Welp, it looks like this list is the only thing I post on Roused anymore, but damn if I don’t still love it! 2023 was yet another year where I watched far fewer movies than I would’ve liked. Sadly, that’s an annual occurrence these days (2020 notwithstanding, obviously.) By God, someday I’ll break 200 again!!
I’m hoping I can get to some 2023 superlatives over on Medium, but we’ll see how that goes! I’m not optimistic it can be done, but hopefully I can find a way not to take ‘wasn’t optimistic it can be done’ for an answer! For now, here’s every movie I watched last year, without comment.
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The key is the same as usual:
(#) Movie I saw in the theater.
[#] Movie I saw for the first time.
E# – Movies I watched with Emily.
Favorites — Underlined titles are the ones that have stood up after repeated viewings and still keep me coming back for more. They’re the ones I’ve seen before and will certainly watch again.
**Best new (to me) movies — Titles with an asterisk are the films I loved the most out of those I’d never seen before.
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January
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1. Summer Wars [1]
2. Elvis [2]
3. Interstellar – E1
4. I’m So Excited [3]
**5. The Fabelmans [4] (1) E2
6. Toni Erdmann [5]
**7. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio [6]
8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets [7]
9. Ratatouille – E3
10. Wendell & Wild [8]
**11. The Northman [9]
**12. Paterson [10] E4
13. 20,000 Days on Earth [11]
14. Good Night Oppy [12] E5
**15. The Menu [13]
**16. Brian and Charles [14]
17. Enola Holmes 2 [15] E6
18. Drive
19. The Wave [16]
**20. Vengeance [17]
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February
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21. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2) E7
22. Skyfall – E8
**23. White Noise [18]
24. Palm Springs
25. The Pale Blue Eye [19]
26. Fire of Love [20] E9
27. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [21] (3) E10
28. Top Gun: Maverick – E11
29. 21 Bridges [22]
30. Jubilee [23]
31. Out of Sight
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March
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32. Everything Everywhere All at Once – E12
33. The Harder They Fall – E13
**34. The Power of the Dog [24]
35. Dazed and Confused – E14
36. Emily the Criminal [25]
**37. Set It Up [26] E15
**38. John Wick: Chapter 4 (3) [27] E16
39. The Card Counter [28]
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April
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40. Everybody Wants Some – E17
41. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon [29]
**42. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves [30] (4) E18
43. Ghostbusters: Afterlife [31] E19
**44. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover [32]
**45. Air [33](5)E20
**46. Lust, Caution [34]
47. The Raid: Redemption
48. Hot Rod [35]
49. Tetris [36] E21
**50. Triangle of Sadness [37]
51. Scream (1996)
52. Scream 2
53. My Old School [38] E22
**54. Mank [39]
55. Play Misty For Me [40]
56. The Sting
57. Extreme Job [41]
58. Scream 3 [42]
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May
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**59. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 [43] (6)
60. Charade
61. A Few Good Men
62. Mirai – E23
63. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – E24
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June
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64. Mission Impossible: Fallout – E25
**65. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [44] (7) E26
**66. Asteroid City [45] (8) E27
67. Moonrise Kingdom
68. The Darjeeling Limited
69. Spielberg [46]
70. Extraction II [47] E28
71. The French Dispatch
**72. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (9) E29
73. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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July
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74. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [48] (10) E30
75. Jaws – E31
**76. Nimona [49] E32
77. 13 Going On 30 – E33
78. The History of Time Travel [50]
**79. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One [51] (11) E34
80. Close Encounters of the Third Kind – E35
**81. Sisu [52]
**82. Decision to Leave [53]
**83. Oppenheimer [54] (12) E36
**84. Barbie [55] (13) E37
**85. G.I. Samurai [56]
**86. Coherence [57]
87. Attack the Block
88. All You Need Is Crime [58]
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August
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**89. TMNT: Mutant Mayhem [59] (14) E38
**90. Frances Ha [60] E39
91. The Super Mario Bros. Movie [61] E40
**92. Kiss of the Spider Woman [62]
93. Mad God [63]
**94. Joint Security Area [64]
95. JFK [65]
**96. Rye Lane [66] E41
97. The Tomorrow War [67]
98. Fantastic Mr. Fox
**99. Cha Cha Real Smooth [68] E42
100. The Ring
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September
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101. The Sixth Sense – E43
**102. Bottoms [69] (15) E44
103. The Gift (2000) [70]
**104. His House [71]
105. Paranormal Activity
106. Happy Death Day 2U [72]
107. The Night House [73]
108. The Others – E45
109. Stir of Echoes
110. Bodies Bodies Bodies [74]
111. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
112. Paranormal Activity 2 [75]
113. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
114. Prey – E46
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October
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115. Crimson Peak
116. The Living Skeleton [76]
**117. The Vigil [77]
**118. The Phantom Carriage [78]
119. No One Will Save You [79]
120. The Innkeepers
121. Coraline – E47
122. The Shining – E48
123. In the Mouth of Madness [80]
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November
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124. The Nice Guys – E49
**125. They Cloned Tyrone [81]
126. The Flash [82]
127. Totally Killer [83]
128. Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues [84] E50
129. Babylon [85]
130. The Marvels [86] (16)
131. Elemental [87] E51
**132. Matilda the Musical [88] E52
133. Road House [89]
**134. The Killer [90]
135. Long Story Short [91] E53
**136. Violent Night [92]
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December
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137. Avatar
138. La Jetée
**139. Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl Shorts [93]
140. Paper Moon
141. Holiday Inn [94] E54
142. Inglorious Basterds
143. American Symphony [95] E55
144. Skinamarink [96]
**145. The Boy and the Heron [97] (17) E56
146. Batman Returns
147. EO [98] E57
148. The Grinch – E58
149. National Lampoon’s Christmas – E59
150. Trading Places – E60
151. Wonka [99] (18) E61
152. A Haunting in Venice [100] E62
**153. Past Lives [101] E63
154. The Creator [102]