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Best films of 2022
I’ve no film recommendations for the year despite having watched several 2022 films online, none of which I remember. Everybody and their long-lost love child who concocted a diabolical plot to punish their biological parents for abandoning them do have recommendations, though.
Rotten Tomatoes has a top 100, which includes Beavis And Butthead Do The Universe at #13.1
Timeout Magazine has a top 33, which includes Three Minutes: A Lengthening at #13, a wholly dissimilar film to the previous #13.2
IMDB has a top 100 but it starts off stupid so I’m not linking to it. Their #13 film is Jordan Peele’s Nope, which seems dissimilar to the two previous ones.
The National Board of Review has a top 10 films but in alphabetical order, so no #13 and you’re left to guess at the order other than their best picture awardee.3
Esquire has a top 25, with The Gray Man at #13 which, as is becoming a tradition here, is not like the other #13s.4
Men’s Health has Everything Everywhere All At Once at #13, which might or might not bear similarities to one among the other top 13s, but I can’t say for sure without having seen any of them. The magazine has Jackass Forever at #2, bro.5
The Week has 60 best films, with Living at #13. The film stars Bill Nighy so it pretty much has to be good, and seems of a different genre than its fellow #13s.6
Vogue has Nothing Compares, the Sinead O’Connor documentary, at #13 among its 29 best films of the year. I suppose the documentarian aspect makes it separate from the other #13s, but it could share elements with several of them.7
The Beeb has Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, starring Daniel Craig as a detective with a ludicrous southern drawl, at #13. I’ve started watching this but am only a few minutes in and so have nothing to report.8
There’s no #13 in Vanity Fair’s top 10.9
The Times of India has a top 20, with Lightyear becoming the second animated feature occupying the #13 spot.10
The Ringer’s top 10 has Jackass Forever and the recent Top Gun movie tied for tenth. I don’t know what that means, but the site which began as an exclusively sports-related affair has since ventured into pop-culture criticism with, in my view, pretty good results. Maybe I just don’t want to know.11
Vox went with their top 25, on which list After Yang comes in at #13.12
As you would expect, the lists feature a lot of overlap. What makes them worth browsing are the differences in how the reviewers describe the films and their own reactions to them.
I gotta say, this took a lot longer than anticipated.
Indigo Swing, “All Aboard;”13 The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, “Forty Days and Forty Nights” is playing us out.14
And that, comrades, is all I got. Subscribe if you will; it’s free unless you want to pay.