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1.) The Whale: A
2.) The Northman: A
3.) Pearl: A
4.) The Menu: A
5.) Glass Onion: A
6.) The Fabelmans: A-
7.) Everything Everywhere All At Once: A-
8.) Avatar: The Way Of Water: A-
9.) Pinocchio (Del Toro, obviously): A-
10.) Turning Red: A-

01 EO
02 Top Gun: Maverick
03 Avatar: The Way of Water
04 Glass Onion
05 The Fabelmans
06 We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
07 Elvis
08 Downton Abbey: A New Era
09 Women Talking
10 Babylon

11 Decision to Leave
12 Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
13 The Eternal Daughter
14 One Fine Morning
15 Taming the Garden
16 Tár
17 Descendant
18 Ambulance
19 Turning Red
20 Lost Illusions

Very good:

1. Amalric, Hold Me Tight [2021, but released here in 2022]
2. Kreutzer, Corsage
3. Park, Decision to Leave
4. Serra, Pacifiction

Some great filmmaking, but occasionally silly:

5. Lou, Saturday Fiction [2019, but released here in 2022]

Good:

6. Hadžihalilovic, Earwig
7. Field, Tár
8. Fleischer-Camp, Marcel: the Shell etc
9. Palloro, Monica
10. Strickland, Flux Gourmet

HM:

Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind; all the cannibals except the main ones in Bones and All; the main actress in Return to Seoul; the sister in God's Creatures; Ito Chihiro's bizarre, low-budget In Her Room; Eo's donkey-vision.

1. After Blue
2. Crimes of the Future
3. Decision to Leave
4. Nope.
5. Benediction
6. Flux Gourmet
7. We're All Going to the World's Fair
8. "The Loneliest Time" Carly Rae Jepsen/Brantley Gutierrez
9. "Wanna Dance" ExWHYZ/Kento Yamada
10. My Cat Lucy
11. Episode 3: "Once Again" - Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
12. Goodbye Jerome!

Gotta get some pedestrian taste in here now that I've actually seen 10 movies.

1) The Fabelmans
2) Babylon
3) Tar
4) Aftersun
5) The Banshees of Inisherin
6) Top Gun: Maverick
7) Glass Onion
8) Everything Everywhere All at Once
9) The Northman
10) EO

Also: Fire Island, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Women Talking, Nope, Decision to Leave.............................. All Quiet on the Western Front

I'm finally up to having seen 10 movies from 2022 that I liked!

1. Terrifier 2 (Leone)
2. Catherine Called Birdy (Dunham)
3. Armageddon Time (Gray)
4. Father Stu (Ross)
5. Elvis (Luhrman)
6. Kitty K7 (Joy Aquino--straight to Vivamax/Philippine streaming)
7. Kimi (Soderbergh)
8. Fall (Mann)
9. No Shark (Cody Clarke--straight to YouTube)
10. Smile (Finn)

1. The Menu
2. Triangle of Sadness
3. Fire of Love
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Marcel The Shell with Shoes On
6. Vengeance
7. TAR
8. Babylon
9. The Northman
10. The Watcher

How did I miss this great year?

1. Glass Onion
2. See How They Run
3. The Menu
4. White Noise
5. Master Gardener
6. X
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. Tár
9. Bigbug
10. Pearl
11. Prey
12. Crimes of the Future

Updated 05-31-2025

1. Armageddon Time
2. Godland
3. Leila's Brothers
4. Stars at Noon
5. Alcarras
6. One Fine Morning
7. The Fabelmans
8. The Eight Mountains
9. R.M.N
10. Tar


Honourable Mentions: EO, The Batman, Corsage, The Banshees of Inisherin, Autobiography, Trenque Lauquen, Aftersun, Crimes of the Future, Charcoal, X, Broker, Decision to Leave, Both Sides of the Blade, The Eternal Daughter, Triangle of Sadness, Bones and All, The Wonder, Holy Spider

Others Seen: Emily, The Northman, Sanctuary, Pearl, Barbarian, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Babylon, Nope, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Women Talking, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

1- The Banshees of Inisherin
2- Living
3- Aftersun
4- Triangle of Sadness
5- Tar
6- Crimes of the Future
7- The Batman
8- Amanda
9- Women Talking
10- Nope

1. Wednesday
2. The Staircase
3. Tar
4. Our Father, The Devil
5. Killer Sally
6. Joyland
7. C.R.A.Z.Y.