31. Totally Killer
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nahnatchka Khan
Actors: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Liana Liberato
Plot: In 1987, the Sweet Sixteen Killer began a murder spree -- 35 years later, Jamie Hughes is about to become the next victim in his next spree but a bizarre twist winds up sending her back to 1987 - where she tries to stop the original killings before they can begin.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. The Burial
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Maggie Betts
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett, Alan Ruck, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed
Plot: Based on true events: when a small-town funeral home owner takes on a corporate behemoth in court, he relies on his long-time lawyer as well as a smooth-talking black lawyer and his team to undercover the depth of corruption and greed in the system - provided they can learn to work together.
35. Saw X
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Greutert
Actors: Steven Brand, Synnøve Macody Lund, Michael Beach, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Paulette Hernandez
36. Perfect Days
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Yumi Asô, Tokio Emoto, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura, Arisa Nakano
37. Anyone But You
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Will Gluck
Actors: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, Darren Barnet, Bryan Brown, Joe Davidson
38. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Actors: Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Justice Smith
Plot: A group of thieves take on a job to steal an incredibly powerful artifact
and realize too late they have unleashed a great evil upon the world.
Seeking to right their wrong, they recruit their own team of would-be
heroes and won't stop no matter what manner of creatures, magic or army
may stand in their way.
39. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Actors: Rachel McAdams, Abby Ryder Fortson, Kathy Bates, Benny Safdie, Elle Graham, Ethan McDowell
Plot: Based on the best-selling novel from Judy Blume, the film follows Margaret Simon as her family moves from the city to the suburbs and must navigate the rough waters of adolescence and contend with conflicting emotions with new friends and her family.
40. Dream Scenario
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Lily Bird, Julianne Nicholson, Jessica Clement, Tim Meadows, Dylan Baker
Plot: Paul Matthews is perfectly ordinary, boring family man and tenured professor and, like many people, wonders if his life of anonymity has meaning. All that changes when he inexplicably begins to show up in other people's dreams - at an exponential rate. His newfound stardom seems to be just what he wanted - until dreams turn into nightmares and he must contend with the fallout.
