My 22 Favorite Movies of 2022
Aftersun
Confess, Fletch
Enola Holmes 2
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fablemans
Kimi
Matilda the Musical
Metal Lords
Nope
Pinocchio
Prey
The Rescue
RRR
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Vengeance
Watcher
Honorable mention
After Yang
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ambulance
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
The Black Phone
Bullet Train
Death on the Nile
Don’t Worry, Darling
Elvis
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (wonderful overall, but didn’t stick the landing)
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The Good Nurse
Hit the Road
The Lost City
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
The Menu
The Northman
Not Okay
Resurrection
See How They Run
The Stranger
Triangle of Sadness
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
The Wonder
Documentary
The Rescue
All ages-ish
Cheaper by the Dozen (the most blatant virtue-signaling family flick I’ve seen so far this year. But some good moments nonetheless. I’ll always have a place in my heart for Zach Graff after Scrubs)
Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
DC League of Super Pets
The Lost City
Luck
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, some scary parts)
Turning Red
The Sea Beast
Holiday
Spirited (a new holiday classic - and a musical comedy gem for the year )
Guilty pleasures
The Gray Man
Jackass Forever
Not great, but worth a once-through
I Love My Dad (sooo uncomfortable - dad catfishing his own son)
Last Seen Alive
Want to see
A Hero (Prime)
A Man of Action (Netflix, Spanish)
Aníkúlápó (Nigeria, Netflix)
Amsterdam (HBO)
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (R. Linklater, Netflix)
Athena (Netflix)
Baby Assassins
Beast
Bergman Island (Hulu)
Blonde (Netflix)
Both Sides of the Blade (AMC)
Brian and Charles
Catherine Called Birdy (Prime)
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple+)
Cow
Decision to Leave
Deep Water (Hulu)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Prime)
Emancipation (Apple)
Emily the Criminal
Final Cut
Fire of Love
Flux Gourmet (AMC)
I Used to be Famous
Lola
Lost Illusions
Lou
Munich: Edge of War
My Old School (Hulu)
Operation: Mincemeat
Parallel Mothers (Starz)
People We Hate at the Wedding
Saloum (AMC)
Sundown (Hulu)
The Swimmers (Netflix)
They Cloned Tyrone
Thirteen Lives
Thor: Love and Thunder (Disney+)
We Met in Virtual Reality
The Woman King (n/a)
Underwhelming / disappointing / plain bad
Barbarian (underwhelming)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Cheaper by the Dozen (plain bad)
No Exit (bad)
(Agatha Christie-inspired blizzard kidnapping thriller. Note: moviemakers, please stop using disconnected nail guns as mobile weapons capable of shooting semi-auto style projectiles thirty feet. Just dumbs everything down. 20221130
Spiderhead (not terrible, but disappointing in its mediocrity, especially considering it’s adapted from a George Saunders short story)
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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2022
My favourite 11 albums
a-ha - True North
Honorable Mention
coming soon
Disappointments & underperformers
coming soon
Haven’t listened / haven’t spent enough time with yet
Muse
Sharon Van Etten
Tracks
Dull - Asake
I’m In - a-ha
Snow On The Beach - Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey
Playlists by Month
January
Dull - Asake
February
March
Any Turn - Orville Peck
April
May
June
July
September
Organize - Asake
October
Snow On The Beach - Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey
I’m In - a-ha
November
December
2022 Happenings
February 24. Russia invades Ukraine, after weeks of anticipation and buildup and attempts to lay a pretext for invasion.