A Glean movie guide
The Best of the 2023 Oscars
Cinema's highest honors.
From multiverse adventures to historical epics, the year's most acclaimed films.
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The movie list
- 01
Everything Everywhere All at Once
A mind-bending multiverse journey that swept the 95th Academy Awards.
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.
- 02
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s masterful, high-stakes biopic of the man who changed the world forever.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- 03
Poor Things
A visually stunning and surreal 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 a marriage through a mysterious death.
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
- 05
All Quiet on the Western Front
A visceral and hauntingly beautiful depiction of the harsh realities of war.
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.
- 06
The Zone of Interest
A chillingly detached look at the banality of evil during the Holocaust.
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.
- 07
The Whale
Brendan Fraser delivers a powerhouse performance in this intimate, emotional character study.
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
- 08
Top Gun: Maverick
A rare blockbuster sequel that perfected the art of the cinematic spectacle.
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
- 09
Barbie
A vibrant, witty 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.
- 10
The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn masterpiece about grief, wonder, and growing up.
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."
- 11
RRR
An explosive, high-energy epic that redefined international action cinema.
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
- 12
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
A dark and soulful stop-motion reimagining of the classic wooden boy.
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.