Popgap Diary: 2022 Movies, in Review

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

MY entire ranking of 138 movies from 2022:

1. 97.54%: Pearl (2022) / Dir.: Ti West
2. 96.60%: The Northman (2022) / Dir.: Robert Eggers
3. 87.51%: Tár (2022) / Dir.: Todd Field
4. 86.70%: Speak No Evil (2022) / Dir.: Christian Tafdrup
5. 85.05%: Men (2022) / Dir.: Alex Garland
6. 84.62%: X (2022) / Dir.: Ti West
7. 84.39%: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) / Dir.: Martin McDonagh
8. 83.09%: Bones and All (2022) / Dir.: Luca Guadagnino
9. 81.97%: Decision to Leave (2022) / Dir.: Chan-wook Park
10. 80.81%: You Won't Be Alone (2022) / Dir.: Goran Stolevski
11. 79.71%: Sick of Myself (2022) / Dir.: Kristoffer Borgli
12. 78.44%: The Silent Twins (2022) / Dir.: Agnieszka Smoczynska
13. 78.21%: Incredible But True (2022) / Dir.: Quentin Dupieux
14. 78.12%: The Fallout (2021) / Dir.: Megan Park
15. 77.41%: The Five Devils (2022) / Dir.: Léa Mysius
16. 77.29%: Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) / Dir.: Cooper Raiff
17. 76.89%: Ennio: The Maestro (2021) / Dir.: Giuseppe Tornatore
18. 76.58%: Navalny (2022) / Dir.: Daniel Roher
19. 75.81%: Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) / Dir.: Joe Begos
20. 75.34%: Resurrection (2022) / Dir.: Andrew Semans
21. 75.06%: Hit the Road (2021) / Dir.: Panah Panahi
22. 71.83%: Barbarian (2022) / Dir.: Zach Cregger
23. 70.93%: Close (2022) / Dir.: Lukas Dhont
24. 70.83%: Adult Swim Yule Log (2022) / Dir.: Chris 'Casper' Kelly
25. 69.89%: Fresh (2022) / Dir.: Mimi Cave
26. 69.85%: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) / Dir.: Joseph Kosinski
27. 69.62%: Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) / Dir.: Arthur Harari
28. 69.13%: Petrov's Flu (2021) / Dir.: Kirill Serebrennikov
29. 69.11%: Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) / Dir.: John Rice, Albert Calleros
30. 68.96%: The Menu (2022) / Dir.: Mark Mylod
31. 68.80%: Dual (2022) / Dir.: Riley Stearns
32. 68.68%: Kimi (2022) / Dir.: Steven Soderbergh
33. 66.33%: Triangle of Sadness (2022) / Dir.: Rüben Ostlund
34. 65.83%: Deadstream (2022) / Dir.: Joseph Winter, Vanessa Winter
35. 65.13%: After Yang (2021) / Dir.: Kogonada
36. 64.76%: White Noise (2022) / Dir.: Noah Baumbach
37. 64.66%: Orphan: First Kill (2022) / Dir.: William Brent Bell
38. 64.47%: The Beasts (2022) / Dir.: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
39. 64.16%: Causeway (2022) / Dir.: Lila Neugebauer
40. 64.14%: Holy Spider (2022) / Dir.: Ali Abbasi
41. 64.10%: Sundown (2021) / Dir.: Michel Franco
42. 63.99%: The Sadness (2021) / Dir.: Rob Jabbaz
43. 63.55%: Sr. (2022) / Dir.: Chris Smith
44. 63.40%: Emily the Criminal (2022) / Dir.: John Patton Ford
45. 63.37%: The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (2022) / Dir.: Max Good
46. 63.26%: The Innocents (2021) / Dir.: Eskil Vogt
47. 62.67%: Babylon (2022) / Dir.: Damien Chazelle
48. 62.54%: The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) / Dir.: Werner Herzog
49. 62.37%: The Story of My Wife (2021) / Dir.: Ildikó Enyedi
50. 61.30%: The Forgiven (2021) / Dir.: John Michael McDonough
51. 60.75%: Amsterdam (2022) / Dir.: David O. Russell
52. 60.18%: The Whale (2022) / Dir.: Darren Aronofsky
53. 59.64%: Blonde (2022) / Dir.: Andrew Dominik
54. 59.61%: Argentina, 1985 (2022) / Dir.: Santiago Mitre
55. 59.46%: The Quiet Girl (2022) / Dir.: Colm Bairéad
56. 57.11%: Mamá, mamá, mamá (2020) / Dir.: Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére
57. 56.15%: Spin Me Round (2022) / Dir.: Jeff Baena
58. 55.17%: Brian and Charles (2022) / Dir.: Jim Archer
59. 54.12%: Who Invited Them (2022) / Dir.: Duncan Birmingham
60. 53.98%: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) / Dir.: Eric Appel
61. 53.61%: Aftersun (2022) / Dir.: Charlotte Wells
62. 53.49%: All My Friends Hate Me (2021) / Dir.: Andrew Gaynord
63. 52.17%: Do Revenge (2022) / Dir.: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
64. 52.02%: Mandibles (2020) / Dir.: Quentin Dupieux
65. 51.87%: Athena (2022) / Dir.: Romain Gavras
66. 51.86%: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) / Dir.: Halina Reijn
67. 51.85%: Watcher (2022) / Dir.: Chloe Okuno
68. 51.72%: Terrifier 2 (2022) / Dir.: Damien Leone
69. 51.29%: Bull (2021) / Dir.: Paul Andrew Williams
70. 51.29%: Fire of Love (2022) / Dir.: Sara Dosa
71. 51.26%: Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) / Dir.: Will Lovelace
72. 51.09%: Vesper (2022) / Dir.: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
73. 50.68%: The Fabelmans (2022) / Dir.: Steven Spielberg
74. 50.17%: Il buco (2021) / Dir.: Michelangelo Frammartino
75. 50.10%: Nocebo (2022) / Dir.: Lorcan Finnegan
76. 50.09%: The Natural History of Destruction (2022) / Dir.: Sergey Loznitsa
77. 50.07%: Girl Picture (2022) / Dir.: Alli Haapasalo
78. 50.02%: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) / Dir.: Tom Gormican
79. 49.97%: Bad Roads (2020) / Dir.: Natalya Vorozhbit
80. 49.92%: Nope (2022) / Dir.: Jordan Peele
81. 49.51%: Hustle (2022) / Dir.: Jeremiah Zagar
82. 48.92%: Vengeance (2022) / Dir.: B.J. Novak
83. 47.03%: Glorious (2022) / Dir.: Rebekah McKendry
84. 47.01%: Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) / Dir.: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
85. 46.04%: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) / Dir.: Laura Poitras
86. 43.81%: The Day The Music Died (2022) / Dir.: Mark Moormann
87. 42.66%: Hatching (2022) / Dir.: Hanna Bergholm
88. 42.46%: Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022) / Dir.: Jeff Malmberg
89. 41.92%: Don't Worry Darling (2022) / Dir.: Olivia Wilde
90. 41.08%: Zero Fucks Given (2021) / Dir.: Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre
91. 40.86%: The Stranger (2022) / Dir.: Thomas M. Wright
92. 39.97%: The Black Phone (2021) / Dir.: Scott Derrickson
93. 38.38%: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) / Dir.: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
94. 38.04%: Prey (2022) / Dir.: Dan Trachtenberg
95. 38.01%: Confess, Fletch (2022) / Dir.: Greg Mottola
96. 37.96%: House of Darkness (2022) / Dir.: Neil LaBute
97. 37.22%: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) / Dir.: David Blue Garcia
98. 36.23%: MK Ultra (2022) / Dir.: Joseph Sorrentino
99. 35.88%: Halloween Ends (2022) / Dir.: David Gordon Green
100. 34.84%: Smile (2022) / Dir.: Parker Finn
101. 34.26%: #dogpoopgirl (2021) / Dir.: Andrei Hutuleac
102. 32.52%: Missing (2021) / Dir.: Shinzô Katayama
103. 32.45%: Old Man (2022) / Dir.: Lucky McKee
104. 32.38%: A Christmas Story Christmas (2022) / Dir.: Clay Kaytis
105. 32.25%: Spirited (2022) / Dir.: Sean Anders
106. 32.12%: Armageddon Time (2022) / Dir.: James Gray
107. 31.65%: Nanny (2022) / Dir.: Nikyatu Jusu
108. 31.43%: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) / Dir.: Edward Berger
109. 31.37%: Violent Night (2022) / Dir.: Tommy Wirkola
110. 30.42%: 5-25-77 (2022) / Dir.: Patrick Read Johnson
111. 29.97%: Scream (2022) / Dir.: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
112. 29.59%: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021) / Dir.: Ana Lily Amirpour
113. 29.36%: The Batman (2022) / Dir.: Matt Reeves
114. 28.36%: Soft & Quiet (2022) / Dir.: Beth de Araújo
115. 28.16%: Windfall (2022) / Dir.: Charlie McDowell
116. 28.13%: We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) / Dir.: Jane Schoenbrun
117. 27.71%: Deep Water (2022) / Dir.: Adrian Lyne
118. 27.52%: To Leslie (2022) / Dir.: Michael Morris
119. 27.32%: A Wounded Fawn (2022) / Dir.: Travis Stevens
120. 26.73%: Sharp Stick (2022) / Dir.: Lena Dunham
121. 26.70%: Aloners (2021) / Dir.: Hong Seong-eun
122. 25.27%: God's Creatures (2022) / Dir.: Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer
123. 25.26%: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) / Dir.: Rian Johnson
124. 25.18%: Offseason (2021) / Dir.: Mickey Keating
125. 24.14%: Morbius (2022) / Dir.: Daniel Espinosa
126. 23.93%: Aline (2020) / Dir.: Valérie Lemercier
127. 22.68%: Flux Gourmet (2022) / Dir.: Peter Strickland
128. 19.36%: Elvis (2022) / Dir.: Baz Luhrmann
129. 18.91%: The Leech (2022) / Dir.: Eric Pennycoff
130. 18.78%: Crimes of the Future (2022) / Dir.: David Cronenberg
131. 17.72%: The Eternal Daughter (2022) / Dir.: Joanna Hogg
132. 17.58%: Saint Omer (2022) / Dir.: Alice Diop
133. 16.07%: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) / Dir.: Dean Fleischer-Camp
134. 15.07%: Women Talking (2022) / Dir.: Sarah Polley
135. 14.05%: Stars at Noon (2022) / Dir.: Claire Denis
136. 9.98%: 2000 Mules (2022) / Dir.: Dinesh D'Souza
137. 9.57%: Funny Pages (2022) / Dir.: Owen Kline
138. 0.46%: RRR (2022) / Dir.: S.S. Rajamouli