On January 1, nothing happens in the world, so deliver the past Olivier and sit down to watch interesting films.
Below you will find film projects that were released in 2023, but which we at the editorial office watched with pleasure and recommended to friends. Great plot, good actors – these films have all the ingredients of a good movie.
Watch and enjoy:
1. Judgment Night. Jackpot (Your lucky day)
Genre: crime, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Dan Brown
Cast: Angus Cloud, Elliot Knight, Jessica Garza, Sterling Beaumont, Musa Kraish
About what: Several different people are trying to get their hands on the $156 million lottery prize.
On the eve of the Christmas holidays, a lottery ticket is sold in a regular store, and a man finds out that he has won more than one hundred million dollars. With joy, he shouts about his luck throughout the store, and all the customers present begin hunting for this lottery ticket.
A dynamic and unpredictable thriller with spectacular twists will not leave you indifferent. One of the most interesting films of this genre that I have seen recently.
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2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Genre: cartoon, fantasy, adventure, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.0 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenik
Starring: Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Witness-Joy, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen
About what: The iconic plumber brothers help protect the fairytale kingdom.
Plumber brothers Mario and Luigi try to save Brooklyn from a flood and accidentally search through old underground utilities, where they find a portal to another world.
Transported to the fabulous Mushroom Kingdom, the heroes must rescue the captive Princess Peach and fight the powerful enemy Bowser.
On topic: Watched “Super Mario Bros. at the Movies.” Everyone expected failure, but it turned out to be just a cannon
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3. Leave the world behind (Leave the world behind)
Genre: thriller, drama, fantasy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Sam Esmail
Starring: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myhala Herrold, Farrah McKenzie
About what: A family rents a house in the suburbs of New York, but while on vacation, strange things begin to happen in the world.
A family of four rents a luxury house with a pool on the coast near New York for the weekend. The relaxing holiday is overshadowed by some oddities: a huge tanker crashed right on the beach, mobile communications and the Internet are turned off, television does not work, and during the conversation of the night, the owner of the house with his daughter appears on the doorstep and asks to let them spend the night, since there was a massive power outage in New York.
Cut off from the big city, the heroes discover that something is clearly happening, but no one understands what exactly.
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4. T.I.M. (TIM)
Genre: fantasy, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ – (KinoPoisk)
Country: UK
Director: Spencer Brown
Cast: Georgina Campbell, Eamon Farren, Mark Rowley, Amara Karan, Nathaniel Parker
About what: an engineer creates a humanoid android in the rural wilderness.
Prosthetic engineer Abi comes to the countryside to work on Integrate Robotic’s newest product, a humanoid artificial intelligence called TIM – Technological Integrated Servant.
The serene solitude of a country house evokes a sense of loss in the hero, aggravated by physical separation from friends and colleagues. So over time, a curious, and even frightening, transformation occurs in Tim’s behavior.
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5. The best of all worlds (Il migliore dei mondi)
Genre: drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ – (KinoPoisk)
Country: Italy
Director: Danilo Carlani, Maccio Capatonda
Cast: Luca Vecchi, Martin Gatti, Maccio Capatonda, Pietro Sermonti, Stefania Blandenburg
About what: A middle-aged hero looks into a parallel Universe where all technology is stuck in the 1990s.
An ordinary city dweller is surrounded by all the benefits of civilization: he has an iPhone, a smart watch, a laptop, and home appliances are controlled using voice commands. One day at work, he sets out to fix an old modem and accidentally puts his smartphone on it. The moment the modem is connected, the inexplicable happens, and the hero moves into another dimension with 90s-level technology.
He is surrounded by Internet cafes, friends’ phones, a local resident’s dream – a new Nokia 3310. The hero must survive in this other world and return to his cozy 21st century.
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6. Killer (Killer)
Genre: thriller, crime
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Kerry O’Malley
About what: a dark story of a hitman who decides to deal with her employers.
A high-class assassin with a penchant for misanthropic philosophizing makes a sacrifice in Paris. When things don’t go according to plan, he risks becoming a target and dealing with his own customers.
The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by author Alexis Nolan under the pseudonym Matz and artist Luc Jacquamon.
On topic: I watched “The Killer” by David Fincher. An unusual movie that makes you sick
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7. Three old men (Old dads)
Genre: comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.4 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Bill Burr
Starring: Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale, Bokeem Woodbine, Katherine Aselton, Rainn Edwards
About what: Three adult friends are trying to understand the modern world with its millennials, electric scooters and other attributes of the 21st century.
Jack Kelly is an exemplary family man and pleasant in every way. He’s all right with the same thing, the children. Together with his childhood friends, he uses light household items. In hopes of paying for his son’s education at a private school and then college, Jack sells his stake in the company.
He wants to maintain a high position in the team, but, unfortunately, the new management turns out to be so progressive that a few weeks later Jack is suspended from work. The headmistress of a private school turns the educational process into building sections, which Kelly is also not happy about.
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8. Ghosts in Venice (Ghosts in Venice)
Genre: detective, crime
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cotten, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey
About what: World-famous detective Hercule Poirot investigates a new murder while retired.
Hercule Poirot, released on command, comes to Venice to take a break from business. Among other entertainments, the hero reluctantly attends a seance, during which one of the guests is killed.
Finding himself in the status of a witness, the former detective takes on his own investigation.
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And here are some more interesting selections with films, if nothing is selected:
▸ 5 new films in 2023. The plot is such that you will be pleasantly nervous until the very end.
▸ 6 new Russian films this year, which are a hundred times more interesting than foreign ones
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Source: Iphones RU
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