55 Best Movies To Watch After Oppenheimer (2023) (Page 3)
Heart of Stone
SimilarAkira (1988), Aliens (1986), Armageddon (1998), Beverly Hills Cop (1984),
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Code of Silence (1985), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Dr. No (1962), Enemy of the State (1998), Face/Off (1997),
From Russia with Love (1963) Goldfinger (1964), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008),
Live and Let Die (1973) Men in Black II (2002), Miami Vice (2006), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), Moonraker (1979), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), North by Northwest (1959),
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Stormbreaker (2006), Superman (1978), Terminator Salvation (2009), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Eiger Sanction (1975), The Glimmer Man (1996), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Saint (1997), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The Terminator (1984),
In the 2023 sea of action movies, setting yourself apart from others becomes increasingly hard. John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part 1, Extraction 2, and more have sparked an action cinema revival. It’s a rebirth that I am incredibly grateful for, certainly. Continue Reading →
Cade: the tortured crossing
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), American Psycho (2000),
Blade Runner (1982) Cape Fear (1991), Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), Ghost in the Shell (1995), I Robot (2004), Memento (2000), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979),
Strange Days (1995) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Shining (1980),
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Sixth Sense (1999), The Terminator (1984), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), TRON: Legacy (2010), Vertigo (1958), Videodrome (1983),
Say what you will about independent film auteur Neil Breen: he has a vision. All of his movies have a common theme, in which a man with superhuman abilities (played by Neil Breen) directs those abilities toward vanquishing evil corporate and government entities. Many people die in the process, but in Breen’s vision it’s all in the name of world peace. What he’s trying to say isn’t all that hard to figure out: he thinks the world would be better off without corrupt CEOs and pass-the-buck lawmakers (and hey, I don’t disagree). Continue Reading →
深海
Fantasa International Film Festival gets wild.
Animals feature prominently in our first three films of the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival. From the bottom of the ocean to the reaches of the Arctic, these films mix their natural settings with unnatural mediums to create enchanting works that are wondrous to look at. Though they have different objectives, these films remind us that cinema is a world of dreams that combines things from our lived reality with our limitless imagination.
(Tribeca Film Festival
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Talk to Me
SimilarA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Carrie (1976), Ghost Rider (2007), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Irreversible (2002), Jennifer's Body (2009), Mulholland Drive (2001), Natural Born Killers (1994),
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), The Fog (2005), The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), The Shining (1980), The Thing (1982), There's Someone Inside Your House (2021),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Fast X (2023), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023), The Nun II (2023),
Things have been very bad for much of the world for a very long time, and they won’t improve any time soon. I don’t mean to start things off on a bummer note, but to point out that from such dire circumstances comes one benefit: the horror movie renaissance that started in the late 2010s only seems to be getting better. Just this year we’ve gotten the low-fi nightmares Skinamarink and The Outwaters, horror comedy with M3GAN and Cocaine Bear, another mostly solid entry in the Scream franchise, too many indie horror films to list here (Bad Girl Boogey and Brooklyn 45 are but a couple), and the roaring return of the Evil Dead series. Even if there weren’t another release for the rest of the year, it’d still be a great year for horror. Continue Reading →
The Deepest Breath
How long can you hold your breath? A minute? Maybe? Kids time these sorts of things when swimming, but it's not something most of us think about in our waking lives. But I know that when I swim and misjudge the time it takes to surface, panic sets in almost instinctively. The body wants to live. It takes a particular personality to ignore the body's demands in apparent life-or-death circumstances. Stephen Keenan and Alessia Zecchini are two such people. Zecchini's first words in The Deepest Breath, Laura McCann's documentary about Keenan and Zecchini's goal to become legendary deep sea free divers, are about how she's never associated diving with death. I'll grant a writer is more likely to associate everything with death. But I cannot understand plunging into the darkest depths of the earth while holding your breath for minutes at a time and passing out before you can return without thinking of your own demise. Some of us, I suppose, see a Way where the rest see a void. Continue Reading →
Happiness for Beginners
Similar2 Days in Paris (2007), 50 First Dates (2004), A Lot Like Love (2005), Amélie (2001), Annie Hall (1977), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Apartment (1960), You've Got Mail (1998),
Happiness for Beginners happens when hundreds of hours of labor come together over months to create something so bland and ineffectual it feels years old even on a first watch. Continue Reading →
Barbie
SimilarBridge to Terabithia (2007), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Catwoman (2004), Election (1999), Enchanted (2007), Ghost (1990), Ghostbusters (1984), I ♥ Huckabees (2004), La Dolce Vita (1960), Look Who's Talking (1989), Michael (1996), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Raising Arizona (1987), Stick It (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), The Holiday (2006), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Volver (2006), You've Got Mail (1998),
The news that director Greta Gerwig’s follow-up project to her celebrated adaptation of Little Women would be a movie about Barbie dolls was met with skepticism and even disappointment when first announced in mid-2019. What did it mean for the future of one of Hollywood’s few high-profile female directors? Would she abandon her apparent passion for telling intimate stories about coming of age? Continue Reading →
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
SimilarArmageddon (1998), Beverly Hills Cop (1984),
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Beverly Hills Cop III (1994),
Die Hard 2 (1990) Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) Gladiator (2000), Godzilla Raids Again (1955),
Jackie Brown (1997) Jaws: The Revenge (1987),
Live and Let Die (1973) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Ocean's Twelve (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Superman Returns (2006), The Dead Pool (1988), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Professional (1981),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) The Equalizer 3 (2023), The Flash (2023), The Nun II (2023),
One of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One's earliest pieces of marketing was a trailer-by-way-of-behind-the-scenes featurette. In that clip, Tom Cruise, strapped to a motorcycle, rockets off the edge of a cliff in the Swiss Alps. He lets the bike drop away before popping his parachute and sailing into the horizon. It's one of the most death-defying sequences ever captured on film and, as we now know, it's one Cruise himself did again and again and again. The sequence, even devoid of context, sums up exactly what director Chris McQuarrie and Cruise (the two are also co-producers) hoped to achieve in Dead Reckoning: grade A movie spectacle. Continue Reading →
No Hard Feelings
SimilarAnnie Hall (1977), Billy Elliot (2000), Cars (2006), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Italian for Beginners (2000), Kolya (1996), Madagascar (2005), Meet the Robinsons (2007), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Pretty Woman (1990), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Talk to Her (2002), Toy Story 2 (1999),
StudioColumbia Pictures,
As big tent blockbusters like superhero movies and other franchise fare battle it out for screens and box office returns, the traditional mid-budget comedy has become increasingly rare. With adult comedies squeezed off the schedule, there are far fewer opportunities for performers who don’t want to don a cape or end up described as “the live-action version” of a cartoon. That’s part of what makes Gene Stupnitsky’s No Hard Feelings such a breath of fresh air. Continue Reading →
Past Lives
SimilarA Bronx Tale (1993), A Real Young Girl (1976), Copying Beethoven (2006), The Holiday (2006),
Watch afterBlue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) The Flash (2023), tick tick... BOOM! (2021),
It doesn’t take much for someone who once meant a whole lot to you to creep into your thoughts every now and then. It’s not an everyday obsessive thing, where they’re a shadow lingering over you. It’s softer, more subtle: a snippet of a song, or something that reminds you of a private joke once shared. Even if the fire has long burned out, an ember or two will glow for an instant. Then it’s gone, and the life you’ve lived without them goes on. Continue Reading →
Asteroid City
Similar25th Hour (2002), I ♥ Huckabees (2004), Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998), Stalker (1979),
Watch afterIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) The Flash (2023),
StarringFisher Stevens, Willem Dafoe,
About twenty miles or so outside of Marfa, Texas, there’s a mural dedicated to the production of George Stevens’ Giant. Big wooden standees display James Dean with his arms draped over a rifle, framing him in the iconic Christ pose which would be the last image to represent Dean in the public consciousness before he died. Giant is about a great number of things, though, fittingly, what resonates all these years later is its ideas about the passing of time. Continue Reading →
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
SimilarAladdin (1992), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999),
Die Hard 2 (1990) Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) F9 (2021), Free Willy (1993), Godzilla Raids Again (1955), Hellboy (2004),
Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Night at the Museum (2006), Shrek 2 (2004),
Shrek the Third (2007) Superman Returns (2006), The Legend of Zorro (2005),
StarringDave Bautista, Dee Bradley Baker,
A lot's happened since we last saw the Guardians of the Galaxy (well, besides their brief cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder). Writer/director James Gunn was fired from Marvel in 2018 after some problematic tweets joking about pedophilia were unearthed, in one of the few instances of a successful cancellation from the right wing. Of course, it didn't last long, considering how thin the ground was for said cancellation in the first place; and in the interim, he swanned off to DC, made the fantastic The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, and eventually found himself sharing the throne of a newly-revamped DC movie universe. Continue Reading →
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Silly
SimilarFantasia (1940),
MPAA RatingG,
As a relatively new face, Florence Pugh's sensational performance in William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth was unexpected. To deliver a commanding performance of that deeply troubling, complex, and oft-alluded to character is difficult for screen and theatre vets, and yet Pugh did it with aplomb. She echoes that tour de force, albeit with a lighter approach, in Sebastian Lélio's The Wonder. Continue Reading →