2023 Movie List - The Top 225 of the Year So Far

THE STANDOUTS (18) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

Jamojaya ***1/2
Society of the Snow ***1/2
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie ***1/2
Woman of the Hour ***1/2
Nyad ***1/2
Past Lives ***1/2
Memory ***1/2
Air ***1/2
BlackBerry ***
The Iron Claw ***
American Fiction ***
The Holdovers ***
The Beasts ***
Flora and Son ***
Theater Camp ***
Reality ***
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One ***
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ***

THE GOOD (51) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.

A Thousand and One ***
Flamin' Hot ***
Hit Man ***
Fair Play ***
Reptile ***
The Killer ***
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant ***
Joy Ride ***
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah ***
Elemental ***
All of Us Strangers ***
You Hurt My Feelings ***
Somewhere in Queens ***
The Teachers' Lounge ***
Sick of Myself ***
Dream Scenario ***
The Equalizer 3 ***
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem ***
Talk to Me ***
The Jewel Thief ***
Sympathy for the Devil ***
The Burial ***
El Conde ***
Passages ***
Kandahar ***
Good Boy ***
Sharper ***
Bruiser ***
I Got a Monster ***
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret ***
Tetris ***
When Evil Lurks ***
The Boogeyman ***
About My Father ***
The Marsh King's Daughter ***
You People ***
Creed III ***
Pamela: A Love Story ***
Missing ***
Extraction 2 ***
The Pez Outlaw ***
The Super Mario Bros. Movie ***
Cat Person ***
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny **1/2
Godzilla Minus One **1/2
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life **1/2
The Little Mermaid **1/2
Champions **1/2
My Animal **1/2
Always, Lola **1/2
This Place Rules **1/2

THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (33) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence, the name of this section.

Oppenheimer ***
Anatomy of a Fall ***
Killers of the Flower Moon **1/2
Magazine Dreams **1/2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 **1/2
No Hard Feelings **1/2
Next Goal Wins **1/2
May December **1/2
Rustin **1/2
R.M.N. **1/2
Origin **1/2
The Flash **1/2
Luther: The Fallen Sun **1/2
To Catch a Killer **1/2
Knox Goes Away **1/2
Butcher's Crossing **1/2
Sly **1/2
Finestkind **1/2
Holiday **1/2
Inside **1/2
I Like Movies **1/2
Magic Mike's Last Dance **1/2
The Boys in the Boat **1/2
Big George Foreman **1/2
Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia **1/2
Landscape With Invisible Hand **1/2
The Integrity of Joseph Chambers **1/2
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre **1/2
Barber **1/2
The Dive **1/2
Paint **1/2
Rotting in the Sun **1/2
BS High **1/2

THE GUILTY PLEASURES (40)- These are movies that I shouldn't like but I do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.

God Is a Bullet ***
Gran Turismo ***
Saw X ***
Strays ***
Blue Beetle ***
The Wrath of Becky ***
Bobcat Moretti ***
Cocaine Bear ***
Old Dads ***
Transfusion ***
M3GAN ***
The Mother **1/2
The Family Plan **1/2
Sound of Freedom **1/2
The Passenger **1/2
Fast Charlie **1/2
Manodrome **1/2
River Wild **1/2
80 for Brady **1/2
Anyone But You **1/2
Thanksgiving **1/2
Quiz Lady **1/2
V/H/S/85 **1/2
The Out-Laws **1/2
Fast X **1/2
Plane **1/2
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire **1/2
Silent Night **1/2
House Party **1/2
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines **1/2
Shotgun Wedding **1/2
Inside Man **1/2
We Have a Ghost **1/2
The Price We Pay **1/2
The Machine **1/2
Family Switch **1/2
Retribution **
Night of the Hunted **
King of Killers **
Meg 2: The Trench **

THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (69) - Chalk it up to expectations but these movies just didn't cut it for me.

Barbie **1/2
Saltburn **1/2
Royal Hotel **1/2
Maestro **1/2
Ferrari **1/2
Napoleon **1/2
The Creator **1/2
Asteroid City **1/2
Dumb Money **1/2
Eileen **1/2
The Zone of Interest **1/2
Poor Things **1/2
The Color Purple **1/2
The Last Voyage of the Demeter **1/2
No One Will Save You **1/2
Knock at the Cabin **1/2
Pain Hustlers **1/2
Shortcomings **1/2
Master Gardener **1/2
Boston Strangler **1/2
The Lesson **1/2
Rye Lane **1/2
Renfield **
John Wick: Chapter 4 **
Heart of Stone **
Evil Dead Rise **
Biosphere **
White Men Can't Jump **
A Lot of Nothing **
Leave the World Behind **
Sanctuary **
The Pope's Exorcist **
Maggie Moore(s) **
Fremont **
Foe **
Daddio **
Share? **
Boy Kills World **
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain **
It Lives Inside **
Totally Killer **
Murder Mystery 2 **
65**
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania **
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World **
The Tutor **
Your Lucky Day **
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial **
Wonka **
Haunted Mansion **
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts **
Candy Cane Lane **
The Beanie Bubble **
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening **
Hell of a Summer **
Bad Behaviour **
Trader **
The Good Mother **
Justice **
Victim/Suspect **
Scream VI *1/2
Infinity Pool *1/2
The Marvels *1/2
The Exorcist: Believer *1/2
It's a Wonderful Knife *1/2
The Old Way*1/2
American Outlaws *1/2
Naga *1/2
Cobweb *1/2

THE BAD (14) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.

Showing Up *1/2
Beau Is Afraid *
They Cloned Tyrone *
Bottoms *
Five Nights at Freddy's *
Hypnotic *
Dark Harvest *
Dicks: The Musical *
Mother, Couch!*
All Fun and Games *
Malum *
Skinamarink *
The Tank 1/2*
Children of the Corn 1/2*

IN PROGRESS (8) - I started watching these but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will... but not always. Sometimes, it's just a matter of viewing circumstances.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (30 minutes)
Fingernails (45 minutes)
A Haunting in Venice (20 minutes)
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (30 minutes)
Pacifiction (45 minutes)
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (45 minutes)
The Pigeon Tunnel (25 minutes)
Priscilla (35 minutes)

EMBARGOED (0) - Silence is golden... for now.

DON'T FORGET (5) - I first saw these 2023 movies a while back. This list is for me, so I don't forget them.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline ***
Sisu ***
Palm Trees and Powerlines ***
Sick ***
The Blackening **

OOPS, I MISSED (118): 97 Minutes, The Adults, Afire, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, American Symphony, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Anselm, Aporia, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, The Artifice Girl, Assassin Club, The Baker, Birth/Rebirth, Black Ice, Book Club: The Next Chapter, The Boy and the Heron, Brother, Cassandro, Chevalier, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, La Chimera, Chupa, Comandante, Consecration, Corner Office, The Country Club, Coup de Chance, Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Delinquents, Devil's Peak, Divinity, Earth Mama, Emily, The Engineer, The Eternal Memory, Exp4ndables, Fallen Leaves, Fancy Dance, Final Cut, Fool's Paradise, Four Daughters, Freelance, Freud's Last Session, Frybread Face and Me, Genie, Ghosted, Godland, God's Time, Golda, Good Burger 2, A Good Person, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Influencer, Insidious: The Red Door, Judy Blume Forever, Jules, The Kill Room, Kokomo City, Land of Gold, Last Stop Larrimah, The League, Leo, Linoleum, The Locksmith, Mafia Mamma, Marlowe, Maximum Truth, Medusa Deluxe, Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros, A Million Miles Away, Migration, The Mission, Monica, Monster, Moving On, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, Nimona, The Nun II, Occupied City, Office Race, On a Wing and a Prayer, One Day as a Lion, The Origin of Evil, The Outwaters, Padre Pio, Perfect Days, Play Dead, The Pod Generation, Polite Society, Prisoner's Daughter, The Promised Land, Quasi, Rare Objects, Reggie, Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce, The Retirement Plan, Robot Dreams, Scrapper, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, She Came to Me, Sheroes, Spinning Gold, Spy Kids: Armageddon, The Starling Girl, Suitable Flesh, Surrounded, The Taste of Things, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Trolls Band Together, The Unknown Country, Unwelcome, Vacation Friends 2, What Happens Later, Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Wish, Zombie Town

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