Favorite movies of 2022

We're watching The Batman. We saw it (twice) at the theater, so that got me thinking about the movies we saw in 2022. I talked about the movies that made the most money, the other day, but I didn't talk about what I liked. As you see (further below), my list is relatively short, anyway. There just wasn't all that much that I was interested in seeing in the first place.

I narrowed it down to a smaller list, but I'm having trouble deciding on one (or even two or three) favorites, so here's the shorter shortlist, anyway:

• Cyrano
  
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
  
• She Said
  
• The Woman King

(Nope and The Batman were the last things I eliminated, so I guess they're the 2nd tier. And maybe Wakanda Forever and Dr Strange 2 - and oops, I forgot The Fabelmans, which was also quite good.)

I read Rob the list I had of what he saw, and he said of the horror movies, Terrifier 2 was his favorite, followed by Orphan: First Kill. And that he really liked She Said, too.

(He also just pointed out that The Batman has a really beautiful score - it's by Michael Giacchino. I had noticed the way it was using bits of "Ave Maria" here and there, but I wasn't paying that much attention to the score as a whole til he said that.)


Full list of what Rob and I saw in a theater in 2022, going backwards in time:

1. The Fabelmans
2. She Said
   
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (twice)
   
4. The Woman King
5. Nope
6. Kiki's Delivery Service (Ghiblifest)
   
7. Thor: Love & Thunder
8. Dr Strange & the Multiverse of Madness
9. The Northman
10. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
11. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
12. Everything Everywhere All At Once
13. The Batman (twice)
14. Cyrano
15. Belfast
16. Spider-Man: No Way Home (our third time seeing it)
17. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (our second time seeing it)

And Rob also saw:

• Violent Night
• Bones and All
• The Menu
• Terrifier 2
  
• Halloween Ends (twice)
  
• Smile
• Pearl
• Barbarian
• Orphan: First Kill (twice)
• Beast
• Nope (without me, then later on with me!)
• The Black Phone
• The Thing (40th anniversary re-release)
• Men
• X
• The Cursed
• Scream