Movies I've Seen From 2023
by TheSeaLion | created - 19 Feb 2023 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicA list of movies released in 2023/still in their initial run during 2023 that I have seen.
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1. Asteroid City (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 113,688
10/10: The writing is fantastic, the style and atheistic are engaging, and the acting is superb. The personality of the town and the characters are all strong, and it takes an interesting look at a number of themes.
2. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada
Votes: 54,547
9/10: It's a nearly perfect movie with some egregiously noticeable nitpicks and an ending that harms the overall films. On a whole, the acting is fantastic, the story and themes are stellar, and the effects are wonderful.
3. Priscilla (2023)
R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 35,097
9/10: The film feels very real. It's about obsessiveness and objectification, and it handles those themes with understanding and care. It's a very slice of life movie, showing how things happened and allowing the audience to react without telling them how they should. The tone is perfect, showcasing Priscilla's involvement as somewhat of a love story (with the music cues, ect.) and the real harsh reality of the relationship. All of the performances are stellar, with the exception of Jacob Elordi who's still great but hard to understand at times.
4. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 139,489
9/10: It's a well written slice-of-life story with compelling characters. The acting is superb and the tone is near perfect. The film does dwell into schmaltzy "It's Christmas" territory on several occasions, but it's otherwise grounded.
5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
PG-13 | 163 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg
Votes: 247,473 | Gross: $172.14M
8/10: The premise and action set-pieces are a lot of fun, and the directing and cinematography adds to that and the tension. The characters, both new and old, are engaging and add to the action sequences and plot. The most egregious complaint is that some scenes feel very much repetitive.
6. The Creator (2023)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney
Votes: 160,717
8/10: While the character aspect is underdeveloped, it balances fun and dry sci-fi excellently, providing tension and intrigue. The acting is strong, the ideas are interesting, and the filmmaking is impeccable. There's great world building and attention to detail as well.
7. The Killer (2023)
R | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard
Votes: 183,332
8/10: It's ultimately an emotionless movie, which seems to be what it wants, but it doesn't necessarily work. Michael Fassbender is great, tension reigns galore, and the set pieces are all well-executed. The biggest complement for the movie is that what should be the "boring," wait for something to happen" scenes are the most engaging because of Fassbender's inner monologue.
8. Scream VI (2023)
R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the next installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New York City.
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown
Votes: 119,616
8/10: It's easily the best of the franchise since the original 2 movies. It has some good ideas with the characters and strong themes to string everything together. The slasher elements are fun, and the meta stuff fits well with what "Scream" is supposed to be. It does feel a little safe at points when it comes to the characters, which does detract from the horror elements.
9. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 730,778 | Gross: $326.11M
7/10: It's a three hour biopic that, thanks to its technical aspects and the acting, never feels its length. All of the actors are fantastic, especially Murphy and RDJ, the way the story is told is engaging, the writing is superb, and there are some really powerful scenes. The biggest issue is the sound and editing. The sound can be overbearing to the point where dialogue can't be heard, and the editing is so quick paced that scenes rarely have time to breath.
10. Barbie (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon
Votes: 537,218 | Gross: $636.24M
7/10: Despite some blatantness with the writing, the movie is very solid. The acting is fantastic, the aesthetics are wonderful, the humor is enjoyable, and the premise is engaging.
11. Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
When an occupying alien species' bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, Kylie Rogers, Brooklynn MacKinzie
Votes: 3,332
7/10: Despite some weak dialogue and blatant messages, it's held up by its strong performances and characters, interesting premise, score, and handling of themes.
12. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 239,902
7/10: For 3.5 hours, it doesn't feel its length. The movie is engaging, well edited, well directed, and mostly well acted. DiCaprio is here or there depending on the scene, but the remainder of the cast, especially Lily Gldstone, is fantastic. It can be hard to understand the dialogue and time-frame of things at time.
13. The Blackening (2022)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo
Votes: 18,715
7/20: It's held up by its strong performances and dialogue, and it can be pretty funny at points, but it does get weighed down by some lackluster character elements, predictability, and how it fizzles into a standard horror slasher instead of the satire it's trying to be.
14. The Boogeyman (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Director: Rob Savage | Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian
Votes: 43,987
7/10: It's a fairly generic horror movie that's elevated by its themes, style, and characters. A few moments of these miss the mark (especially the main character's friend), but it's strong overall.
15. Thanksgiving (I) (2023)
R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Ty Olsson, Gina Gershon, Lynne Griffin
Votes: 49,039
7/10: It has great style and effects, and the directing and editing is superb. Story and character-wise, it doesn't rise above a generic slasher film, and some of the kills don't feel earned, deserved, or sensical, in the long run. The movie is also over-stuffed wiht characters who are either bland leads, borderline nonexistent red-herrings, or the worst and most annoying people imaginable.
16. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt, Chukwudi Iwuji, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff
Votes: 381,028 | Gross: $359.00M
6/10: It provides a nice wrap-up to the characters and story that's existed over the past three films, and it has an interesting sci-fi concept to keep things moving along. Some of the character stuff is feels forced or is very predictable, the use of music isn't as strong as the first two movies, there are character actions that feel contradictory at times, and certain comedic or emotional beats--while they work in that tone--sometimes underplay the bigger issues at stake.
17. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror
A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian
Votes: 49,345
6/20: The technical aspects are wonderful (sound, cinematography, set design, etc.), but it suffers from weak characters and writing. The acting from Corey Hawkins and Liam Cunningham are fantastic, but there's nothing else to elevate the cast or characters beyond being cannon-fodder for the vampire to pick off.
18. The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman seeks revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince, Gil Birmingham
Votes: 9,929
6/10: It's a tightly written film with strong acting and engaging cinematography. The characters are fairly one-note, with the husband character in particular being confusing (it's seemingly implied in the beginning that he's abusive towards Ridley's character, but that aspect never comes up again).
19. Evil Dead Rise (2023)
R | 96 min | Horror
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Mirabai Pease, Richard Crouchley, Anna-Maree Thomas, Lily Sullivan
Votes: 136,972
6/10: The story works well on a thematic level, and the characters are well written, but the movie does start to drag in the third act, and while set-up-and-pay-off is important to a story, this movie goes above and beyond with it to a ridiculous extent.
20. A Haunting in Venice (2023)
PG-13 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey
Votes: 112,458
6/10: It's very inconsistent on a technical level, ranging from good to bad on editing, cinematography, writing, etc. I's decently acted and the mystery and story is intriguing.
21. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
PG-13 | 157 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Dexter Sol Ansell
Votes: 117,757
6/10: It's a very well-made but underdeveloped movie: Snow's arc feels rushed at points, elements of the Hunger Games are just reusing things from the original movies, and it can be needlessly referential at points. The strong acting and ideas in the first two-thirds of the movie are what keep it together. While the third act raps everything up nicely, it's easily the weakest point in the movie.
22. January 6th (2022)
TV-MA | 150 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Follows the events of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th of 2021, told by those who witnessed the chaos firsthand.
Directors: Gédéon Naudet, Jules Naudet | Stars: Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Steven Sund
Votes: 512
6/10: It's 2.5 hours of everything we already knew, but with new interviewees, including high-ranking officials like Schumer, Pelosi, and Cheney.
23. Evil Among Us: The Golden State Killer (2023 TV Movie)
TV-MA | Documentary, Crime
To the world, Joseph DeAngelo was a devoted friend, family man, and police officer. But in secret, he assaulted and murdered innocent victims across California for four
Director: Victoria Duley | Stars: Thomas Wilson Pace, Erik Thompson, Anna Lazzaro, Brittany Ransom
Votes: 83
6/10: It does a good job of putting the events into a chronological order, and it contains some interesting information, but so much of the documentary feels repetitive.
24. Cocaine Bear (2023)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Thriller
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Director: Elizabeth Banks | Stars: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta
Votes: 107,502
5/10: Despite its weakness with the pacing and characters, it's a well-made, directed, and acted film which delivers exactly what one would expect and hope for with a movie like this.
25. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen
Votes: 198,923
5/10: It's a competently made movie with a good and satisfying adventure for Indiana Jones to go on, but it's over-long, stuffed with needless stuff that could be cut to make the movie flow better, and what it wants to be (a more heartfelt and character-driven narrative) isn't done in a manner that really feels like an Indiana Jones film (Last Crusade managed to do that with the father-son dynamic). A stand-out is the acting, especially Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who is easily the best part of the movie and one of the best sidekicks in the franchise.
26. Napoleon (2023)
R | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett
Votes: 139,854
5/10: It's a skillfully and well-made movie with outstanding set design, aesthetics, and acting, but it never transcends above being a vignette of scenes with no real connecting through-line that is engaging or meaningful. Napoleon as a character, while well defined, is not that interesting, and the relationship between him and Josephine is underdeveloped and jumps between too long of time frames to ever feel believable.
27. Freelance (2023)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but when a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba, Christian Slater
Votes: 17,620
5/10: It's a fairly generic action movie that has a number of potentially interesting character dynamics and arcs, but they're rushed through or underdeveloped. John Cena, Allison Brie, and Juan Pablo Raba are all good, but there's no chemistry between Cena and Brie.
28. Infinity Pool (2023)
R | 117 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
Director: Brandon Cronenberg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, Dunja Sepcic
Votes: 56,718
5/10: It has an interesting premise and great acting, but that's all it really has going for it.
29. Maestro (2023)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History
This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
Director: Bradley Cooper | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Vincenzo Amato
Votes: 60,883
5/10: The acting and makeup are stellar, but everything else falls into the field of uninteresting.
30. Boston Strangler (2023)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, History
Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.
Director: Matt Ruskin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 33,146
5/10: It's competently made on all levels, but it never rises above that. It feels like it wants to be "Zodiac," but doesn't have the understanding of the characters or story, or an interesting style of directing or story telling, to do that.
31. 65 (2023)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
Directors: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods | Stars: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King
Votes: 88,150
5/10: It's an incredibly generic movie that never does anything to even mildly stray away from the formula. One of the most "in the middle of the road" movies I've ever seen.
32. Scariest Places in America (2023 TV Movie)
Documentary
From condemned prisons to abandoned insane asylums and every terror-inducing haunted house in between, SCARIEST PLACES IN AMERICA explores the 13 most terrifying real-life locations across the country. Tune in - if you dare.
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Christina Ricci, Stephen King, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 8
5/10
33. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.
Directors: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc, Fabien Polack | Stars: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black
Votes: 237,154 | Gross: $574.93M
5/10: It's a very cliched animated film with no surprises to be had story or character-wise. The animation is nice, but the character designs for the non-Nintendo characters is uninteresting and lackluster. It's essentially a passable animated film that's chalked full of Nintendo references.
34. The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023)
TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary, Crime
This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the steep downward spiral that resulted in his imprisonment.
Director: Colette Camden | Stars: Kai Lawrence, Jessob Reisbeck, Terry Woods, Brad Mulcahy
Votes: 12,743
5/10: It's a pretty typical documentary for its subject matter, though the focus isn't on a very interesting individual.
35. Renfield (2023)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Renfield, Dracula's henchman and inmate at the lunatic asylum for decades, longs for a life away from the Count, his various demands, and all of the bloodshed that comes with them.
Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz
Votes: 95,765
5/10: It's a creative premise that utilizes all of its idiosyncrasies in the advertisements. It's ultimately a fun but lackluster idea with Hoult and Cage giving really good performances and having fun with source material while the lackluster story takes place.
36. Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
PG-13 | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.
Director: Patrick Wilson | Stars: Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Sinclair Daniel
Votes: 50,731
4/10: It's a pretty generic horror movie with lame jump scares, no sense of terror or tension, and weak structure. What stands out is the character element between Patrick Wilson and Ty Simpkins' father and son relationship.
37. The Pope's Exorcist (2023)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret.
Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alexandra Essoe, Franco Nero
Votes: 83,318
4/10: It has some strong acting and cinematography, and the first scene is excellent in every regard, but the writing and dialogue is lackluster, the characters are not well developed or interesting, and the ending is a bit overdone.
38. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 51,157
4/10: It's beautifully drawn and animated, but that's about all there is to it. The characters aren't interesting, nor is the poorly paced and structured story.
39. Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
PG-13 | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. During his first night on the job, he realizes that the night shift won't be so easy to get through. Pretty soon he will unveil what actually happened at Freddy's.
Director: Emma Tammi | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 93,561
4/10: It's a fairly generic movie with a decent set-up that is brought down by a needlessly complicated through-line that's overstuffed with pointless characters in an attempt to create a human core to the film.
40. Retribution (I) (2023)
R | 91 min | Action, Thriller
A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.
Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Liam Neeson, Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion
Votes: 20,917
4/10: It's an incredibly generic premise with a lame script and action set-pieces that lack tension. Liam Neeson does a decent job.
41. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
PG | 140 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | Stars: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez
Votes: 370,445 | Gross: $381.31M
4/10: It's essentially 2.5 hours of set up. It feels like the true movie doesn't start until an hour in, and then everything that happens feels like set-up for the next movie/part of the earlier act of a bigger story without standing on its own.
42. Talk to Me (I) (2022)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Stars: Ari McCarthy, Hamish Phillips, Kit Erhart-Bruce, Sarah Brokensha
Votes: 144,057
4/10: Boring and unlikable characters with the weakest of dynamics spout really bad dialogue for 90 minutes in between horror scenes with no tension, atmosphere, or buildup.
43. Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler
Votes: 124,903
4/10: Any of the charm or fun of the first movie is absent. The comedy is try-hard and irritating, a bunch of character issues feel tacked on or are underdeveloped, the villains aren't interesting, and there are multiple movie tropes/scenes that just don't feel like they were done right.
44. Plane (2023)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Tony Goldwyn, Yoson An
Votes: 78,576
4/10: The action is refreshing as it's not over-the-top and actually feels real, but there are no characters or interesting story elements to make said action sequences hold much weight.
45. Guy Ritchie's the Covenant (I) (2023)
R | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong
Votes: 162,959
4/10: It's an anti-war film that over-explains it message without ever actually delving into it to any meaningful degree. The performances from Gyllenhaal and Salim are strong, but they aren't enough to help the weak script or characters.
46. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
Director: Steven Caple Jr. | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez
Votes: 104,031 | Gross: $157.07M
4/10: It's a fairly boring movie with generic, one-dimensional characters, an uninteresting story, bland action, and poor writing.
47. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are dragged into the Quantum Realm, along with Hope's parents and Scott's daughter Cassie. Together they must find a way to escape, but what secrets is Hope's mother hiding? And who is the mysterious Kang?
Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer
Votes: 228,476 | Gross: $214.50M
3/10: It's a poorly paced and boring movie that has almost its entire cast not doing anything for most of the runtime. Ot suffers from all of the issues that Marvel films endure, with some pretty bad performances, incredibly lousy writing, and forced character stuff.
48. The Little Mermaid (I) (2023)
PG | 135 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem
Votes: 156,057 | Gross: $298.17M
3/10: It's a 2 hour movie of an already good 90 minute movie. It does nothing to improve upon the original, nor does it do anything better. The characters and acting are weaker, the new music is awful and the redone music is performed worse with none of the flair that came with the animated version.
49. Blue Beetle (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien scarab chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the recent college graduate with a suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle.
Director: Angel Manuel Soto | Stars: Xolo Maridueña, Bruna Marquezine, Becky G, Damián Alcázar
Votes: 94,960
3/10: It's a compilation of things we'e already seen from superhero movies with nothing to add. The characters are either one dimensional and boring or annoying comic-relief. Most egregiously, the human elements don't work: the dramatic moments are always undercut in some way, and the comedic moments are non-sensical.
50. Elemental (2023)
PG | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, earth- and air-residents live together.
Director: Peter Sohn | Stars: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen, Shila Ommi
Votes: 126,848 | Gross: $154.43M
4/10: It's the standard Pixar these days, which is essentially what a lame ripoff of what an early-days Pixar movie would be. The story is poorly designed in order to inflict maximum emotional manipulation. The laws of the world are nonexistent, the characters and script are generic, the character design is poor, and the conflicts of the movie feel so tacked on like there wasn't enough from the premise to achieve the needed runtime.
51. Butcher's Crossing (2022)
R | 105 min | Drama, Western
An Ivy League drop-out travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams.
Director: Gabe Polsky | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Jeremy Bobb, Paul Raci
Votes: 4,117
3/10: It's a very bland movie with one-dimensional characters and a main character who is an absolute bore with no arc. The dialogue is uninteresting and does nothing to propel the scenes, characters, or story forward; it's just there because movies need dialogue. The cinematography ranges from okay to try-hard to just incredibly awful. Nicholas Cage's performance carries the movie.
52. M3GAN (2022)
PG-13 | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own.
Director: Gerard Johnstone | Stars: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng, Amie Donald
Votes: 142,678 | Gross: $93.88M
3/10: It's a boring and un-scary horror movie with idiotic and inconsistent characters, poorly written dialogue, and lame and predictable kills.
53. Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A research team encounters multiple threats while exploring the depths of the ocean, including a malevolent mining operation.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 78,608 | Gross: $82.60M
2/10: A boring and tensionless action film with poor dialogue, badly written characters, and a terrible story.
54. Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a peaceful settlement on the edge of a distant moon finds itself threatened by a tyrannical ruling force, a stranger living among its villagers becomes their best hope for survival.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman
Votes: 116,234
2/10: It has interesting call-backs to and wonderful flavoring for its sci-fi world, but the characters are flat, the writing is poor, the editing (which harms the action sequences considerably) and directing are terrible, the cinematography is blurry, and the whole thing feels unfinished/unsatisfied.
55. We Have a Ghost (2023)
PG-13 | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Finding a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home turns Kevin's family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest investigate the mystery of Ernest's past, they become a target of the CIA.
Director: Christopher Landon | Stars: Jahi Di'Allo Winston, David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Erica Ash
Votes: 32,919
2/10: It starts out fairly promising: a good opening that understands the tone it wants and showcases a fairly generic family that has potential for some decent character building. It then engages in two hours of unfunny bits, forced character moments, ridiculous building blocks for the story, and starts becoming more and more illogical and poorly conceived as the film progresses beyond the punchline of, "This family has a ghost in their house and they use it to make money.:
56. Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Full-time detectives Nick and Audrey are struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground. They find themselves at the center of international abduction when their friend Maharaja is kidnapped at his own lavish wedding.
Director: Jeremy Garelick | Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Mark Strong, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 68,941
2/10: It's more enjoyable than the first movie thanks to its action set pieces, but it's essentially just any other Sandler comedy: same writing, same character, same jokes, etc. and they're all done in a lazy manner.
57. Haunted Mansion (2023)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
Director: Justin Simien | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish
Votes: 42,835
2/10: It's an incredibly boring movie with no sense of identity. It wants to be dramatic, but it isn't, and it attempts to be funny and scary, but it isn't. While the actors are all good, the characters are all incredibly bland, uninteresting, and unamusing. DeVito and Wilson are the only two whose characters feel like they fit in what the movie's tone should be, but they just feel oddly placed with how everything is handled.
58. The Nun II (2023)
R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
1956 - France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell
Votes: 58,808
2/10: With lackluster scares and no atmosphere, there's very little horror to keep it engaging. Along with that, instead of a main character to be a through-line, there are multiple secondary characters without interesting dynamics, personalities, backstories, etc. The movie could have worked with the location had the focus of the story been more concrete and certain storylines been cut, but that isn't what happened.
59. Yeti Massacre (2023)
Documentary
In the winter of 1959, the mutilated bodies of nine hikers were found in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Were they slaughtered in cold blood by a yeti? If so, what drove this legendary beast to kill?
Stars: Aaron Bell, Adam Davies, Bryce Johnson, K. Anna I. Nekaris
Votes: 93
2/10: On a technical level it's competent and engaging. The subject matter, however, is repetitive, one-sided, and contradictory.
60. Cobweb (2023)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An eight-year-old boy tries to investigate the mysterious knocking sounds that are coming from inside the walls of his house, unveiling a dark secret that his sinister parents have kept hidden from him.
Director: Samuel Bodin | Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, Woody Norman
Votes: 31,993
2/10: It's an un-scary horror film with try-hard intentions, badly written characters and dynamics, and a poorly written story with nonexistent pacing.
61. Haunting of the Queen Mary (2023)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The mysterious and violent events surrounding one family's voyage on Halloween night in 1938, and their interwoven destiny with another family onboard the infamous ocean liner present day.
Director: Gary Shore | Stars: Wesley Alfvin, Elena Angelova, Tiffany Ashton, Luca Barbarossa
Votes: 3,627
2/10: A bland and generic horror movie with bad acting, a useless cutting between past and present that does nothing to elevate the story, and frolicking with stupidity both character and plot-wise.
62. Knock at the Cabin (2023)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird
Votes: 115,559
1/10: It has no first act and a tedious, repetitive script that ends up explaining everything for the audience. The actors all do a fantastic job, but the characters they're given are fairly boring and flat. The cinematography ranges from try-hard and not fitting with the rest of the movie, or flat, boring, and misused.
63. The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
R | 111 min | Horror
When two girls disappear into the woods and return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, the father of one girl seeks out Chris MacNeil, who's been forever altered by what happened to her daughter fifty years ago.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Lafortune Joseph, Leslie Odom Jr., Gastner Legerme, Tracey Graves
Votes: 39,126
1/10: It has the mentality of a really weak action sequel: "If one of X is good, then more of X will be great." Two possessions, multiple religious figures partaking in the exorcism, a needless action set piece right at the beginning that doesn't fit with the rest of the movie's tone. The characters are all one-dimensional and lack any arc. Anything worthwhile that the film sets up idea-wise is never delved into and just gets passed over. Chris MacNeil returns for no reason at all, as one of multiple pointless characters. The climax doesn't even feel like it's a real exorcism: just the demon going, "Okay, I'll go if you do something for me."
64. The Flash (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon
Votes: 210,723
1/10: With bad writing and a clunky execution of story and characters, it has nothing going for it. The effects are atrocious, the acting is mostly bad, it's boring and there's nothing to latch onto sotry-wise, anything remotely interesting has been taken from other material, and the best part of the film (Michael Keaton) is reduced down to memes and nostalgia.
65. Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge (2023)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror
A reporter, cameraman, and some petty thieves are stranded in a boat out on the ocean. The only thing that stands between them and their lives is a 50-foot prehistoric megalodon shark. They must all pull together to survive.
Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Jada Sanchez, Tim Hatch, Jamie Morgan, Kyle Rappaport
Votes: 188
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