If you live for big explosions, cars that defy 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 action movies that have come out in 2023. It’s, like, the only constant in the chaos at this point. 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.

Just about every franchise you can think of, and even some you forgot about, is getting or already got a sequel this year. 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. We just, unfortunately, won’t get Dune 2 until 2024. That continues to be a major bummer.