Saturday, December 30, 2023

THE BEST FILMS OF 2023

Here's a handy dan youtube playlist with all the trailers

ASTEROID CITY
It's like an art gallery where the guides are part of the exhibits.


BARBIE
"Hey look!  It's the Supreme Court!"  I've been a big Greta Gerwig fan since Baghead.



BEAU IS AFRAID
Reminded me so much of Orson Welles' The Trial.



BLACKBERRY
If Glenn Howerton isn't nominated for an Oscar then there is no justice.


    THE DELINQUENTS
A wonderful little heist film with an breezy 3 hour runtime.


DICKS: THE MUSICAL
I can do with a little less Megan Thee Stallion and Bowen Yang but this is Nathan Lane's best role in years.



FALLEN LEAVES
This is what cool is in Finland.  Zero fat.



GIVE ME PITY
This whole movie is just cinematic mischief.



GODZILLA: MINUS ONE
Face it. The Japanese just make them better.



HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON
Pre Ed Wood Tim Burton Vibes. I'll watch anything Sarah Montpetit is in.



INFINITY POOL
 It's just awful people getting away with shit and I almost feel bad for enjoying it so much.


THE KILLER
All the things I love about this movie are spoilers.


OPPENHEIMER
I'm a big fan of hearings.  Just take days of boring answers and condense it down to 10 minutes of soundbites.


PAST LIVES
Kinda like Burning except nobody gets stabbed to death at the end.


THE PEOPLE'S JOKER
One of the punkest things I've ever seen.



THE PERSIAN VERSION
When she named the baby at the end of the movie I almost started crying.



PIAFFE
I have no idea what it was about but give me more weird mutant sex stuff.



ROTTING IN THE SUN
Holy shit, the turn in this move made me jump out of my chair.  One of the best non endings ever.



SANCTUARY
Qualley is quickly becoming one of my favourite actresses.  Abbott is "the guy you need to cast".



SICK OF MYSELF
This one is really fucked up.  Gives The Worst Person in the World a run for her money.




SLEEP
In the running for horror movie of the year.



SUBTRACTION
Hitchcock Iranian style.



TALK TO ME
Also in the running for horror movie of the year.  The Aussie setting is really refreshing.


TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
Easily the best TMNT movie since the original.  And no Shredder!


UFO SWEDEN
The best Spielberg inspired film of the past 10 years.
 

 Movies cut from the long list: Suze, Dream Scenario, No Hard Feelings, La Chimera, Perfect Days, Anatomy of a Fall, Banel & Adama, How To Have Sex, The Popes Exorcist, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, Evil Dead Rise, Bottoms, The Crime is Mine, Teachers Lounge, Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, Polite Society, The Mountain, The Beasts, Brother, Falcon Lake, Carmen, Suzume, Skinamarink.


Biggest Disappointments: Saltburn, Outlaw Johnny Black, Afire, Exorcist Believer, My Animal, Renfield, Shazam 2, Medusa Deluxe, Joyland, The Five Devils, The Offering


Movies I haven’t seen still in consideration for 2024: Poor Things, Taste of Things, The Peasants, Monster, The Boy and the Heron, American Fiction, Zone of Interest