I don’t mean this in a “movies suck now” kind of way, I actually think 2022 was a pretty good year for movies and 2024 will probably be better
but yeesh, 2023 seemed like a particularly bleak year for film. of those I’ve seen on this list, the only ones I’d heartily recommend are Bottoms and Nimona. maybe Beau is Afraid and Infinity Pool, but those are definitely not for everyone. oh and the TMNT movie was a lot of fun
(I haven’t seen Flower Moon yet so don’t get mad at me, Scorsesebros)
but please feel free to CMV and recommend any good movies from this year, whether they’re in this image or not!
tetris is probably my least favorite out of all of these. i can’t believe we got a poorly made anti-soviet propaganda film based on one of the best video games of all time. the scene where pajitnov is like “nobody smiles here in russia because there’s nothing to smile about” was laughably stupid. the movie was straight ass all the way through with poor pacing and super boring characters (generic evil KGB man is definitely not an overused trope at this point…).
It’s a movie about regional licensing laws, which could’ve had something funny about the interaction between the late Soviet system and the western systems, but they did the conservative thing of getting too mad before they could get the joke out.