For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2023. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions––some of those personal selections will be shared in coming weeks––and from tallied votes has this top 50 been assembled. Without further ado, check out our rundown of 2023 below,
After Love is about characters who find that a broken heart is open to empathy and learn to recognize that what connects us is so much more than what divides us.
Joanna Scanlan’s character in After Love isn’t a fantasy Muslim made for the white imagination. She is mundane and complex and imperfect. Ahead of this year’s BAFTAs, poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan applauds a subversively individual protagonist.