Fran Hoepfner’s Top 10 Films of 2023
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
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Fran Hoepfner
Napoleon Review: Ridley Scott’s Historical Epic is an Exhausting Wikipedia Scroll
In a conversation with Empire Magazine, Ridley Scott promised a cut of his latest movie Napoleon that is over four hours long and “fantastic”; this would be an...
Barbie Review: Greta Gerwig’s Plastic Fantasy is Here For a Good Time, Not a Long Time
Every night in Barbieland is “girls’ night,” or so goes the bedazzled legend of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. The Barbies stay up late, talking, splashing in the pool...
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Review: Kelly Fremon Craig’s Adaptation of Beloved Judy Blume Classic Stays True to Itself
Like Judy Blume’s treasured young adult classic, Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret begins in 1970 with 11-year-old Margaret Simon (Abby...
Beau Is Afraid Review: Ari Aster’s Absurdist Epic Spins Its Wheels
There is a succinct, incredible moment of catharsis at the conclusion of Ari Aster’s feature debut Hereditary when one of its beleaguered, terrified protagonis...
Fran Hoepfner
Fran Hoepfner is a writer and film critic living in New York.