Christopher McQuarrie
- Actors: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
- Runtime: 2 hours 43 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $172,640,980

#14. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
- Stacker score: 91.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Davis Guggenheim
- Actors: Michael J. Fox, Davis Guggenheim, Tracy Pollan
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#13. Sing Sing
- Stacker score: 91.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Greg Kwedar
- Actors: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Sean San Jose
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,110,476

#12. Perfect Days
- Stacker score: 91.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 89,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $3,766,668

#11. The Holdovers
- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 206,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Alexander Payne
- Actors: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $20,355,375

#10. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
- Stacker score: 93.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Sam Wrench
- Actors: Taylor Swift, Mike Meadows, Max Bernstein
- Runtime: 2 hours 49 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $180,756,269

#9. Anatomy of a Fall
- Stacker score: 93.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 181,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Justine Triet
- Actors: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner
- Runtime: 2 hours 31 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $5,076,369

#8. La Chimera
- Stacker score: 94.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Alice Rohrwacher
- Actors: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato
- Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $1,004,503

#7. Killers of the Flower Moon
- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 289,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
- Runtime: 3 hours 26 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $68,035,488

#6. All of Us Strangers
- Stacker score: 96.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 74,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Andrew Haigh
- Actors: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $4,050,103

#5. Poor Things
- Stacker score: 96.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 351,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Actors: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
- Runtime: 2 hours 21 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $34,553,225

#4. 20 Days in Mariupol
- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 26,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Mstyslav Chernov
- Actors: Liudmyla Amelkina, Mstyslav Chernov, Roman Golovanov
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: TV-PG
- Box office: N/A

#3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 476,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
- Actors: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
- Runtime: 2 hours 20 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $381,593,754

#2. Past Lives
- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 159,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Celine Song
- Actors: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $11,331,983

#1. Oppenheimer
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 930,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Actors: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
- Runtime: 3 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $330,078,895