41. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Actors: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen
Plot: Brothers Mario and Luigi, a pair of Brooklyn plumbers, find themselves whisked away to the Mushroom Kingdom where Mario joins forces with a feisty Princess Peach and the intrepid Toad in order to rescue Luigi from the clutches of the maniacal Bowser - a fire-breathing monster intent on making the Mushroom Kingdom his next conquest.
42. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears
Actors: Nicolas Cantu, Shamon Brown Jr., Brady Noon, Micah Abbey, Ayo Edebiri, Jackie Chan
Plot: In order to prove to the city of New York they can be heroes, the young Turtle brothers must face off against a group of evil mutants who think humans are inferior - and must be eliminated.
43. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Laurel Marsden, Jason Schwartzman
Plot: The 10th Annual Hunger Games are about to begin and for 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, he sees a chance to change his family's fortunes when he is chosen as a mentor. But rather than a person from his own district, he is charged with teaching a headstrong, rebellious girl from the impoverished 12th District. Despite their difference, he soon finds himself enthralled, but with the devious Dr. Volumnia Gaul and hardened Casca Highbottom in charge, those emotions are used against him.
44. Totally Killer
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nahnatchka Khan
Actors: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie, Lochlyn Munro, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Liana Liberato
Plot: In 1987, the Sweet Sixteen Killer began a murder spree -- 35 years later, Jamie Hughes is about to become the next victim in his next spree but a bizarre twist winds up sending her back to 1987 - where she tries to stop the original killings before they can begin.
45. Scream VI
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Courteney Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere
Plot: After surviving the most recent Ghostface killings in Woodsboro, the remaining group packs up for New York only to learn that putting the past behind them will not be so easy as a new wave of killings begins.
46. The Creator
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: Allison Janney, Gemma Chan, Ralph Ineson, John David Washington, Marc Menchaca, Ken Watanabe
Plot: In the future mankind wages war against and AI-driven robotic army. A former special forces agent, grieving after the disappearance of his wife, is sent on a mission to find and destroy The Creator - the one responsible for the uprising. But the mission turns even more dangerous when he learns there is a new weapon in play - one that could bring an end to the war - and humanity itself - and it comes in the form of a robotic child.
47. Bottoms
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emma Seligman
Actors: Ayo Edebiri, Dagmara Dominczyk, Rachel Sennott, Nicholas Galitzine, Kaia Gerber, Ruby Cruz
Plot: Unpopular and openly queer, PJ and Josie are at the bottom of the high
school hierarchy. But they see an opening when they are granted permission
to start a self-defense club - which turns into a regular fight club - to
help empower fellow female students, put some jocks in their place and
maybe, just maybe get laid.
48. Extraction 2
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Hargrave
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa, Tornike Gogrichiani, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Tornike Bziava
49. Thanksgiving
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Eli Roth
Actors: Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon, Patrick Dempsey, Milo Manheim, Addison Rae, Karen Cliche
Plot: Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Thanksgiving, becomes a
playground for a killer following a Black Friday riot.
50. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Actors: Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Michelle Rodriguez, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Justice Smith
Plot: A group of thieves take on a job to steal an incredibly powerful artifact and realize too late they have unleashed a great evil upon the world. Seeking to right their wrong, they recruit their own team of would-be heroes and won't stop no matter what manner of creatures, magic or army may stand in their way.
