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I saw a ton of new movies last year, largely in theaters. Traditionally, I've been doing writeups of Best Picture nominees, where I'll often list some of my favorites that didn't get nominated. This time, I kept a little better track of what I watched, so I decided to rank them all from top to bottom!
Overall, I'd say it was a better-than-average year for movies, but maybe not an all-timer. I have positive feelings about most of the movies on my list; I only outright hated the bottom few. There were a number of movies considered big flops that I actually quite liked; there were also several critical darlings that I thought were tremendously overrated (some of which I still liked, just not as much). I suppose that's normal, but I felt more out-of-step than usual—my feeling is most people felt it was a down year for movies. I suppose history will judge.
Special shout-out to two films I saw in 2022 that were technically released earlier, though they never had a wide release: Memoria, which would definitely have been in my top 10, and First and Last Men, which would probably be in my top 20 or so.
(Movies marked with * were ones I didn't see in a theater.)
Of course there's still a bunch of movies on my to-watch list; we'll see how many I can get to before the Oscars:
The Eternal Daughter
EO
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Women Talking
Hit the Road
The Wonder
Is That Black Enough For You?
Something in the Dirt
The Son
Good Night Oppy
Descendant
Living
Broker
Close
Emancipation
Turn Every Page
Corsage
Man Called Otto
Avatar 2
Update: See how far I got.
Overall, I'd say it was a better-than-average year for movies, but maybe not an all-timer. I have positive feelings about most of the movies on my list; I only outright hated the bottom few. There were a number of movies considered big flops that I actually quite liked; there were also several critical darlings that I thought were tremendously overrated (some of which I still liked, just not as much). I suppose that's normal, but I felt more out-of-step than usual—my feeling is most people felt it was a down year for movies. I suppose history will judge.
Special shout-out to two films I saw in 2022 that were technically released earlier, though they never had a wide release: Memoria, which would definitely have been in my top 10, and First and Last Men, which would probably be in my top 20 or so.
(Movies marked with * were ones I didn't see in a theater.)
- Montana Story
- After Yang
- The Duke
- Petite Maman
- Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
- The Whale
- The Batman
- Bullet Train
- Decision to Leave
- Kimi*
- AmbuLAnce
- Watcher
- Moonfall
- Catherine Called Birdy
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood*
- The Outfit*
- Aftersun
- Windfall*
- Crimes of the Future
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
- Lightyear
- Prey*
- Fire of Love
- Emily the Criminal
- Bodies Bodies Bodies
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Confess, Fletch
- Bones and All
- Nope
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
- The Menu
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Jurassic World Dominion
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande*
- The Woman King
- The Princess*
- See How They Run
- Empire of Light
- Black Adam
- Jerry & Marge Go Large*
- Amsterdam
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- She Said
- Spoiler Alert
- Funny Pages
- Tár
- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- Till
- Death on the Nile
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe*
- Spiderhead*
- Don't Worry Darling
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Morbius
- Armageddon Time
- The Pale Blue Eye
- Men
- Strange World
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Barbarian
- The Northman
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Moonage Daydream
- Triangle of Sadness
- The Fabelmans
- RRR
- Elvis
- Ticket to Paradise
- White Noise
- Babylon
- Blonde
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
Of course there's still a bunch of movies on my to-watch list; we'll see how many I can get to before the Oscars:
The Eternal Daughter
EO
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Women Talking
Hit the Road
The Wonder
Is That Black Enough For You?
Something in the Dirt
The Son
Good Night Oppy
Descendant
Living
Broker
Close
Emancipation
Turn Every Page
Corsage
Man Called Otto
Avatar 2
Update: See how far I got.