Have you ever wondered…

…how a lot of the agencies that handle supernatural stuff on TV or any other media feel … old? How a lot of them sport 1960-ies or 1970-ies interior designs, use old-timey technology and communication methods?

Why is that?

… or I Shouldn’t Have Read the Book

As the reviews for Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef, started coming in, I was ready to dislike the film based on those alone. I’ve seen the trailers, of course, and was cautiously optimistic, despite the magnification and stylization of the “Born Yesterday” trope: a particularly unsettling film cliché that makes painfully obvious the fascination of older men with young, almost childlike, women. In addition to that, most of the reviews (written by men) praised the film for its inventiveness, bold use of sex scenes, unabashed wide-eyed joy and freedom, and a pure lust for life, mostly provided by Emma Stone as Bella Baxter.

2023 was a very fruitful year for cinema, and I was lucky to watch a lot of great movies this year. Indeed, I watched so many of them that I couldn’t, try as I might, whittle them down into a top 10 list. So I decided to divide my favorite movies into the following categories:

Best mainstream/wide release, best indie/arthouse, best documentaries and best animation, including some honorable mentions and my personal Top 5 at the end (don’t resist the urge to scroll down, do it, I know you want to).

As always the movies are in no particular order.