Dynamic Top Tens of 2022

[j99]

01. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
02. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodovar)
03. Amulet (Romola Garai)

[brundlefly]

1. Petite Maman (Sciamma)
2. Crimes of the Future (D. Cronenberg)
3. The Worst Person in the Word (Trier)
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels)
5. Watcher (Okuno)

[The Pachyderminator]

What the hell, maybe I'll see some movies this year too.

[dekadetia]

By the pricking of my thumbs
Tilda Swinton this way comes

1. Turning Red (Domee Shi)
2. The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairéad)
3. Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland)
4. Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
5. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde)
7. Then Barbara Met Alan (Bruce Goodison, Amit Sharma)
8. Pada (Kamal K.M.)
9. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
10. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)

Good but 2021: Belle, Benediction, Hit the Road, Compartment No. 6, El Buen Patron, The Fallout, After Yang, Happening, Vortex

[Andre Jurieu]

Maybe I’ll actually watch 10 movies in a theatre this year.

Reserved?

[Omensetter]

01. Rien à foutre
02. Crimes of the Future
03. Compartment No. 6
04. Friends and Strangers
05. The Girl and the Spider
06. Sundown
07. In Front of Your Face
08. Deception
09. Introduction
10.

Runners-up:

Documentaries:

Not a fan: A Hero; Lingui, the Sacred Bonds; Nitram; Paris, 13th District

Rubbish: Everything Everywhere All at Once

To see through August: Ahed's Knee; Fabian: Going to the Dogs; Apollo 10½; The Northman; Hit the Road; Happening; Benediction, Irma Vep; Both Sides of the Blade

2021—2020—2019—2018—2017—2016—2015—2014—2013—2012—2011

[Red Screamer]

Behind me, a cat is punching a dog who is chewing on my shoes

01 We're All Going to the World's Fair (Schoenbrun)
02 Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg)
03 I Didn’t See You There (Davenport)

[knives]

Turning Red
Apollo 10 1/2
The House

[Finch]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. X
3. Fire Island
4. Watcher
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Honorable Mentions:

Enjoyed: (kinda) Crimes of the Future,

Disliked:

Hated:

[RSTooley]

Despite not participating for the last two years -- reserved?

1. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)
2. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
3. X (Ti West)

Unranked:

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Scream.

[jindianajonz]

Reserved

[Murdoch]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

Also seen
Crimes of the Future
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Drive My Car

[Michael Kerpan]

Does a film like Hosoda's Belle count as 2021 or 2022?

[swo17]

You can use whatever definition of years you want here. It looks like it would be 2021 if you went by first screening, wide domestic release, or IMDb year, but 2022 if you went by first non-festival screening in the U.S. Just pick whatever definition makes the most sense to you and try to use it consistently in these threads

[Aunt Peg]

1. Full Time (Eric Gravel)
2. Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
3. Broker (Hirokazu Koreeda)
4. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
5. The Conference (Matti Geschonneck)
6. Sundown (Michel Frano)
7. Another World (Stephanie Brize)
8. Incredible But True (Quentin Dupteux)
9. Vortex (Gasper Noe)
10. La Traviata, My Brothers and I (Yohan Manca)

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

I actually managed to complete a top ten last year, so I may as well try to get a streak going. I'm imposing my own arbitrary rule again (no films that premiered before 2021):

1. Actual People (Kit Zauhar)
2. Blue Island (Chan Tze Woon)
3. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
4. Kaohsiung City, Yancheng District, Fubei Rd., No. 31 (Chiang Wei-liang)
5. France (Bruno Dumont)
6. The Apartment with Two Women (Kim Se-in)
7. After Yang (Kogonada)
8. Introduction (Hong Sangsoo)
9. I Don't Remember That I Dreamed (Miaochun Zhang)
10. Haruharu-san's Recorder (Sugita Kyōshi)

Honorable mentions: Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid), Barah by Barah a.k.a. 12x12 Untitled (Gaurav Madan), Jet Lag (Zheng Lu Xinyuan), Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma), Sonne (Kurdwin Ayub), Vortex (Gaspar Noé), Whether the Weather Is Fine (Carlo Francisco Manatad)

"Poll-eligible" list (2022 U.S. commercial releases):

1. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
2. A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
3. Blue Island (Chan Tze Woon)
4. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
5. France (Bruno Dumont)
6. After Yang (Kogonada)
7. Cane Fire (Anthony Banua-Simon)
8. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye)
10. Introduction (Hong Sangsoo)

Best ineligible first watches:

1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
2. Paper Soldier (2008, Alexey German Jr.)
3. Sound and Fury (1988, Jean-Claude Brisseau)
4. Leto (2018, Kirill Serebrennikov)
5. Morgiana (1972, Juraj Herz)
6. The Coca-Cola Kid (1985, Dušan Makavejev)
7. Lucid (2019, Victor Villanueva)
8. To Sleep So as to Dream (1986, Hayashi Kaizō)

[cantinflas]

1. Elvis
2. The Batman
3. The Bubble
4. Ambulance
5. Hustle
6. Jurassic World Dominion
7. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
8. Death on the Nile
9. The Lost City
10. Moonfall

[Michael]

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
The Northman (Robert Eggers)
Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
X (Ti West)
You Won't Be Alone (Goran Stolevski)

[lacritfan]

After Yang

[Persona]

1. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
2. Kimi
3. Sonic 2
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. Hustle
6. Deep Water
7. The Batman

[Altair]

1. The Natural History of Destruction
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. The Batman
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[lzx]

[New this year: I'm classifying all films that had only an award-qualifying theatrical run in 2021 before a wider release in 2022 (looking at you, Neon) as 2022 releases.]

1. Petite maman
2. Memoria
3. Cyrano
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. Saturday Fiction
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Hit the Road
8. The Girl and the Spider
9. Paris, 13th District
10. Rock Bottom Riser

[Calvin]

1. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
2. Top Gun: Maverick (Kosinski)
3. Kimi (Soderbergh)
4. The Northman (Eggers)
5. The Quiet Girl (Bairead)