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Empire strikes back record1/12/2024 ![]() (There’s also, of course, Spider-Woman, the Indian Spider-Man, Spider-Punk, and many, many more faces populating this film. ![]() But they’re also joined by a variety of new faces – that’s what a multiverse is for, after all – including Jason Schwartzman’s comic/tragic/eventually scary villain The Spot and Oscar Isaac’s anti-hero (or worse?) Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099. Parker, three of our favorite Spider-People. Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld and Jake Johnson return as, respectively, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and Peter B. So let’s just say Across the Spider-Verse is “more good.” Is that grammatically correct? Well, maybe not better, because the first film, Into the Spider-Verse, was pretty freaking good. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse did what most sequels can’t, simultaneously making everything bigger while also making everything better. Runner-Up: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse While DiCaprio and De Niro deliver expected and terrific-as-always DiCaprio and De Niro performances, it’s Gladstone who brings it all together as the woman who endures the tragedy happening around her as her fellow Osage tribespeople are seemingly dying for the basest of reasons: greed.Īn epic at three-and-a-half hours, Scorsese’s film is a mix of genres – crime, mystery, western, romance, and more – but it’s still a Scorsese movie, and all that has come to represent, as Killers of the Flower Moon looks deeply, unflinchingly, into the evil that men do. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and a standout Lily Gladstone head a cast of familiar faces (Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, etc.) in the true story of a series of Native American murders that took place over a number of years in the early 20th century in Osage County, Oklahoma. This is the “see, we like serious movies too” part of our nominees because you know what? We do. To quote Wick himself, “Yeah.” Runner-Up: Killers of the Flower MoonĬinema legend Martin Scorsese beat out Keanu Reeves this year, but just barely, nabbing 8.3% of the vote for his adaptation (with Forrest Gump scripter Eric Roth) of the non-fiction David Grann book Killers of the Flower Moon. In fact, we hope that he’s reading this somewhere right now, taking some small comfort in the fact that the fourth film in the John Wick series is being recognized as a runner-up for best movie of the year. He just wanted to carve out his small place of peace in the world with his dog. But John Wick was never about winning it all anyway. That said, the film received just 6.7% of the vote – a respectable showing, but not enough to get a room at the Continental, let alone take the top prize here. That Caine is seeking to protect a loved one while Wick’s entire story began with the death of a loved one brings a sort of perfect symmetry to the saga. ![]() But it’s new player Donnie Yen as blind High Table killer Caine who steals the show as he’s forced to hunt down his old friend. Reeves is game as ever to blow guys away for, like, 20 minutes at a time, and Stahelski, having directed all four films, continues to find new and interesting ways to present said blowing away (an extended sidearm ballet amid the traffic circle around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is particularly mesmerizing). Add to that the almost three-hour running time (in a good way), the continued escalation of the series’ stunts and gun battles by director Chad Stahelski and his team, and the culmination of Wick’s storyline, and it’s no wonder the IGN staff voted Chapter 4 into contention. There’s no way that Keanu Reeves playing gun fu for the fourth and maybeeee final time was going to escape our consideration, as the John Wick movies have become one of our premiere franchises since its debut nine years ago. But what is IGN’s Best Movie of the Year? Let’s get into it… From Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the man behind the A-bomb to the culmination of Baba Yaga’s four-film odyssey, we have tried to represent our favorite films from across the spectrum. So our picks for the best of 2023 range that very gamut and beyond, from the latest Martin Scorsese epic to the return of Miles Morales and his friends. But they’re an integral part of what keeps the Hollywood machine ticking, and we at IGN can’t live without them. It’s always a tricky thing picking our Best Movie nominees for the IGN Awards each year, because while we are aware of, and in some cases adore, the more hoity-toity arthouse fare that critics groups may go for during the inevitable EOY awards rush, we are also lovers of movies of all kinds – superhero movies, horror movies, sci-fi movies, and perhaps best of all… Keanu Reeves movies! However, these types of films don’t always get the level of recognition they deserve in other year-end round-ups or at awards shows.
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