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Dec 21, 2023 · Packed with highly accomplished debuts from younger directors, and full of brilliant ideas, the best movies of 2023 were compelled by art’s old chestnut: humans struggling to understand their...
- Killers of the Flower Moon" Martin Scorsese’s monumental adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction bestseller contains a bounty of viewing pleasures, but in the main it is something like an anti-entertainment.
- Past Lives" There is a knowing slipperiness to writer-director Celine Song’s debut “Past Lives.” Though Nora (Greta Lee) and her family leave South Korea, moving away from her childhood best friend Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), this film is not about immigration.
- Oppenheimer" Christopher Nolan’s epic follows its titular character, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), through the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- May December" It's fascinating to watch people try to put Todd Haynes' latest masterpiece in a box. Is it camp? Is it a drama? A comedy? There's almost a meta level to this conversation because it's a film about an actress who thinks she can put people in a box too.
- Tom Gliatto
- 'Oppenheimer' Director Christopher Nolan’s three-hour masterpiece is about how a life-annihilating force — the atomic bomb — was unleashed on a world already (always) buffeted by other, older forces, the ones that have made and broken societies: political, ideological, psychological.
- 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Martin Scorsese directed the most sinister western ever to come out of Hollywood: an epic account, well over 3 hours long, about the systematic murder of members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma — it was a scheme by White men to gain control of the oil rights that had made the Osage colossally wealthy.
- 'The Color Purple' This latest adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about long-suffering Celie (Fantasia Barrino) is the best, with a much surer tone than Steven Spielberg’s 1995 film and a cast of confident, ingratiating talents, including Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks and Halle Bailey.
- 'Maestro' The tempo is furioso in director-star Bradley Cooper’s wildly stylish but endearing film about the chaotic union of composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein and wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan).
- Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. Average Score: 4.880/5. In a year full of “Part 1s,” none dazzled quite like Spider-Man: Across The Universe, which received 20 perfect “5” scores from the 24 members of the CinemaBlend staff who watched it.
- Godzilla Minus One. Average Score: 4.75/5. In a year when many mega-blockbusters fell on their face, Godzilla Minus One is a breath of fresh air. It was made without an extraordinary budget, but it feels as epic as any of the nine-figure titles that we’ve seen from the franchise, and the King of the Monsters has rarely felt more dangerous.
- Past Lives. Average Score: 4.688/5. Life is long and full of diverse and interesting chapters, and Celine Song’s Past Lives is a gorgeous cinematic representation of that idea.
- Oppenheimer. Average Score: 4.452/5. Cinema can be a powerful tool in reflecting upon the darkness of history, and we saw that exhibited in devastating fashion this year with both Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Dec 22, 2023 · Here are eight defining art movies released in 2023—and instructions on where to watch them before next year's crop starts coming in. Biopics, capers, satires: filmmakers looked to art for ...
Dec 7, 2023 · Variety critics Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman list their top 10 movies of 2023, from 'Oppenheimer' to 'Anatomy of a Fall' and 'Past Lives.'
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Dec 1, 2023 · From 'Past Lives' to 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' see TIME's picks for the best movies of the year.
