U.S. Availability: 10. Suitable Flesh - New Release Rental 9. Plane - STARZ 8. BlackBerry - AMC+ 7. They Cloned Tyrone - NETFLIX Original 6. John Wick 4 - STARZ 5. Talk to Me - New Release Rental 4. Dungeons and Dragons - Prime Video, Paramount+, MGM+ 3. Infinity Pool - Hulu 2. Ballerina - NETFLIX Original 1. SISU - STARZ CANADA Availability: Suitable Flesh - New Release Rental Plane - STARZ BlackBerry - New Release Rental They Cloned Tyrone - NETFLIX Original John Wick 4 - STARZ Talk to Me - NETFLIX Dungeons and Dragons - NETFLIX Infinity Pool - New Release Rental Ballerina - NETFLIX Original SISU - STARZ U.K. Availability: Suitable Flesh - New Release Rental Plane - Prime Video BlackBerry - New Release Rental They Cloned Tyrone John Wick 4 - Prime Video Talk to Me - NETFLIX Dungeons and Dragons - Paramount+ Infinity Pool - Sky Ballerina - NETFLIX Original SISU - New Release Rental AUSTRALIA Availability: Suitable Flesh - New Release Rental Plane - Prime Video BlackBerry - New Release Rental They Cloned Tyrone - NETFLIX Original John Wick 4 - Prime Video Talk to Me - NETFLIX Dungeons and Dragons - Paramount+ Infinity Pool - BiNGE Ballerina - NETFLIX Original SISU - New Release Rental

I'm an American living in Finland and I saw SISU in the movie theater when it was first released here..... I truly loved this movie and was recommending it to all my friends in America. It has become one of my favorite movies and I am waiting for it to come to Netflix.

Here in the UK I couldn't agree more about SISU - a fun-filled violent rollercoaster of a movie!

I did not know what to expect going into Sisu. I believe I heard about it on a podcast I was listening to and the podcaster said to go in to the film, blind, not watching the trailer. Glad I did. Definitely my favorite flick of the year.

I love your lists! Im a massive film fan and i think you are one of the few reviewers that has his fingers on the pulse. Thank you

Renfield. My expectations were pretty low, but I was definitely surprised at how entertaining it was.

SISU is an awesome film with interesting characters and a unique story! A friend of mine bought it a couple months back and couldn't stop talking about it. I said that it sounded interesting. So, she insisted that I take it home and watch it. I was hooked in from the start and blown away within the first 30 minutes. It's a very intense movie set during WWII and pretty gory!👍🏼 Again, this is another foreign film doing it better than what is the dumpster fire that is current Hollywood!

Yep, SISU is by far the most thrillingly entertaining film I've seen this year. Inventive, gloriously visceral, and a wonderfully tight runtime. Bonus point for the dog, a very good dog.

Thanks for the reviews. Definitely a time saver.

Huge kudos to you for being a father first, film critic second! Long after Godzilla has faded from general memory, you will still be the awesome dad who listened to his kid.

Thanks Darren, love your work. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Much love from Australia.

The premise at the end of Godzilla Minus One was ridiculous. I agree with you about SISU. That is a movie that Clint Eastwood might have made in the 1970s if he could have. The script, the acting, and the direction were all very tight. One of the best action films I have seen in a while, and it will be ignored by the media and the award societies.

Great list! Thank you!

Fantastic list! Love several of these!

Great FLICK CONNECTION Darren. I agree with you 100% on John Wick 4 and as for SISU. An absolutely awesome film, like you said scene for scene, just amazing. Jorma Tommila’s portrayal of this kind of mythical killing machine, obliterating the Nazis is superb. Many thanks for sharing with us. Have a wonderful blessed Christmas 🎄 🎄🎄

SISU was my greatest surprise this year and a highly enjoyable ride a touch of early Mad Max in there- but highly recommended- excellent film!

I agree on your picks....including SISU being #1. FUN movie. Thank you for the list. Well done!

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

Darren, I would just like to thank you for all the great content this year. You put 2 or 3 dozen great flicks on my radar this year that I would have absolutely missed. Thanks again.

Hey Now Darren! Thanks as always!

Excellent selection. Merci Darren.

so happy to see Blackberry here. It's one of my favorite movies. awesome list

OH Hey I viewed one of your recommendations Eagle Eye - and loved it ! Great watch

As always, I added a couple to my queue. Sisu sounds amazing!

Great work thanks

Thank You for the List and Video 😀

From the looks of it, you've got great taste. I've seen only Plane, DnD, Talk to Me, and John wick 4 from your list, and a) I can attest that they were great, and b) the rest seem that they will absolutely be amazing. Thanks for the video, you've got a new follower.

I accidentally stumbled into "They Cloned Tyrone" and was glad I did! Thanks for putting on your list, Darren.

Past Lives. One of the most emotional movies I’ve ever seen in my life. The kind you find yourself thinking about months after watching

Gotta say, I’ve seen 80% of your recommendations and I’m fully on board . Great list. About to watch Ballerina because I trust your taste. Keep up the good work.

thanks, I just watched Frank and Robot last which I think you recommended. As an older person I loved it, laughing at so many things in the beginning, especially concerning the library.

Great review

I saw the trailer for Sisu when I saw John Wick 4 in theaters. I wanted to see it immediately. When it came out, I was blown away. One of the best of 2023, imo.

Great list🎉

Great list

The best reviews and lists always

Sisu was fantastic. Great call out.

another great list 🙌

I've been recommending Sisu, absolutely loved this film. 2 other films on this list I've got waiting to be watched (7 & 2).

Watched Sisu last night after seeing your video. It was epic!

Some excellent picks - most I have seen but a few I have missed and will catch up in 2024 😉

I really want a serious dungeons and dragons movies. Not just a comedic action. The stories are on par to TLoTR

Agree with you on Plane, always great to see Butler. Will definitely give Dungeons a go, thanks for the recommendations!

Other great 2023 movies I recommend are Sound Of Freedom, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, The Offering, Freelance, The Cobweb, The Last Voyage Of The Demeter and Tetris.

No One Will Save You 2023 was really good. I had to watch it a couple times to really appreciate it.

I have lots of trouble putting on a new movie, finding something of quality that isn't the generic hollywood movie, I'm at the stage where I don't really watch movies anymore unless they are suggested to me as good movies. I plan to watch all of these movies, they look great. Thanks for noting where these are available in Australia also!🙂

I watched your #1 after your recommendation. Agreed.

Once again my list matches yours very closely. I did pick up ballerina and will give a try to DD. Sisu was my number 1 as well.

your reviews are great no the best great work

When my son was 7, I took him and a family friend who was 12 to see Pacific Rim. We *almost* had to leave during a certain scene (if you've seen the movie, you know which one), but I convinced them to stay. Both of them have since admitted it was the most fun they've had in a theater! :)

Sisu was an awesome movie. Accurate review.😊

Anatomy of a Fall is on my list also. Didn't know about American Fiction. I've never teared up during any Godzilla movies, but then along comes one of the best, Godzilla Minus One. Mia Goth is Queen. I saw John Wick 4, Talk To Me, D&D, Infinity Pool, and Sisu in the theaters. Yup, thumbs up to all. Just watched Sideways, American Splendor, and The Holdovers. So I need a They Cloned Tyrone movie. Then I'll get to the rest. happy holidays.

Ballerina is great i totally recommend it....i`d also recommend a couple more Korean films that were released this year... Kill Bok Soon The Killer:The Girl Meant To Die All three have some similar themes and could all be set in the same world ...full of great acting plus the scripts are great all the are full of violence that only Korean films seem to be able to do well(though John Wick comes close)

Sisu was one of the best movies I’ve seen all year too! So good! I saw it when it first came out and it was amazing! And I also loved Ballerina, chefs kiss!

Happy D&D was mentioned. That film had me at “Jarnathan.” 😂

If it helps, I have SISU and G MINUS-ONE, respectively, as my top two Best of 2023 picks.

Outstanding as usual.

Merry Christmas

Great job mate

Wow Sisu was amazing I was a big fan of directors Rare Exports I didn't even know about this one! Just a blast this is how action is done, thanks for recommending!

The live action version of One Piece was a major surprise for me. I'm not usually a manga fan, but the characters are over the top in a fun way and just so likeable.

Absolutely love this

first time watching you, then i immediately started watching "talk to me", perfect recommendation man. keep up the good work you are the only who actually recommended good movies

Black berry, Sisu, Talk to Me are must see! Also "Finestkind" was good!

The Artifice Girl Talk To Me would have been picked by me too. The Creator Infinity Pool would also been a choice of mine

Most of these are in my Top 10 for the year, including Godzilla Minus One. Going to watch the only 2 on this list I haven’t seen, Ballerina, and Suitable Flesh.

Going to check out Sisu

Happy Holidays 🎄

While not a movie, Blue Eye Samurai did the same that you complimented Ballerina on. Protagonist needing to flee. Excellent show that one too.

Thanks man I was curious about suitable also plane was surprisingly decent man

SISU was a great movie and it was great to see the same team as Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale getting back to together. Darren if you have not seen Rare Exports then you need to give it a watch.

You need a Christmas shirt, sir. Thank you very much for all you do for us. 🎅

Great thank you - )

Hey man, I'm a big fan of your content (been a subscriber for almost eight years!) Real quick re: Korean names. When you see the letter "J", it's pronounced like "jazz" or "jack". For instance, Jeon Jong-seo (star of Ballerina) is pronounced like this: Jun (hard J, rhymes with "fun") Jong (hard J, rhymes with "song") Seo (rhymes with "ugh"). I hope this helps for future content!!

Sisu was definitely a fun movie. I need to Godzilla Minus One, possibly this weekend.

Blue eyed samurai, animated series, on netflix, is amazing, both storyline and outstanding visuals. I'm not an anime fan usually, but this is one of the best things netflix has done.

Darren, going through your Netflix underrated. Liking it. Annnd, when do we get to see The Drop on one of your lists? Hardy and Gandolfini and gangsters? Certainly I've missed your take?? Thanks

Just watched mayhem. Loved the hatchet flicks. Holiday Cheers and safety😊

Hey Darren have you reviewed May December or Leave the World Behind? I'd like to get your take on both, thanks and Merry Christmas🎄🎅

My god i'm soooo glad that you managed to pronounce that Sisu just right 👍👍 😉

Could be a fluke thing with the kiddo. I loved the M.J. Fox movie called "The Frighteners" (I think) and one night for some reason it scared the hell out of me. Was watching it a week a later. I am from the VCR era, for the young ones we didnt have the internet back then, so you watched a lot of stuff more than once.

Many thanks for sharing your top picks, unfortunately we didn't like Talk to me or Dungeons and Dragons, Plane was adequate plus you can't beat a bit of Gerard Butler. SISU on the awesome have watched several times, very entertaining and funny

❤that shirt!

Ummm. Well I haven’t seen SISU. But I am very intrigued to see it and definitely going to watch it this weekend to find out why u put that over Ballerina!! 😢🤨

8 through 1 are great shouts, but mate, someone was paying you to mention Suitable Flesh! 😄 👍🏻

Ballerina is the best recommendation on this list..was absolutely blown when I saw it

sisu and Infinity Pool are 2 of fav films from last year, Also another great Aussie film is "Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism" based on a True story it was a surprise for low budget "Horror" that delivers, calling it a horror is also doing the film a disservice ... def seek it out

My brother and I are two years apart. My dad took us to see Omega Man when we were 12 and 10 and my brother freaked out so we had to leave halfway through. I didn’t see the end for years until it appeared on HBO.

I absolutely loved, loved Sisu!

SISU is an absolute blast!

I will watch some of your recommendations this holiday season... I definitely agree with your thoughts on Plane and They Cloned Tyrone... I really enjoyed John Wick 4, but in no way can it be on a "shockingly good" list... If I would have saw "Talk to Me" before all the hype, I would have been pleasantly surprised... But after all the hype, I wondered what was all the hype about? It was "ok"... And there was something unique about it... I felt a big plot hole (little spoiler, not much) is every time they grabbed the hand this thing happened. It took away from the mystique of the hand... and how is this not world known. And why would people keep grabbing the hand??? 🤷‍♂

Sisu and the magic trash can. He's holding up a metal circle that covers about 1/3 of his body. The Nazis hit that magic plate about 150 times with automatic fire and not one shell touches the lower half of his body. There is so much awesome in this movie, but scenes like that really let me down. All they had to do to fix that scene was have him retreating down a slope or ditch side where you could reasonably block a significant amount of incoming fire. You'd never be able to hold the stupid thing anyways as that many rounds were hitting it, but whatever. The eagles never caught fire in Mt. Doom, either, and we all loved that, too.

Sichuan, is SUCH a good movie. Dude doesn't talk much. But excellent movie

A few movies I haven’t seen that I will have to check out this week that I’m on vacation.

Pretty great list........When Evil Lurks is best film of the year, though.

Personally I saw John Wick 4's 'overly long' to be effective in conveying just how tired he is by the end of it. Been binging your back catalog for the last couple weeks and it's been great stuff. Would be curious to see some lists for animated films and 'so bad it's good' films.

Agree Darren, SISU is brilliant.

Sisu was definitely a winner. From South Korea, I also got a kick out of Kill Boksoon.

Sisu was good so I watched “Rare exports” great little Xmas Movie.

I remember watching Dungeons & Dragons as an 80's cartoon. I had no idea it was made into a game. And I've yet to check out the movie. That's one for this Saturday night me thinks 😉