The best movies of 2023


10 Elemental

Elemental

The film journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The fiery young woman and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.

Director: Peter Sohn
Writers: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh
Starring: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $496 444 000

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9 The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか | Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka)

Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka

When 12-year-old Mahito encounters an enigmatic grey heron in an abandoned tower, an unexpected quest for answers begins. And drawn into a mysterious world, Mahito must now find the truth. But is his feathery guide a friend or a foe? With questions emerging, will the boy unravel the secret of the strange dimension to return home?

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Soma Santoki, Aimyon, Keiko Takeshita
Box office: $294 244 000

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8 Poor Things

Poor Things

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray
Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef
Budget: $35 000 000
Box office: $117 625 000

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7 The Holdovers

The Holdovers

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: David Hemingson
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Box office: $45 611 000

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6 The Covenant

The Covenant

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley and Afghan interpreter Ahmed. After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.

Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Jonny Lee Miller
Budget: $55 000 000
Box office: $21 632 000

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5 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

In Marvel Studios “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.

Director: James Gunn
Writers: James Gunn, Jim Starlin, Stan Lee
Starring: Chris Pratt, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff
Budget: $250 000 000
Box office: $845 555 000

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4 Past Lives

Past Lives

In Korea, Na Young, a girl and Hae Sung, a boy are school mates and good friends. They often walk back home together after school. Na Young moves to Canada and then to New York with her parents. Hae Sung continues living in Korea, does his engineering course, goes through a short spell of military service and then takes up a job. Both keep in touch periodically through video chats where they talk of their past and general stuff. Meanwhile in New York, Na has changed her name to Nora, made a name as a playwright and is happily married to Arthur, an American. Hae is keen to meet Nora and visits her in New York where he spends some time with her and Arthur. What has the future in store for Nora and Hae in their relationship?

Director: Celine Song
Writer: Celine Song
Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
Box office: $42 549 000

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3 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Writers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham
Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Budget: $150 000 000
Box office: $690 542 000

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2 Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the creator of The Atomic Bomb, is put on trial for his supposed communist ties in the past, all while coming to terms with what it meant to change the history of the world for the sake of winning World War Two. This is the story of how America’s Prometheus was cast out by The Gods for giving mankind an unthinkable gift: power unlike any other, the power to destroy the world; the power of Olympus.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Budget: $100 000 000
Box office: $975 571 000

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1 Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon

1919, Osage County, Oklahoma. Due to the discovery of oil on their land the Osage people are per capita the wealthiest people in the United States. Having just been discharged from the US Army, Ernest Burkhart returns to the area to work for his wealthy uncle, William Hale. Lately many Osage people have died in suspicious circumstances but nothing is being done about it.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, David Grann
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $157 026 000

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