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Metacritic User Poll Results: Our Users Pick the Best of 2023

For the 14th straight year, we invited Metacritic users to list their favorite movies, TV shows, albums, and videogames of the past calendar year. Here are the results.
by Jason Dietz — 

Participants in our 14th Annual User Poll were asked to rank their five favorite titles of 2023 in each category (movies, TV, music, and games). We assigned a value of 5 points to each first-place vote, 4 points for second place, and so on down to 1 point for each fifth-place vote.

Our Users' Favorite Movies of 2023

Oppenheimer

Universal Pictures

WINNER:
1. tbd Oppenheimer (1,352 pts)

RUNNER UP:
2. tbd Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (724 pts)

THE REST OF THE TOP 10:
3. tbd Killers of the Flower Moon (683 pts)

4. tbd Past Lives (556 pts)

5. tbd Barbie (538 pts)

6. tbd Poor Things (356 pts)

7. tbd Anatomy of a Fall (262 pts)

8. tbd The Holdovers (256 pts)

9. tbd The Boy and the Heron (242 pts)

10. tbd May December (221 pts)

What did critics like?
See our final list of the highest-scoring movies of 2023.

Our Users' Favorite TV Shows of 2023

The Last of Us

WINNER:
1. tbd The Last of Us S1 (681 pts)

RUNNER UP:
2. tbd Succession S4 (677 pts)

THE REST OF THE TOP 10:
3. tbd The Bear S2 (556 pts)

4. tbd Beef S1 (310 pts)

5. tbd Barry S4 (183 pts)

6. tbd Poker Face S1 (145 pts)

7. tbd Fargo S5 (129 pts)

8. tbd Blue Eye Samurai S1 (116 pts)

9. tbd The Fall of the House of Usher (87 pts)

10. tbd Reservation Dogs S3 (85 pts)

What did critics like?
See our final list of the highest-scoring new TV shows of 2023.

Our Users' Favorite Albums of 2023

Guts by Olivia Rodrigo

WINNER:
1. 91 Guts by Olivia Rodrigo (210 pts)

RUNNER UP:
2. 94 Desire, I Want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek (194 pts)

THE REST OF THE TOP 10:
3. 80 Did You Know That There's a Tunnel... by Lana Del Rey (189 pts)

4. 87 Javelin by Sufjan Stevens (181 pts)

5. 90 the record by boygenius (153 pts)

6. 90 The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski (113 pts)

7. 89 That! Feels Good! by Jessie Ware (88 pts)

8. 90 1989 (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift (85 pts)

9. 86 Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown (62 pts)

10. 85 This Is Why by Paramore (57 pts)

What did critics like?
See our final list of the highest-scoring albums of 2023.

Our Users' Favorite Games of 2023

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios

WINNER:
1. tbd Baldur's Gate 3 (1,891 pts)

RUNNER UP:
2. tbd The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (752 pts)

THE REST OF THE TOP 10:
3. tbd Resident Evil 4 (621 pts)

4. tbd Super Mario Bros. Wonder (394 pts)

5. tbd Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (374 pts)

6. tbd Alan Wake II (341 pts)

7. tbd Final Fantasy XVI (232 pts)

8. tbd Hogwarts Legacy (229 pts)

9. tbd Hi-Fi Rush (190 pts)

10. tbd Sea of Stars (168 pts)

What did critics like?
See our final lists of 2023's highest-scoring games for PC, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox.