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Lights, camera, perfection! Join us as we count down our picks for the greatest cinematic moments from the past three years! From gut-wrenching monologues to breathtaking action sequences, recent cinema has delivered some truly unforgettable scenes. Spoiler warning is in full effect, so proceed with caution!
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00:00Conjuring spirits from the past
00:02Somebody take me
00:05And the future
00:11Welcome to WatchMojo
00:13And today we're counting down our picks for the best cinematic moments since 2023
00:17There may be a few spoilers here, so be warned
00:26Number 10, Being a Woman, Barbie
00:29Hey, what's wrong?
00:36I'm not pretty anymore
00:39Even when surrounded by bright pink plastic and cheerful perfection
00:43An uncomfortably real truth bombs the dream house in the third act of this film
00:47America Ferreira's character, Gloria, brings the bubbly blockbuster to a screeching halt
00:51With a gut-wrenching monologue detailing the impossible, contradictory expectations society places on women
00:57It is literally impossible to be a woman
01:02You are so beautiful
01:04And so smart
01:06And it kills me that you don't think you're good enough
01:09Like, we have to always be extraordinary
01:14But somehow we're always doing it wrong
01:18Delivering the lines with an exhaustion every viewer felt in their bones
01:21Ferreira shifts the entire narrative weight of the movie
01:24Like, you have to be thin, but not too thin
01:27And you can never say you want to be thin
01:29You have to say you want to be healthy
01:31But also you have to be thin
01:34You have to have money
01:36But you can't ask for money
01:38Because that's crass
01:39It isn't just a sudden dose of reality
01:41It's a profound, cathartic release
01:43You're supposed to love being a mother
01:45But don't talk about your kids all the damn time
01:47You have to be a career woman
01:49But also always be looking out for other people
01:52This raw, tear-jerking speech elevated the toy-based comedy
01:55Into an undeniable cultural touchstone
01:57Life in Plastic isn't always fantastic, apparently
02:00And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong
02:03But also, everything is your fault
02:10I'm just so tired of watching myself
02:14And every single other woman tie herself into knots
02:20So that people will like us
02:22Number 9, Table Manners, Bugonia
02:25Well, on that note, enjoy
02:28In this movie, a homemade meal becomes an absolute powder keg of surreal, extraterrestrial tension
02:34Sitting around a cramped table
02:36A supposedly alien captive named Michelle
02:38Joins her paranoid captors, Teddy and Don
02:41For a bizarrely civilized dinner of spaghetti and meatballs
02:44Why don't you tell me more about your movement?
02:47My what?
02:49Your movement, what you're doing
02:53Respectfully, we are not a movement
02:57Oh
02:58A movement is made up of many people
03:01I did this all on my own
03:03Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone share a profoundly uncomfortable
03:06Electric chemistry
03:07As they casually debate corporate domination
03:09And human existence between bites of pasta
03:12But I was just looking in the wrong places
03:15Until I discovered you
03:22There's a darkly hilarious contrast between the existential dialogue
03:26And the mundane etiquette of passing the Parmesan creates
03:29It's something of a verbal chess match
03:31And proves you don't need lasers to create sci-fi thrillers
03:34All you need is great actors
03:36And awkward table manners
03:38Sandy Gatz
03:43What did you say?
03:46I remember, Teddy
03:50That was your mother
03:51Number 8
03:52A Christmas Break Miracle
03:54The Holdovers
03:56Mr. Hunnam
03:56Meet Judy and Stanley Klotfelter
04:00Angus Tully's mother and father
04:01Stepfather
04:02Hello
04:03When he's strapped with a troublemaking student
04:05Over the snowy Christmas break
04:06Even the notorious curmudgeon Paul Hunnam
04:08Can't stop his heart from growing three sizes
04:10It all comes to a head when
04:12At the film's climax
04:13He willingly takes the blame
04:15For an unauthorized Boston road trip
04:17As per my instructions in the manual
04:19It fell within the ambit of my responsibility
04:21Well, if it was a school trip
04:23Then how do you explain this?
04:25The people at the sanitarium
04:26Confiscated it from my ex-husband
04:28Apparently Angus had given it to him
04:30He effectively destroys his own career
04:32So the misunderstood student
04:34Angus Tully
04:35Won't be sent to military school
04:36It was my idea
04:43No, he didn't trick me or slip the leash
04:48I took him to see his father
04:51In fact, I convinced him to do so
04:54Paul Giamatti plays the scene beautifully
04:56His grumpy exterior melting away
04:58To reveal genuine, selfless heroism
05:00You two were unreachable
05:03He was all alone at Christmas
05:05I thought the kid should see his father
05:08Seeing him give up everything he holds dear
05:10For the kid he loathed at the start of the film
05:12Is storytelling at his finest
05:14You can do this
05:18Yeah, I was gonna tell you the same thing
05:20Number 7
05:21Dragon's Breath Breakdown
05:23John Wick Chapter 4
05:32What do we have to say?
05:33It's John Wick
05:34And we all know what John Wick does best
05:36Suddenly floating above the carnage
05:38Like a violent, high-octane video game
05:40The camera captures an absolute ballet of bullets and fire
05:50The legendary assassin systematically blasts his way
05:53Through a decaying Parisian apartment complex
05:55Armed with a specialized shotgun
05:57Loaded with incendiary Dragon's Breath rounds
06:00The top-down perspective transforms the gruesome massacre
06:03Into a mesmerizing piece of moving art
06:12Pushing the absolute limits of choreographic creativity
06:15This breathtaking single-take sequence
06:17Forever raised the bar for modern action spectacle
06:28Number 6
06:29The Hamster
06:30If I had legs, I'd kick you
06:44Crushed under the immense pressure of caring for her daughter
06:47Rose Byrne embodies the bone-deep exhaustion of a woman at her limit
06:50Its parental desperation meets absurdist comedy
06:53And it all boils over in the form of one very unlucky hamster
06:57On the way home from therapy
06:59Her daughter's new hamster
07:00The same one Byrne's character didn't want in the first place
07:03Gets out
07:03What have I done?
07:06I don't want him
07:07I don't want him anymore
07:08It's his dad
07:11A fender bender
07:12And some road rage screaming later
07:14That hamster ends up as roadkill
07:16Give me all your information
07:17What the f*** is that?
07:18What?
07:19That!
07:19That!
07:22Mommy!
07:23The scene escalates its tightly wound tension
07:26So you aren't sure whether to cry or laugh
07:29But either way
07:30You'll be mesmerized by Byrne's captivating performance
07:32Oh
07:33Mommy!
07:35Mommy!
07:36Mommy!
07:39Mommy!
07:39Mommy!
07:39Number 5
07:40The Tiebreaker
07:41Challengers
07:50In this tennis match
07:52The most explosive hit comes without the ball even crossing the net
07:56As Patrick steps up to serve in the grueling final tiebreaker
07:59He makes an innocuous gesture with the ball
08:16His former friend, Art
08:18Recognizes the shorthand
08:20And deduces that Patrick has slept with his wife
08:22Set to a thumping, relentless techno score
08:25The realization changes the stakes from professional glory
08:28To painful, personal betrayal
08:41The fact it's all delivered without a single word
08:43Just underscores Luca Guadagnino's masterful direction
08:46Not to mention the star-making performances of Josh O'Connor
08:50And Mike Feist
09:04Number 4
09:06Elphaba Defies Gravity
09:07Wicked
09:08Something has
09:10Changed within me
09:13Something is
09:17Not the same
09:18Fans of the Broadway showstopper spent decades waiting to see Elphaba take flight on the big screen
09:23And the payoff was nothing short of magical
09:26Just you and I defying gravity
09:33With you and I defying gravity
09:39We could spend weeks discussing the dynamic camera work
09:42Explosive vocals
09:44And brilliant set design
09:45But at the end of the day
09:46This scene belongs to Ariana Grande
09:48And Cynthia Erivo
09:49Both stars put their all into the music
09:52Giving defying gravity the emotional core it needs to really soar
10:06By effortlessly capturing the epic scale
10:09And intimate stakes of Elphaba's battle cry
10:11This moment immediately cemented itself in movie musical history
10:25Number 3
10:27Get ready with Elizabeth
10:28The substance
10:29I will see you tonight
10:32Bye
10:33Okay
10:34Forget the body horror
10:35The only thing Elizabeth scared of is her reflection
10:38Preparing for a date
10:39The camera lingers on the way she meticulously dolls herself up
10:42But all it takes is one glance at her younger
10:45Flawless counterpart on a billboard
10:47To send her right back to the mirror
11:01Anchored by a revelatory turn from Demi Moore
11:04The scene devolves into a devastating tear-stained loop
11:07Of Elizabeth's insecurity
11:13She reapplies and reapplies and reapplies
11:16Until she gives up entirely
11:17This moment serves as something of a thesis for the substance
11:20Showcasing the impossible weight of societal beauty standards
11:34Number 2
11:35Through the ages
11:36Sinners
11:37There are legends of people
11:40Born with the gift of making music so true
11:43It can pierce the veil
11:46Between life and death
11:48Against all odds
11:49Ryan Cougar condenses 60 years of black American history
11:53Into one breathtaking jazz-infused montage
11:56It's a profound meditation on the enduring soul of blues in modern music
12:00Which is crazy when you remember this is a movie about vampires too
12:03Moving seamlessly through the ages
12:05The sequence illustrates how art survives in the face of adversity
12:10Somebody take me
12:18Both the literal and figurative kind
12:21At the risk of sounding hyperbolic
12:23This awe-inspiring musical interlude feels like the kind of thing
12:26They'll be teaching in film school for generations
12:28It's triumphant
12:30Powerful
12:31Somber
12:31And passionate in a way only music and film can truly convey
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13:14Number 1
13:16Realization
13:17Oppenheimer
13:25When J. Robert Oppenheimer steps up to the podium to address his supporters
13:29The father of the atomic bomb doesn't see the adoring crowd
13:32He looks beyond the flag waving
13:34Beyond the cheers
13:35And beyond the national pride
13:37And stares nuclear destruction straight in the eye
13:56He clearly doesn't like what he sees
13:59Cillian Murphy's hollow, haunted expression
14:01Completely sells Oppenheimer's suffocating revelation
14:04Of course, this being a movie from Christopher Nolan
14:06It's brought together with best-in-class sound design
14:09And camerawork
14:10As the emotional conclusion to an already brilliant film
14:13This one expression might just be the cinematic moment of the decade
14:33What's your favorite scene of the decade so far?
14:35Let us know in the comments below
14:38Let us know in the comments below
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