Hoping you get to see Godzilla Minus One someday! Contracting issues have made it difficult to get out there to many countries, but once it hits streaming, I'd love to see your thoughts on it. It could be an oscar contender for best Foreign Film except for the fact Japan has already nominated something else :( But maybe they'll nominate another!

I was wondering if you ever review a long form anime like AoT or death note or HxH. Would like to hear your thoughts.

@@TheNewFlutist Wut? He included it in the video

If you’ll forgive me the long message, I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for your content over the years, I’ve watched you since the first video as like stories of old, you’ve given me, a disillusioned guy with a film studies degree renewed appreciation for the art of reading media, and delving deeply in a world, where I often get laughed at for overthinking the themes, motifs and specifics of production that affect the outcome and how people read film And by extension how we philosophies about what we consume. This was one of the most thoughtful lists of films that I have ever come across, and it’s only fitting that it came from you I truly look forward to what you have planned in the coming year and beyond. Even though neither of us has any idea of who the other person is, I at least know that there is a kindred spirit who loves doing this, sharing these ideas, and talking about the things that impact us, as much as I do. Congratulations on your recent marriage, enjoy your honeymoon, and I wish you all the best! Happy holidays, unknown friend

I'm SUPER curious. Which of these movies is your absolute favorite? :)

Anatomy of a fall*

Thank you

Why wouldn't you number them..

@AarushKumar-sf1vk OK Internet gangster

@@holahovito11 My perspective on this. Out of the thousands of movies released in 2023, is the infinitesimal sample of 10 worth ranking? I think it’s good to hear a little about each film so you can decide if you’d like to invest the time to watch them. Please don’t take offense. Just suggesting a different point of view. ✌️

"A good prolonged frustration can lead to the most beautiful and meaningful art".. Beautiful 💫

24 to 26 will hopefully release some timeless masterpieces

Superheroe movies are garbage, idk what u talking about...

A short Golden Path (God Emperor of Dune, wish we'll see a movie of that one eventually too)

@@ArgStyleRlzthe Spider-Verse films are an exception, since ATSV and GOTG Vol 3 were the only good ones of 2023

Hero

Thanks for this

Oof. Not great. Pretty plebeian tbh

​@@Dondillilochevroletwhat's your list

“Texas Chainsaw Massacre is trying to convey the subtle human condition of loneliness and desperation. Of family and redemption of spirit of mankind. A sweet gesture of care and boyhood wonder of a coming of age story. Lost and yearning for change, and never finding it. A soft caress upon the fragile psyche, and love”. 😅

Yes, The Holdovers is a movie that has also "stayed with me" for days and days after viewing. Superb pitch-perfect performances, and I love how everything doesn't tie up neatly in a bow Hollywood-style. The film feels like a slice of real life. Will be shocked if Giamatti isn't nominated for best actor. While Cillian Murphy is the obvious (deserved) front runner for Best Actor Oscar, I wouldn't be mad if dark horse Giamatti walked away with the prize. He crafted an extremely memorable character.

@@KidFresh71 If Giamatti were to win, I think it would also be partly as an an apology for the fact that he was inexplicably not even nominated for best actor in Sideways (2004).

gonna watch it tonight and im so excited

​@@histubeness buddy i saw sideways after watching holdovers, and for me sdeway was way more intense man. And giamatti deserves oscar for it.

@@ridammisra1299 Yes, but the point of my comment was that if Giamatti wins best actor for The Holdovers it would be partly as an apology for the fact that he wasn't even nominated at all (but should have been) for best actor in 2004 for Sideways.

Yes, it really affected me in a way that I hadn't expected. Very well done.

Same... beautiful film, incredible for a first feature by the director

@@isaacgauthier8125 past lives was overrated and boring Past lives was trash typical Hollywood WMAF couple propaganda 🤮

Oh, it was so good! Agreed… the characters have stayed with me the longest. I still think about them, and esp the ending.

@@goldenfire5 We feel the final scene of “The Quiet Girl” so deeply because of the way the director, Colm Bairéad, holds the characters’ emotions in check up until that moment of the film. When Cáit and the Kinsellas are having their last breakfast together at the farm that morning, the heartache hanging over the scene is almost palpable. But Seán and Eibhlín only exchange glances with each other over Cáit’s head and make small talk about whether the potatoes are cooked or not. They refuse to acknowledge openly what Cáit must be feeling, for they’re struggling with their own internal defences as they anticipate the grief they’ll feel once she’s gone from their lives. Before we know it, Cáit, Seán, and Eibhlín are getting into the car and driving down the laneway to take Cáit home. We feel a lump in our throat as Cáit looks silently out the rear window of the car at the happiness she’s leaving behind. Later on, Cáit tells Seán and Eibhlín the story of how her father lost one of their heifers in a gambling bet, and how her mother didn’t speak to him for a month. It’s a reminder of the toxic family life waiting for Cáit at home. Finally, we arrive at our destination. Cáit’s mother, Mary, seems happier to see her cousin Eibhlín and Seán than she does her own daughter. Nevertheless, we hope that when the group sits down together around the kitchen table over a cup of tea, there will be an opening to discuss the possibility of Cáit having further visits with the Kinsellas. This hope is dashed, however, when Cáit’s father, Dan, arrives home in a truculent mood, fresh from having had “a liquid supper”, as he calls it. Sensing Dan wants them gone, Seán tells Eibhlín it’s time to hit the road. We can see that Cáit is heartsick now that her last few minutes with Seán and Eibhlín are ticking away. Outside in the yard, Eibhlín and Seán each give Cáit an affectionate but brief arm’s length goodbye. Then they’re in their car and driving down the laneway. Our emotions well up to the breaking point as we see Cáit watching the Kinsellas drive away. Surely, we think, this can’t be how the story ends. Then Cáit seizes the initiative to burst through the emotional constraints that have kept her and the Kinsellas from saying how they truly feel about each other. She runs off down the lane after the Kinsellas’ car, hoping to catch them before they leave, while memories of the past summer with Seán and Eibhlín flash through her mind. She leaps into Seán’s arms, calling him “Daddy”, and again, more softly, “Daddy”, leaving us with mingled feelings of relief and sorrow, but not without a touch of hope. “She says no more than she needs to say,” Seán once said of Cáit. With her economy of speech, Cáit has chosen to call Seán by the one word that sums up everything she thinks and feels about him, of what she holds their relationship to be, along with all the implications and consequences for both of them, now and into the future, flowing from her sudden, loving declaration.

I recommend anyone here to go watch this beautiful movie especially if they have ever felt like an ignored or abused child - this movie will make you cry.

Oppenheimer was really good but that’s it. Really good. Not crazy good.

@@isaakfaulk8067hot take oppenheimer is boring and i fell asleep mid movie

I needed subtitles

I fully agree, and I'm from Finland - Ukrainian people are in our thoughts every day. We've been in the same situation Ukraine are now and we may end up there once again. These documentaries are so important so that people would remember the situation in Ukraine.

Yes, absolutely.

I felt that way about The Boy and the Heron. People were pointing out technical flaws, but I don't think the movie was trying to present itself with a firm structure. It was just creating scenes to evoke emotions and say something. I didn't realize how conflicted I would feel about the message of the movie, but exploring that has helped me to figure out how to seek balance in my life.

nicely said@@vincentbatten4686

Agreed. I watched it twice in one week, it was so good 👍

The plot of the KILLER.........guy goes around killing people and makes some mistakes while killing.............the end. the movie sucked ......or.......i didn't understand the plot.

@@rawfoodphilosophy7061 it probably won’t help you like the movie much better, but the gag is that it’s about a guy who imagines he’s a special genius, but who is actually an everyday dumbass; pretty good at his job, but not really great, constantly making excuses for his actions without really understanding what motivates him.. He has loads of advice, philosophical quotes, and so-called rules…all of which he fails to follow, and spends most of his time cleaning up after his own mistakes, while judging everyone around him harshly - like, say, most all of us do on social media. The movie is a comedy about the stories we tell ourselves about our lives vs the objective reality. We all like imagine we’re special outsiders, but we’re really one of the many - like anyone. That’s my take. But like I said, if it doesn’t work for you, all good. There are a lot of great KZfaq breakdowns of it, though, and who knows, if you see it again, maybe it will strike you funny.

Ugh, please read a book. Tik Tok philosophy is insufferable.

@@mastpg lol.

that movie had zero plot

@@elpretentio You clearly payed attention.

What are you talking about? Oppenheimer sucked hard. Christopher Nolan hasn't made a good film since memento.

I think it's really overrated tbh. Which cuts doubly hard as I like Cillian Murphy a lot as an actor.

Clearly overrated yes. Too long, boring drama that he tried to mask by overediting and adding intense action music. The twist in the end you saw from miles away, while still being quite badly done. Also that bomb was one of the biggest anticlimaxes I've felt in a movie in a looong time, he should have done it with CGI instead.

I don't agree with the second part. It's very good but inmensely overrated. People had already made their minds way before it came out that would be Oscar winning and all time greatest, simply because it was a drama by Nolan, starring Murphy, RDJ, Blunt and Pugh, which are pretty big names nowadays among most young people. The film had its big bunch of issues, like the ridiculous overediting, the unnecesarily intense music, and its pretentious direction. It is so embelessed with itself that it's like it tries to create emotions out of nothing, instead of creating something in the story that causes those feelings. And the film is always rushing, always focused on the next thing, never in the present, trying to lead to a climax that is never fulfilled, not even when the story provided moments for that.

@@gurratell7326too long? Just say you don’t have an attention span at all bro also the atomic bomb scene wasn’t supposed to be a grand spectacle it was meant to portray the horror on what he just unleashed in the world

Yes, I loved this film as well. The lead did an amazing job. It really stuck with me after the credits rolled.

aaand Saltburn

Yesssss, the boy and the Heron got overlooked the most because it's an anime and not from disney but dang ghibli makes the best animated film

When Evil Lurks too

That was a good one yeah!

Probably my favorite of the year, but I have barely watched anything from this list yet. I know what I'm doing over Winter break!

It really wasnt

I have to disagree. I didn't think it added much to the genre. Considering the plot, I feel a lot more could have been explored. The opportunity for a gnarly cosmic horror was abandoned for the sake of simplicity.

Hey! I also live in North Carolina, and used to live in NZ. My family was in/around Tauranga for twelve years. Awesome to see someone else enjoying the video who's similar to me.

That's so cool!@@elijahalbiston

Elijah, that's so cool! I use to live in Wellington and absolutely love Aotearoa. Between uni studies and the pandemic, I didn't get to explore as much of the North Island as I would have liked during my time there (about 18 months), but Wellington will always be a special place in my memories! Based out of Wilmington, NC now :)@@elijahalbiston

Only Nolan can convince someone that a 3 hour Wikipedia article is the best movie of the year

@@GlazeonthewickeR That's actually a sick burn, lmao.

@@GlazeonthewickeR that’s pretty funny but tragically untrue

I thought the same after seeing it.