2023 films ranked according to the /r/movies official discussion polls.

Every week we post official discussions for widely released movies and attach a poll to each asking users to both rank the movies from 1-10 and whether or not they'd recommend them. Those polls get compiled into the yearly list and the all time list every so often. I find this to be a great way to rank films for the sub because these rankings were voted on mostly by people who had seen the film (hopefully) and without the context of ranking them competitively, which can cause spite downvoting.

2023 was a fascinating year in film. A lot of great movies, a lot of wildly effective social media pushes, and a lot of auteurs back in the saddle. While 2024 is looking like it might be affected by the strikes, 2023 was the first year theaters truly felt like they were "back" since COVID. It was also the year that big studios lost a lot of big money on overly inflated budgets. Things that would have been tentpoles in previous years like The Flash, Indiana Jones, or whatever Marvel is putting out, came and went with disappointing numbers this year while more original movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer ruled the box office. While Barbie and Super Mario are sure to spawn sequels at some point (we will see if WB has the balls to make another Barbie without Gerwig), for now this is the first time in 20+ years that none of the three top box office performers were sequels. And I think that's kinda cool.

Anyways, here are some results and stats from the 2023 /r/movies Official Discussions Ranking Polls! These scores are determined by the average 1-10 ranking of the votes. The list can be found here.

Rank	Film Title	Mean Score	Number of Votes
1	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	9.18	11,681
2	Society of the Snow	9.08	904
3	Godzilla Minus One	9.04	3,148
4	Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce	8.73	146
5	The Holdovers	8.65	1,093
6	Nimona	8.59	1,036
7	All of Us Strangers	8.53	123
8	The Zone of Interest	8.53	70
9	Past Lives	8.5	2,105
10	The Iron Claw	8.47	1,149
11	Linoleum	8.45	84
12	Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour	8.37	303
13	Oppenheimer	8.36	18,442
14	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.	8.33	265
15	They Cloned Tyrone	8.32	1,430
16	Blackberry	8.31	521
17	Anatomy of a Fall	8.24	1,013
18	Broker	8.23	84
19	American Fiction	8.22	275
20	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	8.22	7,766

Much like rotten tomatoes, the less seen but high quality movies or movies with highly niche audiences tend to do well with this system because most likely only people who want to see them are voting on them.

If we set parameters, such as at least 500 votes to be included, the top 10 would be:

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Society of the Snow
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. The Holdovers
5. Nimona
6. Past Lives
7. The Iron Claw
8. Oppenheimer
9. They Cloned Tyrone
10. Blackberry

Here's some more stats from the rankings:

• We made discussions for 183 movies last year. Wildly close to 2022's number, which was 181.

• Three movies from last year made it on to the Top 20 Films of All Time (going back to 2017 when we started this process) list. Those movies, in order, are Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse (which is, funny enough, right next to Into the Spider-verse), Society of the Snow, and Godzilla Minus One.

• The movies that got the most votes were, unsurprisingly, Oppenheimer (18k), Barbie (15k) and Spider-verse (11k). Netflix continues to have insane reach with Leave the World Behind ranking #6 on the most voted on films, and Amazon having some surprising reach with Saltburn which was #4.

• The bottom 10 are as follows:

1. Spy Kids: Armageddon (2.79)
2. Peter Pan & Wendy (3.54)
3. What Happens Later (3.59)
4. Expend4bles (4.01)
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (4.2)
6. Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (4.27)
7. Magic Mike's Last Dance (4.34)
8. About My Father (4.45)
9. You People (4.49)
10. Knights of the Zodiac (4.52)

• The Bottom 10 is usually comprised of movies that weren't widely seen, probably because they're bad. The outliers this time being Rebel Moon (1,200 votes) and You People (1,100 votes) which goes to show that even in Netflix is making bad movies, people are still watching them.

• Netflix managed three movies in the top 20 this year (Society of the Snow, Nimona, and They Cloned Tyrone) but it seems we are back to theater releases getting the most praise and being the most watched. Of the top 20, 14 were widely released theatrical runs.

• The most controversial films, as judged by the high standard deviation, are as follows:

1. Skinamarink (3.12 SD)
2. The Little Mermaid (2023) (3.01 SD)
3. Good Burger 2 (2.95 SD)
4. Dicks: The Musical (2.89 SD)
5. Candy Cane Lane (2.87 SD)

Don't believe me?

Link to the results

And here are the ranked results of every poll we've ever done, dating back to 2017

Submitted January 22, 2024 at 09:44AM by LiteraryBoner https://ift.tt/QMVloeU