FEATURE: THE TOP 10 FILMS OF 2023
By Stephen Pytak For many folks, this was the year of Barbenheimer. While that was kind of interesting, and I enjoyed both Barbie and Oppenheimer for the most part, neither made my personal Top 10 list of the best films of 2023. But a Godzilla film did. And at the start of 2023, when I started writing down potential entries for this list, I honestly didn't see that coming. Publicity art for Mad Heidi (2022), an independent film which received a brief theatrical release in the United States in 2023. ©2018-2023 by Swissploitation Films LLC. C. It was a pretty good year for cinema. Aside from the Barbenheimer phenomenon, the box office benefitted from concert films from superstars like Taylor Swift. For the past decade or so, superhero films used to be the thing. But whatever's going on in that industry, quality products aren't being churned out the way they used to be, and it seems audiences are losing interest. But some sequels that came out in 2023 were really...