Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2023 — Part Two: Runners-Up (Top-Ten Worthy)

A musical comedy. Rom-coms. Big movies likely to win many Oscars. A movie that takes place almost entirely in a car. And a Judy Blume adaptation. And these aren't even my Top Ten!

I started listing my favorite films of the year when I was a teenager because I was fascinated by the lists of professional critics and I wanted to play along.

I could not have imagined that this would become a routine lasting for decades, and that I would end up sharing such lists in magazines, in journals, in live events (like The Kindlings Muse, a di…