Best movies of 2022

5. Koyomi: Someone is listening. (Steven Soderbergh)

There are no wrong notes or wrong notes in this wonderful film about a woman who faces various challenges, including her own (justified!) fears about the world. Set firmly in the present – our heroine, a savvy tech employee played by the brilliant Zoe Kravitz, wears a mask when she leaves her home – the film touches on several interconnected themes, such as isolation and technological surveillance as a means of oppression. But it’s Soderbergh’s remarkable accomplishments that keep me coming back to this heartwarming tale again and again. (Available on HBO Max.)

6. Eternal daughter (Joanna Hogg)

The luminous Tilda Swinton plays a mother and her grown daughter in this poignant and beautifully controlled tale of memory and grief. In the beginning, mother and daughter head off for a vacation at a luxury estate, a trip that turns out to be both mysterious and magical. With subtlety, subtle humor, and a few clever cinematic tricks, Hogg and a superb starring cast turn a seemingly simple production into something completely extraordinary. (in theaters in the United States).

7. the event (Audrey Devane)

Based on the memoirs of Annie Ernault – this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature – the event It is one of many recent powerful films that understand abortion as a basic right and an indicator of the culture’s attitude towards women. With deep insight and clear determination, Diwan makes it clear that abortion is not just an excuse for political posturing and debate. It is the practical and necessary means by which its heroine can secure her sovereignty, her future, and her life. For her, there is only one choice and that is her choice. (Available for rent on most platforms flow).

8. Decision to leave (Park Chan-wook)

One of the amazing pleasures of watching this rambling movie is that it’s a wacky derivative of it vertigo, the haunting 1958 drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a detective’s obsession with a mysterious woman. Again, there is a man and a woman, and there is also love and betrayal. But as the plot progresses Decision to leave Settling into its own twisted and singular tone, the film’s emotional focus shifts away from the obsessive lover toward the object of his unrelenting, meaningless desire, Park’s deft homage turns into a sharp rebuttal. (in theaters in the United States).

9. Expedition content (Ernest Carell and Veronica Cosumerati)

This documentary was the strangest experience I’ve had in a movie theater this year. This was in part because the screen was black for almost the entirety of its 78-minute runtime. Although the feature film features some brief visuals, the relative absence of visuals draws attention to the soundtrack, which consists of audio recorded during the filming of the film. dead birds (1964), an ethnographic classic on the Dani ethnic group in New Guinea. The result is an intriguing investigation into anthropology–how and to whom it is expressed–and about cinema itself. (Find more information about the movie here).

10. All beauty and bloodshed (Laura Poitras)

Stubborn and elegant, Poitras by photographer Nan Golden, her art and activism begins with Goldin meeting other like-minded citizens outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, Goldin and her cohorts staged a protest, lying on the ground, inside the foundation, one of many that she and others organized against foundations that took money from members of the Sackler family, whose company, Purdue Pharma, had been developed. The opioid pain reliever oxycodone. As Poitras shows below, Goldin’s protest is the final chapter of an artist making beauty out of slaughter. (in theaters in the United States).