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Mar 12, 2024 · It was the biggest movie of 2023, and one of the year’s major pop culture ... Characters don’t have to be likeable or good to be great. ... Beautifully written, framed and performed, it’s a ...
- Past Lives. Playwright Celine Song’s profound debut draws on her personal experience to follow a writer much like herself, played by Greta Lee with an unerring balance of careful self-possession and emotional transparency, as her childhood crush from Korea (Teo Yoo) resurfaces in her New York life, raising questions about her choices and stirring anxiety for her empathetic husband (John Magaro).
- Poor Things. Yorgos Lanthimos has been irreverently thumbing his nose at genre constraints since his Greek Weird Wave breakout with Dogtooth. But nothing in his unique filmography can compare with the fantastical flights of this inspired riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
- All of Us Strangers. There was no tighter ensemble this year than Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy in Andrew Haigh’s dreamy metaphysical ghost story.
- Killers of the Flower Moon. A late masterwork from a revered filmmaker still boldly expanding his legacy at 81, Martin Scorsese’s enthralling account of the ruthless elimination of wealthy Osage landowners in early-1920s Oklahoma is an American history lesson as sobering horror story.
- 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.
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- Our Body. - Director: Claire Simon. - Metascore: 95. - Runtime: 2 hours, 48 minutes. And the best movie of 2023, according to critics? That honor goes to "Our Body," a documentary about the doctors and patients of a gynecological ward at a public Parisian hospital.
- Past Lives. - Director: Celine Song. - Metascore: 94. - Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes. The drama "Past Lives" follows two people as they go from childhood loves in South Korea to veritable strangers in New York City to something in between.
- The Zone of Interest. - Director: Jonathan Glazer. - Metascore: 93. - Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes. Jonathan Glazer's difficult-to-watch film "The Zone of Interest" follows a Nazi commander as he and his family work to build an idyllic home for themselves next door to Auschwitz.
- The Boy and the Heron. - Director: Hayao Miyazaki. - Metascore: 92. - Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes. A Studio Ghibli project, "The Boy and the Heron" is an animated fantasy film that follows a young boy, Mahito, who, after his mother dies, enters a timeless world via an abandoned tower and befriends a talking gray heron.
- American Fiction. A razor-sharp satire mixed with poignant family story from director-writer Cord Jefferson in his filmmaking directorial debut. Jeffrey Wright is an author disgusted by the stereotyped images of Black people in books and movies and aims to do something about it.
- Barbie. The year’s No. 1 movie at the box office should not be penalized for being a crowd pleaser par excellence. Greta Gerwig’s take on the infamous Mattel doll worked not only as a splendid and all-knowing comedy, but also managed to put a human face on Barbie and Ken.
- BlackBerry. Who knew a movie about the rise and fall of Canada’s most famous smartphone could be this smart itself? BlackBerry was the first of a slew of very fine films in 2023 that started as a kind of biopic of a product (Air, Tetris, Beanie Bubble, Flamin’ Hot, and yes, Barbie) and proved so much more that we ever had the right to expect.
- The Burial. Although this one went almost straight to streaming, I can’t think of another film I saw all year that was such a pure old fashioned audience pleaser.
Dec 21, 2023 · Just a few of the movie moments from Eli Glasner's best films of 2023, including clockwise from top left: Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, American Fiction, Godzilla: Minus One and Blackberry.
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Dec 20, 2023 · While Barbie went on to become the biggest hit of the year by far, and saw screenings packed out with pink-clad punters, Oppenheimer drew in astonishingly huge crowds for a three-hour atomic bomb ...
