Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Toho sends Godzilla home to ruined post-war Japan, and builds a human drama strong enough to carry the monster. The most affecting entry the series has produced in decades. 8.5/10.
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Articles published in 2023.
Napoleon (2023)
Ridley Scott takes on the most filmed man in Europe and gives us cannon smoke, a strange marriage, and a hero held at arm's length. Spectacular and oddly cold, it is better than the splat suggests. 7.5/10.
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The Creator (2023)
Gareth Edwards builds a war between humanity and artificial intelligence that looks like a 200 million dollar epic and reportedly cost a fifth of that. The story is borrowed, the world is not, and the texture is the reason to go. 8/10.
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Oppenheimer (2023)
Christopher Nolan trades spectacle for a three-hour conversation and a courtroom, and turns the building of the bomb into the best film he has made. 8.5/10.
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Mission - Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
The seventh Mission impossible aims a twenty-seven year old franchise at a rogue artificial intelligence, and Cruise still answers the question with his own body. The plot is half a story, the stunts are all there, and it lands as one of the year's most enjoyable blockbusters. 8.5/10.
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The Covenant (2023)
Guy Ritchie drops the geezer banter and makes a lean, serious rescue thriller about an Afghan interpreter and the debt a soldier owes him. It is the most disciplined thing he has made in years. 8/10.
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Spider-Man - Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
The Spider-Verse sequel arrives five years on with a bigger world, a sharper emotional core, and animation that keeps inventing new ways to look. It ends on a cliff, but the climb is worth it. 8.5/10.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
James Gunn gives his misfit space band a proper send-off, built around the saddest origin story Marvel has told. The jokes still land, the needle drops still work, and underneath it there is real grief. 8.5/10.
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Dungeons & Dragons - Honour Among Thieves (2023)
A tabletop game finally gets a film that understands the joke, the warmth and the loot. Light on its feet, generous with its cast, and far better fun than its pedigree promised. 8/10.
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John Wick - Chapter 4 (2023)
Four films in, the simplest revenge story in modern action has grown into a globe-trotting assassin opera, and Chad Stahelski stages its biggest set pieces yet without losing the thread. The longest entry is also the best. 8.5/10.
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