The Year in Moviegoing

As yet, we cannot tell whether 2023 will be remembered for the movies that we saw or for the movies that were hobbled and hog-tied by industrial action. The strikes called by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America caused productions to be paused and release dates to be pushed back. If you missed Jeff Nichols's new film, "The Bikeriders," with Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, when it kicked off the Telluride Film Festival, at the end of August, but hoped to see it when it opened in early December, tough. Having been passed from one studio to another--20th Century Studios to Focus Features--like a difficult foster child, the movie will now be sent forth into the world next year. Amid this gloom, there were sparks of cheering news; not all artistic endeavors fell afoul of the strikes.