Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 2023 in films

The Top 6 of the Year

1. Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Epic of the Year + Best Oklahoma Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Lily Gladstone + Best True-Crime Movie of the Year + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 137.52 mil. $ range + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.78 times the cost (shared with Underverden II)

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - James Gunn + Best Action-Adventure of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Chukwudi Iwuji as The High Evolutionary

3. Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan + Best Biopic of the Year + Best $ Return of the Year: 9.52 times the cost + Best Mega-hit of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 280.8 mil. $ range

4. Napoleon - Ridley Scott + Best Romance of the Year + Best War Movie of the Year

5. Asteroid City - Wes Anderson + Best Poster of the Year + Best Sci-fi Comedy of the Year

6. Meg 2: The Trench - Ben Wheatley + Best Shark Movie of the Year

The Bottom 3 of the Year

1. The Nun II - Michael Chaves + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year

2. Underverden II - Fenar Ahmad + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.78 times the cost (shared with Killers of the Flower Moon)

3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Christopher McQuarrie

[9 titles in total]

Notes:

With just a few titles reviewed during the year, this is still a strong first annual list in terms of quality, with Martin Scorsese's monumental true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon reigning supreme. James Gunn's thrilling, original Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 taking silver, and Christopher Nolan's massively successful nuclear biopic Oppenheimer bronze. The list goes on with Ridley Scott's thumping war biopic Napoleon, Wes Anderson's colorful, idiosyncratic Asteroid City and with Ben Wheatley's monster shark escapism The Meg 2: The Trench rounding off the list. The bottom list sees Michael Chaves' horrendous religious horror The Nun 2 take gold, with Fenar Ahmad's flawed Underverden II taking silver, and Christopher McQuarrie's overboard actioner Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One bronze.

The box office and in consequence cinemas have struggled in 2023 with audiences staying at home streaming first and foremost, and the commercial results are already in this update looking bleaker than the norm. Apple Studios roared into theaters with two huge prestige pictures (Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon), both later crowning their streaming service, but which, despite their high quality, failed to hit in cinemas. Another unusual big star in one of the year's big flops: Normal box office juggernaut Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One).

Later updates will include many more of the year's output.

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon - 137.52 mil. $ range

2. Napoleon - 120.56 mil. $ range

3. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 64 mil. $ range

4. Asteroid City - 3.48 mil. $ range

5. Underverden II - 3 mil. $ range

= Combined losses: 328.56 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Oppenheimer - 280.8 mil. $ range

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 88.2 mil. $ range

3. The Nun II - 69.2 mil. $ range

4. The Meg 2: The Trench - 24 mil. $

= Combined profits: 462.2 mil. $

2023 titles currently on the watchlist:

Beau Is Afraid, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, A Storm Foretold, Plane, Superpower, Passages, You Hurt My Feelings, 20 Days in Mariupol, Jesus Revolution, The Holdovers, Barbie, No Hard Feelings, Slava Ukraini, Fool's Paradise, Monster, The Zone of Interest, About Dry Grasses, Wonka, Sound of Freedom, The Boy and the Heron, Saw X, The Promised Land, Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, All of Us Strangers, Dream Scenario

Previous annual lists:

2022 in films - according to Film Excess

2021 in films - according to Film Excess

2020 in films - according to Film Excess

2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess

2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess
2007 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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What do you think of the 2023 lists?
Which 2023 films are your favorites and the bottom of the year in your opinion?
What important 2023 title/s is/are missing on the watch-list?

Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!

1/01/2024

2023 in films - according to Film Excess

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