movies of 2023
Review: The Good Half (2023)
Nick Jonas stars as a young writer who returns home for his mother's funeral
movies of 2023
drag
Review: National Anthem (2023)
A beautiful, if plotless, debut feature about a homestead of queer rodeo performers
Midwest
Review: The Bikeriders (2023)
In which sound and fury truly signify nothing
movies of 2023
Review: Janet Planet (2023)
Pastoral look at a middle-aged woman and her 11-year-old daughter doesn't quite add up
madwoman
Three more Vicky Krieps movies
The Luxumborgian actress specializes in strong-willed, somewhat mad women in "Phantom Thread" (2017), "Hold Me Tight" (2021), and "Corsage" (2022)
movies of 2023
Review: The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
Viggo Mortensen wrote and directed this western about an independent woman whose inspiration is Joan of Arc
queers
Review: Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
The Ross Brothers produce a hymn to teenage joy and interdependence
environment
Review: Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
Passions and violence hide beneath the surface of a peaceful Japanese village
deadpan humor
Less than a review: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
Is this deadpan humor -- or just dead?
incels
Almost a review: The Beast (2023)
It was fine until the incel guy
film noir
Review: Limbo (2023)
Also, some thoughts about the character of Tom Ripley, especially in "The American Friend" (1977).
mother-in-law
Review: Polite Society (2023)
A young Pakistani-British martial artist resolves to save her sister from an arranged marriage