89 cinema trips. 78 individual films. Some definitely better than others!

A busier year at the cinema for me in 2023 – things have definitely picked up since Covid, although the strikes by the writers and actors have caused some of the big films earmarked for this year to be pushed back, so it could have been even busier! Anyway, here’s everything I saw at the cinema in 2023:

January

Till (8/10)
Empire Of Light (7/10)
A Man Called Otto (8/10)
Tár (7/10)
The Whale (8/10)
The Fabelmans (8/10)

February

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (7/10)
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (7/10)
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (8/10)

March

Women Talking (8/10)
Knock At The Cabin (6/10)
Aftersun (7/10)
Allelujah (7/10)
Broker (8/10)
Rye Lane (7/10)
65 (7/10)
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods (7/10)
The Night Of The 12th (7/10)
A Good Person (7/10)
Air (8/10)

April

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (8/10)
Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (8/10)
Coldplay: Music Of The Spheres – Live At River Plate (10/10)
Polite Society (7/10)
How To Blow Up A Pipeline (7/10)
Big George Foreman (7/10)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (7/10)

May

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (7/10)
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (9/10)
The Eight Mountains (8/10)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (7/10)
Hypnotic (6/10)
Beau Is Afraid (6/10)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (7/10)

June

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (9/10)
War Pony (7/10)
Thelma & Louise – 4K Restoration (7/10)
The Little Mermaid (7/10)
The Flash (5/10)
Chevalier (8/10)
Elemental (8/10)
Asteroid City (7/10)
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (7/10)

July

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (9/10)
Barbie (8/10)

August

Oppenheimer (9/10)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (8/10)
Gran Turismo (7/10)
Theater Camp (7/10)
Haunted Mansion (7/10)
Blue Beetle (7/10)

September

Past Lives (8/10)
Batman [1989] (7/10)
Dumb Money (7/10)
A Haunting In Venice (7/10)
The Lesson (7/10)
The Creator (8/10)

October

Blackberry (7/10)
Flora And Son (7/10)
The Great Escaper (7/10)
The Miracle Club (7/10)
Killers Of The Flower Moon (9/10)

November

Trolls Band Together (3/10)
Saltburn (8/10)
The Marvels (7/10)
Dream Scenario (7/10)
Anatomy Of A Fall (7/10)
Napoleon (7/10)

December

Eileen (7/10)
Wonka (8/10)
Godzilla Minus One (8/10)
The Three Musketeers: Milady (7/10)
Ferrari (6/10)
Priscilla (8/10)
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (5/10)
Next Goal Wins (7/10)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes (6/10)
The Boy And The Heron (7/10)

So, not counting concert films (sorry Coldplay!), these are my top 5 films of the year, not in any real order (other than the order in which I saw them!):

• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3
• Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• Killers Of The Flower Moon