31. 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.
32. 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
33. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears
Actors: Nicolas Cantu, Shamon Brown Jr., Brady Noon, Micah Abbey, Ayo Edebiri, Jackie Chan
Plot: In order to prove to the city of New York they can be heroes, the young Turtle brothers must face off against a group of evil mutants who think humans are inferior - and must be eliminated.
34. Scream VI
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Courteney Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere
Plot: After surviving the most recent Ghostface killings in Woodsboro, the remaining group packs up for New York only to learn that putting the past behind them will not be so easy as a new wave of killings begins.
35. Elemental
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Sohn
Actors: Mamoudou Athie, Leah Lewis, Ronnie Del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O'Hara
Plot: In a city where the four elements reside, fiery Ember looks to take over her father's business - provided she can keep her temper under control. But the added pressure makes her burst - and not just her, but the old pipes and watery Wade shows up - an inspector who has bad news and moves to shut down the operation. Ember, who has kept to her family, must venture out and set things right - and along the way may find her own voice.
36. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Actors: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen
Plot: Brothers Mario and Luigi, a pair of Brooklyn plumbers, find themselves whisked away to the Mushroom Kingdom where Mario joins forces with a feisty Princess Peach and the intrepid Toad in order to rescue Luigi from the clutches of the maniacal Bowser - a fire-breathing monster intent on making the Mushroom Kingdom his next conquest.
37. Totally Killer
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 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.
38. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Laurel Marsden, Jason Schwartzman
Plot: The 10th Annual Hunger Games are about to begin and for 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, he sees a chance to change his family's fortunes when he is chosen as a mentor. But rather than a person from his own district, he is charged with teaching a headstrong, rebellious girl from the impoverished 12th District. Despite their difference, he soon finds himself enthralled, but with the devious Dr. Volumnia Gaul and hardened Casca Highbottom in charge, those emotions are used against him.
39. Missing
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 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.
40. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, Toby Jones
Plot: Indiana Jones is on the cusp of retirement but one, final adventure awaits when his long-estranged goddaughter shows up for an ancient artifact - one liberated from the Nazis and that drove her father nearly mad. But she is not the only one interested in it - as it has the power to change the course of history.
