Not going to make this a top 5 or top 10. And not going to call this a "Best of" either. Some people here don't watch "Prestige" or arthouse movies that are normally considered for "Best of" awards and only list movies they like. In past threads like this, some have only listed superhero and science fiction movies as their “Best of”.

Also, some of you probably don't watch that many new movies in a calendar year due to various reasons.

So go ahead and just list some of your favorites from this year that you saw. Whether you only liked 5 movies or 20 movies. It’s up to you. But, it has to be a 2022 release.



Death on the Nile - I really liked this murder mystery, but I know some here were lukewarm on it

The Batman - Saw it twice in theaters. Awesome

Everything, Everywhere All at Once - Probably the biggest sleeper movie that I wasn't expecting to love

Ambulance - Yeah Yeah some of you hated this, but I had a lot of fun watching it. It was a non-stop adrenaline rush with lots of action, which I loved.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Just fun with awesome special effects

Top Gun Maverick - Saw it 4 times, including once while on vacation in Canada. I now have it on 4K disc. My overall favorite of 2022

Elvis - Super long, but Austin Butler gave a hell of a performance. Awesome soundtrack too.

The Black Phone - I was surprised by this. A pretty good mix of serial killer thriller, period drama and a little of the supertural

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - Very cute with cool stop motion animation

Where the Crawdads Sing - I was pleasantly surprised by this. 1st I thought it was going to be some cheesy Nic Sparks romance, but it turned out to be a pretty compelling murder mystery.

Fall - A pretty fun adrenaline rush that got my heart racing

Barbarian - Totally unexpected how entertaining this was. You have to go in not knowing anything to be surprised.

Avatar: The Way of Water - Pretty mind blowing special effects and a lot of great visuals and action sequences. I was very entertained.

Violent Night - A fun action comedy that has become a new favorite Christmas movie.

The Good Nurse (Netflix) - Excellent performances by Chastain and Redmayne carry this true crime murder drama

The Menu - Another one that I was surprised with

Devotion - This movie was a financial dud, but I thought it was really good. An entertaining story about a friendship with 2 pilots that takes place during the Korean war.

Glass Onion: A pretty entertaining sequel to Knives Out. Gets a little over the top at times, but the cast, especially Daniel Craig kept it entertaining

Fresh - I saw this at a test screening in 2021. It later became a Hulu original. I thought it was great and a fresh take on the horror genre.

Prey - A fresh and badly needed new take on the Predator franchise.

I didn't list a single MCU movie or Black Adam. None of them were my favorites, but I found some of them good, but not great. There were a few others that I liked, but I wouldn't really consider them my favorites of the year.

Alright, what about the rest of you. You don't have to list it with commentary. I know these kind of lists are time consuming.

A few of my favorites:
The Batman - A bit long but nice to see a Batman movie focusing on the “world’s greatest detective” aspect.

The Outfit - Really well done. Very engaging considering the single location setting.

Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - It was great seeing Nicolas Cage back in a bigger movie.

Top Gun:Maverick - My favorite movie of the year. Just super fun from beginning to end!

Elvis - This would have scored higher marks from me if it hadn’t sagged so much in the middle. The first and last acts were great though.

The Gray Man - Probably the “worst” movie on my list but I enjoyed the hell out of it. It was just a fun, mindless action movie that worked for me.

Nope - I’m still not sold on the ending but it’s probably my favorite Jordan Peele movie so far. His movies are always “event” movies.

Thirteen Lives - A great, straight forward movie about the real life events. Directed with no frills from Ron Howard.

Confess, Fletch - Just a fun comedy. Jon Hamm owns the role. His performance carries the movie.


There’s still a handful of more “prestige” movies I have yet to see but I’ll catch up with them over the next couple of months.

1. Tár
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Men
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. X
7. RRR
8. The Northman
9. Nope
10. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

I forgot Confess, Fletch. I saw it for free at the theater a few months ago and I did enjoy it. It was a pleasant surprise. Jon Hamm was great as the new version of Fletch. Not LOL funny, but had a lot of good moments.

I miss when I lived in LA and got to see movies at the DGA but:
Everything Everywhere All at Once - It would have made a great 90 minute movie. We didn't need it drilled into us for 2+ hours that this is the best universe.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - The first was better. I thought it was kind of boring but the second half shook things up.

Movies I didn't like:
Blonde - Dreary fictionalized bio of Marilyn Monroe
Elvis - Has some very exciting bits but mostly boring. I've seen most of these events in real life so a recreation falls flat. Great performance by Austin Butyer but Tom Hanks is distracting in every scene he is in. Is at least an hour too long.
Bullet Train - Sub-Tarantino with worse incidental music. An amusing 2 hours but not an original idea to be seen. Wisecracking black and white hit men, where have I seen that before? Etc.
Confess Fletch - I like Jon Hamm but this movie didn't make me laugh once. I also hate lousy Italian accents and the mystery wasn't interesting.

Not a movie but I loved She-Hulk. Or maybe just Tatiana Maslany.

Haven't seen Tar or top gun yet. Won't see The Banshees of Inisherin. i enjoyed In Bruges but I won't see this. It reminds me of a movie that had two guys stranded in a lighthouse that I can't remember the name of.

This was the first year I used Letterboxd to track all the movies I've watched. I watched over 500 films this year.

I think I've seen most of this year's offerings. The only thing I'm looking forward to still is White Noise. I have not watched Bardo yet.

Favorite:
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Outfit
RRR
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Honorable Mention:
Apollo 10˝: A Space Age Childhood
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Emily the Criminal
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Fallout
Kimi
The Menu
The Northman
The Novelist’s Film
Pearl
The Swimmers
Watcher
Women Talking
X

Shout out to two Hulu movies: Prey and The Princess

Prey is a top notch sci-fi actioner that utilizes the setting and the female lead to elevate the base material.

The Princess is an effective and enjoyable B-movie action pic that knows what it is and tries to just be that.

Both run 90-100 minutes, so kudos to them for not trying to over-stay their welcome. I'm getting too old for these movies that have two hours of story (at most!) dragged out for an extra 30 minutes. (I'm looking at you, MCU)

Are you thinking of that movie starring Sandra Bullock, The Bus?

Funny. IMDB keeps getting worse and worse. Searching Sandra Bullock brings her up as producer, like I care about that. I guess The Lighthouse was too simple for me to find.

I forgot about Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. It was almost as good as a Weird Al video.

EEAAO
Top Gun
Fresh
X
Bones and All
Confess, Fletch

My top 10:

The Banshees of Inisherin
She Said
The Menu
Elvis
The Fabelmans
The Batman
Glass Onion
Till
After Yang
Vengeance / Pearl (tie)

And 11-20:

Emily the Criminal
The Good Nurse
Armageddon Time
Fresh
X
Confess, Fletch
Causeway
Moonage Daydream
Prey
Nanny

See whatever you want, but I don't see much of a connection between Banshees and that movie about two guys stranded in a lighthouse. The lighthouse movie reminds me a lot of that great movie Eraserhead. Banshees reminds me of that great movie In Bruges.

1. Banshees of Inisherin
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Everything, Everywhere All At Once
4. The Batman
5. Woman King
6. Emily the Criminal
7. The Outfit
8. The Menu
9. Thirteen Lives
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

I didn’t really see a ton but I would say The Batman and Top Gun: Maverick were probably my favorites. Nope not Prey were both pretty good too.

I'm so terrible at watching modern movies, I always have to read everyone else's responses to even know what came out.

So the only thing I recognize as being from this year that I enjoy were Prey and Sonic 2. Both were great sequels, each in different ways, but I had fun with both.

DeFan is The Bus?

- Bullet Train
This was the most fun I had in theaters in a long time.
- Top Gun: Maverick
The story is nothing special, but the visuals are just magnificent and sometimes that's just enough

- Glass Onion
Very funny and entertaining, with a great cast and a beautiful setting

- All Quiet on the Western Front
Although it adds to the cliché that only German movies about war are any good, it's a great German movie about war.

- The Stranger
I needed some time to understand where this movie was going, but once that's clear, I could enjoy the two fantastic leads Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris do their thing.

- Nope
Suprising, funny and full of suspense, in my opinion Jordan Peele delivered for the third time.

- The Batman
I didn't need a new introduction to Batman, but the movie worked quite well. There were some parts, that made no sense at all and the movie was far from being Se7en, but it was a good serial killer hunt. Although I would have changed the ending, there was no need for a action set piece.

The Batman

Top Gun: Maverick

All Quiet on the Western Front

Smile

The Munsters

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Halloween Ends

1. “Everything Everywhere All at Once”—THE most exciting theatrical experience I've had in years.
2. “The Quiet Girl”—An understated Irish masterpiece about silence and kindness.
3. “Aftersun”—This “found footage” tale of a father and daughter is the kind of film that devastates you in retrospect, the more you think about it.
4. “The Banshees of Inisherin”—A tremendously sad film that also has its share of black comedy.
5. “Happening”—A a timely film about abortion rights in 1960s France that hits hard.
6. “Mass”—Deeply affecting film about grief and forgiveness in the wake of a school shooting.
7. “Sundown”—This strange psychological character study seems to have little to say, but it somehow contains multitudes.
8. “Barbarian”—An unpredictable, very suspenseful horror thriller with some gonzo grossouts and timely subtext.
9. “TÁR”—An interesting, challenging film. Starts off deliberately frustrating and monotonous, then gradually reveals its narrative.
10. “Avatar: The Way of Water”—This sequel is a visual stunner, especially when it goes underwater. Also as expected, it can get silly. But Cameron's action instincts are peerless.

The Batman is tops for me, God damn it was so fucking good.

I just watched The Woman King, which stars Viola Davis,. I thought it was incredible and I would put it in my favorites list for 2022.

In no particular order:


The Batman
Bardo
Avatar 2
Top Gun 2
Everything Everywhere All At Omce
Tha Northman
Dual
The Black Phone
Elvis
Nope
Prey
Three Thousand Years of Longing


I'm sure there's more but those are the ones that I've actually seen and remember.

Favorite movie I saw this year was Lightyear. Unburdened by familiarity with the Toy Story series, I found this to be great pulp sci-fi, with time travel paradoxes, and moving emotional moments. I went to the theatre three times for it, and look forward to revisiting it again over the years. It isn't just my favorite movie of the year, but will likely join my list of favorite movies ever.

Second favorite is Everything Everywhere All At Once. Again, a fun movie, but one that becomes almost overwhelmingly emotional to me given how the movie really centers around the story of



Listed now in the order I saw them, are the rest of the movies I cherish having gotten to see:

Jackass Forever
Studio 666
X
Top Gun: Maverick
Elvis
Nope
RRR
Thirteen Lives
Barbarian
Blonde * (asterisk because while the movie fails, it works great as a bizarre horror film)
Tár
Triangle Of Sadness
The Fablemans
Bones And All
The Banshees Of Inisherin

This year, I made 2022 films my viewing priority, and managed to see 97. Here's the full list of what I've seen to name my favorites from.

Just saw The Fabelmans tonight. A movie that apparently no one is watching even though it's directed by one of the greatest directors of all time. Outstanding movie. Easily goes into my favorites and probably one of the 10 best of 2022.

Where did you see this one? A festival? I've seen this on a couple of other "best of" lists, but I don't see it having had gotten a release.