Films in 2022 Review

/ January 8, 2023

2022 was the biggest movie-watching year for me yet, though not because of the overall number of films I watched in a year’s time. In fact, compared to the past two years when I spent much more time than usual at home, I didn’t see nearly as many movies, but so many of what I did see I was lucky to enjoy on the big screen following my move to Los Angeles last December. So I’ve now enjoyed a full calendar year of screenings around town, primarily at the Academy Museum, the New Beverly Cinema, and through the American Cinematheque, all of which included dozens of screenings with distinguished guests from in front of and behind the camera to introduce the films or participate in Q&As afterward. The TCM Classic Film Festival also returned in person this year, my second time attending it, which I’m sure will now become an event I’ll be attending every year now that I live so close to it! Anyway, since I saw so much in theaters, both new and old, this post will be longer than usual. And going forward, I’ll incorporate these breakdowns in my monthly posts instead of putting them all together into one for the end-of-the-year wrap-up. But until then, here’s a look back at my 2022 in film, from the new releases I saw to the movies I re-watched. You can take a look at all the movies I watched for the first time on my Letterboxd here, or go through my monthly entries here.

New-to-Me: 380

Re-Watched: 232*

*There were 8 movies that I watched twice in 2022, so I didn’t count them again in the grand total.

Total: 609*

*3 of my re-watches were also films I discovered in 2022, so they weren’t counted again in the grand total.

New-to-Me Films by Decade:

  • 1910s – 1
  • 1920s – 7
  • 1930s – 44
  • 1940s – 47
  • 1950s – 53
  • 1960s – 39
  • 1970s – 33
  • 1980s – 36
  • 1990s – 21
  • 2000s – 21
  • 2010s – 29
  • 2020s – 69

List of New Releases I Saw (ordered by release date):

  1. A Hero*
  2. Scream
  3. The Worst Person in the World*
  4. Kimi
  5. Death on the Nile
  6. Marry Me
  7. Cyrano*
  8. Fresh
  9. After Yang*
  10. The Batman

  11. Turning Red
  12. Deep Water
  13. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  14. The Lost City
  15. RRR
  16. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  17. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
  18. The Northman
  19. Memoria*
  20. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  21. Men
  22. Top Gun: Maverick
  23. Jurassic World Dominion
  24. Official Competition
  25. Elvis
  26. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On*
  27. Mr. Malcolm’s List
  28. Both Sides of the Blade
  29. Thor: Love and Thunder
  30. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
  31. Nope
  32. Bodies Bodies Bodies
  33. Three Thousand Years of Longing
  34. The Woman King
  35. See How They Run
  36. Don’t Worry Darling
  37. Triangle of Sadness
  38. TÁR
  39. Werewolf by Night
  40. Decision to Leave
  41. Aftersun
  42. The Banshees of Inisherin
  43. The Good Nurse
  44. All Quiet on the Western Front
  45. Armageddon Time
  46. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  47. The Menu
  48. She Said
  49. Disenchanted
  50. Bones and All
  51. The Fabelmans
  52. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  53. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
  54. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  55. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  56. Avatar: The Way of Water
  57. Corsage
  58. Babylon
  59. Women Talking**

*first screened in 2021
**wide release in 2023

List of Films I Saw in Theaters (in italics marks a re-watch):

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. West Side Story (2021)
  3. The Power of the Dog (2021)
  4. Scream (2022)
  5. The Cameraman (1928)
  6. The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
  7. Boogie Nights (1997)
  8. Magnolia (1999)
  9. What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
  10. Paper Moon (1973)
  11. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  12. The Worst Person in the World (2021)
  13. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  14. They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
  15. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
  16. Sabrina (1954)
  17. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  18. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  19. Marry Me (2022)
  20. Death on the Nile (2022)
  21. Cyrano (2021)
  22. Moonlight (2016)
  23. The Tree of Life (2011)
  24. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  25. The Batman (2022)
  26. A Place in the Sun (1951)
  27. The Heiress (1949)
  28. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  29. Rear Window (1954)
  30. To Catch a Thief (1955)
  31. The Sting (1973)
  32. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
  33. The Lost City (2022)
  34. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
  35. Klute (1971)
  36. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  37. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  38. Captain Blood (1935)
  39. The Accused (1949)
  40. Caged (1950)
  41. Topkapi (1964)
  42. The Jungle Book (1967)
  43. Giant (1956)
  44. Miracle Mile (1988)
  45. Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
  46. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
  47. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  48. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  49. Polyester (1981)
  50. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  51. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)
  52. A League of Their Own (1992)
  53. Memoria (2021)
  54. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
  55. The Northman (2022)
  56. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
  57. Men (2022)
  58. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
  59. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  60. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
  61. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  62. Mississippi Masala (1991)
  63. The Great Escape (1963)
  64. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
  65. Morocco (1930)
  66. Blonde Venus (1932)
  67. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
  68. American Graffiti (1973)*
  69. Hard Eight (1996)
  70. Gilda (1946)
  71. Laura (1944)
  72. 3 Women (1977)
  73. Notorious (1946)
  74. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  75. Elvis (2022)*
  76. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  77. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
  78. All That Jazz (1979)
  79. Summertime (1955)
  80. Before Sunrise (1995)
  81. Marcel the Shells with Shoes On (2021)
  82. Mr. Malcolm’s List (2022)
  83. The Elephant Man (1980)
  84. Dazed and Confused (1993)
  85. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
  86. Short Cuts (1993)
  87. Total Recall (1990)
  88. Official Competition (2021)
  89. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
  90. Face/Off (1997)
  91. TRON (1982)
  92. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  93. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
  94. Nope (2022)*
  95. Armageddon (1998)
  96. Breathless (1983)
  97. The Big Easy (1986)
  98. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
  99. Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
  100. Jerry Maguire (1996)
  101. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
  102. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  103. The Killing (1956)
  104. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
  105. Lost Highway (1997)
  106. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  107. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  108. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  109. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  110. Reality Bites (1994)
  111. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
  112. A Patch of Blue (1965)
  113. Thelma & Louise (1991)
  114. Three Colors: White (1994)
  115. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  116. Slacker (1990)
  117. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  118. Three Colors: Red (1994)
  119. Le samouraï (1967)
  120. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  121. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  122. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
  123. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
  124. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  125. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
  126. Breathless (1960)
  127. Band of Outsiders (1964)
  128. Adventures of Babysitting (1987)
  129. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
  130. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  131. Jaws (1975)
  132. Jurassic Park (1993)
  133. Drive (2011)
  134. The Nice Guys (2016)
  135. No Way Out (1950)
  136. Native Son (1951)
  137. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
  138. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
  139. Grease (1978)
  140. Xanadu (1980)
  141. Toy Story (1995)
  142. The Godfather (1972)
  143. Darling (1965)
  144. Places in the Heart (1984)
  145. In the Mood for Love (2000)
  146. Murder by Contract (1958)
  147. City of Fear (1959)
  148. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  149. Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
  150. See How They Run (2022)
  151. Kuroneko (1968)
  152. The Gleaners and I (2000)
  153. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
  154. RRR (2022)
  155. Avatar (2009)
  156. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
  157. Blithe Spirit (1945)
  158. Triangle of Sadness (2022)
  159. The Woman King (2022)
  160. TÁR (2022)
  161. Cruising (1980)
  162. Body Double (1984)
  163. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  164. The Menu (2022)
  165. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  166. Scream (1996)
  167. Scooby-Doo (2002)
  168. I Am Love (2009)
  169. The 400 Blows (1959)
  170. Stolen Kisses (1968)
  171. Kwaidan (1964)
  172. Decision to Leave (2022)
  173. The Host (2006)
  174. Bed and Board (1970)
  175. Love on the Run (1979)
  176. Play It as It Lays (1972)
  177. Thirst (2009)
  178. The Exorcist (1973)
  179. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
  180. The Leopard Man (1943)
  181. The Ghost Ship (1943)
  182. She Said (2022)
  183. Women Talking (2022)
  184. Bones and All (2022)
  185. The Fabelmans (2022)
  186. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
  187. Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
  188. Enter the Dragon (1973)
  189. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
  190. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  191. Taxi Driver (1976)
  192. Rolling Thunder (1977)
  193. Jackie Brown (1997)
  194. Sunset Blvd. (2022)
  195. The Good Nurse (2022)
  196. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
  197. Flower Drum Song (1961)
  198. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  199. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  200. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
  201. Armored Car Robbery (1950)
  202. Black Panther (2018)
  203. Nightmare Alley (1947)
  204. Roustabout (1964)
  205. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  206. Roma (2018)
  207. Armageddon Time (2022)
  208. The Immigrant (2013)
  209. Corsage (2022)
  210. Bergman Island (2021)
  211. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
  212. The Cardinal (1963)
  213. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
  214. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  215. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  216. Frenchman’s Creek (1944)
  217. Parasite (2019)
  218. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  219. Babylon (2022)

*watched twice in theaters

List of Re-Watched Films:

  1. Repeat Performance (1947)
  2. The Awful Truth (1937)
  3. Nightmare Alley (1947)**
  4. West Side Story (2021)
  5. The Power of the Dog (2021)
  6. The Mob (1951)
  7. The Cameraman (1928)
  8. The Matrix (1999)
  9. Boogie Nights (1997)
  10. Magnolia (1999)
  11. Thunder Road (1958)
  12. Cape Fear (1962)
  13. What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
  14. Paper Moon (1973)
  15. The Last Picture Show (1971)
  16. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  17. Punch-Drunk Love (2022)
  18. Sabrina (1954)
  19. All That Heaven Allows (1955)**
  20. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  21. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  22. The Defiant Ones (1958)
  23. The Conversation (1974)
  24. Fargo (1996)
  25. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
  26. Moonlight (2016)
  27. 13 Going on 30 (2004)
  28. Melancholia (2011)
  29. The Tree of Life (2011)
  30. Romancing the Stone (1984)
  31. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  32. A Place in the Sun (1951)
  33. The Heiress (1949)
  34. Rear Window (1954)
  35. To Catch a Thief (1955)
  36. The Sting (1973)
  37. Klute (1971)
  38. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
  39. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  40. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  41. Captain Blood (1935)
  42. Caged (1950)
  43. Easter Parade (1948)
  44. Topkapi (1964)
  45. The Jungle Book (1967)
  46. Giant (1956)
  47. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
  48. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
  49. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  50. Polyester (1981)
  51. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  52. A League of Their Own (1992)
  53. Johnny Angel (1945)
  54. No Man of Her Own (1950)
  55. The Gang’s All Here (1943)
  56. The Killer Is Loose (1956)
  57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  58. Ex Machina (2014)
  59. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
  60. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  61. Top Gun (1986)
  62. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  63. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  64. Alien (1979)
  65. The Great Escape (1963)
  66. Morocco (1930)
  67. Blonde Venus (1932)
  68. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  69. American Graffiti (1973)**
  70. Hard Eight (1996)
  71. Gilda (1946)
  72. Laura (1944)
  73. Notorious (1946)
  74. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  75. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  76. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
  77. All That Jazz (1979)
  78. Summertime (1955)
  79. Before Sunrise (1995)
  80. The Elephant Man (1980)
  81. Dazed and Confused (1993)
  82. Short Cuts (1993)
  83. Scarlet Street (1945)
  84. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  85. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
  86. 5 Against the House (1955)
  87. Nashville (1975)
  88. Jerry Maguire (1996)
  89. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
  90. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  91. The Killing (1956)
  92. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
  93. Lost Highway (1997)
  94. Back to the Future (1985)
  95. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  96. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  97. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
  98. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  99. Grease (1978)**
  100. Two for the Road (1967)
  101. How to Steal a Million (1966)
  102. Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
  103. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  104. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  105. A Patch of Blue (1965)
  106. Valley Girl (1983)
  107. Thelma & Louise (1991)
  108. Three Colors: White (1994)
  109. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  110. Some Came Running (1958)
  111. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  112. Amadeus (1984)
  113. Three Colors: Red (1994)
  114. Le samouraï (1967)
  115. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  116. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  117. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
  118. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  119. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
  120. Breathless (1960)
  121. Band of Outsiders (1964)
  122. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
  123. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  124. Jaws (1975)
  125. Jurassic Park (1993)
  126. Drive (2011)
  127. No Way Out (1950)
  128. Native Son (1951)
  129. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
  130. Obsession (1949)
  131. Toy Story (1995)
  132. The Godfather (1972)
  133. Darling (1965)
  134. Places in the Heart (1984)
  135. In the Mood for Love (2000)
  136. Murder by Contract (1958)
  137. City of Fear (1959)**
  138. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  139. All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
  140. I Love Trouble (1948)
  141. Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
  142. Avatar (2009)
  143. The Red House (1947)
  144. Blithe Spirit (1945)
  145. Fatal Attraction (1987)
  146. Cruising (1980)
  147. Body Double (1984)
  148. The Phenix City Story (1955)
  149. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  150. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  151. The Wolf Man (1941)
  152. The Mummy (1932)
  153. Scream (1996)
  154. Scooby-Doo (2002)
  155. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  156. The 400 Blows (1959)
  157. Stolen Kisses (1968)
  158. The Argyle Secrets (1948)*
  159. The Raven (1935)
  160. The Black Cat (1934)
  161. The Host (2006)
  162. The Invisible Man (1933)
  163. Dracula (1931)
  164. Bed and Board (1970)
  165. Love on the Run (1979)
  166. Frankenstein (1931)
  167. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  168. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  169. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  170. The Uninvited (1944)
  171. The Exorcist (1973)
  172. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
  173. The Leopard Man (1943)
  174. The Ghost Ship (1943)
  175. Double Indemnity (1944)
  176. Nope (2022)*
  177. An American in Paris (1951)
  178. High Sierra (1941)
  179. Tension (1949)
  180. 42nd Street (1933)
  181. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  182. Force of Evil (1948)
  183. Humoresque (1946)
  184. This Gun for Hire (1942)
  185. The Glass Key (1942)
  186. The Blue Dahlia (1946)
  187. Taxi Driver (1976)
  188. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
  189. Jackie Brown (1997)
  190. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  191. The Unfaithful (1947)
  192. Elvis (2022)
  193. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  194. Gaslight (1944)
  195. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
  196. Caught (1949)
  197. The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
  198. Thieves’ Highway (1949)
  199. Cry of the City (1948)
  200. Call Northside 777 (1948)
  201. The Dark Corner (1946)
  202. Flower Drum Song (1961)
  203. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
  204. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  205. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
  206. Death of a Cyclist (1955)
  207. The Narrow Margin (1952)
  208. Armored Car Robbery (1950)
  209. The Killers (1946)
  210. The Killers (1964)
  211. Black Panther (2018)
  212. Decoy (1946)
  213. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
  214. Roma (2018)
  215. Bergman Island (2021)
  216. Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
  217. Holiday Affair (1949)
  218. The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
  219. Cabaret (1972)
  220. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  221. Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
  222. Top Hat (1935)
  223. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  224. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  225. The Apartment (1960)
  226. Parasite (2019)
  227. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  228. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
  229. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
  230. Meet John Doe (1941)
  231. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)
  232. The Last of Sheila (1973)

*also a first-time watch in 2022
**re-watched twice in 2022

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  1. Good lord, that’s quite the list there, Keisha! Funny that I’ve only seen ONE from your new release list (Top Gun: Maverick), but I’ve seen plenty from your theatrical viewing list…almost all of them revival classics, of course. And 219 seen at the theater? That’s more than I watched at home! I guess living in LA now, you have quite the number of theaters to choose from…I think most – if not all – of my nights would be spent at the New Beverly.

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