I love doing these year end reviews. And I always do them in January, thereby missing all the potential end of year interest. So, I’m doing this one earlier, to see if we can get this list out to a broader range of people. So, this year, I’ve got two lists for you. The first one is the list of the most read posts of the year. All data, no opinions. Number of reads among all the posts written in 2023. Please note, I don’t take into account the year the movie came out. It’s just a list of the most popular posts in 2023. Make sense? And the second list? Yeah, that’s probably the list you are looking for… aka, the THiNC. opinion on the best movies of the year. Let’s do it!
The Most Read THiNC. Posts of 2023 –
#10 Most Read Post of 2023 – DISCONTINUED – “Sarah is a millennial with high anxiety and a low opinion of what the future holds for humanity. When a bizarre broadcast reveals that reality is just an elaborate computer simulation that will be shut down in one week, she watches on as madness ensues. With help from an AI guide, Sarah navigates the end of the world as she knows it while charting an unlikely course toward self-actualization.” Loved the movie? Check out my interview with the writer & director.
#09 Most Read Post of 2023 – INSIDE – “INSIDE tells the story of Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.”
#08 Most Read Post of 2023 – BOSTON STRANGLER – “Loretta McLaughlin becomes the first journalist to connect the Boston Strangler murders. As the mysterious killer claims more and more victims, Loretta attempts to continue her investigation alongside colleague and confidante Jean Cole.
#07 Most Read Post of 2023 – SPOONFUL OF SUGAR – “A disturbed babysitter experiences a sexual awakening while using LSD to treat a seemingly sick child from a family with dark secrets.”
#06 Most Read Post of 2023 – LINOLEUM – “Cameron Edwin, the host of a failing children’s science TV show called “Above & Beyond,” has always had aspirations of being an astronaut. After a mysterious space-race era satellite coincidentally falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests in a plan to rebuild the machine into his dream rocket.” It’s a mindjob exploration of life, chances, and rebuilding…
#05 Most Read Post of 2023 – GODLAND – “In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.”
#04 Most Read Post of 2023 – APORIA – “Since losing her husband Mal (Edi Gathegi) in a drunk-driving incident, Sophie (Judy Greer) has struggled to manage crippling grief, a full-time job, and the demands of parenting her devastated teenage daughter (Faithe Herman). When her husband’s best friend Jabir (Payman Maadi), a former physicist, reveals that he has been building a time-bending machine that could restore her former life, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice–and unforeseeable consequences.”
#03 Most Read Post of 2023 – RUN RABBIT RUN – “As a fertility doctor, Sarah has a firm understanding of the cycle of life. However, when she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter, Sarah must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.”
#02 Most Read Post of 2023 – DONNIE DARKO – Yeah, I know, this one is old… but I had been waiting so long to actual put my thoughts together on this one that it blew up? I don’t know really. Sorry it’s not a 2023 film! What are you going to do?
#01 Most Read Post of 2023 – SISU – This one post was read more than all the others in this list put together. This post went to the moon. And what’s really fun about that? I wasn’t a fan of the movie, and just bad mouthed it all review long. But so many people were dying to find out what they had just watched that they didn’t mind too much? haha. (Taylor, the comments tell a different story! hahah, yeah, that’s true.)
So, there you have it – the posts of 2023 that were read the most. Do you see what I did there? Those are just the most read posts that were WRITTEN in 2023. But what were the most read posts for all year? You curious dog, you. Here’s a quick list of those:
- Netflix Dark – (since creating these family trees, they are ALWAYS my most read posts. And there are 5 of them that are in the top 10 list. So I’m combining them into just this one post. Dark basically keeps this site up and running all by itself, and some extra.)
- Sisu – (See, there is a little overlap between the lists.)
- Spinning Man – (This movie is always in the top five because the ending is so confusing. Wait, did he actually not do it? Or did he? I don’t blame you guys, it’s a mind job of epic proportions.)
- The Believer – This Korean film is fantastic – and just impossible to understand.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – This makes me really happy to see this movie making it into the list of top read posts on the site for the year. And I only did a write up because it was on the Top 100 list! hahah.
- The Oak Room – If you are catching a trend here, you’ll notice that a lot of these films find a much wider distribution than the super indie movies we talk about here. This was a clever movie, with a complicated ending!
- The Machinist – Okay, annoying! This one wasn’t even written by me! hahah. Barry wrote this from over at This is Barry. He’s an awesome bloke, and if you read me, you will love reading Barry as well. Promise.
- Black Bear – HAHAHAH… yeah, this makes sense. Such a confusing movie.
- Mr. Nobody – Yup. Another horrifically confusing movie.
- Cordelia – Talk about Dark Horse here! Woah. That is a lot of reads for a movie that literally no one knows about! Good on ya, Cordelia! You go girl!!
Alright – there you go gang! Two really great list so of movies for you all to strip mine for your viewing pleasure. If you haven’t seen any of these, all of them are worth a watch even though they aren’t my list of best movies of 2023 (which will be coming out at the end of the year… dying for something to watch, and you are desperate for it? I might send it your way if you message me.)
Edited by: CY