BEST MOVIES OF 2022 . . . so far

[Chris Knipp]

RAYAN SARLAK IN HIT THE ROAD

Best movies of 2022. . . so far
Here's a halfway-through list (in alphabetical order) from IndieWire of movies the site's two main critics, Kate Erbland and David Ehrlich, like from the first half of this year, which they say can all be seen online now. It's a starting point for a Filmleaf thread on favorite movies of 2022. It's also a potential to-watch list. Read IndieWire's thumbnail reviews and see if some might sound worth checking out. I personally very strongly recommend HIT THE ROAD, HAPPENING, and NORTHMAN; incidentally was lucky enough to see NORTHMAN on a very big, wide screen. Several on this list (or at least one, AFTER YANG) I hated, or can't even face watching (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE). But this is a place to start. It reminds me I want to see CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, COW, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, and, I guess, TOP GUN. I don't know why they fail to mention MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier), COMPARTMENT NO. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen), A HERO (Asghar Farhadi), or PARIS 13TH DISTRICT (Jacques Audiard), because those are my favorites so far, besides the three mentioned above.

L I S T
(from IndieWire))
AFTER YANG (Kagonaga)
BENEDICTION (Terrence Davies
CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH (Cooper Raiff)
COW (Andrea Arnold)
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (Daniels)
FIRE ISLAND (Andrew Ahn)
FLIX GOURMET (Peter Strickland)
FRESH (Mimi Cave)
GREAT FREEDOM (Sebastian Meise)
HAPPENING (Audrey Diwan)
HIT THE ROAD (Pahah Panahi)
JACKASS FOREVER ( Jeff Tremaine)
LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON (Dean Fleischer Camp)
THE NORTHMAN (Robert Eggers)
ON THE COUNT OF THREE (Jerrod Carmichael)
R.R.R. (S.S. Rajamouli)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski)
TURNING RED(Domee Shi) Pixar