1. Oppenheimer
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Jason Clarke
Plot: Follows the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his contribution in developing the atomic bomb and the mark it left on his life both professional and personal.
2. John Wick: Chapter 4
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chad Stahelski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson
Plot: John Wick has one, final chance at earning true freedom: take down The High Table. He has a chance but before he can act, a new enemy with powerful allies across the globe plots to take him out and even old friends become enemies in the fight.
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Actors: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Jake Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry
Plot: A multi-verse of Spider-beings awaits Miles Morales after a villain named Spot - one he helped create - gains the power to travel through the various worlds. But even though he thinks he has friends Gwen and Peter B. Parker, the master of the self-proclaimed master of the spider-verse, Miguel O'Hara - thinks Miles himself represents the biggest threat to the threads that hold all the worlds together.
4. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Actors: Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, Simon Pegg
Plot: A rogue computer programs has infiltrated the world's intelligence agencies, financial intuitions, military and more. Named The Entity, it has the power to control everything - including what constitutes the truth itself for the future and every nation wants to have this power for themselves. A special key - made up of two parts - can open the door to this power, but only if one knows what it unlocks. Ethan Hunt is once again called upon as the fate of the world hangs in the balance with old friends, new faces and one unexpected enemy going along on the most important mission yet.
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gunn
Actors: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Will Poulter, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan
Plot: The Guardians have faces many trials, but the loss of Gamora still affects them all - and the alternate replacement can't heal the scars left behind. But a new threat emerges in the form of The High Evolutionary - who seeks his own perfect world no matter the cost - and who has a connection of Rocket's past. They also must contend with The Sovereign, whose artificial being, Adam Warlock, has finally been released. Between the two, the Guardians may finally find themselves going their separate ways - provided they can survive.
6. The Covenant
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Emily Beecham, Jake Gyllenhaal, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Dar Salim
Plot: On his last tour in Afghanistan, Sergeant John Kinley and his team are ambushed leaving Kinley and local interpreter, Ahmed as the only survivors. At great risk, Ahmed carried a wounded Kinley across dangerous terrain and with enemies in pursuit. After recovering at home, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his families Visa has been denied and he returns to the war zone in order to protect the man who saved his life.
7. Fast X
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Louis Leterrier
Actors: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang, Brie Larson, Jason Momoa, Nathalie Emmanuel
Plot: Dante, son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes, targets Dominic Toretto and his family in order to exact a long-simmering revenge and with seemingly no limit to his power and reach, the group will have to come together like never before not just to survive - but to keep their family intact.
8. Talk to Me
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Actors: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Marcus Johnson
Plot: A group of friends learn that an embalmed hand holds the key to conjuring spirits - and the ability to do so becomes like a drug, a rush to find out how far they can go... until they go too far an unleash an unspeakable horror that seeks to destroy them.
9. Air
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 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.
10. Evil Dead Rise
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lee Cronin
Actors: Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, Nell Fisher, Jayden Daniels
Plot: Two estranged sisters have their reunion abruptly interrupted by a fight for survival after unleashing the power of the Necronomicon - and inviting in the mother of all demons.
