- À vendredi, Robinson (Mitra Farahadi, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
- Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills)
- Queens of Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
- The Maiden (Graham Foy)
- Turning Red (Domee Shi)
- Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
- The Batman (Matt Reeves)
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Season 5 (Margaret Atwood, Elisabeth Moss)
- The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
- Nope (Jordan Peele), Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler), The Way of Water (James Cameron), and
+ 1 old film: In Harm’s Way (Otto Preminger, 1965)
Next year I look forward to new films by Kazik Radwanski, Matt Johnson, Rebeccah Love, Nicole Dorsey, Erik Anderson, Alan Jones, Mitch Greenberg, and Andrew Stanley. And let’s hope the world is a better place in 2023.
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Candice Davidson:
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
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Ryan Krahn
1. The Super 8 Years (Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot)
2. Thunder (Carmen Jaquier)
3. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
4. Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
5. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
6. Robe of Gems (Natalia López)
7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
8. Nazerbazi (Maryam Tafakory)
9. The Kingdom: Exodus (Lars von Trier)
10. Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon)
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Adrien A. Benson
- Ambulance (Michael Bay)
- Barbarian (Zach Cregger)
- Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan)
- Viking (Stéphane Lafleur)
- I Like Movies (Chandler Levack)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
- The Fablemans (Steven Spielberg)
- Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup)
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Michael Sooriyakumaran
1. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
2. Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (William Kentridge)
3. Tár (Todd Field)
4. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Véréna Paravel)
5. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
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Nicolas Rioult
1. Occhiali neri (Dario Argento)
2. Orphan first kill (William Brent Bell)
3. Zeros and ones (Abel Ferrara)
4. Wheel of Fortune and fantasy (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)
5. Men (Alex Garland)
6. Nope (Jordan Peele)
7. Rifkin’s festival (Woody Allen)
8. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
9. Shin Ultraman (Shinji Higuchi)
10. Crimes of the future (David Cronenberg)
+ Bariera (Jerzy Skolimoski, 1966)
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Gilles Lyon-Caen
- Plumes (Omar El Zohairy)
- Nope (Jordan Peele)
- Sans filtre (Ruben Östlund)
- Pearl (Ti West)
- Bowling Saturne (Patricia Mazuy)
- Armageddon Time (James Gray)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Becoming Father (Tetsuya Mariko)
- Decision to Leave (Park Chan-Wook)
- L’été nucléaire (Gaël Lepingle)
+ La chance sourit à madame Nikuko (Ayumu Watanabe)
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Sean Patrick Kelly
1. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
2. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
3. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
4. Eternal Spring (Jason Loftus)
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
6. Sissy (Hannah Barlow, Kane Senes)
7. My Old School (Jono McLeod)
8. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
9. Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro)
10. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
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Patrick Mullen
1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
2. Fire of Love (Sara Dosa)
3. Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
4. Close (Lukas Dhont)
5. Bros (Nicholas Stoller)
6. Tár (Todd Field)
7. To Kill a Tiger (Nisha Pahuja)
8. Living (Oliver Hermanus)
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp)
10. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
Honourable mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front; The Banshees of Inisherin; The Blue Caftan; Crimes of the Future; Decision to Leave; Fire Island; Geographies of Solitude; Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; The Territory; Top Gun: Maverick; Viking.
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Paolo Kagaoan
- Kendrick Lamar Live: The Big Steppers Tour (Mark Ritchie)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (The Daniels)
- Rothaniel (Bo Burnham)
- This Is Going to Hurt (Lucy Forbes, Tom Kingsley)
- Mars One (Gabriel Martins)
- Bo Burnham Inside: The Outtakes (Bo Burnham)
- Argentina 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
- The Batman (Matt Reeves)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
- No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
- Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) and Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
+ This year’s top throwback is Sunday in the Park with George (Terry Hughes)
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Collin Brinkmann
1. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
2. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
3. Thirteen Lives (Ron Howard)
4. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
5. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
6. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
7. Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill)
8. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
9. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
11. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
12. TÁR (Todd Field)
13. She Said (Maria Schrader)
14. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
15. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
16. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
17. Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
18. Jurassic World Dominion (Colin Trevorrow)
19. Dark Glasses (Dario Argento)
20. Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
+ a special few from 2021: The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg), Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (R.J. Cutler), Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi), Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Fabian: Going to the Dogs(Dominik Graf), In Front of Your Face and Introduction (Hong Sang-soo), Cow (Andrea Arnold), Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve), Benediction (Terence Davies).
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C.J. Prince
1. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)
2. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
3. Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
4. The Eight Mountains (Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch)
5. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
6. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
7. The Dream and the Radio (Renaud Després-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk)
8. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
9. The Maiden (Graham Foy)
10. Funny Pages (Owen Kline)
HMs: The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh), Met mes (Sam de Jong), Will-o'-the-Wisp (Joao Pedro Rodrigues), RRR (S. S. Rajamouli), A Human Position (Anders Emblem), Rewind and Play (Alain Gomis), The Civil Dead (Clay Tatum), Answering the Sun (Rainer Kohlberger), There There (Andrew Bujalski), Plan 75 (Hayakawa Chie)
Fav pre-2022 first watches: Crash (David Cronenberg), Pitfall (André de Toth).
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Zachary Goldkind
1. Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg)
2. Saint Omer (Diop)
3. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
4. El Gran Movimiento (Russo)
5. Natchathiram Nagargiradhu (Ranjith)
6. Irma Vep (Assayas)
7. Il Buco (Frammartino)
8. The Fabelmans (Spielberg)
9. Train Again (Tscherkassky)
10. Ambulance (Bay)
11. K.G.F: Chapter 2 (Neel)
12. Stars at Noon (Denis)
13. RRR (Rajamouli)
14. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Kapadia)
15. No Bears (Panahi)
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Jarret Sorger
- We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
- Tár (Todd Field)
- Barbarian (Zach Cregger)
- RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
- EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
- Nope (Jordan Peele)
- The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
- Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
- Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan)
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Eric Bizzari
- Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)
- Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
- Emergency (Carey Williams)
- Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
- Something You Said Last Night (Luis De Filippis)
- Barbarian (Zach Cregger)
- Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
- Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
- Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
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Marko Orlic
1. Tár (Todd Field)
2. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
3. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
4. Bones And All (Luca Guadagnino)
5. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
7. Triangle Of Sadness (Ruben Ostlund)
8. We Were Once Kids (Eddie Martin)
9. Nope (Jordan Peele)
10. Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu)
11. Crimes Of The Future (David Cronenberg)
12. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
13. Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
14. Both Sides Of The Blade (Claire Denis)
15. Apollo 10 1/2 (Richard Linklater)
Honourable Mention: The Inspection (Elegance Bratton), Magnetic Beats (Vincent Mael Cardona), The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh), Benediction (Terence Davies), Drop The Needle (Rob Freeman).
Best Films Not Yet Released: The Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch), Return To Seoul(Davy Chou), One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love, The Grab (Gabriela Cowperthwaite), Close (Lukas Dhont), Emily (Frances O’Connor), Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley), Dreamin’ Wild (Bill Pohlad), Sick Of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli),Maya And The Wave (Stephanie Johnes).
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Neil Bahadur
1. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
2. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
3. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
4. Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Coodie, Chike)
5. How To Blow Up A Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
6. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
7. A Tale of Filipino Violence (Lav Diaz)
8. Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
9. Playboi Carti Live at Rolling Loud New York 2022
10. Nope (Jordan Peele)
11. Padre Pio (Abel Ferrara)
12. Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
13. See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani)
14. Snipers (Zhang Yimou, Zhang Mo)
15. I Thought The World Of You (Kurt Walker)
16. When The Waves Are Gone (Lav Diaz)
17. Fairytale (Alexander Sokurov)
18. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
19. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
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Philip Reed
1. Yanagawa (Zhang Lu)
2. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Deception (Arnaud Desplechin)
4. Don Juan (Serge Bozon)
5. Veranito (Once Again) (Jhon Hernandez)
6. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Fukuoka (Zhang Lu)
8. Star at Noon (Claire Denis)
9. Living In Your Sky (Shinji Aoyama)
10. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
