21. The Killer
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Kerry O'Malley, Monique Ganderton, Lacey Dover
Plot: A professional killer with a near-perfect record finds himself dealing with the fallout after a job goes wrong. But when it gets personal, he finds himself tracking down each and everyone responsible.
22. Poor Things
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley, Jerrod Carmichael
Plot: When Bella Baxter is brought back to life by her quite unorthodox father/scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter - she is kept sheltered until a debauched lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn, convinces her to join him on a whirlwind getaway. She soon learns to break from the conventions of the time - yearning for equality and liberation.
23. Saltburn
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emerald Fennell
Actors: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Richard E. Grant
Plot: Oliver Quick is a student at Oxford who finds himself on the outside looking in - struggling to adapt to this new world. Fellow student Felix Catton invites him to stay at his sprawling family estate, Saltburn, for the summer and he accepts. With an eccentric family and wild nights - it will forever change his life.
24. Sisu
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Finnish
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jalmari Helander
Actors: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila, Arttu Kapulainen
Plot: In the waning days of WWII, a Finnish prospector comes across a wealth of gold only to have it stolen by a brutal SS officer. But this is no ordinary man and the Nazis soon realize that even though the odds may seem in their favor this one-man army will wage a bloody battle to the bitter end to get his gold back.
25. They Cloned Tyrone
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Juel Taylor
Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Jamie Foxx, John Boyega, David Alan Grier, Teyonah Parris, Joshua Mikel
26. Passages
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ira Sachs
Actors: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Arcadi Radeff, Léa Boublil
27. The Zone of Interest
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Actors: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Freya Kreutzkam, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Ralf Zillmann
Plot: Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, does his best to provide a perfect home for his wife, Hedwig and their children in an idyllic spot right next to the camp.
28. Air
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Viola Davis, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker
Plot: A struggling shoe company, Nike, needs something big to help them compete with the major players in the market. Sonny Vaccaro bets big on an up-and-coming rookie - and his decision will launch the company into the stratosphere with the debut of the Air Jordon.
29. Boy and the Heron, The ( Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka )
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Kô Shibasaki, Christian Bale, Luca Padovan
Plot: Young Mahito Maki struggles to adapt following the death of his mother - hearing her voice in the fire even after moving the countryside with his uncle. Upon discovering an abandoned tower - he finds a world between life and death.
30. Missing
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick
Actors: Storm Reid, Nia Long, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Tim Griffin
Plot: June desperately searches for answers when her mother, Grace, goes missing while on vacation in Columbia with her new boyfriend. Stuck thousands of miles away and having little luck going through international red tape, June uses the latest technology to try to track down her mother. But her digital sleuthing unearths a lot more than she could imagine - and the mother she thought she knew turns out to be someone else entirely.
