Not quite ready to close the book on 2023, but only a fool would pretend it wasn't a disappointing year for films. Don't believe me? Explain the hysteria over Barbenheimer then. Two films about as appealing as root canal surgery.
Lengthy epics were more abundant. They highlighted the inflated egos of various directors and the idiocy of production studios funding them rather than be of legitimate necessity. Know what I mean, Ari?
Infinity Pool, The Last Voyage of the Demeter and even Renfield were films I was personally looking forward to this year, but they all left me feeling somewhat underwhelmed.
Best Films of 2023:
No One Will Save You (Brian Duffield)
Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green)
When Evil Lurks (Demián Rugna)
Talk to Me (Danny Philipou & Michael Philipou)
Unwelcome (Jon Wright)
Tetris (Jon S. Baird)
Candy Land (John Swab)
LOLA (Andrew Legge)
Inside (Vasilis Katsoupis)
The Passenger (Carter Smith)
No One Will Save You is the film of the year as it's a gem of a science fiction film which takes inspiration from Richard Matheson's story The Invaders; making it a winner by default. Hopefully it gets a physical release as it does not deserve to rot on some streaming service.
2023 Films I Still Need to Watch: The Beasts (Rodrigo Sorogoyen); El Conde (Pablo Larraín); The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin); Napoleon (Ridley Scott); Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos); The Zone of Interest (Johnathan Glazer).
2 comments:
Man, I still need to squeeze No One Will Save You in.
My m8's got Leave The World Behind on his Plex too which I also wanna watch.
Watched Leave the World Behind the other week. Has its moments, but some of the characters; particularly Julia Roberts and Myha'la Herrold are really annoying in it. Average movie, worth a watch just out of curiousity if you're into dystopian thrillers.
Considering it's a Netflix film, its advocacy for physical media seems somewhat ironic.
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