All films received either a theatrical or an online release in the UK between 01/01/23 and 31/12/23.
List with re-releases and festival films added in is here.
*****
1. Full Time (France, 2021)
2. Girl (UK, 2023)
3. The First Slam Dunk (Japan, 2022)
4. Junk Head (Japan, 2023)
5=. 20 Days In Mariupol (Ukraine, 2023)
5=. Beyond Utopia (US, 2023)
5=. The Blue Caftan (Morocco, 2022)
5=. Infinity Pool (Canada, Hungary, France, 2023)
9=. Past Lives (US, South Korea, 2022)
9=. Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (China, 2023)
9=. Reality (US, 2023)
12=. Godzilla Minus One (Japan, 2023)
12=. Bobi Wine: The People’s President (UK, 2022)
12=. Smoking Causes Coughing (France, 2022)
12=. Enys Men (UK, 2022)
12=. Holy Spider (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, 2022)
12=. Blue Jean (UK, 2022)
12=. Fashion Reimagined (UK, 2022)
12=. Name Me Lawand (UK, 2022)
12=. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (US, 2023)
Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953)
12=. Ferrari (US, 2023)
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22=. The Boy And The Heron (Japan, 2023)
22=. Killers of the Flower Moon (US, 2023)
24. How To Blow Up A Pipeline (US, 2023)
25. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One (US, 2022)
26. Klokkenluider (UK, 2022)
27. Klimt and the Kiss (UK, 2023)
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****1/2
Piggy (Spain, 2022), The Fabelmans (US, 2022), Saint Omer (France, 2022), EO (Poland, 2022), Women Talking (US, 2022), Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman (UK, 2023), Sick of Myself (Norway, 2022), Champions (US, 2022), Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (France, 2022), Return to Seoul (France, Belgium, Germany, South Korea, 2022), Boonie Bears: Guardian Code (China, 2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (US, 2023), Hello, Bookstore (US, 2022), The Flash (US, 2023), Lost in the Stars (China, 2022), My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 2022), Ride On (China, 2023), Tokyo Stories (UK, 2023), Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (US, 2023), Mavka the Forest Song (Ukraine, 2022), Squaring the Circle – the Story of Hipgnosis (UK, 2022), Oppenheimer (US, 2023), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem (US, 2022), The Idiots (Denmark, 1998), Love Life (Japan, 2022), Bolan’s Shoes (UK, 2022), Typist Artist Pirate King (UK, 2022), The Peasants (Poland, Serbia, Lithuania, 2023), Dance First (UK, 2023), Scrapper (UK, 2023), Femme (UK, 2023), How To Have Sex (UK, 2023), Fallen Leaves (Finland, 2023), Raging Grace (UK, 2023)
****
Epic Tails (France, 2022), The Son (US, 2022), The Middle Men (Norway, Denmark, Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland, 2021), Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom (Bhutan, 2022), Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times (short, UK, 2022), The Wife And Her House Husband (UK, 2022), Plane (UK, US, 2022), Winners (UK, Iran, 2022), In The Court of the Crimson King (UK, 2022), Rye Lane (UK, 2023), Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition (UK, 2023), Lakelands (Ireland, 2022), Return to Seoul (France, Belgium, Germany, South Korea, 2022), A Light Never Goes Out (Hong Kong, 2022), Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (US, 2023), Master Gardener (US, 2022), Sisu (Finland, 2022), Elemental (US, 2023), Pretty Red Dress (UK, 2022), The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (Japan, 2022), Barbie (US, 2023), Paris Memories (France, 2022), The Innocent (France, 2022), Theater Camp (US, 2023), Afire (Germany, 2022), The Creator (US, 2023), Eileen (US, 2023), Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (UK 2023), Anselm (Germany, 2023), The Eternal Daughter (UK, 2023), Polite Society (UK, 2023)
***1/2
The Old Man Movie: Lactopolis (Estonia, 2019), Shazam! Fury of the Gods (US, 2023), The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future (Chile, France, US, Germany, 2022), John Wick Chapter 4 (US, 2023), La Syndicaliste (France, 2022), Small, Slow But Steady (Japan, France, 2022), God’s Creatures (Ireland, US, UK, 2022), Puffin Rock and the New Friends (US, UK, Ireland, China, 2022), Mob Land (US, 2022), The Dive (Germany, 2022), Mind-Set (UK, 2022), The Exiles 4: The Marriage Plan (China, 2023), The Latent Image (UK, 2022), Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (US, 2023), Napoleon (US, 2023), Another Body, Foe (US, 2023)
***
The Wandering Earth II (China, 2023), The Whale (US, 2022), Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (US, 2022), Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (US, 2021), Broker (South Korea, 2022), The Beasts (France, Spain, 2022), , Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (UK, 2022), Babylon (US, 2022), Air (US, 2023), Suzume (Japan, 2022), Cairo Conspiracy (Sweden, France, Finland, 2022), Evil Dead Rise (New Zealand, Ireland, 2022), Born to Fly (China, 2023), The Other Fellow (UK, 2022), You Can Live Forever (Canada, 2022), Asteroid City (US, 2023), My Extinction (UK, 2022), Medusa (Brazil, 2021), Gran Turismo (US, 2023), And Then Come The Nightjars (UK, 2023), No More Bets (China, 2022), Where The Wind Blows (Hong Kong, 2023), The Eternal Memory (Chile, 2023), Stamped From The Beginning (US, 2023), The Boys (South Korea, 2023, LEAFF), #Manhole (Japan, 2023, LEAFF), The Shadowless Tower (China, 2023, LEAFF), Ari Ari The Korean Cinema (South Korea, 2012, LEAFF), Gaga (Taiwan, 2022, LEAFF), Where Has All The Pollution Gone? (South Korea, 1991, LEAFF), A Normal Family (South Korea, 2023, LKFF), Saltburn (UK, 2023), Wonka (US, 2023), All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (US, 2023), The Milky Way (Israel, France, 2023, premiered at PÖFF), May December (US, 2023)
**1/2
Scream VI (US, 2022), Allelujah (UK, 2022), Rodeo (France, 2022), The Boogeyman (US, 2023)
**
Renfield (US, 2023), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (US, 2022), Gurkha Warrior (Nepal, 2022), Everything, Everywhere (Japan, 2023, premiered at PÖFF)
*1/2
Empire of Light (UK, 2022), Tár (US, 2022), Nascondino (Italy, 2021), Godland (Denmark, Iceland, 2022), Leaving to Remain (UK, 2022), Brainwashed Sex-Camera-Power (US, 2022), Joyride (US, 2023), Expend4bles (US, 2023), Wish (US, 2023)
*
Over My Dead Body (Hong Kong, 2022), Plan 75 (Japan, 2022), Hypnotic (US, 2023), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (US, 2022), 20, 000 Species of Bees (Spain, 2023)
1/2
Fast X (US, 2023), Talk to Me (Australia, 2022)
Turkeys
Awful: 4= Kokomo City (US, 2023), A Haunting in Venice (UK, 2023)
Truly Awful: 1= Medusa Deluxe (UK, 2022), Next Goal Wins (US, 2023), There’s Something In The Barn (Norway, 2023)