Year in Film: 2022

2022 Overview:

2022! The year I finally returned to theaters. The year I fully launched this site. I figure it will be fun to gather movies I’ve seen by year as I watch and review, and I’m starting with 2022.

2022 Movies Watched and Rated:

  • Last Updated: 6/10/24
    • Note: Previously this list was ranked, but I’ve since changed my process to group into “Is It Good?” tiers rather than a strict rank. You can view that ranking, before it was abandoned, here.
  • Ratings on the Is It Good? scale
  • (**) = no full length review
  • (s) = short film
  • (p) = The Goods: A Film Podcast episode

Exceptionally Good (7/8)
Very Good (6/8)
Good (5/8)
Nearly Good (4/8)
Not Very Good (3/8)
Not Good (2/8)
Very Not Good (1/8)

2022 Review Index

TitleDateFilm YearDirectorIs It GoodTags
Don’t Make Me Go (2022)05/26/20242022Marks, Hannah3,
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)12/13/20232022Lewen, Michael5
Talk to Me (2022)09/30/20232022Philippou, Danny / Phihlippou, Michael4,
The Blackening (2022)09/09/20232023Story, Tim3,
Babylon (2022)06/14/20232022Chazelle, Damien6,
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)05/26/20232022Dack, Jamie4,
A Man Called Otto (2022)05/20/20232022Forster, Marc5,
When You Finish Saving the World (2022)03/27/20232022Eisenberg, Jesse5,
Watcher (2022)03/12/20232022Okuno, Chloe5
The Sea Beast (2022)02/27/20232022Williams, Chris5
Women Talking (2022)02/24/20232022Polley, Sarah5
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)02/18/20232022Fabian, Anthony4
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)02/16/20232022Berger, Edward4
Causeway (2022)02/07/20232022Neugebauer, Lila6
Call Jane (2022)02/03/20232022Nagy, Phyllis4
M3GAN (2022)01/31/20232022Johnstone, Gerard5
Snow Day (2022)01/24/20232022Lembeck, Michael4
The Fabelmans (2022)01/18/20232022Spielberg, Steven6,
The Menu (2022)01/06/20232022Mylod, Mark5
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)01/03/20232022del Toro, Guillermo6
Strange World (2022)01/02/20232022Hall, Don5
Sam & Kate (2022)12/19/20222022Le Gallo, Darren5
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)12/11/20222022Miller, George6,
Mickey Saves Christmas (2022)12/09/20222022Brooks, David H.3
The House (2022)12/07/20222022Baeza, Paloma / De Swaef Emma / Lindroth von Bahr, Niki / Roels, Marc James6
Armageddon Time (2022)11/29/20222022Gray, James4
TÁR (Tar) (2022)11/28/20222022Field, Todd7
Triangle of Sadness (2022)11/26/20222022Ostlund, Ruben5
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)11/24/20222022Appel, Eric5
Falling for Christmas (2022)11/21/20222022Damian, Janeen3
Disenchanted (2022)11/20/20222022Shankman, Adam4
Amsterdam (2022)11/16/20222022Russell, David O.2
Confess, Fletch (2022)11/07/20222022Mottola, Greg6
Persuasion (2022)11/05/20222022Cracknell, Carrie4
Pearl (2022)11/03/20222022West, Ti7
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)11/02/20222022Wilde, Olivia3
Ticket to Paradise (2022)11/01/20222022Parker, Ol4
Emily the Criminal (2022)10/31/20222022Ford, John Patton5
Rosaline (2022)10/28/20222022Maine, Karen3
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)10/27/20222022Linklater, Richard5,
Barbarian (2022)10/26/20222022Cregger, Zach4
The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)10/24/20222022Wadlow, Jeff4
Bros (2022)10/21/20222022Stoller, Nicholas5
Halloween Ends (2022)10/19/20222022Green, David Gordon2,
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)10/14/20222022Daniels7
The Northman (2022)09/27/20222022Eggers, Robert6
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)09/23/20222022Reijn, Halina5
Do Revenge (2022)09/22/20222022Robinson, Jennifer Kaytin6
Love & Gelato (2022)09/21/20222022Camp, Brandon2
Decision to Leave (2022)09/19/20222022Park Chan-wook7
Marmaduke (2022)09/16/20222022Dippé, Mark A.Z.1
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)09/15/20222022Balda, Kyle5
Metal Lords (2022)09/14/20222022Sollett, Peter4
X (2022)09/13/20222022West, Ti6
Moonshot (2022)09/12/20222022Winterbauer, Christopher5
Look Both Ways (2022)09/11/20222022Kahiu, Wanuri5
Pinocchio (2022)09/09/20222022Zemeckis, Robert1, ,
Sharp Stick (2022)09/07/20222022Dunham, Lena3
Honor Society (2022)09/06/20222022Zegman, Oran4
Fall (2022)09/05/20222022Mann, Scott5
Funny Pages (2022)09/03/20222022Kilne, Owen5
The Bubble (2022)09/02/20222022Apatow, Judd1
Nope (2022)08/30/20222022Peele, Jordan5
Crush (2022)08/28/20222022Cohen, Sammi4
Luck (2022)08/27/20222022Holmes, Peggy2
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)08/25/20222022Kosinski, Joseph6
Not Okay (2022)08/19/20222022Shephard, Quinn3
The Batman (2022)08/16/20222022Reeves, Matt5
Lightyear (2022)08/08/20222022MacLane, Angus3
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)08/05/20222022Hoen, Paul4
Scream (2022)07/27/20222022Bettinelli-Olpin, Matt / Gillett, Tyler4, ,
Elvis (2022)07/22/20222022Luhrmann, Baz6, ,
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)07/21/20222022Newman, Olivia3
The Bad Guys (2022)07/15/20222022Perifel, Pierre4
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)06/18/20222022Raiff, Cooper5
Turning Red (2022)03/11/20222022Shi, Domee5
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Turning Red (2022)

The premise of Turning Red — thirteen-year-old Mei Lee transforming into a red panda whenever she gets agitated — is very clearly metaphoric.

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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)

On a superficial level, Cha Cha Real Smooth is extremely similar to Shithouse, Cooper Raiff’s debut from 2020.

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The Bad Guys (2022)

Over the past ten years, major American animation studios (mostly excluding Walt Disney Animation Studios) have finally realized that the path forward to improving their visual language was not enhancing the photorealism of their animation.

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Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

The title of “Where the Crawdads Sing” suggests that the central concept of the story is its setting.

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Scream (2022)

The 2022 film Scream — aka Scream 5, or 5cream, or Five Cream — is probably the most coherent of the Scream sequels.

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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)

Thus ends the strangest trilogy in Disney Channel Original Movie history.

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Lightyear (2022)

While watching Lightyear, I couldn’t shake the sensation that I was watching the second movie in a series and had accidentally skipped the first.

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The Batman (2022)

I kept waiting, for three hours, for The Batman to really sock me in the jaw.

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Not Okay (2022)

Satire is hard.