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'Barbie' ruled the box office, and the world of pop culture, in 2023, raking in $1.44 billion worldwide. But what do the critics say was the best movie of the year? The Hollywood Reporter is breaking down the critics' top 5 films of 2023, according to THR's chief film critic David Rooney.

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00:00Barbie ruled the box office and the world of pop culture in 2023, raking in $1.44 billion worldwide.

00:07But what do the critics say was the best movie of the year?

00:10We're breaking down the critics' top five films of 2023, according to THR's chief film critic, David Rooney.

00:16Coming in at number five is Fallen Leaves from Finnish director Aki Karismaki.

00:21Rooney said of the movie, quote,

00:22This deceptively modest film is both dour and droll,

00:25every frame finding beauty in a dingy milieu that seems frozen in time.

00:30And there are no mercy.

00:33Que don't answer, que don't.

00:34Number four is Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon,

00:37whose cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert De Niro.

00:42Rooney called the film, quote,

00:43A late masterwork from a revered filmmaker still boldly expanding his legacy at 81.

00:48They told me you was going with Matt Williams for a time.

00:55You talk too much.

00:57Coming in third is All of Us Strangers, directed by Andrew Hay,

01:01and starring Andrew Scott, Paul Meskel, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy.

01:05Rooney said of the cast, quote,

01:06There was no tighter ensemble this year.

01:09Don't scare you.

01:14No.

01:14Number two is Poor Things, starring Emma Stone.

01:18Rooney said of filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, quote,

01:21Nothing in his unique filmography can compare with the fantastical flights

01:24of this inspired riff on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

01:27He also called Stone's performance never better,

01:30and praised the film's supporting cast,

01:31which includes Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe.

01:34You're always reading now, Benno.

01:37You're losing some of your adorable way of speaking.

01:41I'm a changingable feast, as are all of we.

01:44And coming in at number one is Past Lives.

01:47The first feature from playwright-turned-writer-director

01:50Celine Song stars Greta Lee,

01:51as a woman whose childhood crush from Korea

01:53resurfaces in her New York life over 20 years later.

01:56According to Rooney, quote,

01:58This is an exquisite film as even-handed as it is insightful,

02:01digging deep on relationships, fate, roads not taken,

02:04and the phantoms of parallel existences.

02:07Are you attracted to him?

02:13I don't think so.

02:15For Rooney's full top ten list,

02:16as well as the top ten lists of THR's other film critics,

02:19go to THR.com.

02:21This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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