dougo: (nowhere)
( Jan. 2nd, 2023 06:29 pm)
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.)
  1. Montana Story
  2. After Yang
  3. The Duke
  4. Petite Maman
  5. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  6. The Whale
  7. The Batman
  8. Bullet Train
  9. Decision to Leave
  10. Kimi*
  11. AmbuLAnce
  12. Watcher
  13. Moonfall
  14. Catherine Called Birdy
  15. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  16. Cha Cha Real Smooth
  17. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood*
  18. The Outfit*
  19. Aftersun
  20. Windfall*
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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:
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Update: See how far I got.
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