The 20 best films and TV shows of 2023
Our choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
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The 10 best Christmas films of all time
Featuring Muppets, gremlins, elves and an assassin.
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Inside Elvis’s dollhouse
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic shows how the singer groomed his teenage wife – but his obsession with young girls…
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Timothée Chalamet is a sweeter – but weaker – Wonka
The Warner Bros origin story for the chocolatier adds songs and removes nastiness from Roald Dahl’s tale – for the…
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Bradley Cooper’s thrill-seeking Leonard Bernstein
In Maestro, Cooper emphasises the composer’s ambition and hedonism. But Carey Mulligan is the film’s roaring heart.
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Ridley Scott’s fast and furious Napoleon biopic
In this ruthlessly efficient and entertaining epic, starring Joaquin Phoenix, facts are beside the point.
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May December is a moral provocation disguised as soap opera
Todd Haynes’s sophisticated melodrama pits Julianne Moore against Natalie Portman in a bitingly funny duel.
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The Eternal Daughter is a haunting without ghosts
A protean Tilda Swinton completely inhabits the roles of both mother and daughter.
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