Hello movie-going friends! Merry Christmas, or whatever your winter salutation of choice is!
When I officially launched this site on July 9 with an archive of a few hundred reviews, I promised to write a 500+ word film review every day for as long as I could keep up the streak. Earlier this month, I started losing steam with some childcare challenges and the encroaching holidays, and decided to end my streak at 150 days and reviews.
By the numbers
A few stats on those 150 reviews:
- Date range: 7/9/22-12/5/22
- Total words written: 119,735
- Average “Is It Good?” Rating: 5.07 (“Good”)
- Oldest movie: Poor Pierot (1892)
- Number of 2022 movies reviewed: 49
- “Tour De Good” Masterpieces reviewed:
What’s next?
I’ll be writing up a look back on 2022 and a look ahead to 2023 sometime around New Year’s. In the meantime, you can expect regular reviews once I escape the Christmas rush. I caught up with a lot of the year’s most heralded releases recently, which will shake up my 2022 rankings once I get those films rated and reviewed — some of which may come as abbreviated capsules. (You can always keep up with what I’m watching via Letterboxd!)
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5 replies on “Happy Holidays! – Looking Back on 150 Consecutive Days of Reviews”
2022: hot or not? I say hot, but I could be merely overresponding to an okay year after two un-years.
I’m also mortified how few new 2022 releases I’ve actually seen and how many I earnestly want to catch up with.
2022 has been consistently warm and sunny. Lots of movies I like a lot. Alas, no movies I’m 100% over the moon about (I know you are strongly pro-EEAAO, and that’s around the top of my annual ranking as well, but with some ambivalence).
Yeah, it looked like a lot very goods, but nothing full marks. I dunno how you evaluate things, maybe I’m too loose with it, but a year without a single 10/10 (or equivalent fraction) would be a bummer. Cough 2020. Even just three is barely reaching adequacy, though it’s been such a solid year in the not-quite-masterpiece range, and gratifyingly consistently-paced (2019 turned out okay but only in, like, January), it’s hard to be disappointed.
I tend to be very stingy, perhaps too stingy, with my top rating, and consider it a win if I designate one film per year with it. If i’m feeling swept away, I usually err on the side of caution, so often only give that highest score retrospectively by bumping up the previous score on a rewatch.
I do think 2022 was spottier until the last couple months, but I suppose that’s when the awards-worthy movies tend to drop.
Did you have a good 2022 outside of the movie sphere?
Oh, a fair year, neither serious injuries nor many missed meals. Hope yours has been fair as well (or, hey, even good!).