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!

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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 F*****g 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
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