Oh, a fair year, neither serious injuries nor many missed meals. Hope yours has been fair as well (or, hey, even good!).

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?

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.

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).

I’m also mortified how few new 2022 releases I’ve actually seen and how many I earnestly want to catch up with.