By the end of the month I won’t have named every 2022 movie I watched, but I’ll have come pretty damn close.
This week I’ve covered horror, international, animation, and the movies in my 11-40. A week from now I’ll count down my top ten. So that leaves the movies on the bottom half of my 2022 list.
I won’t list or comment on all of them, but I will call out movies from three categories: Perfectly Fine Romantic Comedies, Middling Superhero Sagas, and Disappointing Efforts by Notable Directors.
I’ve covered the horror, international and animated films of 2023, and now it’s time to tackle pretty much everything else.
As I write this I’ve seen 96 movies released in 2022, the most I’ve seen from any recent year and yet still a couple of dozen short of everything I want to see. Some of the titles I’m still waiting to catch up with include Till, The Whale, To Leslie, and a handful of foreign language and documentary releases.
In the meantime, I’m going to write a few words about the movies between #11-40 on my list, minus the titles I’ve already covered this week.
Continuing my look at the movies of 2022 that did not make my top ten list, today I’m giving a little love to the year in animation.
I missed a couple of the higher profile releases — namely, Minions: The Rise of Gru and The Bad Guys — but I did manage to catch a nice selection of animated films, including all of the Oscar nominees.
In addition to the wide range of themes and stories explored in these films, I was particularly impressed with the variety of animation styles. Those who dismiss these movies as “cartoons” are missing out on some of the most creative and visually impressive cinema around.
Continuing my look at the movies of 2022 that did not make my top ten list, today I’m going to focus on international films.
This will be a quick post because I haven’t seen nearly as many foreign language films as I’d like this year. That’s partly because the streamers have not made them as readily available as in previous years. In fact, three of the five movies nominated for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award currently have no U.S. distribution, in theaters or otherwise.
Attention, movie fans! We’ve reached that time of year when I turn the blog over to a celebration of the previous year in film, leading up to the Oscar ceremony on March 12.
Over the next five weeks I’ll write about my 2022 top ten, my favorite performances of the year, and my favorite use of music in last year’s films. But before I get any of that, I’ll spend this week writing quick blurbs about some of the other memorable movies I saw last year.
I’m kicking things off with a look at the horror movies of 2022. This is a genre perennially ignored by the Academy Awards, so I thought I’d give it some love out of the gate.
Meet Me In Montauk 