My favorite films of 2022:
Top Gun Maverick
X
Pearl
Barbarian
Terrifier 2
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
The Black Phone
Jackass Forever
Scream
Halloween Ends
Elvis
Doctor Strange: Into the Multiverse of Madness
Watcher
Orphan: First Kill
Violent Night
The Batman
Devotion
Confess, Fletch
Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever
Smile
The Bob’s Burger Movie
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Black Adam
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
Thor: Love & Thunder
Avatar: The Way of the Water
You’re supposed to pick your favorites not list all the movies you’ve seen for the year.
I have a horrible memory for yearly film things but am going with
Smile
Deadstream
And sneaking in Barry season 3
Biggest disappointment: Conjuring 3 or Matrix Resurrection. HBO putting out that high quality “day of” streaming content, though the deal is about over.
My favorite movie of 2022 is actually a Korean Horror The Witch 2. Can’t wait for the 3rd installment.
I also liked Samaritan, Tiny perfect things and Morbius.
These stood out mostly because they exceeded expectations. There were other good movies but hey either just met expectations or were mildly disappointing. Wakanda, Northman, and Avatar fall in this group for me. They were good, but Avatar was better than the sequel, Vikings is better than Northman, and Wakanda was just not anything we all haven’t seen before.
It’s a cheaper version of the multiverse bandwagon that a lot of film studios hopped on, but it’s the good kind of cheaper version. You may also recognize my favorite Goonie in that movie, all growed up.
I think my favorite storyline on superhero type stuff has turned into the Boyz. There was one that started and had good potential, but they canceled it called Naomi