Best action movies 2023

James Mercadante has been a Content Update Editor for PEOPLE since November 2022. After earning his Bachelor's and Master's in English at The College of New Jersey, he's worked for various entertainment and lifestyle publications and has had bylines featured in Entertainment Weekly, TV Insider, Modern Luxury Manhattan, Ocean Drive, Hamptons Magazine and Honeysuckle Magazine. He enjoys reading, obsessing over Beyoncé and Ariana Grande on the internet and quoting lines from Twilight in everyday life. Of course, there are plenty of action movies to choose from. There are the classics like Top Gun and First Blood, superhero films such as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Shazam! Fury of the Gods and spy movies like Casino Royale — which all promise thrilling story lines, intense fight scenes and nonstop excitement. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Courtesy Everett Dive into the phantasmagorical depths of Avatar universe with this 2022 sequel. Following a decade after the first film's events, Way of Water sees the Sully family fleeing their home to reside with the oceanic Metkayina clan, where they have to defend themselves and their hosts against brutal aggressors through a flood of action-packed battles. Amazon Studios Being Amazon Prime Video's first original movie from Africa, this 2023 Nigerian action-thriller is worth a watch. Jade Osiberu's Gangs of Lagos follows a group of three best friends who witness their father figure's murder, and join the gang led by his cold...

> > Whether in cinemas or on streaming, movies have give us a lot to thrill and think over in 2023. Menace has been found in mothers, shadows, and a pretty little doll called M3GAN. Adventure has been charted around the globe in speeding cars, across the multi-verse by feuding Spider-Folk, and into a rousing world of knights and shapeshifters. Romance has blossomed in colorful settings and nightmarish sex scenes. And coming-of-age stories have taken us back in time, into butt-kicking fantasies, and under the sea. Whether you're seeking to laugh, cry, marvel, or lose your mind, we've got a movie that's sure to please. Here are the best movies of 2023, so far. These films are listed in order of release. 1. M3GAN She's an icon. Credit: Universal Pictures 2023 got off to a strong start with M3GAN, a killer doll horror romp with an AI twist. The titular toy was intended to shoulder the care of a grieving kiddo who'd recently lost her parents. But when her devotion turns deadly, it's up to her creator ( Get Out's Allison Williams) to stop the singing, dancing, killing machine. M3GAN not only boasted sensationally scary sequences that scratch that evil-kid itch, but also a biting sense of humor that had us rooting for this femme slasher, whether she was whispering pop songs, terrorizing a child bully, or threatening this film's frustrated Final Girl. The chemistry! Credit: Searchlight Pictures One of the most joyful movies of 2023 hands down is this rom-com out of England. Vivian...

Toggle navigation • Home • In Theaters • This Week • Coming Up • 2023 Movies • 2024 Movies • In Production • • • • • • By Production Status • Development • Pre-Production • Production • Post-Production • • By Genres • By Studio • By Title • By MPAA Rating • • Find movies by plot, person, company & shooting location. • • Trailers • More • Movie Photos • Movie Lists • Top Movies • • DVD Calendar • • • • • • • • • • • “Dune: Part Two” will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee. Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake. Since givin...

Josh Bell Writer Josh Bell is a freelance writer and movie/TV critic based in Las Vegas. He's the former film editor of Las Vegas Weekly and the former TV comedies guide for About.com. He has written about movies and pop culture for Syfy Wire, Polygon, CBR, Film Racket, Uproxx and more. With comedian Jason Harris, he co-hosts the podcast Awesome Movie Year. Jordan Gloor Technical Editor Jordan Gloor is Technical Editor at How-To Geek. He's been writing technology explainers and how-tos since 2020, but he's tinkering with computers and other tech since childhood. He writes on everything from Windows to Linux and from cord-cutting to generating art with AI. Corbin Davenport / How-To Geek There’s no need to pay for a streaming subscription to get your action-movie fix. Free streaming services have plenty of action-packed movies from a variety of eras and subgenres, from martial arts to crime thrillers. Here are the best action movies to stream for free. Update, 5/4/23: After reviewing our guide, we found that Death Proof was no longer available, so we’ve replaced it with a new pick. Battle Royale Play Video Before The Hunger Games, there was the Japanese movie Battle Royale. It’s also about a future in which school-age kids are pitted against each other in deadly games, with only one emerging as the victor. Director Kinji Fukasaku stages some brutal fights between the students, keeping the focus almost entirely on the island where a high school class has been trapped and forc...

Entertain This!, USA TODAY This year has brought welcome nuance to the movies, and it’s not even Oscar season yet. A deep dive into the mythology of a Here are 2023’s best movies so far, the films that have been artistically excellent and emotionally resonant, definitively ranked: 10. 'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster' After her brother is killed in a gang shooting and believing death is just a disease to be cured, teen “mad scientist” Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) experiments on his and other random body parts to bring him back to life. The result becomes a problem for everyone, from drug pushers to loved ones, in a thoughtful and extremely timely modernization of the “Frankenstein” story for a new generation of film fans and horror lovers. Where to watch: In theaters Friday 9. 'A Thousand and One' In A.V. Rockwell's poetic drama about parenthood and inequity, Where to watch: 8. 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Director Daniel Goldhaber expertly puts an ambitious and imaginative spin on the heist movie. The intense thriller centers on a group of young environmental activists (played by up-and-coming actors Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck and more) who all foster individual beefs with the oil industry, hatch an audacious plan to blow up a West Texas pipeline and have to deal with the consequences. Where to watch: 7. 'John Wick: Chapter 4' Keanu Reeves knows kung fu – and nunchucks and gunplay and a steel will, too – as the title ex-assassin fights...

Can 2023 offer anything to compare to the excitement generated by "Top Gun: Maverick," now officially the biggest military movie of all time? Probably not, but we've got quite a few promising features on the calendar that should satisfy anyone who enjoys service-related action. This is by no means the final word on movies coming out this year. There are plenty of surprises sure to come. When we made this Jan. 13, in theaters Gerard Butler ("... Has Fallen" movies) stars as Brodie Torrance, an airline pilot whose plane is forced down on a remote Filipino island controlled by a separatist terror militia. He's got to save his passengers, and his only hope is to team up with Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter, "Luke Cage"), the convicted murderer being transported on his flight. Gaspare may have been wrongfully convicted, but it seems a lock that both Torrance and Gaspare have the military experience that will allow them to take out the terror cell and save their passengers. Related: 3. 65 March 17, in theaters Marine Corps veteran Adam Driver (Kylo Ren in the recent "Star Wars" trilogy) plays an astronaut whose ship crashes on a remote planet where he's forced to use his military training to fight off dinosaurs. The trailer gives away the big secret that the remote planet is actually Earth 65 million years ago. "65" is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the team best known for writing the modern horror classic "A Quiet Place." 4. John Wick: Chapter 4 July 14, in thea...

To paraphrase the great Nicole Kidman in the AMC advertisement that I personally hope never goes away: we come to the movies for magic. We want to be told stories about people who are nothing like us. We want to root for them as they do things we could never do. We want to see places we may never be able to visit. No genre encompasses those three things better than the action movie genre. If you go to the movies to see big explosions, cars defying the laws of physics, and iconic fight scenes between the coolest people on the planet in the coolest places on the planet, you're in luck! There are a gazillion Just about every franchise you can think of, and even some you forgot about, is getting a sequel. There's a new Mission: Impossible movie, a new Creed movie, and a new Transformers movie. There are superheroes, spies, assassins, more superheroes, Vin Diesel, an archaeology professor, robots, dinosaurs, and... honestly a few more superheroes. But it's not just superheroes in 2023. It's important to me that you know that. There's plenty of diversity when it comes to action this year. There are even some original action movies that aren't based on anything and don't seem like two and a half hour toy commercials coming out, too. If they look good to you, definitely check them out! No offense to my franchise babes, but Hollywood needs to know that as much as we love to see our faves, we're open to trying new things as well. Superhero Action Movies That said, let's get these ou...

Toggle navigation • Home • In Theaters • This Week • Coming Up • 2023 Movies • 2024 Movies • In Production • • • • • • By Production Status • Development • Pre-Production • Production • Post-Production • • By Genres • By Studio • By Title • By MPAA Rating • • Find movies by plot, person, company & shooting location. • • Trailers • More • Movie Photos • Movie Lists • Top Movies • • DVD Calendar • • • • • • • • • • • “Dune: Part Two” will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee. Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake. Since givin...

Entertain This!, USA TODAY This year has brought welcome nuance to the movies, and it’s not even Oscar season yet. A deep dive into the mythology of a Here are 2023’s best movies so far, the films that have been artistically excellent and emotionally resonant, definitively ranked: 10. 'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster' After her brother is killed in a gang shooting and believing death is just a disease to be cured, teen “mad scientist” Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) experiments on his and other random body parts to bring him back to life. The result becomes a problem for everyone, from drug pushers to loved ones, in a thoughtful and extremely timely modernization of the “Frankenstein” story for a new generation of film fans and horror lovers. Where to watch: In theaters Friday 9. 'A Thousand and One' In A.V. Rockwell's poetic drama about parenthood and inequity, Where to watch: 8. 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Director Daniel Goldhaber expertly puts an ambitious and imaginative spin on the heist movie. The intense thriller centers on a group of young environmental activists (played by up-and-coming actors Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck and more) who all foster individual beefs with the oil industry, hatch an audacious plan to blow up a West Texas pipeline and have to deal with the consequences. Where to watch: 7. 'John Wick: Chapter 4' Keanu Reeves knows kung fu – and nunchucks and gunplay and a steel will, too – as the title ex-assassin fights...

> > Whether in cinemas or on streaming, movies have give us a lot to thrill and think over in 2023. Menace has been found in mothers, shadows, and a pretty little doll called M3GAN. Adventure has been charted around the globe in speeding cars, across the multi-verse by feuding Spider-Folk, and into a rousing world of knights and shapeshifters. Romance has blossomed in colorful settings and nightmarish sex scenes. And coming-of-age stories have taken us back in time, into butt-kicking fantasies, and under the sea. Whether you're seeking to laugh, cry, marvel, or lose your mind, we've got a movie that's sure to please. Here are the best movies of 2023, so far. These films are listed in order of release. 1. M3GAN She's an icon. Credit: Universal Pictures 2023 got off to a strong start with M3GAN, a killer doll horror romp with an AI twist. The titular toy was intended to shoulder the care of a grieving kiddo who'd recently lost her parents. But when her devotion turns deadly, it's up to her creator ( Get Out's Allison Williams) to stop the singing, dancing, killing machine. M3GAN not only boasted sensationally scary sequences that scratch that evil-kid itch, but also a biting sense of humor that had us rooting for this femme slasher, whether she was whispering pop songs, terrorizing a child bully, or threatening this film's frustrated Final Girl. The chemistry! Credit: Searchlight Pictures One of the most joyful movies of 2023 hands down is this rom-com out of England. Vivian...