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Thanks. But I don’t need movies to remind me that I’m getting old. My knees do that for free.

I’ve seen five of the ten movies on the list. Two of them I remember as having been ok (but not great). Peter Jackson had already lost his discipline and surrendered to bloat by the time ROTK came out. I enjoyed it at the time but would not want to sit through it again.

It’s an odd list. Kill Bill, Cold Mountain, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Seabiscuit, and Lost in Translation all came out in 2023 and are better than most of the movies on this list. Any other favorites from that rather forgettable year?

I shouldn’t be cynical. Any year that gives us ten movies that stand the test of time is probably a pretty good year. The reason that so many people think golden oldies beat today’s output is that we tend to aggregate decades’ worth of golden oldies in our minds and compare our personal GOAT lists with the current year’s crop. The current year will always look mediocre from that perspective. 20 years from now, it won’t.