OK, yes, we're well into February, so it's a little late to be putting together a look at movies set for release in 2023. With the exception of director M. Night Shyamalan's recently released "Knock at the Cabin," though, we haven't really missed much.
The coming days bring the first really big release of the year — Disney-owned Marvel Studios' "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" — so now it's go time. Because it's right on the doorstep, I'm leaving that one out of my picks of 23 movies to be excited about this year.
Catch me another day, and this list surely would be a little different. For starters, I may have included "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" prequel "Wonka" (Dec. 15), starring Timothée Chalamet. And I'm not sure how I left out the next film from writer-director Taika Waititi ("Jojo Rabbit" "Thor: Love and Thunder"), "Next Goal Wins" (April 21), a soccer dramedy starring Michael Fassbender. There are others.
