What are the best movies of 2023? Well, that depends on who you’re asking, but I’ll admit that as I compiled my personal favourites, I was surprised at the amount of blockbuster entries taking up space. ‘Barbenheimer,’ the theatrical film event of the year, was a no-brainer pick, for having not only delivered the most juxtaposing clash of themes on a single release date since the pandemic era, but also bringing back moviegoers to the theatres. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was an overtly pink and joyous movie about living dolls and feminism, while Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was a bleak biopic about the creator of the atomic bomb. In case you’re wondering, I liked Barbie more (slightly). Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the second chapter in Miles Morales’ multiversal tale, was another standout, blending multiple animation styles to tell the story of teenage struggles and parenthood. And so was Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon — a period Western that tells the story of insidious Osage murders. Unfortunately, only half of the films on this list were …