The first few months of 2023 in the film have brought us both good and bad news. The good news is that non-superhero fare—heck, non-franchise fare—has done well at the box office. Only one of the top ten-grossing films (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania) is from Marvel, and the other two are sequels (Creed III and Missing.) In total, the average gross per release in February was the highest since 2018. Who says theatres are extinct?

The bad news is that original stories without capes and titles with Roman numerals can also be duds. Missing, Aneesh Chaganty's digital sleuthing thriller turns what was a clever conceit in Searching into a tiresome, predictable headache. Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan's latest faith-based thriller, is an unctuously earnest validation of conspiracy theorists' wildest apparitions. Cocaine Bear's entire appeal is that it might be so bad that it's good. Those films were not included in our ongoing Best Movies of 2023 list, but a few new releases were.

Megan -

Forget about recognizing buses or street signs. Your M3GAN response could serve as its own CAPTCHA: if you didn't have fun, you're probably a robot. M3GAN was marketed as a horror film by Blumhouse, and there are jump scares and bursts of violence to back that up. But there's something unsettling and consistently amusing about the way this luxury AI doll—physically played by Amie Donald—moves. M3GAN had my theatre keeling over in a good sort of pain, whether she was prancing through the woods like a demon or dancing in a hallway.

Alcarràs -

Carla Simón's sophomore feature is a portrait of a peach-harvesting family in modern-day Catalonia who are about to lose their orchard to make way for the construction of solar panels. It's the kind of conflict that movies usually frame in stark good-versus-evil terms. But what makes Alcarras so refreshing is that Simón observes rather than judges, humanizing—but not lionizing—the people caught in the current of progress.

Skinamarink -

Kyle Edward Ball's feature debut's ability to feel both fresh and nostalgic is part of its allure. Another aspect is that its slow pace and fuzzy white noise tempt you to sleep, while its dimly glimmering nighttime view of a suburban home is the stuff of (millennial) childhood nightmares. Ball has a knack for framing and is clearly skilled at transferring analog horror to the digital era. It's no surprise that his film has gone viral.

Saint Omer -

There is so much going on beneath the surface in Alice Diop's narrative debut. Diop constructs a meta-narrative about true crime spectatorship, cultural dislocation, myth, and motherhood by depicting the trial of Laurence Coly, a woman charged with killing her 15-month-old daughter, as seen through the eyes of Rama (Kayije Kagame), a novelist and literary scholar. Diop works in the mode of observation, whereas the French justice system tries to explain — and ultimately condemn — Coly's actions. She'd rather ask intriguing questions than look for simple answers. She emphasizes the richness and inscrutability of human faces by relying on long, expertly composed takes. Maybe we'll never truly understand each other, but there are things we can do to try.

When You Finish Saving The World -

Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut is exactly what you'd expect from the veteran actor: smart, witty, thoughtful, and personal. In adapting his own audiobook (which is based on his own romantic history to some extent), Eisenberg casts Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as a high-minded social worker and her vapid teen musician son. Moore, in particular, delivers an outstanding performance, channeling a vein of lofty, humorless do-gooders that can be as off-putting as it is well-intentioned.

The Civil Dead -

Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas have created one of my favorite comedies in... *thinks*... a long time with The Civil Dead! The film, written and directed by Tatum, stars Thomas as a ghost who can only be seen by Tatum's character. But this isn't your typical haunting. Rather than exploring trauma or instilling fear, this is a ghost story about friendship—and how being a friend can be a little annoying at times. If those seem like minor stakes, they may be. But the key to a good buddy movie is a good hang, which The Civil Dead provides in spades. It's a very promising debut, enormously funny, and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

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