All of Us Strangers is maybe 2023’s best film.

As last hurrahs go, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is lost at sea.

Bella’s liberation in Poor Things is the type of rapturous euphoria we can all learn from.

As if it were traveling in a great glass elevator into the stratosphere, Wonka soars, and it didn’t take a golden ticket to go along for the ride.

Magic, romance, and happy memories make Bell Book and Candle a timeless cinematic wonder

The magic spell Wish casts is minimal at best, and it only lasts about as long as it takes for the end credits to complete their crawl.

I will give Trolls Band Together this much: it is the first film in the series that did not give me a headache.

While maybe the most inconsequential film Marvel has put out into the world (not including a post-credit teaser that is crowd-pleasingly awesome and a little desperate feeling, both at the same time), The Marvels is also one of the fastest paced and most humorously beguiling.

“I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel. I want people to have a good time.”
– Michael Kennedy