Best movies of 2022
The Lost Daughter, TV but still good, a movie of sorts, based on Ferrante.
Belle, spectacular Japanese anime.
Licorice Pizza, a good normal movie, captured California well.
Compartment Number Six, with a new meaning after the war of course.
Petit Maman, French, short, plays mind games with you, profound.
The Quiet Girl (Irish)
Vesper, Lithuanian, dreamy, Tarkovsky influence but faster-paced, an underrated movie this year.
Tár, really quite good and interesting.
Decision to Leave, Korean crime drama with Hitchcockian twists and inspirations.
The Fabelmans, Ignore the cloying preview.
Saint Omer, French-Senegalese courtroom drama.
Clytaemnestra, Korean movie, one hour long.
EO, Polish movie about a donkey, better than you think.
Overall an abysmal year for Hollywood, a pretty good year for the movies. I haven’t yet seen Oppenheimer or Bardo, so their absence on the list should not be taken as a negative signal.