A breakdown of all the films I watched in 2023 that I hadn’t seen previously regardless of when they where released.
| Rank | Film Name | Comments | Source | Month |
| 1 | Oppenheimer | Perfect. Curious how it would be watching it at home but in a cinema with the bass rumbling it really worked. You don’t notice the lengh of the film at all. | Everyman | August |
| 2 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Watch this film, I’m sure a lot of nuance was lost on me but it’s fantastic. | Disney+ | January |
| 3 | Licorice Pizza | Bit of a journey, you change your opinion of the characters constantly and almost feels like it doesn’t need to end. It just had to eventually. It’s coming of age but not heartwarming | Prime | January |
| 4 | Air | Not sure about Ben Affleck as Phil knight but good film. | Prime | May |
| 5 | Don’t worry darling | Harry Styles is so minor the double billing on this is insane. This film stars Florence Pugh and just Florence Pugh. Billed as a drama and to be honest I assumed it centred on a Styles and Pugh relationship, but this is a sci-fi thriller and a good one. | Now | June |
| 6 | Boogie Nights | Pulp fiction with porn stars. Fantastic movie, morally concerning at times but a great storey with great actors. | Plex | June |
| 7 | Worth | Very interesting, seems impossible for them to have taken an individual view on that many cases. But a good movie. | Netflix | July |
| 8 | Get out | Amazing, thought this was a lot of hype but I loved it. Obviously late to the party with this one should have watched it sooner. | Netflix | January |
| 9 | A quiet place | Not one for horror but that had a lot going for it. Definitely knew how to play the less is more aspect and build suspense. | Prime | March |
| 10 | The Deepest Breath | Captivating to the end. Interesting, sad but great. | Netflix | August |
| 11 | Brooklyn | Really pulled you in had ups and downs it was perfect. | Now | June |
| 12 | Maverick | True to the original, can’t fault it. | Paramount+ | January |
| 13 | Thirteen Lives | Gripping. | Prime | March |
| 14 | Tenant | Very good top 10. I liked the plot, felt it didn’t make things complicated for the sake of it and held up well. | Prime | February |
| 15 | Under the skin | Scarlet Johansen with an English accent. Vastly different from the book not as gruesome. Still pretty disturbing. You don’t get the character development or wider context you get from the book but visually it’s eerie and very unique. | Plex | March |
| 16 | Rise | Love an uplifting sports movie. True story told well. No faked drama just solid story. | Disney+ | February |
| 17 | Operation Mince Meat | Contains basically all the British actors. Good film, interesting and well told. | Now | January |
| 18 | Promising young woman | Bleak. But great. | Now | June |
| 19 | Mulholland Drive | Compelling but what the fuck. | Plex | January |
| 20 | Moonlight | Kevin is kind of a dick. Sure he’s as lost as Chiron but he uses him. A great story. | BBC iPlayer | September |
| 21 | Blackberry | Not bad. Interesting. | Plex | June |
| 22 | A Good Person | Nice to see another dig at Purdue pharma. Ultimately a depressing film but told well. Pugh does a good job and Freeman smashes it. | Now | June |
| 23 | Knock At The Cabin | Good. | Now | November |
| 24 | Wakanda Forever | Pretty good, enjoyed that. | Disney+ | February |
| 25 | Glass Onion | Fun, easy watch. | Netflix | January |
| 26 | Brian and Charles | Odd, it grew on me. | Now | May |
| 27 | Vengeance | Surprisingly good. Is Kutcher going to pull a McConaughey? BJ Novak’s makes a strong start. | Now | May |
| 28 | The Whale | So many themes in one movie! It was good. But ultimately his quest for redemption was selfish, he’d cut off his daughter and slowly killed himself and with the last few days/weeks of his life he makes his daughters inevitable grief much worse by gaining some redemption for the poor choices he’d made at the very end when it can’t possibly make any difference and fix the damage. | Prime | May |
| 29 | Driven | That was good. If true, then pretty interesting. | Prime | May |
| 30 | Fire of love | It was visually stunning they had done some amazing work restoring the old film. The narrator became a little annoying after a while. | Disney+ | February |
| 31 | Clean | Adrien Brody’s version of old boy? | Now | May |
| 32 | Eyes wide shut | I was vaguely aware of this movie but never actually watched it. However, after accidentally watching it dubbed to Spanish in the background I decided to watch it properly. I was looking for the deeper meaning but I’m not sure it was there. | Plex | May |
| 33 | Midsommar | Not sure what just happened…… | Netflix | June |
| 34 | Bad Education | Pretty good. | Now | June |
| 35 | The Lost King | Interesting at times. | Now | June |
| 36 | The Black Phone | Disturbing subtext. | Now | July |
| 37 | A Time to Kill | Good, some plot holes. | Now | July |
| 38 | Guardians of the galaxy vol 3 | Enjoyable. Notably more watchable than any other marvel or DC film this year. Not that that was a particularly high bar. | Disney+ | August |
| 39 | Awakening | Nice but then ultimately depressing. | Netflix | August |
| 40 | The Fablemens | Well balanced, enjoyable. | Now | October |
| 41 | The Killer | Pretty good. | Netflix | November |
| 42 | The Menu | Started well, meandered a bit. But overall good. | Disney+ | January |
| 43 | Pig | It was ok. | Prime | May |
| 44 | Babylon | More like Babylong amirite. It was ok, not sure it needed to be that long I don’t think it added to the story. | Plex | June |
| 45 | A million miles away | Nice. | Prime | September |
| 46 | The Creator | A good standalone sci-fi. | Everyman | October |
| 47 | Confess, Fletch | Whitty a fun watch. | Now | November |
| 48 | Still | Interesting. | AppleTV+ | December |
| 49 | A quiet place 2 | They got back with the ending of the first. It was good, felt like they could kill anyone off and added to story. | Now | March |
| 50 | Dungeons and Dragons | Could have been worse. | Plex | June |
| 51 | DC League of Superpets | Watchable. | Now | August |
| 52 | A man called Otto | The book was better they changed too much, it didn’t need to be set in America and it really should have been a Saab. | Prime | August |
| 53 | M3gan | I thought this was going to be creepy and sinister. Instead it was essentially a dark comedy sci-fi horror, maybe a tad slapstick. | Now | September |
| 54 | John Wick Chapter 4 | What you would expect. | Prime | October |
| 55 | Champions | Bit corny, but not bad. | Now | October |
| 56 | Cocaine Bear | Watchable | Now | October |
| 57 | Cars 3 | Kinda liked it much better than cars 2. | Disney+ | October |
| 58 | Pain Hustlers | It was ok. | Netflix | October |
| 59 | Maggie Moore(s) | It was ok. | Now | November |
| 60 | Cash Back | Bernard’s Watch with a lot of nudity. A great British rom com. Although arguably a bit creepy if you think about it. | Plex | April |
| 61 | Reptile | It was ok | Netflix | November |
| 62 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Not as bad I as I was expecting. But my expectations where very low. | Disney+ | December |
| 63 | Robots | After seeing some awful attempts at movies Jack Whitehall has made this was surprisingly good. I think in part because he didn’t bother trying to do an American accent. | Prime | July |
| 64 | Boyhood | I didn’t hate it. The effort to pull this together is impressive. Sometimes bleak but I get what the point was, just not sure it was compelling way to say it. | Plex | January |
| 65 | Father stu | It was ok. Wahlberg really trying for an Oscar, unlikely. | Now | February |
| 66 | Marmaduke | Fun movie. | Netflix | March |
| 67 | Where the crawdads sing | Yeah it was alright. | Now | March |
| 68 | Scream 2022 | Amusingly meta. A fun watch but they over used guns in the end which spoiled it. | Now | March |
| 69 | Empire of Light | Bit too dramatic. I enjoyed some parts but I felt like it lost the thread at times. | Disney+ | March |
| 70 | Luther | Felt like it ripped off Sherlock a bit. | Netflix | March |
| 71 | A Good Woman | It was ok. | Disney+ | August |
| 72 | 65 | Disappointing, my main driver (pun intended) for seeing this was because it was a sci-fi fantasy without being linked to some massive franchise. And that’s pretty rare now. Unfortunately it just lacked in substance Driver did a good job and th effects were ok. But the story line was pretty light not much to get invested in. For a movie about dinosaurs there really weren’t many dinosaurs. It’s main redeeming factor, it was a tidy 90 minutes. | Everyman | March |
| 73 | Elvis | It felt like most of the film was a cut scene. Lots of sections of the plot where played out just with music over the top as it spanned decades. | Now | March |
| 74 | Black Bear | That escalated quickly. At first it kind of worked wasn’t good but made its point. | Freevee | April |
| 75 | The Thief Collector | A bit muddled, it was unclear at times what the story was it veered off a few times and wasn’t that interesting when it really could have been if it was told better. | Prime | May |
| 76 | Divorcing Jack | Bit crazy, enjoyed it. | Freevee | June |
| 77 | World’s greatest Dad | I wanted a dark comedy, this was listed highly and had Robin Williams so I was in. But this got DARK. Kinda a weird tone given what happened I’m not sure it hit right. | Freevee | June |
| 78 | Blonde | It was ok. | Netflix | July |
| 79 | I wanna dance with somebody | It was ok. | Now | August |
| 80 | Don Jon | Interesting. | Plex | August |
| 81 | Chupa | Not the worst film I’ve seen. Pretty forgettable though. | Netflix | April |
| 82 | Emily the criminal | Meh. | Now | April |
| 83 | Nope | It just wasn’t very good. | Now | April |
| 84 | Portable Door | Fake Harry Potter but with adults. | Now | April |
| 85 | Uncharted | Not unwatchable, action was fun. Story was weak. Acting was cheesy. | Now | June |
| 86 | The Babysitters | How was this made into a film…… So many things where fundamentally wrong here. Firstly the whole concept is fucked up. Then the main character sends her friend to be sexually assaulted. Then the attempted murder…… Tone was so off, they made it like a coming of age but it was dark. It could have easily been edited to be what it really was. | Plex | June |
| 87 | Clerks III | I forgot the plot of Clerks II. Except the LOTR scene. This is laboured, I know Kevin Smith wanted it to be the movie he’d be proud to die after making following his heart attack but this can’t his legacy. It’s just a weird homage to clerks. Just watch clerks. | Prime | June |
| 88 | The Flash | It was ok. Nice to see Keaton. | Everyman | July |
| 89 | The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker | Vaguely remember this happening but not to this detail. Not the worst Netflix documentary but nothing you couldn’t have gleamed from reading Wikipedia. | Netflix | January |
| 90 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Could have been good if it wasn’t made by Michael Bay. Very heavy on ‘diplomacy and intelligence are stupid’ ‘big man with gun good’. Basically 2 hours of ‘Merica!’ Occasionally they would make reference to the many innocent people caught up in the fighting. Oli would like it. | Prime | February |
| 91 | Beast | So they took a few scenes from Jurassic Park only with a lion instead then threw in some forced drama. Also come on, even Idris is not winning in a fight against a lion. | Now | July |
| 92 | Fast X | Family x 27. They said family 27 times. | Plex | June |
| 93 | Bank of Dave | This is the most factually inaccurate bio pic I’ve ever seen. They shoved in a made up love story changed the name of the FCA claimed there hadn’t been a new bank in 150 years which isn’t true. Also, he never opened a bank he couldn’t get that approved, it was a building society with limited deposits. Which was still impressive and helped a lot of people so worth telling the story but why not make it factually true. | Netflix | January |
| 94 | Jurassic World Dominion | These movies need to stop, lost world was a mistake in the first place. This was awful. | Now | February |
| 95 | Creed III | I know nothing about boxing. But this seemed unrealistic. And not in a you can get caught up in the story unrealistic. This was pure forced story creation, had nothing going for it. Anyone who says otherwise has clearly been paid off, this was garbage. And Jonathan Majors is overated. | Prime | June |
| 96 | Man from earth Holocene | I loved the first film, it didn’t need a sequel and the guy that wrote the screenplay had died so it was never going to be as intriguing. It was awful truly awful like a bad 90s TV movie. The plot was crap it added nothing to his story and the characters where weird. | Plex | April |
| 97 | Shazam Fury of the Gods | Odd having it in the DCEU it’s basically a kids intro superhero film. | Plex | July |
| 98 | Barbie | Absurdly overrated. | Empire | August |
| 99 | The Little Mermaid | Visually impressive at times, but boring and not very fun for a kids movie. | Disney+ | September |
| 100 | Magic Mike’s Last Dance | Very slow. | Now | November |
| 101 | Bullet train | Not great. | Now | February |
| 102 | The Northman | Bit much, weird cut scenes. | Now | March |
| 103 | Set it up | Usual rehashed crap. | Netflix | April |
| 104 | Ticket to Paradise | Not great. | Now | May |
| 105 | Operation Fortune | Awful. Not sure why Aubrey Plaza did it. | Prime | June |
| 106 | Renfield | That sucked…… | Plex | June |
| 107 | Bodies Bodies Bodies | Not remotely compelling. | Now | June |
| 108 | Venom: Let there be carnage | This was unwatchable at times. Why was Tom Hardy doing that weird voice and what was with all the slapstick comedy. | Now | June |
| 109 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | That was unfortunate. | Disney+ | May |
| 110 | Finding Michael | Spencer Matthews thing. Not sure it even counts but technically it was a documentary. | Disney+ | March |
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