I just watched AFTERSUN thanks to your and Grierson and Leitch’s recommendations. So lovely and sad, and I balled my eyes out at the end. I’m curious if it will get any Oscar noms. Thanks y’all.
So glad! We love hearing that sort of thing. Paul Mescal has definitely been in the best actor conversation, and we gave Aftersun our editing award at LA Film Critics.
The only movie you see each time that feels different is TAR. The level of depth in Blanchett's performance and script is astounding. Best movie of the year for cinema lovers.
Christy... Alphabetical is a cop-out! Make a decision!!! 🤣🤣 I never understand how hard it is to rank things. Put a number next to the films... if it feels wrong, change it. My favorite films of 2022... (so far) 1. Triangle of Sadness 2. The Banshees of Inisherin 3. Blonde 4. Speak No Evil 5. Decision to Leave
Ok, here's mine: 1. The Northman 2. All Quiet on the Western Front 3. Avatar 2 4. Prey 5. RRR 6. Nope 7. Women Talking 8. Everything Everywhere All at Once 9. Emily the Criminal 10. She Said
I think Everything Everywhere All At Once was the best movie I saw that came out this year. I was kind of blown away by it, it was unlike anything I have ever seen. Roma was the best movie I saw this year period.
Great picks! A lot of movies I still wanna see in there like Aftersun and EO. I've seen a lot from 2022 - nearly 100 - and still feel like there's so much left to explore. What an exciting year. Here's my top 10: 1. After Yang 2. Everything Everywhere All At Once 3. Petite Manan 4. Decision to Leave 5. Benediction 6. The Quiet Girl 7. Prey 8. Happening 9. Pearl 10. RRR
My personal Top 25 (from the year I first visited Cannes onsite) 1. Everywhere Everything All At Once 2. The Quiet Girl 3. Aftersun 4. EO 5. The Banshees of Inishirin 6. Tar 7. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 8. Decision to Leave 9. Triangle of Sadness 10. Living 11. RRR 12. The Fabelmans 13. Bones and All 14. Glass Onion 15. Holy Spider 16. Moonage Daydream 17. Argentina, 1985 18. The Eight Mountains 19. All Quiet on the Western Front 20. The Batman 21. The Wonder 22. The Menu 23. This Much I Know To Be True 24. Pearl 25. X
A lot of my list overlaps with you guys (Decision to Leave and Aftersun are probably my top 2) so will just mention some other films that I haven't seen been talked about much, that deserve some consideration: - Mad God (my #3) - An Cailín Ciúin (A.K.A. The Quiet Girl) - The Innocents
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once 2. Top Gun: Maverick 3. The Rescue (Documentary) 4. Decision to Leave 5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 6. The Northman 7. Avatar: The Way of Water 8. The Banshees of Inisherin 9. Nope 10. ATHENA
Not a bad year for movies. Not great, but there are several gems in 2022. But here is my top 10: 1. Aftersun (Near perfect film, will bring you to tears) 2. Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff is a genius) 3. Emergency (Amazing film, most surprising of the year for me) 4. Triangle of Sadness (super funny and interesting) 5. Emily The Criminal (Aubrey Plaza won 2022, she dominated this film, and dominated White Lotus too, A+) 6. Banshees of Insherin (Martin McDonagh is a genius) 7. TAR (most aesthetically pleasing movie of the year) 8. Barbarian (best horror/thriller I've seen in years) 9. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2nd most surprising movie for me, absolutely great) 10. Breaking (John Boyega delivers yet another masterpiece of a performance) Honorable Mentions: Fall, Don't Make Me Go, Nope, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Causeaway, Do Revenge, Honor Society, Thirteen Lives, Hustle, Funny Pages, Top Gun Maverick, RRR, Windfall, Donkeyhead.
I really like you guys' lists, which made me wanna watch these films again! Yes, Alonso, Bros is one of the most underrated movies of the year. The script is so much more intricate and deeper than people think. Here is my top 10 of the year. I enjoyed 2022's movies in general. 1. Aftersun 2. Everything Everywhere All at Once 3. The Banshees of Inisherin 4. Babylon 5. Bros 6. GDT's Pinocchio 7. Elvis 8. Cha Cha Real Smooth 9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 10. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
I live in the UK so I haven't seen some recent releases in the US eg Tar and The Fablemans. Plus I saw some movies in 2022 that were released in the US in 2021. Some movies didn't make it to my local cinemas and I still haven't seen them on streaming. So these are my favourite movies seen in 2022. 1. The Quiet Girl 2. Top Gun : Maverick 3. Compartment No 6 4. Nitram 5. The Good Boss 6. Emily 7. Elvis 8. Girl Picture 9. La Mif 10. Aftersun 11. A Chiara 12. Happening 13. Decision to Leave 14. Murina 15 Boiling Point From 2021, Licorice Pizza, Red Rocket, Jockey and Benedetta would all be in contention.
My Top 10 Best of 2022 1. TÁR 2. The Quiet Girl (which is Ireland’s submission for International Feature) 3. Decision to Leave 4. Turning Red 5. Everything Everywhere All at Once 6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 7. Women Talking 8. After Yang 9. The Batman 10. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio I actually watched Hit the Road last year virtually at AFI Fest (It was one of the very few options they had, that and Petite Maman which did come out theatrically this year as well, but I put them on my list last year.) Although I do need to watch Hit the Road again, because maybe I missed something when I watched it. Also, I still need to see movies like EO (which finally came to my local indie/art house theater as of today), and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Yeah, Everything Everywhere All At Once was my #1. TÁR was very close. But, I felt like there were five or six from 2022 that would potentially be all-timers in the future.
To see Alonso (the quintessential hard to please Hollywood movie critic in my eyes) find so much joy in an Indian masala action musical movie tickles my bones. Great list this. Also, we need puss in boots 2 review you guys!
Great picks, I still have a lot to see but my favorites are: 1. Decision to Leave 2. Nope 3. Avatar 2 4. RRR 5. Mad God 5. Banshees of Inisherin 7. Barbarian 8. The Fabelmans 9. Tar 10. Triangle of Sadness
You guys are awesome. I haven't seen that many films, but the ones I loved were: 1. TAR, 2. The Fablemans, 3. Top Gun: Maverick, 4. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, 5. The Banshees of Inisherin, 6. Good luck to you, Leo Grande, 7. Bros 8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes on 9. The Triangle of Sadness, and 10. Fresh. Still need to see Decision to Leave, 13 Lives, Aftersun, and a few others.
I was surprised to see Everything Everywhere All At Once on one of your lists! Could have sworn you guys were kind of cold to it back in March heh. It was my favorite of the year from back when I saw it. Others would include The Outfit, Tar, Empire of Light, Emily tge Criminal, Sundown, Bones and All, Babylon, Banshees of Inish, All the Old Knives, Marcel the Shell. But I won't have a definitive list until at least mid March, so much doesn't come down my part on Tennessee.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is certainly my favorite. It’s like Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze made The Matrix. It made me feel for people with hotdog fingers.
My 5-way tie for #1: Bones and All, Everything Everywhere All at Once, RRR, Turning Red, and X Other faves: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Black Phone, Corsage, EO, Glass Onion, Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Happening, Living, The Menu, Nope, On the Count of Three, Petite Maman, GdT's Pinocchio, Pleasure, Tár, Till, The Whale, Women Talking and The Worst Person in the World (Yes, several of these are technically 2021 movies, but they weren't available in the US until this year.)
I haven't seen RRR (waiting for a theater hopefully), Women Talking, or Aftersun yet, all of which I think would be contenders, but here are my faves otherwise: 1. Tar 2. The Northman 3. Barbarian 4. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On 5. Hit the Road 6. Glass Onion 7. The Wonder 8. Inu-Oh 9. After Yang 10. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Honorable mention to Rothaniel. Favorite "special" of the year.
I think the tremendous work that is Phil Tippett's "Mad God" got overlooked thanks to releasing under the weight of so many other films, but for my money, it's one of the greatest animated achievements, and indeed one of the best cinematic achievements of the last few years. That one of the most celebrated SFX/stop-motion creators of his generation finally released a film that took him 30 years to make to so little fanfare kind of breaks my heart. I hope that Oscar voters will give it some love, as it did make the animated shortlist.
It one of those movies in which you can only appreciate on a surface level. It's a short movie, but surely feels like forever. And it never comes together.
@@MuhammadAhmad-oj6mf I wildly disagree, if anything I think it has too much going on beneath, it's saying so much about the corrupting nature of today's society and the futility of humanity's strive for utopia.
Nice to see Fire of Love on someone else’s top ten list! I saw it in IMAX. Incredible! Here’s my top ten for 2022 and some honourable mentions… 1. The Beatles: Rooftop Concert IMAX 2. Everything Everywhere All At Once 3. The Banshees of Inisherin 4. Nightmare Alley 5. The Northman 6. Glass Onion 7. Watcher 8. The Menu 9. Fire of Love 10. Top Gun: Maverick _Honourable mentions:_ - Moonage Daydream - Aftersun - Barbarian - Operation Mincemeat - Decision to Leave - Blonde - Fresh - You Won’t Be Alone - The Batman - Hatching - Mad God
Great list, FWIW here is my top 30: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - 95 The Batman - 94 RRR - 93 Top Gun: Maverick - 92 Decision to Leave - 92 TAR - 92 The Banshees of Inisherin - 92 All Quiet on the Western Front - 89 The Northman - 89 C'mon C'mon - 90 Parallel Mother's - 89 Nightmare Alley - 88 Fire of Love - 88 Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio - 87 Red Rocket - 87 Elvis - 87 On the Count of Three - 87 Bones and All - 86 Flee - 84 Barbarian - 84 The Quiet Girl - 84 Cha Cha Real Smooth - 84 Pearl - 84 Mass - 84 After Yang - 84 Hit The Road - 84 Great Freedom - 84 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - 83 Hustle - 83 X - 82 Cheers
My 2022 List 1. After Yang 2. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once 3. Aftersun 4. The Banshees of Inisherin 5. Tar 6. Armageddon Time 7. RRR 8. Barbarian 9. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 10. Prey
My list, thus far, is SO similar to yours, Christy, which it never has been in the past. I’m left wondering if you might now be the critic with whose tastes my own tastes most closely align. That was A.O. Scott for many, many years, and most days these days I would say it’s now Justin Chang, but I’ll have to keep you in the mix. In case you’re curious, my top 10 (of the 56 releases from 2022 that I’ve seen) are: 1. After Yang 2. Fire of Love 3. Blonde 4. Elvis 5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 6. Catherine Called Birdy 7. Decision to Leave 8. The Banshees of Inisherin 9. You Won’t Be Alone 10. Top Gun: Maverick
I still have a few more movies to watch, but here's my top 10 as of now: 1. Pearl 2. X 3. Turning Red 4. The Batman 5. Top Gun: Maverick 6. Violent Night 7. The Menu 8. Prey 9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 10. Crimes of the Future
Do you have a top list just based on your original scores? Love top list, i have just passed on more movies than i should have. Esp when i hear too much inside baseball drama, which i reso to unfollow as many as i can this year
All mine are different. My number order would change, so I'm skipping that: - Bullet Train - Close (A24) - The Black Phone - The Batman - Avatar The Way Of Water - Prey - The Stranger - Causeway - Thirteen Lives - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Here’s my personal ranking! But first here are the films I haven’t seen yet that might make it on the list: X, Pearl, Men, Bullet Train, Bones & All, Smile, Till, Thirteen Lives, Women Talking, RRR, Triangle of Sadness, Hustle, You Can Live Forever, The Quiet Girl, The Outfit, Living, Puss In Boots the Last Wish, The Whale, Babylon, A Man Called Otto. 1. Tár 2. The Batman 3. Avatar 2 4. Nope 5. Top Gun: Maverick 6. Glass Onion 7. Wakanda Forever 8. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once 9. Elvis 10. The Menu
There's still a small handful of films I haven't seen yet (The Quiet Girl, Return to Seoul, Master Gardener), but as it stands my top 10 is: 10. Moonage Daydream 9. Decision to Leave 8. Close 7. Armageddon Time 6. Everything Everywhere All at Once 5. TÁR 4. The Banshees of Inisherin 3. Aftersun 2. Leila's Brothers (god, this movie needs a wider release already so everyone can start gushing about it) 1. Broker. Also, shout out to (among others) EO, Nope, The Northman, No Bears, One Fine Morning, R.M.N., Tori & Lokita and Triangle of Sadness
Andor isn't a movie, but it's my favorite cinematic experience from last year. The year before that, my favorite was absolutely The Green Knight!! Thank you for giving me lots to watch!! 🥰 How do you spell the foreign, animal film? I think I missed it, if it was onscreen.. 🙈
Well, I've only seen 38 films from 2022 so far, and most of the ones you mentioned haven't made it to my eyes yet. But of the ones I've seen, here's my 10 Favorite (in something like an order): 1. Everything Everywhere All At Once 2. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On 3. The Wonder 4. The Banshees of Inisherin 5. Top Gun: Maverick 6. Glass Onion 7. Avatar: The Way of Water 8. Nope 9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 10. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
TOP 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2022: 1. Top Gun: Maverick 2. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio 3. The Fablemans 4. The Northman 5. The Batman 6. Cha Cha Real Smooth 7. Avatar: The Way Of Water 8. Scream 5 9. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On 10. Sr.
Apart from the artsy moving pictures I will plant a flag for pop-cinema in the form of Marvel's Shang-Chi and Eternals which were two highlights for me this year. The Menu is great and I'm currently trying to finish Crimes of the Future, but it's a lot to digest...
I only saw 3 movies in the theater, West Side Story, Bros and Banshees of Inishirin and loved them all. I think when I watch a streaming movie it often doesn't stick with me. It isn't until they're mentioned that I think, oh, I saw that! I tend not to remember the titles.
Im always annoyed by those comments of "you hate everything, why are you a critic". It's such a tired thing to say. Negativity is always the draw, if you liked seven out of ten films, some people will describe that as you disliking three. Those three indeed do suck, and deserve what comes with making a bad movie, but God forbid you do your job and shit on it lol.
Pearl is my #1, followed closely by Banshees of Inisherin! Glad to see both of them on your list, Christy. Also glad I’m not the only one who still has my Christmas tree up! Lol!
I'm still trying to complete my list, but at this moment, if I had to pick my personal choice for #1 it would have to be Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Of course "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is my top choice. The rest in no particular order. "The Banshees of Inisherin" "Marcel the Shell" "X" "Pearl" "The Black Phone" "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" "Emily the Criminal" "The Northman" and I will throw "Bodies Bodies Bodies" in there as well. "Top Gun: Maverick" was a blast to see in theaters.
It’s really weird this year ….I liked certain specific TV series this year not so much the movies but I like Guillermo Tel Toros Pinocchio…Colin Ferrel in Banshee of inisherin ..I liked Bros and I want to see Tar eventually
My Top 25: (Note: There Are Some Controversial Picks Here But I Had To Go With My Gut) 25. The Whale 24. Blonde 23. Till 22. Elvis 21. Armageddon Time 20. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 19. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande 18. Clerks III 17. Sr./Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery (Tie) 16. Bones And All 15. Causeway 14. The Menu 13. The Banshees Of Inisherin 12. Aftersun 11. A Love Song 10. Babylon 9. The Fabelmans 8. Petite Maman 7. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio 6. Everything Everywhere All At Once 5. Decision To Leave 4. TÁR 3. The Cathedral 2. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On 1. The Worst Person In The World Also I Should Mention Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood Would Be 26 Great Lists Guys!!! I Saw Nearly 250 Films This Year So I Had A Lot Of Runner Ups Including RRR Which Was In There For A While!!! Anyways Happy New Year!!!
My top 5: 1) Top Gun: Maverick, 2) Scream, 3) The Batman, 4) The Fablemans, 5) X. If I had to pick a 6th? Jackass Forever 🤣 (it just made me laugh so goddamn hard)
Yes yes yes to Fire Of Love. Had only 1 showing here at my local Cinemark & I went. So glad I went. Incredible. Everything Everywhere. The Whale. Pearl/X. Banshees. Stutz. Nope was better than I expected. Bullet Train was fun. This Place Rules was good. Bodies Bodies Bodies was fun. Red Rocket came out at the end of 2021. That was great. Tár & Bones And All could and should have been way better. Might like them better on rewatches.
OK, Banshees of Inisherin. Here's my problem with this film, and I am curious how you got beyond this. It is suspension of disbelief. A person deciding rather late in life that he doesn't really care for a long term friend and that friend having a really difficult time accepting this is fine. However, mutilating one's self in response to the jilted friend's unwanted overtures is simply not believable. In the history of time has any person ever behaved this way in similar circumstances? The behavior just did not seem to be recognizably human. Thus, after the first half of the film, which I thought was charming, I was just completely taken out of the narrative because it seemed so false and artificial.
@@BreakfastAllDay Well, it was a really bad year with too many directors way past their prime (Park Chan-Wook, Östlund, and many others). Three films stand out for me. EO, Enys Men, and The Woodcutter Story. My other choices are Three Thousand Numbered Pieces, Sick of Myself, Tchaikovsky's Wife, Rule 34 (with an extremely gutsy performance by Sol Miranda), Six Weeks, Mediterranean Fever, and The Taste of Water.
I'm with Christy here. Banshee of Inisherin was probably my favorite film last year. The great thing about Pearl is that the first half of the film we're kind of on her side and hating her mother. Then there is the dinner scene where the mother says i know who you really are and what you do in private and it flips the movie. We're reminded how crazy Pearl is. It's not the mothers fault, she's just trying to protect the world from Pearl. Hated the whole x-factor part of the film. Felt so out of place in what is a historic film
Loved RRR, it brilliantly combines soap opera, a strong anticolonial message, a bromance for the ages, exciting and logic defying action scenes, not to mention Naacho Naacho, one of the best musical numbers I've seen in the recent years.
How on earth is Tár about “a woman in a male-dominated world”? There is no hint of that in the movie. If anything, one of the themes of the movie is that women in positions of power are quite capable of the same mistakes and wrongdoings usually seen with men. Also, how is it “campy”?
@@gchudasamadarshit9111 it's overall Impact is definitely #1, I do agree the 2nd half wasn't that well realised & it's sketchy. It's definitely not the best movie though of 2022, but it's definitely the most impactful one.
I am mystified by the acclaim of RRR that I have doubts about the sincerity of the praise. I found RRR to be nearly unwatchable - cheesy, bad effects, clichéd, horrible acting, and silly dialogue. It was like watching a D grade movie that gets chopped into reaction GIFs for social media.
RRR is just a generic Bollywood movie. It's the most overrated film of the decade. Everything that people love this movie for is just the genre cliches of Bollywood cinema, it's kinda funny watching people freak out over it. I've seen that Indian people feel the same way about the West's reaction to it. It's just a movie made by a guy who wanted to make the best Mel Gibson movie he could in Bollywood fashion, because where he grew up, all he could watch were generic and dated Hollwood action movies (not very good ones either.) I think that people think it's much smarter than it actually is.
Wow no love for Argentina 1985. The Argentinian movie is going to win the Golden Globes and Oscars this year. It's better than Decision To Leave and RRR.
In literally no way is Argentina, 1985 a more accomplished or more interesting film than Decision to Leave. It’s good, but it’s almost so conventional as to be dull.
@@OldBluesChapterandVerse Have to agree, it's a well made movie sure and I can understand why it might really resonate with people from Argentina but as far as court drama films go it felt rather run of the mil, not bad at all but just nothing super special.
I just watched AFTERSUN thanks to your and Grierson and Leitch’s recommendations. So lovely and sad, and I balled my eyes out at the end. I’m curious if it will get any Oscar noms. Thanks y’all.
So glad! We love hearing that sort of thing. Paul Mescal has definitely been in the best actor conversation, and we gave Aftersun our editing award at LA Film Critics.
The only movie you see each time that feels different is TAR. The level of depth in Blanchett's performance and script is astounding. Best movie of the year for cinema lovers.
Christy... Alphabetical is a cop-out! Make a decision!!! 🤣🤣 I never understand how hard it is to rank things. Put a number next to the films... if it feels wrong, change it.
My favorite films of 2022... (so far)
1. Triangle of Sadness
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Blonde
4. Speak No Evil
5. Decision to Leave
Exactly, 5-8 could essentially be interchangeable depending on the day.
Ok, here's mine:
1. The Northman
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
3. Avatar 2
4. Prey
5. RRR
6. Nope
7. Women Talking
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Emily the Criminal
10. She Said
I think Everything Everywhere All At Once was the best movie I saw that came out this year. I was kind of blown away by it, it was unlike anything I have ever seen. Roma was the best movie I saw this year period.
Great picks! A lot of movies I still wanna see in there like Aftersun and EO. I've seen a lot from 2022 - nearly 100 - and still feel like there's so much left to explore. What an exciting year. Here's my top 10:
1. After Yang
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once
3. Petite Manan
4. Decision to Leave
5. Benediction
6. The Quiet Girl
7. Prey
8. Happening
9. Pearl
10. RRR
Nice to see the dance number from RRR be the thumbnail. A definite highlight in 2022 for film
So fun!
My personal Top 25 (from the year I first visited Cannes onsite)
1. Everywhere Everything All At Once
2. The Quiet Girl
3. Aftersun
4. EO
5. The Banshees of Inishirin
6. Tar
7. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
8. Decision to Leave
9. Triangle of Sadness
10. Living
11. RRR
12. The Fabelmans
13. Bones and All
14. Glass Onion
15. Holy Spider
16. Moonage Daydream
17. Argentina, 1985
18. The Eight Mountains
19. All Quiet on the Western Front
20. The Batman
21. The Wonder
22. The Menu
23. This Much I Know To Be True
24. Pearl
25. X
RRR and Everything, Everywhere were so amazing.
Both so fun.
A lot of my list overlaps with you guys (Decision to Leave and Aftersun are probably my top 2) so will just mention some other films that I haven't seen been talked about much, that deserve some consideration:
- Mad God (my #3)
- An Cailín Ciúin (A.K.A. The Quiet Girl)
- The Innocents
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. The Rescue (Documentary)
4. Decision to Leave
5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
6. The Northman
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Nope
10. ATHENA
Not a bad year for movies. Not great, but there are several gems in 2022. But here is my top 10:
1. Aftersun (Near perfect film, will bring you to tears)
2. Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff is a genius)
3. Emergency (Amazing film, most surprising of the year for me)
4. Triangle of Sadness (super funny and interesting)
5. Emily The Criminal (Aubrey Plaza won 2022, she dominated this film, and dominated White Lotus too, A+)
6. Banshees of Insherin (Martin McDonagh is a genius)
7. TAR (most aesthetically pleasing movie of the year)
8. Barbarian (best horror/thriller I've seen in years)
9. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2nd most surprising movie for me, absolutely great)
10. Breaking (John Boyega delivers yet another masterpiece of a performance)
Honorable Mentions: Fall, Don't Make Me Go, Nope, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Causeaway, Do Revenge, Honor Society, Thirteen Lives, Hustle, Funny Pages, Top Gun Maverick, RRR, Windfall, Donkeyhead.
I really like you guys' lists, which made me wanna watch these films again!
Yes, Alonso, Bros is one of the most underrated movies of the year. The script is so much more intricate and deeper than people think.
Here is my top 10 of the year. I enjoyed 2022's movies in general.
1. Aftersun
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Babylon
5. Bros
6. GDT's Pinocchio
7. Elvis
8. Cha Cha Real Smooth
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
10. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Aftersun?
I found Tar hard to follow and a bit of a chore to watch at times, but Cate Blanchett's performance is worth the watch.
I live in the UK so I haven't seen some recent releases in the US eg Tar and The Fablemans. Plus I saw some movies in 2022 that were released in the US in 2021. Some movies didn't make it to my local cinemas and I still haven't seen them on streaming. So these are my favourite movies seen in 2022.
1. The Quiet Girl
2. Top Gun : Maverick
3. Compartment No 6
4. Nitram
5. The Good Boss
6. Emily
7. Elvis
8. Girl Picture
9. La Mif
10. Aftersun
11. A Chiara
12. Happening
13. Decision to Leave
14. Murina
15 Boiling Point
From 2021, Licorice Pizza, Red Rocket, Jockey and Benedetta would all be in contention.
My Top 10 Best of 2022
1. TÁR
2. The Quiet Girl (which is Ireland’s submission for International Feature)
3. Decision to Leave
4. Turning Red
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7. Women Talking
8. After Yang
9. The Batman
10. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
I actually watched Hit the Road last year virtually at AFI Fest (It was one of the very few options they had, that and Petite Maman which did come out theatrically this year as well, but I put them on my list last year.) Although I do need to watch Hit the Road again, because maybe I missed something when I watched it.
Also, I still need to see movies like EO (which finally came to my local indie/art house theater as of today), and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Yeah, Everything Everywhere All At Once was my #1. TÁR was very close. But, I felt like there were five or six from 2022 that would potentially be all-timers in the future.
I am so grateful to Alonzo for recommending Hit the Road, that film broke me.
It's so great.
Oh wow. It is great to see you guys are back at it. I did miss watching you guys on what the flick with tyt. Say where th jar of water? 😆
So glad you've found us again! We've been here at Breakfast All Day for about four years now.
To see Alonso (the quintessential hard to please Hollywood movie critic in my eyes) find so much joy in an Indian masala action musical movie tickles my bones.
Great list this.
Also, we need puss in boots 2 review you guys!
Hopefully this week! It's really fun. Thanks, Kunal.
Great picks, I still have a lot to see but my favorites are:
1. Decision to Leave
2. Nope
3. Avatar 2
4. RRR
5. Mad God
5. Banshees of Inisherin
7. Barbarian
8. The Fabelmans
9. Tar
10. Triangle of Sadness
You guys are awesome. I haven't seen that many films, but the ones I loved were: 1. TAR, 2. The Fablemans, 3. Top Gun: Maverick, 4. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, 5. The Banshees of Inisherin, 6. Good luck to you, Leo Grande, 7. Bros 8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes on 9. The Triangle of Sadness, and 10. Fresh. Still need to see Decision to Leave, 13 Lives, Aftersun, and a few others.
An excellent list, thanks!
I was surprised to see Everything Everywhere All At Once on one of your lists! Could have sworn you guys were kind of cold to it back in March heh. It was my favorite of the year from back when I saw it. Others would include The Outfit, Tar, Empire of Light, Emily tge Criminal, Sundown, Bones and All, Babylon, Banshees of Inish, All the Old Knives, Marcel the Shell. But I won't have a definitive list until at least mid March, so much doesn't come down my part on Tennessee.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is certainly my favorite. It’s like Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze made The Matrix. It made me feel for people with hotdog fingers.
It's so bad
I not for the first time feel like I haven't seen much when it.comes to movies made this year. But everything I did see I loved.
My 5-way tie for #1: Bones and All, Everything Everywhere All at Once, RRR, Turning Red, and X
Other faves: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Black Phone, Corsage, EO, Glass Onion, Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Happening, Living, The Menu, Nope, On the Count of Three, Petite Maman, GdT's Pinocchio, Pleasure, Tár, Till, The Whale, Women Talking and The Worst Person in the World
(Yes, several of these are technically 2021 movies, but they weren't available in the US until this year.)
I haven't seen RRR (waiting for a theater hopefully), Women Talking, or Aftersun yet, all of which I think would be contenders, but here are my faves otherwise:
1. Tar
2. The Northman
3. Barbarian
4. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
5. Hit the Road
6. Glass Onion
7. The Wonder
8. Inu-Oh
9. After Yang
10. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Honorable mention to Rothaniel. Favorite "special" of the year.
I think the tremendous work that is Phil Tippett's "Mad God" got overlooked thanks to releasing under the weight of so many other films, but for my money, it's one of the greatest animated achievements, and indeed one of the best cinematic achievements of the last few years. That one of the most celebrated SFX/stop-motion creators of his generation finally released a film that took him 30 years to make to so little fanfare kind of breaks my heart. I hope that Oscar voters will give it some love, as it did make the animated shortlist.
It one of those movies in which you can only appreciate on a surface level. It's a short movie, but surely feels like forever. And it never comes together.
@@MuhammadAhmad-oj6mf I wildly disagree, if anything I think it has too much going on beneath, it's saying so much about the corrupting nature of today's society and the futility of humanity's strive for utopia.
@@WhatRyansReading Well I am happy for you, I did not get anything from that movie.
Nice to see Fire of Love on someone else’s top ten list! I saw it in IMAX. Incredible!
Here’s my top ten for 2022 and some honourable mentions…
1. The Beatles: Rooftop Concert IMAX
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Nightmare Alley
5. The Northman
6. Glass Onion
7. Watcher
8. The Menu
9. Fire of Love
10. Top Gun: Maverick
_Honourable mentions:_
- Moonage Daydream
- Aftersun
- Barbarian
- Operation Mincemeat
- Decision to Leave
- Blonde
- Fresh
- You Won’t Be Alone
- The Batman
- Hatching
- Mad God
All great picks! Thanks Thomas.
Great list, FWIW here is my top 30:
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - 95
The Batman - 94
RRR - 93
Top Gun: Maverick - 92
Decision to Leave - 92
TAR - 92
The Banshees of Inisherin - 92
All Quiet on the Western Front - 89
The Northman - 89
C'mon C'mon - 90
Parallel Mother's - 89
Nightmare Alley - 88
Fire of Love - 88
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio - 87
Red Rocket - 87
Elvis - 87
On the Count of Three - 87
Bones and All - 86
Flee - 84
Barbarian - 84
The Quiet Girl - 84
Cha Cha Real Smooth - 84
Pearl - 84
Mass - 84
After Yang - 84
Hit The Road - 84
Great Freedom - 84
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - 83
Hustle - 83
X - 82
Cheers
You gave them all numbers, you are organized! We loved On the Count of Three too, glad you saw it. Thanks, Tim.
My 2022 List
1. After Yang
2. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
3. Aftersun
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Tar
6. Armageddon Time
7. RRR
8. Barbarian
9. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
10. Prey
Ooh, Prey! That's a good one. And of course Barbarian was great. Thanks, Dylan.
Glad to see Apollo 10 1/2 here. It is so overlooked.
My list, thus far, is SO similar to yours, Christy, which it never has been in the past. I’m left wondering if you might now be the critic with whose tastes my own tastes most closely align. That was A.O. Scott for many, many years, and most days these days I would say it’s now Justin Chang, but I’ll have to keep you in the mix. In case you’re curious, my top 10 (of the 56 releases from 2022 that I’ve seen) are:
1. After Yang
2. Fire of Love
3. Blonde
4. Elvis
5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
6. Catherine Called Birdy
7. Decision to Leave
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
9. You Won’t Be Alone
10. Top Gun: Maverick
Justin is always excellent! Thanks for sharing your picks.
Glad to see love for Apollo 10 1/2, my favorite of the year!
Great choice!
I still have a few more movies to watch, but here's my top 10 as of now:
1. Pearl
2. X
3. Turning Red
4. The Batman
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. Violent Night
7. The Menu
8. Prey
9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
10. Crimes of the Future
Do you have a top list just based on your original scores? Love top list, i have just passed on more movies than i should have. Esp when i hear too much inside baseball drama, which i reso to unfollow as many as i can this year
All mine are different. My number order would change, so I'm skipping that:
- Bullet Train
- Close (A24)
- The Black Phone
- The Batman
- Avatar The Way Of Water
- Prey
- The Stranger
- Causeway
- Thirteen Lives
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Here’s my personal ranking! But first here are the films I haven’t seen yet that might make it on the list: X, Pearl, Men, Bullet Train, Bones & All, Smile, Till, Thirteen Lives, Women Talking, RRR, Triangle of Sadness, Hustle, You Can Live Forever, The Quiet Girl, The Outfit, Living, Puss In Boots the Last Wish, The Whale, Babylon, A Man Called Otto.
1. Tár
2. The Batman
3. Avatar 2
4. Nope
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. Glass Onion
7. Wakanda Forever
8. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
9. Elvis
10. The Menu
I’d share some love for Nitram, Mad God, Banshees, Soft & Quiet, Tar, Everything Everywhere and the Stranger. No perfect 10s but these all scored 9.
I love that you love RRR.
I still have to see some but my top ones are:
Triangle of sadness
Everything everywhere all at once
Tár
Banshees of inisherin
Cha cha real smooth
Thanks Jeremy!
I’m so glad Pearl made your list. X, Pearl and Emily The Criminal were three stand outs for me.
All great! Thanks, Kate.
Please also do worst of 2022. That’s always fun
Uploading as we speak!
There's still a small handful of films I haven't seen yet (The Quiet Girl, Return to Seoul, Master Gardener), but as it stands my top 10 is:
10. Moonage Daydream
9. Decision to Leave
8. Close
7. Armageddon Time
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. TÁR
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Aftersun
2. Leila's Brothers (god, this movie needs a wider release already so everyone can start gushing about it)
1. Broker.
Also, shout out to (among others) EO, Nope, The Northman, No Bears, One Fine Morning, R.M.N., Tori & Lokita and Triangle of Sadness
Andor isn't a movie, but it's my favorite cinematic experience from last year. The year before that, my favorite was absolutely The Green Knight!! Thank you for giving me lots to watch!! 🥰 How do you spell the foreign, animal film? I think I missed it, if it was onscreen.. 🙈
It's EO. Thanks for watching! We loved Andor too.
@@BreakfastAllDay 🙏 Thank you!!! 📺
My favorites were After Yang, Del Toro's Pinocchio, The Northman, Banshees, Crimes of the Future and my number 1 was The Menu.
All great choices!
Well, I've only seen 38 films from 2022 so far, and most of the ones you mentioned haven't made it to my eyes yet. But of the ones I've seen, here's my 10 Favorite (in something like an order):
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
3. The Wonder
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. Glass Onion
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. Nope
9. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
10. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
That's a great list! 38 is a lot more movies than most people see in a year.
TOP 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2022:
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
3. The Fablemans
4. The Northman
5. The Batman
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth
7. Avatar: The Way Of Water
8. Scream 5
9. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
10. Sr.
Fresh, The Menu and Cha cha real smooth.
Fresh was fun!
Is it because Maverick is not very arty, the reason why it is not on lists? I think it is a very honest & one of the best movies of the year.
Not at all. It's a totally entertaining movie. We just liked other movies more.
Apart from the artsy moving pictures I will plant a flag for pop-cinema in the form of Marvel's Shang-Chi and Eternals which were two highlights for me this year. The Menu is great and I'm currently trying to finish Crimes of the Future, but it's a lot to digest...
Shang-Chi was a blast.
I only saw 3 movies in the theater, West Side Story, Bros and Banshees of Inishirin and loved them all. I think when I watch a streaming movie it often doesn't stick with me. It isn't until they're mentioned that I think, oh, I saw that! I tend not to remember the titles.
Im always annoyed by those comments of "you hate everything, why are you a critic". It's such a tired thing to say.
Negativity is always the draw, if you liked seven out of ten films, some people will describe that as you disliking three.
Those three indeed do suck, and deserve what comes with making a bad movie, but God forbid you do your job and shit on it lol.
Pearl is my #1, followed closely by Banshees of Inisherin! Glad to see both of them on your list, Christy. Also glad I’m not the only one who still has my Christmas tree up! Lol!
It's coming down on Sunday 😔
@@BreakfastAllDay I shall take mine down this weekend too in solidarity
FRESH is my number 1 movie of the year
I'm still trying to complete my list, but at this moment, if I had to pick my personal choice for #1 it would have to be Everything Everywhere All At Once.
A great one!
1/10
"Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood"
6/10
"Bros"
7/10
"No Bears"
9/10
"Everything Everywhere All at Once"
"RRR"
Thanks for your thoughts!
Very surprised y’all didn’t review RESURRECTION which has Rebecca Hall also doing an amazing single-take monologue!
A nasty little horror movie!
We kept meaning to!
Of course "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is my top choice. The rest in no particular order.
"The Banshees of Inisherin"
"Marcel the Shell"
"X" "Pearl"
"The Black Phone"
"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent"
"Emily the Criminal"
"The Northman" and I will throw "Bodies Bodies Bodies" in there as well.
"Top Gun: Maverick" was a blast to see in theaters.
Those are great! We loved Emily the Criminal. Thanks James.
RRR- King of movies
RRR- The most entertaining Flick from EARRRTH
We loved it!
It’s really weird this year ….I liked certain specific TV series this year not so much the movies but I like Guillermo Tel Toros Pinocchio…Colin Ferrel in Banshee of inisherin ..I liked Bros and I want to see Tar eventually
Same top 2 as Alonso but in opposite order, and I had barbarian at 3
Barbarian is great too!
My Top 25:
(Note: There Are Some Controversial Picks Here But I Had To Go With My Gut)
25. The Whale
24. Blonde
23. Till
22. Elvis
21. Armageddon Time
20. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
19. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
18. Clerks III
17. Sr./Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery (Tie)
16. Bones And All
15. Causeway
14. The Menu
13. The Banshees Of Inisherin
12. Aftersun
11. A Love Song
10. Babylon
9. The Fabelmans
8. Petite Maman
7. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
6. Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. Decision To Leave
4. TÁR
3. The Cathedral
2. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
1. The Worst Person In The World
Also I Should Mention Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood Would Be 26
Great Lists Guys!!!
I Saw Nearly 250 Films This Year So I Had A Lot Of Runner Ups Including RRR Which Was In There For A While!!!
Anyways Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year to you! What's controversial, Clerks III?
@@BreakfastAllDay
blonde, the whale, babylon all were pretty polarizing but i suppose i’m not the only one who has them on a list
RRR is fabbb ❤
That is a great word for it.
My top 5: 1) Top Gun: Maverick, 2) Scream, 3) The Batman, 4) The Fablemans, 5) X. If I had to pick a 6th? Jackass Forever 🤣 (it just made me laugh so goddamn hard)
Though it might induce laughs my #1 was Top Gun: Maverick but close #2 EO followed by Everything Everywhere and Banshees
All great!
Yes yes yes to Fire Of Love. Had only 1 showing here at my local Cinemark & I went. So glad I went. Incredible.
Everything Everywhere.
The Whale.
Pearl/X.
Banshees.
Stutz.
Nope was better than I expected.
Bullet Train was fun.
This Place Rules was good.
Bodies Bodies Bodies was fun.
Red Rocket came out at the end of 2021. That was great.
Tár & Bones And All could and should have been way better. Might like them better on rewatches.
Thanks for your picks!
We need a ranking 😉
OK, Banshees of Inisherin. Here's my problem with this film, and I am curious how you got beyond this. It is suspension of disbelief. A person deciding rather late in life that he doesn't really care for a long term friend and that friend having a really difficult time accepting this is fine. However, mutilating one's self in response to the jilted friend's unwanted overtures is simply not believable. In the history of time has any person ever behaved this way in similar circumstances? The behavior just did not seem to be recognizably human. Thus, after the first half of the film, which I thought was charming, I was just completely taken out of the narrative because it seemed so false and artificial.
The finger chopping movie made the list!..it was well done for a horror movie😂
Instead of top 10 lists do critics use tier lists?
That was a pretty sad list. At least you mentioned EO. One of the three best films of the year. I guess that Bros was ironical.
What would you put on yours?
@@BreakfastAllDay Well, it was a really bad year with too many directors way past their prime (Park Chan-Wook, Östlund, and many others). Three films stand out for me. EO, Enys Men, and The Woodcutter Story. My other choices are Three Thousand Numbered Pieces, Sick of Myself, Tchaikovsky's Wife, Rule 34 (with an extremely gutsy performance by Sol Miranda), Six Weeks, Mediterranean Fever, and The Taste of Water.
So many piggyback rides in Alonso's top 2!
I'm with Christy here. Banshee of Inisherin was probably my favorite film last year.
The great thing about Pearl is that the first half of the film we're kind of on her side and hating her mother. Then there is the dinner scene where the mother says i know who you really are and what you do in private and it flips the movie. We're reminded how crazy Pearl is. It's not the mothers fault, she's just trying to protect the world from Pearl. Hated the whole x-factor part of the film. Felt so out of place in what is a historic film
It’s certainly not Amsterdam.
Omg Pearl yes! 😂
SO good.
Spoiler Alert for Glass Onion during the ad at the end!
Oops, sorry Shelby! But it's been on Netflix for a couple weeks now. Hope it was sufficiently out of context.
Loved RRR, it brilliantly combines soap opera, a strong anticolonial message, a bromance for the ages, exciting and logic defying action scenes, not to mention Naacho Naacho, one of the best musical numbers I've seen in the recent years.
An anti-colonial message that in turn punches down on Adivasis is not strong by any stretch of the imagination.
Not a fan of the Miranda July narration...at all. Sorry Christy.
It's OK!
How on earth is Tár about “a woman in a male-dominated world”? There is no hint of that in the movie. If anything, one of the themes of the movie is that women in positions of power are quite capable of the same mistakes and wrongdoings usually seen with men.
Also, how is it “campy”?
I loved the fight scenes in RRR but everything in between was awful and it was far too long.
No love for Top Gun Maverick?😂
We enjoyed it a lot! We just like these films better.
@@BreakfastAllDay fair enough! Good list
Wow Christy you are beautiful ❤️💕
I agree #1 is definitely RRR.
I'm sure others don't have it as their #1 or only in their top 10.
But no movie made u talk about more than RRR in 2022.
@@gchudasamadarshit9111 it's overall Impact is definitely #1, I do agree the 2nd half wasn't that well realised & it's sketchy. It's definitely not the best movie though of 2022, but it's definitely the most impactful one.
I am mystified by the acclaim of RRR that I have doubts about the sincerity of the praise.
I found RRR to be nearly unwatchable - cheesy, bad effects, clichéd, horrible acting, and silly dialogue. It was like watching a D grade movie that gets chopped into reaction GIFs for social media.
We had so much fun!
Aftersun and Decision to Leave are probably my top 2 films of the year but no film did I have more fun watching than RRR!
@@ZombieReflexes All great in very different ways!
RRR is just a generic Bollywood movie. It's the most overrated film of the decade. Everything that people love this movie for is just the genre cliches of Bollywood cinema, it's kinda funny watching people freak out over it. I've seen that Indian people feel the same way about the West's reaction to it. It's just a movie made by a guy who wanted to make the best Mel Gibson movie he could in Bollywood fashion, because where he grew up, all he could watch were generic and dated Hollwood action movies (not very good ones either.) I think that people think it's much smarter than it actually is.
Broker and not sure how everyone isn't talking about it
It's great! Song Kang-ho is heartbreaking.
RRR🤮
Terrible list
Wow no love for Argentina 1985. The Argentinian movie is going to win the Golden Globes and Oscars this year. It's better than Decision To Leave and RRR.
In literally no way is Argentina, 1985 a more accomplished or more interesting film than Decision to Leave. It’s good, but it’s almost so conventional as to be dull.
@@OldBluesChapterandVerse Have to agree, it's a well made movie sure and I can understand why it might really resonate with people from Argentina but as far as court drama films go it felt rather run of the mil, not bad at all but just nothing super special.