When I moved to Seattle in 2008, I began keeping track of all the movies I managed to see which came out that year. I track whether I watched them in the theater or on the small screen (in italics). I also indicate which ones I’ve purchased [Blu-ray]. Movies that were exclusive to specific streaming services are also indicated with [Netflix], [Amazon], [Hulu], [Disney+], [HBO], [HBO Max], [Paramount+], [Peacock], or [AppleTV].
Below are the movies that debuted in 2022 and at the bottom of this post, you can find links to my rankings from 2008-2021.
Grand Total: 91 In Theater: 36 At Home/Streaming: 55 In 2023: 13
The Beyond Awesome/Fun (A+ for Everything):
- Top Gun: Maverick (x3)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery [Netflix]
The Award Season Awesome (A):
- The Tender Bar [Amazon]
- Hustle [Netflix]
- Good Luck To You Leo Grande [Hulu]
- The Black Phone
- Nope
- Vengeance
- Good Nurse [Netflix]
- She Said
- The Menu
- The Whale
- Spoiler Alert
- All’s Quiet on the Western Front [Netflix]
The Highly Enjoyable (Solid A):
- The Batman
- Operation Mincemeat [Netflix]
- Pixar’s Lightyear
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- The Gray Man [Netflix]
- Man From Toronto [Netflix]
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
- DC League of Super-Pets
- Confess, Fletch
- Enola Holmes 2 [Netflix]
- Mr. Malcolm’s List
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Award Season Good (A-/B+):
- Death on the Nile [Blu-ray]
- Elvis
- Mr Harrington’s Phone [Netflix]
- Avatar: The Way of the Water
- Babylon
- Amsterdam
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio [Netflix]
- Watcher
- Emily the Criminal
- The Pale Blue Eye [Netflix]
- Armageddon Time
The Guilty Pleasures (A for Effort):
- The Lost City
- Minions 2: The Rise of Gru
- Jerry & Marge Go Large [Paramount+]
- See How They Run
- Spirited [AppleTV]
- Catherine Called Birdy [Amazon]
- Violent Night
- Mack & Rita
The Good (Solid B):
- Uncharted
- Pixar’s Turning Red [Disney+]
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Spiderhead [Netflix]
- Marry Me
- Love & Gelato [Netflix]
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- The Bad Guys
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Black Adam
- Ticket to Paradise
- Bros
- The People We Hate at the Wedding [Amazon]
- Slumberland [Netflix]
- Sr (documentary) [Netflix]
- TAR
The Just Okay (B-/C+):
- Scream
- The Adam Project [Netflix]
- Munich – The Edge of War [Netflix]
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Morbius
- After Yang
- Strange World
- Disenchanted [Disney+]
- Cyrano
- Pinocchio [Disney+]
- School of Good and Evil [Netflix]
- Clerks 3
- Sam & Kate
- Raymond & Ray [AppleTV]
The Neither Good Nor Bad (C):
- Downton Abbey 2
- Bullet Train
- The Princess [Hulu]
- Meet Cute [Peacock]
- The Contractor
- Dog
- Wonder [Netflix]
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover [Netflix]
- Triangle of Sadness
The Bad (D):
- Hotel Transylvania: Transformania [Amazon]
- Moonfall
- Fantastic Beasts 3: Secrets of Dumbledore
- The Bubble [Netflix]
- Our Father (Documentary) [Netflix]
- Dual
- The 355
- Persuasion [Netflix]
- Banshees of Inisherin
Deeply Disappointing:
So Bad I Stopped Before The End:
- Interceptor [Netflix] – less than 10 mins
- Blonde [Netflix] – less than 20 mins
- White Noise [Netflix] – less than 20 mins
- Skinamarink – less than 30 mins
Want to See, but Haven’t Yet (13):
Last Looks, Moonage Daydream, The Woman King, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish; Prey [Hulu], A Man Called Otto, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, The Fabelmans, A Christmas Story Christmas [HBO Max], Weird: The Al Yankovic Story [Roku], Causeway [AppleTV], Till, Empire of Light
Past Rankings:
Which movies this you see this year? Anything not on my list that you recommend? Let us know in the comments section.
