We start with reader comments and then talk a little about Michael's Sight and Sound picks for Best Video Essays of 2023 before Raymond Creamer comes on board to talk best flicks of 2023!

00:00 Pre-roll
04:05 Start
14:35 Comments
22:30 Sight and Sound Video Essays
28:30 Raymond Creamer
38:05 Polite Society / Bottoms
40:40 May December
50:45 The Holdovers
58:10 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
1:01:50 Asteroid City
1:07:40 Oppenheimer, Priscilla, Passages
1:15:15 How To blow Up A Pipeline
1:22:30 Showing Up, Return to Seoul, Past Lives
1:31:40 Across the Spiderverse
1:34:10 Past Lives
1:40:00 Godzilla Minus One
1:43:50 Telemarketers
1:44:30 Killers of the Flower Moon
1:59:00 Wrap-Up