2022: MY FAVORITE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCES (RANKED)

For reasons I cannot fully grasp, some of the most egregious films of 2022 – e.g., Nope, The Eternal Daughter, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Kimi, Parallel Mothers, Playground – received high scores from professional critics. I’ve never felt such a disconnect from the Sight & Sound and Film Comment criticariat since they began publishing the best movies of the year list.