
Popgap Diary: 2022 Movies, in Review
Written by dorrk | 09 March 2023 |
I watched over 130 movies with a 2022(-ish) release date, in order to find the great movies and brilliant performances that the big awards organizations have never heard of, and I found a few. Not a lot, but enough hidden gems to make it worthwhile.
Performances of the year:
(In no particular order, except for the first one, which was better than all of the others)
- Mia Goth — Pearl; X
- Cate Blanchett — Tár
- Rebecca Hall — Resurrection
- Jenna Ortega — The Fallout
- Taylor Russell — Bones and All
- Tang Wei — Decision to Leave
- Colin Farrell — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Tim Roth — Resurrection; Sundown
- Ralph Fiennes — The Forgiven
- Rory Kinnear — Men
- Sidsel Siem Koch — Speak No Evil
- Morten Burian — Speak No Evil
- Adele Exarchopolous — The Five Devils; Zero Fucks Given; Mandibles
- Aubrey Plaza — Emily the Criminal; Spin Me Round
- Eden Dambrine — CLOSE
- Judd Hirsch — The Fabelmans
- Kerry Condon — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Brendan Gleason — The Banshees of Inisherin
- Rayan Sarlak — Hit the Road
- Tracy Letts — Deep Water
Here are my top 20 movies of 2022:

Pearl (2022)
Dir.: Ti West
97.54% on my Flickchart.

The Northman (2022)
Dir.: Robert Eggers
96.60% on my Flickchart.

Tár (2022)
Dir.: Todd Field
87.51% on my Flickchart.

Speak No Evil (2022)
Dir.: Christian Tafdrup
86.70% on my Flickchart.

Men (2022)
Dir.: Alex Garland
85.05% on my Flickchart.

X (2022)
Dir.: Ti West
84.62% on my Flickchart.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Dir.: Martin McDonagh
84.39% on my Flickchart.

Bones and All (2022)
Dir.: Luca Guadagnino
83.09% on my Flickchart.

Decision to Leave (2022)
Dir.: Chan-wook Park
81.97% on my Flickchart.

You Won't Be Alone (2022)
Dir.: Goran Stolevski
80.81% on my Flickchart.

Sick of Myself (2022)
Dir.: Kristoffer Borgli
79.71% on my Flickchart.

The Silent Twins (2022)
Dir.: Agnieszka Smoczynska
78.44% on my Flickchart.

Incredible But True (2022)
Dir.: Quentin Dupieux
78.21% on my Flickchart.

The Fallout (2021)
Dir.: Megan Park
78.12% on my Flickchart.

The Five Devils (2022)
Dir.: Léa Mysius
77.41% on my Flickchart.

Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Dir.: Cooper Raiff
77.29% on my Flickchart.

Ennio: The Maestro (2021)
Dir.: Giuseppe Tornatore
76.89% on my Flickchart.

Navalny (2022)
Dir.: Daniel Roher
76.58% on my Flickchart.

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Dir.: Joe Begos
75.81% on my Flickchart.

Resurrection (2022)
Dir.: Andrew Semans
75.34% on my Flickchart.
MY entire ranking of 138 movies from 2022:
- 97.54%: Pearl (2022) / Dir.: Ti West
- 96.60%: The Northman (2022) / Dir.: Robert Eggers
- 87.51%: Tár (2022) / Dir.: Todd Field
- 86.70%: Speak No Evil (2022) / Dir.: Christian Tafdrup
- 85.05%: Men (2022) / Dir.: Alex Garland
- 84.62%: X (2022) / Dir.: Ti West
- 84.39%: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) / Dir.: Martin McDonagh
- 83.09%: Bones and All (2022) / Dir.: Luca Guadagnino
- 81.97%: Decision to Leave (2022) / Dir.: Chan-wook Park
- 80.81%: You Won't Be Alone (2022) / Dir.: Goran Stolevski
- 79.71%: Sick of Myself (2022) / Dir.: Kristoffer Borgli
- 78.44%: The Silent Twins (2022) / Dir.: Agnieszka Smoczynska
- 78.21%: Incredible But True (2022) / Dir.: Quentin Dupieux
- 78.12%: The Fallout (2021) / Dir.: Megan Park
- 77.41%: The Five Devils (2022) / Dir.: Léa Mysius
- 77.29%: Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) / Dir.: Cooper Raiff
- 76.89%: Ennio: The Maestro (2021) / Dir.: Giuseppe Tornatore
- 76.58%: Navalny (2022) / Dir.: Daniel Roher
- 75.81%: Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) / Dir.: Joe Begos
- 75.34%: Resurrection (2022) / Dir.: Andrew Semans
- 75.06%: Hit the Road (2021) / Dir.: Panah Panahi
- 71.83%: Barbarian (2022) / Dir.: Zach Cregger
- 70.93%: Close (2022) / Dir.: Lukas Dhont
- 70.83%: Adult Swim Yule Log (2022) / Dir.: Chris 'Casper' Kelly
- 69.89%: Fresh (2022) / Dir.: Mimi Cave
- 69.85%: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) / Dir.: Joseph Kosinski
- 69.62%: Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) / Dir.: Arthur Harari
- 69.13%: Petrov's Flu (2021) / Dir.: Kirill Serebrennikov
- 69.11%: Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) / Dir.: John Rice, Albert Calleros
- 68.96%: The Menu (2022) / Dir.: Mark Mylod
- 68.80%: Dual (2022) / Dir.: Riley Stearns
- 68.68%: Kimi (2022) / Dir.: Steven Soderbergh
- 66.33%: Triangle of Sadness (2022) / Dir.: Rüben Ostlund
- 65.83%: Deadstream (2022) / Dir.: Joseph Winter, Vanessa Winter
- 65.13%: After Yang (2021) / Dir.: Kogonada
- 64.76%: White Noise (2022) / Dir.: Noah Baumbach
- 64.66%: Orphan: First Kill (2022) / Dir.: William Brent Bell
- 64.47%: The Beasts (2022) / Dir.: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- 64.16%: Causeway (2022) / Dir.: Lila Neugebauer
- 64.14%: Holy Spider (2022) / Dir.: Ali Abbasi
- 64.10%: Sundown (2021) / Dir.: Michel Franco
- 63.99%: The Sadness (2021) / Dir.: Rob Jabbaz
- 63.55%: Sr. (2022) / Dir.: Chris Smith
- 63.40%: Emily the Criminal (2022) / Dir.: John Patton Ford
- 63.37%: The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (2022) / Dir.: Max Good
- 63.26%: The Innocents (2021) / Dir.: Eskil Vogt
- 62.67%: Babylon (2022) / Dir.: Damien Chazelle
- 62.54%: The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) / Dir.: Werner Herzog
- 62.37%: The Story of My Wife (2021) / Dir.: Ildikó Enyedi
- 61.30%: The Forgiven (2021) / Dir.: John Michael McDonough
- 60.75%: Amsterdam (2022) / Dir.: David O. Russell
- 60.18%: The Whale (2022) / Dir.: Darren Aronofsky
- 59.64%: Blonde (2022) / Dir.: Andrew Dominik
- 59.61%: Argentina, 1985 (2022) / Dir.: Santiago Mitre
- 59.46%: The Quiet Girl (2022) / Dir.: Colm Bairéad
- 57.11%: Mamá, mamá, mamá (2020) / Dir.: Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére
- 56.15%: Spin Me Round (2022) / Dir.: Jeff Baena
- 55.17%: Brian and Charles (2022) / Dir.: Jim Archer
- 54.12%: Who Invited Them (2022) / Dir.: Duncan Birmingham
- 53.98%: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) / Dir.: Eric Appel
- 53.61%: Aftersun (2022) / Dir.: Charlotte Wells
- 53.49%: All My Friends Hate Me (2021) / Dir.: Andrew Gaynord
- 52.17%: Do Revenge (2022) / Dir.: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
- 52.02%: Mandibles (2020) / Dir.: Quentin Dupieux
- 51.87%: Athena (2022) / Dir.: Romain Gavras
- 51.86%: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) / Dir.: Halina Reijn
- 51.85%: Watcher (2022) / Dir.: Chloe Okuno
- 51.72%: Terrifier 2 (2022) / Dir.: Damien Leone
- 51.29%: Bull (2021) / Dir.: Paul Andrew Williams
- 51.29%: Fire of Love (2022) / Dir.: Sara Dosa
- 51.26%: Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) / Dir.: Will Lovelace
- 51.09%: Vesper (2022) / Dir.: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
- 50.68%: The Fabelmans (2022) / Dir.: Steven Spielberg
- 50.17%: Il buco (2021) / Dir.: Michelangelo Frammartino
- 50.10%: Nocebo (2022) / Dir.: Lorcan Finnegan
- 50.09%: The Natural History of Destruction (2022) / Dir.: Sergey Loznitsa
- 50.07%: Girl Picture (2022) / Dir.: Alli Haapasalo
- 50.02%: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) / Dir.: Tom Gormican
- 49.97%: Bad Roads (2020) / Dir.: Natalya Vorozhbit
- 49.92%: Nope (2022) / Dir.: Jordan Peele
- 49.51%: Hustle (2022) / Dir.: Jeremiah Zagar
- 48.92%: Vengeance (2022) / Dir.: B.J. Novak
- 47.03%: Glorious (2022) / Dir.: Rebekah McKendry
- 47.01%: Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) / Dir.: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
- 46.04%: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) / Dir.: Laura Poitras
- 43.81%: The Day The Music Died (2022) / Dir.: Mark Moormann
- 42.66%: Hatching (2022) / Dir.: Hanna Bergholm
- 42.46%: Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022) / Dir.: Jeff Malmberg
- 41.92%: Don't Worry Darling (2022) / Dir.: Olivia Wilde
- 41.08%: Zero Fucks Given (2021) / Dir.: Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre
- 40.86%: The Stranger (2022) / Dir.: Thomas M. Wright
- 39.97%: The Black Phone (2021) / Dir.: Scott Derrickson
- 38.38%: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) / Dir.: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
- 38.04%: Prey (2022) / Dir.: Dan Trachtenberg
- 38.01%: Confess, Fletch (2022) / Dir.: Greg Mottola
- 37.96%: House of Darkness (2022) / Dir.: Neil LaBute
- 37.22%: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) / Dir.: David Blue Garcia
- 36.23%: MK Ultra (2022) / Dir.: Joseph Sorrentino
- 35.88%: Halloween Ends (2022) / Dir.: David Gordon Green
- 34.84%: Smile (2022) / Dir.: Parker Finn
- 34.26%: #dogpoopgirl (2021) / Dir.: Andrei Hutuleac
- 32.52%: Missing (2021) / Dir.: Shinzô Katayama
- 32.45%: Old Man (2022) / Dir.: Lucky McKee
- 32.38%: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022) / Dir.: Clay Kaytis
- 32.25%: Spirited (2022) / Dir.: Sean Anders
- 32.12%: Armageddon Time (2022) / Dir.: James Gray
- 31.65%: Nanny (2022) / Dir.: Nikyatu Jusu
- 31.43%: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) / Dir.: Edward Berger
- 31.37%: Violent Night (2022) / Dir.: Tommy Wirkola
- 30.42%: 5-25-77 (2022) / Dir.: Patrick Read Johnson
- 29.97%: Scream (2022) / Dir.: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
- 29.59%: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021) / Dir.: Ana Lily Amirpour
- 29.36%: The Batman (2022) / Dir.: Matt Reeves
- 28.36%: Soft & Quiet (2022) / Dir.: Beth de Araújo
- 28.16%: Windfall (2022) / Dir.: Charlie McDowell
- 28.13%: We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) / Dir.: Jane Schoenbrun
- 27.71%: Deep Water (2022) / Dir.: Adrian Lyne
- 27.52%: To Leslie (2022) / Dir.: Michael Morris
- 27.32%: A Wounded Fawn (2022) / Dir.: Travis Stevens
- 26.73%: Sharp Stick (2022) / Dir.: Lena Dunham
- 26.70%: Aloners (2021) / Dir.: Hong Seong-eun
- 25.27%: God's Creatures (2022) / Dir.: Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer
- 25.26%: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) / Dir.: Rian Johnson
- 25.18%: Offseason (2021) / Dir.: Mickey Keating
- 24.14%: Morbius (2022) / Dir.: Daniel Espinosa
- 23.93%: Aline (2020) / Dir.: Valérie Lemercier
- 22.68%: Flux Gourmet (2022) / Dir.: Peter Strickland
- 19.36%: Elvis (2022) / Dir.: Baz Luhrmann
- 18.91%: The Leech (2022) / Dir.: Eric Pennycoff
- 18.78%: Crimes of the Future (2022) / Dir.: David Cronenberg
- 17.72%: The Eternal Daughter (2022) / Dir.: Joanna Hogg
- 17.58%: Saint Omer (2022) / Dir.: Alice Diop
- 16.07%: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) / Dir.: Dean Fleischer-Camp
- 15.07%: Women Talking (2022) / Dir.: Sarah Polley
- 14.05%: Stars at Noon (2022) / Dir.: Claire Denis
- 9.98%: 2000 Mules (2022) / Dir.: Dinesh D'Souza
- 9.57%: Funny Pages (2022) / Dir.: Owen Kline
- 0.46%: RRR (2022) / Dir.: S.S. Rajamouli
2022 Movies: A Recap
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