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My TOP TEN Movies of 2022

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Plus)
3. The Woman King (Netflix)
4. The Batman (HBO Max)
5. The Banshees of Inisherin (HBO Max)
6. Avatar: The Way of Water
7. Terrifier 2
8. Pearl
9. The Whale
10. Barbarian (HBO Max)

The rest of my top 25: https://boxd.it/b3zMq

Notable 2021 films I haven’t seen yet: Triangle of Sadness, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, All Quiet on the Western Front, Decision to Leave, RRR, After Yang, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Babylon, Broker, Armageddon Time, Women Talking, Turning Red, Crimes of the Future, Fresh, Lightyear, Resurrection, EO

My TOP FIVE Documentaries/Docu-Series of 2022

Uh. I don’t think I watched a single 2022 documentary. Yikes.

Notable 2021 Documentaries I haven’t seen: All of them

2022 Movie Stats

Films watched: 104 (considerably down from 244 in 2021)

Average per month: 8.7

Average per week: 2

Most movies watched in one week: 9

Movies I watched twice: The Batman, Terrifier 2, Scream (2022), Halloween Ends, A Star is Born (2018), Top Gun: Maverick

Most watched genres: Drama (40 films), Horror (32), Thriller (28), Comedy (21), Mystery (17)

2021 releases: 46.2% Older: 53.8%

First-time watches: 74% Re-watches: 26%

10/10 Ratings: Whiplash

2022 – Most Watched Actors:

5 films: Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Roger Jackson, Neve Campbell (all Scream)

4 films: Liev Schreiber (Scream), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Bradley Cooper (random)

3 films: Christoph Waltz, John Turturro, Kyle Richards, Nick Castle, Ashley Laurence, Willem Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Kennedy, Doug Bradley, Cate Blanchett, Jenny Slate, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright

2022 – Most Watched Directors:

4 films: Wes Craven

3 films: David Gordon Green

2 films: Sam Levinson, Jaume Collet-Serra, Tobe Hooper, Baz Luhrmann, Guillermo del Toro, Ti West

All-Time – Most Watched Actors:

1. Samuel L. Jackson (44 films) [1]
2. Tom Hanks (34) [4]
3. Brad Pitt (34) [2]
4. Robert De Niro (33) [3]
5. Matt Damon (32) [5]
6. John Goodman (31) [t-6]
7. Morgan Freeman (29) [t-6]
8. Bruce Willis (29) [8]
9. Willem Dafoe (28) [t-16]
10. Woody Harrelson (28) [t-10]
11. Jonah Hill (28) [t-10]
12. Jack Black (28) [t-10]
13. J.K. Simmons (28) [t-10]
14. Bill Murray (26) [t-19]
15. Johnny Depp (26) [9]
16. Tom Cruise (26) [t-10]
17. Philip Seymour Hoffman (25) [t-19]
18. Ben Affleck (25) [t-16]
19. Jon Favreau (25) [unranked]
20. Scarlett Johansson (25) [unranked]

Dropped Out: Robert Downey Jr., Arnold Schwarzenegger

Notes: The biggest changes in these rankings happened because Letterboxd removed appearances in documentaries from actors filmographies, so a number of actors on this list lost a movie or two from their stats. Otherwise, I generally don’t focus on any one actor’s filmography so any movement here in the future will probably be pretty random.

All-Time – Most Watched Directors:

1. Steve Spielberg (21 films) [previously ranked 1]
2. Martin Scorsese (20) [2]
3. Ridley Scott (16) [3]
4. Tim Burton (14) [4]
5. Sam Raimi (13) [5]
6. Ron Howard (12) [6]
7. Quentin Tarantino (12) [7]
8. Joel Coen (12) [11]
9. Ivan Reitman (11) [8]
10. David Fincher (11) [8]
11. Christopher Nolan (11) [8]
12. Steven Soderbergh (10) [13]
13. Michael Bay (10) [12]
14. Robert Rodriguez (10) [12]
15. Robert Zemeckis (10) [22]
16. Jon Turteltaub (9) [15]
17. Stephen Herek (9) [15]
18. Wes Craven (9) [15]
19. Joel Schumacher (9) [unranked]
20. Peter Farrelly (9) [15]
21. Jay Roach (9) [15]
22. James Mangold (9) [15]
23. Richard Donner (9) [15]

Notes: I didn’t watch more than two new films from any director last year and none of them are on this list.

2022 Best Feature Films: My top 25 of 2022 through March 2023
2021 Best Feature Films: My top 25 of 2021 through March 2023
2020 Best Feature Films: My top 25 of 2020 through March 2023
Focused Watchlist: A list of 30+ movies that are at the top of my watchlist with a breakdown of how I formulate my picks

I also went crazy and made a best films of the year list for every year from 2020 to 1982, the year I was born. I ranked 25 films for 2000 and later and 10 films for 1999 to 1982. I started fizzling out on my lists in the early 90s as I just haven’t seen most of the important films from those early years when I was a kid. I have all the lists on my blog here. Enjoy!