Overall, I watched 81 2022 movies (so far). I didn’t love a single one of them! (which is rare), but I liked about 20 of them (more than usual). Alpha order.
Top Ten Favorite Movies of 2022
Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
Cow (Andrea Arnold, released in the US in May, 2022)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, released in the US in January, 2022)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleishcer-Camp)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Pearl (Ti West)
Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup)
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Next Ten, which I enjoyed about as much
Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
The Fablemans (Steven Spielberg)
Funny Papers (Owen Kline)
Hellbender (Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre)
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Anthony Fabian)
TÁR (Todd Field)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
And Top 8 TV seasons
Atlanta, seasons 3 & 4 (Donald Glover, etc.)
Barry, Season 3 (Alec Berg, Bill Hader)
Better Call Saul, season 6 (Vince Gilligan)
Euphoria, Season 2 (Sam Levinson)
Love Death + Robots, S3E2, “Bad Travelling” (David Fincher)
The Offer (Michael Tolkin, Leslie Greif)
The Rehearsal, season 1 (Nathan Fielder)
Winning Time, Season 1 (Max Borenstein, Jim Hecht)
Added to my watchlist: Hellbender and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. Still haven't gotten around to see A Hero or Speak No Evil. I think I need to re-do my top 2022 list!
ReplyDeleteWe share four movies. That's pretty aligned!
DeleteIt was the year of the moderately ambitious but satisfying 3.5 movie and the extremely ambitious but only half-successful 3.5 movie!