Film 2023
At least Nicholas Barber and Caryn James allowed us to see the new year in before unleashing 20 of the best films to watch in 2023 upon us. Unlike that excitable wee bookworm, Emma Saunders.
As with Emma's luscious literary offerings
, it's unclear as to why these captivating kinematographic contributions are deemed among the best to watch this year, especially since some of them are yet to be completed. After all, other than the studios' word on it, they may well be turds.
The tantalising twenty includes the world's-most-beguiling-actress-named-Margot-Robbie's upcoming Barbie—which is still in post-production—and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which was also on 2022's must-see list, and of which Barber acidly opines: Let's hope it's not in our previews next year, too.
But most of the list seems totally meh
to be honest. Then again, the studios haven't told me otherwise. (shrug)