All Films
Watched in 2022
I'm changing my main reviewing site to: http://letterboxd.com/kenru/
where all the reviews are rated on a 5-star basis.
However, on
this site all films still are rated on a scale of 4-stars:
****(A+), *** 3/4 (A), *** 1/2 (A-), *** 1/4
(B+), *** (B), ** 3/4 (B-), ** 1/2 (C+), ** 1/4 ( C), **
(C-) , * 3/4 thru * (D), 3/4* thru
0* (F)
Links are to longer reviews on site or elsewhere on the
interwebs.
A FILM is defined as 70 min.+ visual event. A non-capitalized film title is a
short film worthy of note.
The year included with the
film is the year I watched each film.
(V) =
TV, Video or DVD ( +) = repeat
viewing (W/O)= walked out
January, 2022
IN THE SAME BREATH (2022, d. Nanfu Wang) *** 3/4
JULIA (2022, d. Julie Cohen, Betsy West) *** 1/2
Sophie and the Baron (2022, doc short, d. Alexandria Jackson) ***
PROCESSION (2022, d. Robert Green) ** 1/4
RESCUE, THE (2022, d. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin) ****
SIMPLE AS WATER (2022, d. Megan Mylan) *** 1/2
Takeover (2022, doc short, d. Emma Francis-Snyder) *** 1/4
Terror Contagion (2022, doc short, d. Laura Poitras) ***
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (2022, d. Ahmir-Khalib Thompson) *** 3/4
VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE (2022, d. Todd Haynes) *** 1/2
WRITING WITH FIRE (2022, d. Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas) ** 3/4
Three Songs for Benazir (2022, doc short, d. Elizabeth Mirzaei Gulistan Mirzaei) ***
When We Were Bullies (2022, doc short, d. Jay Rosenblatt) *** 1/2
PLAYGROUND (Un monde) (2022, Belgium, d. Laura Wandel) ***
LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM (2022, Bhutan, d. Pawa Choyning Dorji) *** 3/4
LAMB (2022, Iceland, d. Valdimar Jóhannsson) * 3/4
HERO, A (2022, Iran, d. Asghar Farhadi) *** 1/2
HAND OF GOD, THE (È stata la mano di Dio) (2022, Italy, d. Paolo Sorrentino) *** 1/2
HIVE (Zgjoi) (2022, Kosovo, d. Blerta Basholli) *** 1/4
PLAZA CATEDRAL (2022, Panama, d. Abner Benaim) *** 1/2
DRIVE MY CAR (2022, Japan, d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi) *** 1/4
DON'T LOOK UP (2022, d. Adam McKay) *** 1/4
RED ROCKET (2022, d. Sean Baker) ***
BELFAST (2022, d. Kenneth Branagh) *** 1/4
POWER OF THE DOG, THE (2022, d. Jane Campion) *** 3/4
KING RICHARD (2022, d. Reinaldo Marcus Green) *** 1/4
CODA (2022, d. Sian Heder) ***
LICORICE PIZZA (2022, d. Paul Thomas Anderson) *** 1/2
PARALLEL MOTHERS (Madres paralelas) (2022, d. Pedro Almodóvar) *** 3/4
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2022, d. Guillermo del Toro) *** 1/4
BEING THE RICARDOS (2022, d. Aaron Sorkin) ***
C'MON C'MON (2022, d. Mike Mills) *** 1/2
CYRANO (2022, d. Joe Wright) **
FRENCH DISPATCH, THE (2022, d. Wes Anderson) ***
HOUSE OF GUCCI, THE (2022, d. Ridley Scott) *** 1/4
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (2022, d. Edgar Wright) *** 1/4
NO TIME TO DIE (2022, d. Cary Joji Fukunaga) *** 1/4
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2022, d. Jon Watts) *** 1/2
TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, THE (2022, d. Joel Coen) *** 1/2
LOST DAUGHTER, THE (2022, d. Maggie Gyllenhaal) *** 1/4
WEST SIDE STORY (2022, d. Steven Spielberg) *** 3/4
TENDER BAR, THE (2022, d. George Clooney) *** 1/2
IN THE HEIGHTS (2022, d. John M. Chu) *** 1/4
ANNETTE (2022, d. Leos Carax) ***
PIG (2022, d. Michael Sarnoski) *** 1/2
QUIET PLACE II, A (2022, d. John Krasinski) *** 1/2
MATRIX RESURRECTIONS, THE (2022, d. Lana Wach owski) ***
DEAR EVAN HANSEN (2022, d. Stephen Chbosky) *** 1/2
February, 2022
Affairs of the Art (2022, anim. short, d. Joanna Quinn) ***
SPENCER (2022, d. Pablo Larrain) *** 1/2
Take and Run (Ala Kachuu) (2022, short, d. Maria Brendle) *** 1/2
Long Goodbye, The (2022, short, d. Aneil Karia) ** 1/2
Dress, The (2022, short, d. Tadeusz Lysiak) ***
On My Mind (2022, short, d. Marin Strange-Hansen) *** 1/4
Please Hold (2022, short, d. K. D. Dávila) *** 1/2
Beast (Bestia) (2022, anim. short, d. hugo Covarrubias) * 3/4
BoxBallet (2022, anim. short, d. Anton Dyakov) ** 3/4
Windshield Wiper, The (2022, anim. short, d. Alberto Mielgo) *** 1/2
Robin Robin (2022, anim. short, d. Michael Please and Daniel Ojari) ***
LUCA (2022, d. Enrico Casarosa) *** 1/4
MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES, THE (2022, d. Michael Rianda) ** 3/4
ENCANTO (2022, d. Byron Howard, Jared Bush) *** 1/4
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON (2022, d. Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada) **1/4
COMING 2 AMERICA (2022, d. Craig Brewer) ***
EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, THE (2022, d. Michael Showalter) *** 1/4
March, 2022
CRUELLA (2022, d. Craig Gillespie) ***
FREE GUY (2022, d. Shawn Levy) ** 3/4
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2022, d. Destin Daniel Cretton) *** 1/4
INVENTING ANNA (2022, limited series, d. David Frankel, Tom Verica, et al) ** 3/4
PIECES OF HER (2022, limited series, d. Minkie Spiro) ** 1/2
TOURIST, THE (2022, limited series, d. Chris Sweeney) ** 1/4
LOREN & ROSE (2022, d. Russell Brown) *** 1/2
ADAM PROJECT, THE (2022, d. Shawn Levy) ** 3/4
April, 2022
BETTER NATE THAN EVER (2022, d. Tim Federle) *** 1/4
EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Équation à un inconnu) (2022, d. Francis Savel) 1980 arty French gay porno. Needs editing and a real plot. * 3/4
May, 2022
DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA (2022, d. Dimon Curtis) *** 1/4
June, 2022
BO BURNHAM: THE INSIDE OUTTAKES (2022, d. Bo Burnham) *** 3/4
L.A.: A QUEER HISTORY (2022, d. Gregorio Davila) Informative, involving document of LGBT activism in L.A. *** 1/2
TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, THE (2022, d. David Nutter) Lush, romantic sci-fi miniseries with great acting (Theo James!) *** 3/4
ELVIS (2022, d. Baz Luhrmann) *** 1/4
July, 2022
JARROD CARMICHAEL: ROTHANIEL (2022, d. Bo Burnham) *** 1/2
GRAY MAN, THE (2022, d. Anthony & Joe Russo) * 1/2
September, 2022
KEEP STEPPING (2022, d. Luke Cornish) ** 3/4
THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (2022, d. George Miller) *** 1/4
HOLD YOUR FIRE (2022, d. Stefan Forbes) *** 1/4
SALVATORE: SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS (2022, d. Luca Guadegnino) ***
October, 2022
DEPARTURE (2022, d. Andrew Steggall) *** 1/4
RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER, THE - FEATURING BRANDI CARLILE (2022, d. Kathlyn Horan) *** 1/4
CATHEDRAL, THE (2022, d. Denis Dobrovoda) *** 1/2
LEAVE NO TRACE (2022, d. Irene Taylor Bordsky) ** 3/4
TIGER 24 (2022, d. Warren Pereira) ***
FREE CHOL SOO LEE (2022, d. Eugene Yi, Julie Ha) *** 1/2
PLAYLIST, THE (2022 miniseries, d. Per-Olav Sorensen and Hallgrim Haug) *** 3/4
WILL TO SEE, THE (Une autre idée du monde) (2022, d. Bernard-Henri Lévy, Mark Roussel) *** 1/2
November, 2022
FRAMING AGNES (2022, d. Chase Joynt) *** 1/4
PATIENT, THE (2022 miniseries, d. Chris Long, Kevin Bray) *** 1/2
OLEG (2022, d. Nadia Tass) *** 1/2
BASTARD SON, THE-AND THE DEVIL HIMSELF (2022, tv miniseries, d. various) *** 3/4
VOLCANO, THE: RESCUE FROM WHAKAARI (2022, d. Rory Kennedy) *** 3/4
BLACK ICE (2022, d. Hubert Davis) ***
AMERICA BOXED IN (2022, d. Ian Williams, Casey Williams) ****
BLACK NOTEBOOKS: RONIT (2022, d. Shlomi Elkabetz) ** 1/2
Almeda (2022, doc. short, d. Paul Hairston) *** 3/4
Anastasia (2022, doc. short, d. Sarah McCarthy) *** 1/2
Constant (2022, doc. short, d. Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner) * 1/4
Guerrilla Habeas (2022, doc. short, d. Emma Wall, Betsy Hershey) *** 1/2
Martha Mitchell Effect, The (2022, doc. short, d. Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy) ***
Nalujuk Night (2022, doc. short, d. Jennie Williams) ***
Some Kind of Intimacy (2022, doc. short, d. Toby Bull) *** 1/2
Will You Look at Me (2022, doc. short, d. Shuli Huang) *** 1/4
You Can't Stop Spirit (2022, doc. short, d. Vashni Korin) ** 3/4
December, 2022
YOU WON'T BE ALONE (2022, Australia IFF, d. Goran Stolevski) * 1/2
Best Chef in the World, The (2022, doc. short, d. Ben Proudfoot) ****
When We Dance (2022, doc. short, d. Nick Waters) *** 1/4
IN THE HEART OF THE MACHINE (2022, Bulgaria IFF, d. Martin Makariev) *** 3/4
MAGNETIC FIELDS (2022, Greece IFF, d. Yorgos Goussis) ** 3/4
LAST FILM SHOW (2022, India IFF, d. Pan Nalin) *** 1/4
BLUE CAFTAN, THE (2022, Morocco IFF, d. Maryam Touzani) *** 1/2
WAR SAILOR (2022, Norway IFF, d. Gunnar Vikene) *** 3/4
JOYLAND (2022, Pakistan IFF, d. Saim Sadiq) ***
EMPLOYER AND THE EMPLOYEE, THE (2022, Uruguay IFF, d. Manolo Nieto) *** 1/4
CORSAGE (2022, Austria IFF, d. Marie Kreutzer) ***
CLOSE (2022, Belgium IFF, d. Lukas Dhont) *** 1/2
BEAUTIFUL BEINGS (2022, Iceland IFF, d. Guomundur Arnar Guomundsson) *** 1/4
KLONDIKE (2022, Ukraine IFF, d. Maryna Er Gorbach) ** 3/4
UTAMA (2022, Bolivia IFF, d. Alejandro Laoyza Grisi) *** 3/4
FIRE OF LOVE (2022, d. Sara Dosa) *** 1/2
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022, d. Laura Poitras) *** 1/2
GOOD NIGHT OPPY (2022, d. Ryan White) ****
BROS (2022, d. Nicholas Stoller) ***
BONES AND ALL (2022, d. Luca Guadagnino) *** 1/4
ALL THAT BREATHES (2022, d. Shaunak Sen) ***
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton (2022, doc. short, d. Herb Ferrette, Andrew Abrahams) *** 3/4
BAD AXE (2022, d. David Siev) *** 1/2
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison (2022, doc. short, d. Cinque Northern) **
CHILDREN OF THE MIST (2022, d. Diem Ha Le) *** 1/4
DESCENDANT (2022, d. Margaret Brown) ***
Elephant Whisperers, The (2022, doc. short, d. Kartiki Gonsalves) *** 3/4
HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG (2022, d. Dayna Goldfine, Daniel Geller) *** 3/4
HIDDEN LETTERS (2022, d. Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing) ** 3/4
HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS, A (2022, d. Simon Lereng Wilmont) *** 1/2
JANES, THE (2022, d. Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes) *** 1/2
LAST FLIGHT HOME (2022, d. Ondi Timoner) *** 3/4
MOONAGE DAYDREAM (2022, d. Brett Morgen) ****
NAVALNY (2022, d. Daniel Roher) *** 1/2
RETROGRADE (2023, d. Matthew Heineman) *** 1/2
TERRITORY, THE (2023, d. Alex Pritz) *** 1/4