Review: The 10 Best Movies Of 2022
Who said that the cinema is dead?
Sure, the pandemic has caused a drop in theater attendance, but those of us who didn't line up to see it can stream it. You can't stop a good movie.
Some of them were hitting the ground with their pay outside the gate. It helps if you're traveling in a flying Tom Cruise or one of James Cameron's iconic locations. But the audience was slow to connect with a big challenger like Thar. I think eventually they will. It is always the right time to play.
This year's theme was the families we were born into and the things we were made of. As a family of moviegoers, we often have heated discussions about which movies we love or hate. It's fun, isn't it?
So, let's get the party started with my picks for the 10 best movies of 2022.
10. Link: "RRR" and "Avatar. Aquatic".
The cinema is a beast that must be known wisely. But SS shows how director Rajamouli has done it in India with RRR (titled Rise, Shout, Riot). It is an unclassifiable show that combines the bloody revolutionary struggle with the song and dance numbers that inspired it. India's biggest hit is now a stealth player in the Oscar race.
But first, Rajamouli has to meet Hollywood's James Cameron, whose follow-up to the 2009 blockbuster Avatar is a visual feast of suffocating, blue-eyed families waging war against nature-destroying oppressors.
As Cameron and Rajamouli moan, whoop and whoop at the award show, we in the audience want to be wowed, we are all winners.
9. "The Woman Who Talks"
What do the women in an isolated Mennonite farm colony do when the men in their group take drugs and abuse them for the devil? As the women gather on the prairie with an emotional cast headlined by Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand, the film feels as timely as #TMeToo. Adapting the 2018 novel by Canadian Miriam Toews, director Sarah Polley sings the screen with words as these women struggle to find their way forward. Polly's movie is bound to surprise you, and it does.
8. "Elvis"
Austin Butler is proud of his portrayal of rock and roll legend Elvis Presley in director Baz Luhrmann's biopic Tattoo. Butler, 31, is nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Elvis as he tries to escape the trap of his greedy manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). To pay off his gambling debts, the Colonel takes Elvis to everything from satanic music to formulaic movies to terrifying Las Vegas concerts, precipitating a tragic physical decline. Extras are the default mode of this movie, but there's no denying Butler. Just like Elvis, you can't take your eyes off him.
7. "No."
In Jordan Peele's third film as a director, UFO mixes science fiction with satire and a sharp critique of race and class in America to create humor. THE LIMITS OF THE TREND Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer are brothers who run a ranch that provides horses from Hollywood movies, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, the dawn of cinema black. Provocation is a dice game and no one plays it well.
6. After the sun
This is the best movie of the year for a first-time writer-director. Her name is Charlotte Wells and the 35-year-old filmmaker has put the greats of the scene to shame. Newcomer Frankie Corio is a young woman living in Wales with her divorced father on vacation in Turkey. Paul Mescal is quietly devastating as the father trying in vain to keep his son's good side alive. In a year dominated by veteran actors, Mezcal, 26, and Corio, 11, have shown flashes of new talent. It is a rare opportunity to live in their world.
5. Top weapon. "Dissident"
In If 2022 it's more exciting with high society action combined with a soft feel I've never come across. Tom Cruise took 36 years to create the critically acclaimed sequel and paid nearly $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office to see it. Could this kind of popcorn fun win the Oscar for Best Picture? Hey, from Rocky to Gladiator, villains have it. Why not take a cruise? At 60, he's a badass beyond his years, thrust into the role of instructor for Navy pilots.
4. "Insharine Banshee."
Powered by career-best performances from Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, this marvel from Martin McDonagh is packed with comic wizardry and a hell of bloody terror. It's family to you. The film is set in 1923 on the fictional Irish island of Inisharin, where two friends are separated when they are killed during the Curre Civil War. Farrell's Padraic is a simple soul living with his sister (the lovely Carrie Condon), but Gleeson treats Colm like a brother when Colm vows to cut off his finger for every word Padraic says. Put on your seat belt.
3. "Storytelling."
Here's the best of Steven Spielberg, he uses his family, he calls them the Fabelmans, to portray himself as a kid (Gabriel LaBelle) who knows how to make his movies scary (very scary). The legendary Spielberg doesn't feature in this coming-of-age story, just a boy with doubts, anti-Semitic bullying, and his loving mother (the great Michelle Williams) who betrays his father (Paul Dano). Crazy uncle is fine. He is not wrong. Spielberg and co-writer Tony Kushner are not afraid of the dark edges of what is shaping up to be an enduring screen classic.
2 years"
In an attempt to break the rules, "everything, everywhere, all at once" rivaled this year's only cinematic scream, Oscar favorite Cate Blanchett unleashed a powerful tour de force. She plays classical music director Lydia Tarr, a virtuoso with a cruel nature who can seduce and abuse the women under her care. In his first film in 16 years, talented writer-director Todd Field asks what happens when the counterculture pushes a genius out of his way. The ending is sidelined by Lydia's visit to her unhappy family.
1. "Everything, everywhere, at once."
This burst of unbridled energy tops best of the year lists, one reason being how you feel about the future of film and its limitless possibilities in every frame. Thirty-something writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheiner, who call themselves Daniels, are throwing everything they have at the screen. It is about how Chinese-American washerwomen, mother (Michelle Yeoh), father (Kay Hui Kwan) and daughter (Stephanie Hu), come into conflict with an IRS auditor (Jamie Lee Curtis). Connect: Many dead ends suddenly turn into opportunities. You laugh until it hurts. Low-budget independent movies rarely top $100 million at the box office. He did that. How cool is that?
