2023 movies: every release in 2023

For fans of costumed crime fighters, intergalactic odysseys, old school action serials, and creepy classics, it has proven to be a very important year at the cinema, with a stunning variety of 2023 movies. Admittedly, those types of stories can be found all the time (including throughout our upcoming 2024 movies schedule, as well), but they especially describe the movies coming out in this particular year.

Of course, there are more than just upcoming superhero movies (including upcoming Marvel movies) to look forward to, as well as upcoming horror movies, too. Let's go through all of the 2023 movie releases we saw.

NOTE: Releases from previous months have been shifted to the bottom of the page.

December 2023 Movie Releases

Put these December 2023 movies on your holiday wish list. Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet embodies a younger version of Roald Dahl’s famous chocolatier in Wonka, Jason Momoa reprises his water-based DC superhero role in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and star and director Bradley Cooper portrays Leonard Bernstein in Netflix’s Maestro. Also, check your list twice for a pair of upcoming A24 movies (The Zone of Interest and The Iron Claw), Yorgos Lanthimos’ bizarre satire, Poor Things, and a new musical version of The Color Purple, to name a few.

January 2023 Movie Releases

It quickly became apparent that we were in for another good year of horror movies with Blumhouse's killer doll flick, M3GAN, Brandon Cronenberg's unsettling, surreal thriller, Infinity Pool, and Kyle Edward Ball’s haunting game-changer, Skinamarink, in January 2023. We also saw the release of Sarah Polley’s Academy Award-winning drama, Women Talking; the Gerard Butler and Mike Colter-led survival thriller, Plane; and Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill teaming up for a Netflix exclusive rom-com called You People.

February 2023 Movie Releases

There was not just love in the air in February 2023 at the cinema. There was also fear of the apocalypse in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin, fear of getting attacked by a wild animal on some wild drugs in director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear, and a fear that some small heroes might never return to their average size in the MCU’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. 

March 2023 Movie Release

March 2023 was a big month for sequels, with the knockout boxing drama, Creed III (also Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut), the brutal Scream VI (which made a killing at the box office), and the epic John Wick: Chapter 4 arguably cementing the series as – the greatest action franchise ever. We also saw Adam Driver fight dinosaurs in 65, Chris Pine and co. go on a fantastic journey in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and Taron Egerton risk his life to bring a “blockbuster” video game to the U.S. with Apple TV+’s Tetris.

April 2023 Movie Releases

April 2023 gave audiences a healthy variety of options to choose from with the movies available to see. You could take the kids to see Illumination's animated adaptation of the Super Marios Bros. video games, get spooked by horror movies like the  bloody family drama, Evil Dead Rise, or Ari Aster’s thoroughly chaotic Beau is Afraid, or learn all about one of boxing’s greatest figures with the biopic, Big George Foreman. You could also experience a range of emotions from seeing Nicolas Cage play Dracula in Renfield or the big screen adaptation of Judy Blume’s iconic coming-of-age novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

May 2023 Movie Releases

May 2023 was a great month to be a fan of Vin Diesel movies with the return of the MCU's cosmic heroes in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and the high-octane sequel, Fast X, which turned out to be the first half of a two-parter. It was also a more plentiful month for romance than February with Celine Dion making her acting debut in the Love Again cast; the fun comedy sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter; and Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid with Halle Bailey.

June 2023 Movie Releases

June 2023 saw the return of many classic heroes, including Miles Morales in the, animated superhero sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Michael Keaton as Batman in the multiverse-spanning DC movie, The Flash; and Harrison Ford in his most iconic role in James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The month also saw a sharp send-up of Black horror movies in The Blackening, a thought-provoking commentary on intercultural harmony in Pixar’s romantic Elemental, and an out-of-this-world social satire from Wes Anderson called Asteroid City.

July 2023 Movie Releases

The hottest ticket in July 2023 was Barbenheimer: the unofficial double feature of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie and Christopher Nolan's WWII-era biopic, Oppenheimer, which could not have been more different, but curiously came out on the same day. The month also had a few mid-Summer chills and thrills with Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut, Insidious: The Red Door; Disney’s second attempt at a Haunted Mansion movie, and A24’s terrifying teen horror movie, Talk to Me. Of course, we cannot forget seeing Tom Cruise and co. swing back into action for the first half of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.

August 2023 Movie Releases

Teenagers came to the rescue in August 2023 with the releases of the animated reboot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and the feature film debut of Jaime Reyes in DC’s Blue Beetle. We also saw Jason Statham take on another prehistoric shark in Meg 2: The Trench, yet another reinterpretation of Dracula in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and the inventive video game movie, Gran Turismo, which was inspired by true events.

September 2023 Movie Releases

Our transition into the fall season was met with a Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning reunion in Antoine Fuqua’s Italy-set The Equalizer 3 and a direct follow-up to the highest-grossing Conjuring Universe spin-off with the spooky The Nun II. There was also more to get spooked by with the haunting whodunnit, A Haunting in Venice and Tobin Bell’s return as Jigsaw in Saw X, a few lighthearted flicks to relax with in the form of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, as well as a foreboding vision of the future from Gareth Edwards in The Creator.

October 2023 Movie Releases

David Gordon Green, director of 2018’s Halloween, revived another iconic horror movie franchise with The Exorcist: Believer – a direct sequel to William Friedkin’s 1973 original and one of many new horror movies that came out just in time for spooky season. Also in October 2023, the legendary Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon came to the big screen and will eventually be available to those with an Apple TV+ subscription. Similarly, fellow acclaimed filmmaker David Fincher's a 2023 Netflix movie The Killer got a theatrical run this month before hitting the streaming platform in November.

November 2023 Movie Releases

We were thankful for all of the exciting releases that hit the big screen and elsewhere in November 2023. For instance, Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers teamed up with Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Iman Vallani as Kamala “Ms. Marvel” Khan in Nia DaCosta's sequel to Captain Marvel, The Marvels. Also Ridley Scott unveiled his Napoleon biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix, Disney revealed the origins of a certain famous star in Wish, Eli Roth cooked up a feature-length adaptation of Thanksgiving (his faux Grindhouse trailer), and more.