2022 EOTY Entertainment Lists

1. “TÁR”
2. “Aftersun”
3. “The Banshees of Inisherin”
4. “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
5. “The Fabelmans”
6. “Decision to Leave”
7. “Nope”
8. “RRR”
9. “Top Gun: Maverick”
10. “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/12/best-movies-2022-critics-survey-polls-performances-1234790612/



https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2022?ref=hp

 

I have only seen 12 films this year. Blonde is the only outright terrible one so far, but time will tell what joins it.

 

1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. RRR
5. The Worst Person In the World (it got a theatrical release in my town in 2022)
6. Jackass Forever
7. Pearl
8. Red Rocket
9. Cha Cha Real Smooth
10. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

 

They Shoot Pictures always has the best EOY aggregate list

 

I did not see/like much, so I will do best first time watches

A Woman Under the Influence
Eyes Wide Shut
Black Devil Doll From Hell
Miami Blues
Blonde Death
Jeanne Dielman
King of New York
Light Sleeper
Demon Queen
Rebels of the Neon God
The American Scream
Slaughter Day

 

Here's a quick top 20 favourite films of 2022 (some of these may be technical 2021 releases, but if they opened in a UK cinema in 2022, I'm counting them). Order is super shaky.

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels)
2. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
3. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
4. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
5. Decision To Leave (Park Chan Wook)
6. Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
7. May You Stay Forever Young (Ren Xia, Lam Sum)
8. Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)
9. Zero Fucks Given (Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre)
10. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
11. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang Soo)
12. Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
13. Blue Island (Chan Tze-woon)
14. Barbarian (Zach Cregger)
15. Hatching (Hanna Bergholm)
16. Snipers (Zhang Yimou)
17. Official Competition (Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn)
18. Pearl (Ti West)
19. X (Ti West)
20. Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)

 

My favourite first time watches in 2022 that were not included above. No actual order of preference, more like a chronological order, looking through my Letterboxd account.

Limbo (Soi Cheang, 2021)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou, 2005)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar, 1997)
Paris, 13th District (Jacques Audiard, 2021)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (Michael Simpson, 1988)
To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye, 2019)
Full Contact (Ringo Lam, 1992)
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, 1990)
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou, 2014)
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, 2021)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976)
The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert, 2015)
La Belle Époque (Nicolas Bedos, 2019)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, 1997)
Life, and Nothing More… (Abbas Kiarostami, 1992)
School on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1988)
Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
Eight Taels of Gold (Mabel Cheung, 1989)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, 1997)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

 

Still have a few movies I need to see before I have a list but this has been a pretty good movie year thus far. By years end I will have gone to the movies at least 51 times depending how the next couple weeks go.

Favorite TV Shows of 2022
1. Better Call Saul
2. The Rehearsal
3. Atlanta
4. Barry
5. The Righteous Gemstones
6. Severance
7. The Bear
8. Primal
9. What We Do in the Shadows
10. Smiling Friends


Favorite First Time Watches unranked (non-2022 releases)
Paris, Texas
The Bad and the Beautiful
Sully
Putney Swope
Lost Highway
Inland Empire
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Three Colors: Blue
Beau Travali
Once Upon a Time in America
La Dolce Vita
All That Jazz
Crash (1996)
Brewster McCloud
The Night of the Hunter
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
In the Mood For Love
Erin Brockovich
The Color of Money
Double Indemnity
Cape Fear
Paths of Glory

Favorite Rewatches
A.I Artificial Intelligence
Jackass Number Two
That’s My Boy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Big Daddy
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Spirited Away
Funny People
Tenet
Terminator 2
Avatar
Licorice Pizza
The Matrix Resurrections
Oceans Eleven
Casino
Project X
The French Dispatch
The Royal Tennanbaums
Almost Famous

 

slantmagazine.com/features/the-25-best-films-of-2022/

I am glad more places are mentioning Benediction. It came and went with so little notice.

 

These lists always remind me of how much I've missed and how much I never even hear about until Dec.

Also, wasn't expecting to see Amsterdam on Slant's runners-up list. Nice to see Turning Red on there, though.

 

I would say 2022 was a better TV year than movie year

 

I saw so few movies this year. It’s a bummer.

 

https://variety.com/lists/worst-films-movies-2022/owen-gleibermans-5-worst-films-3/

 

Worst movies I saw this year:
Bullet Train
The Gray Man
The Bubble
Thor Love and Thunder
Uncharted

 

Even though I have now seen 71 films from this year (based on UK release dates), still got a few more to pack in that will undoubtedly change my top 25 but this is what it looks like at the moment -



Rest of my list - https://letterboxd.com/rockinchimp/list/2022-in-film/

 

I want to watch EO but doesnt look like thats going to happen soon

watched Crimes of the Futre last night instead, certainly said something interesting in an interesting way.

 

As always, I probably won't be able to solidify my list until February at the earliest. But I feel like this was a pretty good year for film overall. Particularly for many of the big-budget releases. EEAAO, RRR, The Batman, Northman, Top Gun Maverick, and Nope reminded me that there is still room for hope with these films. I didn't love all those films, but they all had a distinct vision, something which is lacking from most big-budget films in recent memory.

 

I watched more TV than I usually do this year so I can put a top 5 list together for that.

1. Atlanta (Season 4, FX, Hulu)
2. Barry Season 3, HBO Max)
3. Andor (Season 1, Disney+)
4. Prehistoric Planet (Season 1, Apple TV+)
5. Tie: The Bear (Season 1, Hulu), The White Lotus (Season 2, HBO Max)

I'm going to miss Atlanta so much.

Honorable mention:

• House of the Dragon (Season 1, HBO Max)

Things I haven't finished:

• Light & Magic (Disney+) (good so far, recommend if you like BTS docs)
• Tales of the Jedi (Disney+) (solid if like The Clone Wars, but it doesn't feel essential)

Didn't get to, but I want to watch:

• Severance (Apple TV+)
• Pachinko (Apple TV+)
• Rings of Power (Amazon Prime)
• Better Call Saul (AMC, Netflix) (I'm several seasons behind here)

Edit: I Forgot season three of Barry came out this year.

 

1. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
2. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
3. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
4. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels)
5. Nope (Jordan Peele)
6. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
7. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)
8. TAR (Todd Field)
9. Top Gun Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
10. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
11. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
12. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
13. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-Wook)
14. Barbarian (Zach Cregger)
15. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
16. Funny Pages (Owen Klein)
17. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
18. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
19. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
20. Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
21. Turning Red (Domee Shi)
22. Elvis (Baz Luhrman)
23. Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)
24. Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)
25. Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers (Akiva Schaffer)

 

impatiently waiting on Obama's list

 

My predictions for what will be on Obama’s list:
the fabelmans
Top gun maverick
Aftersun
The banshees of inisherin
TAR
Nope
EEAAO
Triangle of Sadness
All the beauty and the bloodshed
Elvis

 

What do you think Obama’s opinion of Avatar is?

 

Loves it