Before you start to think all I do on this blog is make lists, this is the last for this season, I promise.
Here’s a list of every single movie I watched in 2022, partly inspired by filmmaker Edgar Wright who keeps a similar list.
Between keeping up with brand new features, both on streaming services and on the big screen — at film festivals or the multiplex (titles marked with an asterisk) — programming for Carbon Arc Cinema, and watching older movies for the podcast, LENS ME YOUR EARS, sometimes even watching movies to discuss on CBC radio, I’m seeing a lot of movies in the run of an average week.
Still, it’s all relative. This year I saw 268 films, which I suspect is fewer than some dedicated film lovers I know — though a few of them I watched more than once (I’ve kept a tally of those, too).
It’s not nearly as many as I watched 2021, which is partly due to the fact I no longer have the good fortune to carry a Cineplex Premiere Card, which last year granted me a free pass to any film at the multiplex.
Here’s all the movies I saw in 2022. Reviews of the newer films (and some of the older) are available here on FLAW IN THE IRIS — feel free to plug titles into the search bar.
The 13th Warrior (1999)
21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)
The 355*
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
2001: A Space Odyssey (in 70 mm)*
A Bigger Splash (2016)
A Christmas Story Christmas
Adventureland (2009)
Aftersun
After Yang
Ahed’s Knee
Airport (1970)
All That Breathes
All The Old Knives
An Angel At My Table (1990)
Apartment Zero (1988)
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Armageddon Time*
Atlantis (2019)
Amsterdam*
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Avatar (2009)
Avatar: The Way Of Water*
Babylon*
Bad Company (1994)
Bad Influence (1990)
The Banshees of Inisherin (x2)*
Barbarian*
The Batman* (x2)
Beau Travail (1998)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Belle Vie
Benedetta
Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
Bernie (2011)
Black Adam*
Blacklight
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*
The Blob (1988)
Blonde
The Bob’s Burgers Movie*
Bodies Bodies Bodies*
Bright Star (2009)
Broker*
Bros*
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Bullet Train*
But I’m A Cheerleader (1999)
Bystanders*
Caravaggio (1986)
Carny (1980)
Catherine Called Birdy (x2)*
Causeway*
Clerks III*
Close-up (1990)
CODA
The Company of Wolves (1985)
Confess, Fletch
Contraband aka Blackout (1940)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Dead For a Dollar
Death On The Nile (1978)
Death On The Nile*
Decision To Leave*
Deep Water
Deluge (1933)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness*
Dog
Don’t Worry Darling (x2)*
Dos Estaciones
Downton Abbey: A New Era (x2)*
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Earthquake (1974)
Edward II (1991)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Elle (2016)
Elvis
Elvis (1979)
Erik The Conquerer (1961)
Emily The Criminal (x2)*
Empire Of Light*
The English Patient (1996)
Enigma (2001)
Enola Holmes 2
EO
The Eternal Daughter
The Eternals
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Exotica (1994)
The Fabelmans*
Fall*
Fiddler On The Roof (1972)
Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Fire Island
Fishermen’s Friends (2019)
Fishermen’s Friends: One And All
Five Graves To Cairo (1943)
Flesh + Blood (1985)
Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)
Flight Of The Phoenix (2004)
The Forgiven
The Fourth Man (1984)
Framing Agnes
Freaks (1932)
The French Dispatch (2021) (x2)
Gaslight (1944)
Geographies of Solitude
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (x2)*
Girl Picture
Gods & Monsters (1998)
The Good House
The Grab*
The Gray Man
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (x2)*
Hanover Street (1979)
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
A Hero
Hidden City (1987)
Hit The Road (2021)
The Hoax (2006)
Hollow Man (2000)
Holy Smoke (1999)
Holy Spider*
Hope
I Am Love (2009)
Ice-Breaker: The 72 Summit Series
Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
Imagine Me & You (2006)
The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
In The Cut (2003)
I Think We’re Alone Now (2018)
Jackass Forever*
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (2015)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Journey To Italy (1953)
The Keep (1983)
Kid Creole (1958)
Kimi (x2)
Lair Of The White Worm (1988)
La Piscine (1969)
Last Christmas (2019)
Last Night In Soho (2021)
Let Their Be Drums!
The Libeled Lady (1936)
Life Is Sweet (1990)
Lightyear
The Lost City*
The Lost King*
Living*
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On*
The Magician (1958)
Me And Orson Welles (2009)
Memoria (2021)*
Men*
The Menu*
Metal Lords
Michael Clayton (2007)
The Mirror (1997)
Missing Link (2019)
Moonfall*
Morbius*
Mrs Harris Goes To Paris*
My Policeman*
Near Dark (1987)
Next Of Kin (1982)
News From Home (1977)
Night Blooms*
No Bears*
The Noel Diary
Nope (x2)*
Nothing Compares
No Time To Die
The Novelist’s Film
Nuns On The Run
One Fine Morning*
Operation Mincemeat
Outlander (2009)
The Pale Blue Eye*
The Paper (1994)
Paris Blues (1961)
Parallel Mothers
Persuasion
The Passenger (1975)
Perfectly Normal (1990)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Pocket Money (1972)
The Portrait Of A Lady (1996)
The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
Predator (1987)
Predator 2 (1990)
The Predator (2018)
Predators (2010)
Premium Rush (2012)
Prey
Prince Valiant (1954)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty
Red Rocket
A Raisin In The Sun (1961)
Repo Man (1984)
The Righteous
Roots of Fire
RRR
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Scream 3 (2000)
Scream 4 (2011)
Scream (2022)*
See How They Run
The Shadow (1994)
She Said*
Shoot to Kill aka Deadly Pursuit (1988)
Sidney
Slash/Back
The Silent Partner (1978)
A Simple Wedding (2018)
Skyjacked (1972)
Slacker (1991)
Slash/Back
Soldier Of Orange (1977)
Something For Everyone (1971)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
The Sound of 007
Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins (2021)
Sneakers (1992)
Spirited
Stars At Noon
Stir of Echoes (1999)
La Strada (1954)
Sweetie (1989)
The Swimmer (1968)
The Swimmers*
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Take This Waltz (2011)
Tantura
Tár*
Ten (2002)
Three Kings (1999)
Three Thousand Years Of Longing*
Thor: Love & Thunder*
Thumbsucker (2005)
Ticket To Paradise*
Top Gun: Maverick*
Toscana
Touki Bouki (1973)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Tragedy of Macbeth*
Triangle Of Sadness (x2)*
Trigger (2010)
Trigger Effect (1996)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Turning Red
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Valhalla Rising (2009)
The Vanishing (1988)
The Vikings (1958)
Violent Night*
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Waking Life (2001)
A Warm December (1973)
Waterland (1992)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story*
Went The Day Well (1942)
The Whale*
What’s Up Doc? (1972)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
The White Balloon (1995)
Wild At Heart (1990)
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
The Woman King*
Women Talking*
The Wonder*
Writing With Fire
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