A Glean movie guide
The 2023 Oscar Collection
The Gold Standard of Film
From multiverse adventures to historical epics, explore the year's most celebrated cinema.
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The movie list
- 01
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s masterful, high-stakes portrait of the man who changed the course of history.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- 02
Everything Everywhere All at Once
A mind-bending, emotional journey through the multiverse that redefined the modern blockbuster.
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
- 03
Poor Things
A visually stunning and fearlessly original odyssey of self-discovery and liberation.
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
- 04
Anatomy of a Fall
A gripping courtroom drama that dissects the complexities of a marriage with surgical precision.
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
- 05
The Zone of Interest
A chillingly restrained look at the banality of evil that lingers long after the credits roll.
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
- 06
The Holdovers
A soulful, character-driven comedy that captures the bittersweet magic of unexpected connections.
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
- 07
American Fiction
A sharp, hilarious satire that skewers modern cultural expectations with intelligence and heart.
A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
- 08
The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki’s breathtakingly imaginative hand-drawn masterpiece about grief and wonder.
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
- 09
Godzilla Minus One
A powerful, human-centric monster movie that brings the legendary kaiju back to its terrifying roots.
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
- 10
Barbie
A vibrant, witty, and surprisingly deep exploration of identity that became a global cultural phenomenon.
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
- 11
All Quiet on the Western Front
A visceral and hauntingly beautiful anti-war epic that demands to be seen on the biggest screen.
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
- 12
RRR
An explosive, maximalist action spectacle that celebrates friendship and heroism on a grand scale.
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.