Sight & Sound/BFI's 50 Best Films of 2023

How will 2023 in film be remembered? As the year that the business models of streaming and Marvel started to wobble; the year that Hollywood learned to start worrying and fear the AI bomb ticking beneath it; the year when film production halted due to the writers' and actors' strikes and the unseen labour behind cinema took the spotlight – from the minions of the 'mini-room' to extras who risked being replaced by pixels in perpetuity.Fonder reminiscences may come from those with fuchsia-tinted lenses who will recall the summer when pink ruled, when people actually queued to go to the movies again and when the phrase 'double bill' came back into popular parlance for the first time in 60 years. "Do you guys ever think about dying?" Margot Robbie asked in Barbie, an existential question directed frequently at cinema in recent years. If the big screen could talk, in 2023 it would have shouted back "No!"