Top kinos of 2022

What are your top kinos of 2022?

I may do an effortpost later with an actual review in support of each of my entries, but I'm waiting for a Jenkins pipeline and wanted to do this now

Movies:

Everything Everywhere All At Once
NOPE
The Northman
Crimes of the Future
Top Gun Maverick
Don't Worry Darling
The Batman

TV

(tie) Pachinko & Station Eleven
The Rehearsal
Severance
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Bear
Better Call Saul
Barry
The Dropout
Andor
House of the Dragon
We Own This City
Atlanta
Fleishman Is In Trouble
Dexter: New Blood
WeCrashed
Pantheon

Honorable mentions:

Yellowjackets
Reacher
The Terminal List
American Gigolo
Outer Range
Slow Horses
The White Lotus
1883
Winning Time: Rise of the LA Lakers

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Marsey-in-chief i/me 2yr ago #3203128 Edited 2yr ago

Top Kinos of 2022:

Top Movies (no particular order):

Tar
The Northman
Decision to Leave
Banshees of Insherin
Triangle of Sadness
Everything Everywhere All at Once
NOPE

Most disappointing movie:

Crimes of the Future: The core themes are good, but man did the decision to skip an act 3 in favor of fleshing out random parts of the world not pay off. Left the theater feeling like an incomplete slog even if the ideas were good.

Worst movie (that I watched):

MEN: Don't get me started lmao. Feminist critiques are right on this one

Want to see:

The Whale: Sounds like it was pretty decent

Shows:

Under the Banner of Heaven: solid 7-7.5/10 true crime fiction story. Pretty good performance by Andrew The Amazing Spiderman 2 Garfield with a pretty good core story about the Mormon country. Got a tad heavy handed with the babby's first atheism, but definitely not unbearable.

Want to see:

Better Call Saul
Hellraiser
Severance

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KinoBushido im/just/ken :kenjak:

irl Marsey-in-chief 2yr ago #3203466

Triangle of Sadness was really good, just a bit too long. They could've cut like 10 minutes of people pooping and throwing up

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Marsey-in-chief i/me KinoBushido 2yr ago #3203535

A few of these films were like that. It was most forgivable in The Northman because I knew Eggers was just history-nerding out and I was completely down for that.

I do think Tar is the best of these films and it's most likely you haven't seen Decision to Leave so I'd recommend that (very solid 8/10 and somehow probably his worst film cause the others are straight 9+/10)

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irl Marsey-in-chief 2yr ago #3203945

I have yet to see Tar, but it's coming on VOD on the 13th, so I'm downloading it as soon as it drops. The movie podcasts I listen to have it ranked as the favorite for Best Picture so I'm hype for it too.

I also have yet to see Banshees :(

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irl Marsey-in-chief 2yr ago #3204798

For Banner of Heaven, the show expertly executed the balancing act of 3 different storylines, with 2 of them being parallels laden with religious themes. I think it was like ep 5 or something, but this one episode was so fricking well-written I re-watched it 3 more times to make sure I wasn't getting a false impression. Yeah the whole losing his religion and atheist tone at the end is heavy-handed, but I think it was necessary as the detective's entire world was built on that religion and it was now all crumbling down around him.

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Marsey-in-chief i/me KinoBushido 2yr ago #3204981

>I think it was necessary as the detective's entire world was built on that religion and it was now all crumbling down around him

Yea I almost wrote that "it was necessary" verbatim, but then scratched that cause it raised questions that lead to spoilers. Yup, solid self-contained single season show.