Rescreen. Review. Rage. - the 2022 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

Lights down.

Popcorn smell.

ssshh!

I didn’t have time to vote, but looking forward to seeing what wins.

I had time to vote and I would like to say sorry.

181 features, shorts, docos, video essays and travelogues nominated by 21 voters. One comic-book movie in the finals.

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50. Funny Pages
Owen Kline, USA 2022
59 points, 2 votes

double feature:

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49. Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Lizzie Gottlieb, USA 2022
60 points, 2 votes, 1 #1

Excellent doc.

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48. Top Gun: Maverick
Cruise, McQuarrie, Kosinski, Kruger, Singer, Scott, Simpson, Bruckheimer, Cash, Epps, Yonay, Marks, Craig, USA 2022
61 points, 3 votes

Did it really have thirteen directors?

Authors.

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47. Jackass Forever
Knoxville, Tremaine, Jonze et al., USA 2022
62 points, 3 votes

maverick too low

jackass too low

turn every page too low

i mean too hi actually lol, i like it !

pls enjoy how the figure in the maverick pic is the exact combination of the two figures in the jackass pic before we move on

The #1 vote for Turn Every Page was mine. Only film I've ever seen with two or three minutes devoted to the use of semi-colons (like Caro, I use them way too often), unless Top Gun: Maverick has something similar.

Cruise has probably both used and deliberately eschewed more colons in film titles than any other producer tbf

Count me among those miffed that Jackass Forever managed only one slot higher than Top Gun Again, all the way down in the low 40s

Cruise has definitely used his share of colons, that is true

Jack4ss both more celebratorily homoerotic and persuasively heterosexual than Maverick, too.

Colons are easy--it's the semi-colon that Caro and Gottlieb fought about.

that's what

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46. She Said
Schrader, Lenkiewicz, Kantor & Twohey, USA 2022
63 points, 2 votes

Good juxtaposition there

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45. Skinamarink
Kyle Edward Ball, CA 2022
65 points, 3 votes

i really wanted to like skinamarink, but its spell broke for me at some point. i think it could be edited down to something much better at 80 mins

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44. Pearl
Ti West & Mia Goth, NZ USA 2022
66 points, 3 votes

Two votes and 29 points also received for X (2022), to which this is a standalone very-prequel, written during production and shot b2b.

Horror well represented this far

the only one of these I've seen to the end is Top Gun, which is not my idea of a great 2022 film. Skinamarink sounds interesting but is probably just half-baked. She Said is mildly entertaining at first, but I didn't finish it

I hope the entries get better from here

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43. Flux Gourmet
Peter Strickland, UK 2022
69 points, 3 votes

She Said was a pleasant surprise, a bit of an oscar-bait retread of other investigative journalism films but some interesting choices in direction and cinematography.

agreed Skinamarink could've been a bit shorter but it's not half baked and not many horror films manage to hit me on that fundamental sort of ontological level. I can also see how if it doesn't hit you on that level then it's just staring into dark corners for an hour and forty minutes. voted it top 3

I noped out of Skinamarink because the fake digital “grain” on it was just a repeating pattern and it was too distracting watching this dumb, lazy effect blink in a loop. Like they shot a whole movie and then put an Instagram filter on it.

fuck i still haven't seen flux gourmet, hate admitting this because i think peter strickland is the only good filmmaker

I didn't make it particularly far into Skinamarink

xp It got my vote. There are some Stricklands I haven't seen yet and I'm holding off...prolonging the pleasure.

this is documented on the horror thread but i saw skinamarink in the middle of the night with the lights off and it was irritating, repetitive, hypnotic, disturbing, and terrifying in pretty much equal measure, down to the looping film grain out of which i saw innumerable unintended images loom. sympathetic to the notion that it should've been shorter, but i liked that my patience was being stretched

voted for flux gourmet. it absolutely rules and is especially relevant for anyone who has ever took part in any kind of absurd underground art/music scene

ugh, has ever taken

I know I'm aging out of a lot of things, but horror increasingly depends on my given mood at the moment of viewing. I can't even now say why I responded so well to We All Go To the World's Fair, compared to Skinamarink.

Didn't partake in this poll, being only vaguely aware of what's happening in cinema this decade, but I'm enjoying the frame captures in this rollout.

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42. Three Thousand Years Of Longing
George Miller with Augusta Gore after A.S. Byatt, AU 2022
70 points, 3 votes

I'm not sure how I'd respond today -- a divisive film last fall -- but I liked it at the time.

we heard you like films about an unknowable force providing the impetus for a woman to become self-actualised

That's what it says in my bio

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41. Prey
Dan Trachtenberg and Patrick Aison, streaming 2022
73 points, 3 votes

We've got to prey just to make it today

never saw this bc everyone went out of their way to say “FINALLY a good predator sequel” when predator 2 is right there, one of the only films that successfully translates actual comic book energy to the screen

oh god this is a pvmic isn’t it

spoilers, jeez

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39= Petite Maman
Celine Sciamma, FR 2021
75 points, 3 votes

received 76 points from 3 votes in 2021.

The first Sciamma film to juuuuuust miss.

would you say that it came

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38. Close
Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens, BE 2022
76 points, 3 votes

No points boost for Petite Maman officially being one of Sight & Sound's top 250 films of all time.

Aside from Jackass, my first to place, I think

oh boy this one

I completely missed the point of Petite Maman, but still liked it

i loved petite maman. most reactions i've seen treat it like a nice little curiousity, but it destroyed me. i'd have to revisit it to figure out why though. i liked portrait of a lady on fire but it felt a bit empty to me, aside from one scene that towered over the rest

I do prefer it to Portrait of a Lady on Fire as well.

Girlhood is still my top Sciamma.

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37. The Menu
Tracy, Reiss, Mylod, US 2022
77 points, 4 votes

too high

fun movie to get too high to tho

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35= Corsage
Marie Kreutzer, AT/LU et/al 2022
78 points, 3 votes

I can't even pick a favorite Sciamma film, I love them all. I would have put Petite Maman high on my list if I had remembered that I watched it in 2022.

I don't think Corsage was released in the US until 2023

re: Petite Maman, I love that the childhood friends were played by identical twins, and that it was hard to keep them apart.

I also loved that one of life’s mysteries (for me at least) is who our parents might have been as children, and what their lives were like

*tell them apart

More results when image hosting issues are resolved.

Dan, IMDb says Corsage had a limited US release on 12/23/23.

But this is the 2022 poll!

Close I guess offends people here as being too obvious and sentimental. I’m not going to defend it, but it really affected me

Augh. I meant 12/23/22.

Also, sic, did you maybe mean to put a #1 vote in the Corsage entry?

I will definitely watch it

Corsage is fun!

The Corsage entry is clearly cursed.

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the sun is over the yardarm somewhere

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35= Stars at Noon
Claire Denis with Mysius and Litvack after Johnson, FR 2022
78 points, 3 votes

That will never NOT look like a still from an Evil Dead movie to me

The way the movie unfolds it practically is.

Worst Claire Denis movie I've seen. Both leads are awful.

stars at noon made my ballot

wouldve also voted for two sides of the blade but i didnt see it til a few days after i voted

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33= Elvis
Luhrmann, Doner, Luhrmann, Pearce, Luhrmann, Bromell & Luhrmann, AU 2022
81 points, 4 votes

If only John Carpenter had done the soundtrack

hell yeah

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33= Pacifiction
Albert Serra, FR/ES etc 2022
81 points, 3 votes

sorry for the stupid questions, but why is the 2022 poll being unveiled now, and why is there no 40th place finisher?

a) because the votes have been tabulated

b) same reason there's no 36th place finisher or 34th place finisher

I watched Pacifiction last month, it's pretty.

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32. Memoria
82 points, 3 votes, 1 #1

received 132 points from 4 votes with 2 #1s in 2021

one vote also received for Memory (Martin Campbell, 2022)

Liked Pacifiction, loved Memoria.

Memoria made my 2021 list.

Has he made good on his promise not to make it available on streaming etc?

Wait, what tied with Petite Maman?

Some day I’ll watch Memoria again. I shortlisted it last year but I also feel like it’s my least favorite A”J”W film outside or Mysterious Object

Memoria (2016) is free on Kanopy and with ads on Tubi
Memoria (2021) is not available for streaming
Memory (2022) is on Bezos Prime for subscribers and widely available for digital rental
Memory (2023) is not available for streaming

good point Eric, and good news for Chris L

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39= Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement), aka Fire, lit. "With Love And Fury," after Un tournant de la vie
Claire Denis and Christine Angot, FR 2022
75 points, 3 votes

The only Denis I've missed.

I dug it

I didnt like this one

I like your humor sic and your comments, and the unpredictable way you roll these polls out

I still haven't seen either of the Denis films. I think that Elvis is a mess - a few riveting scenes mired in drudge

I would really like to watch Memoria and am bothered a little that the Weerasethakul wants to keep it from those of us who don't attend special screenings

Pacifiction will be on my 2023 list

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31. In Front of Your Face (당신 얼굴 앞에서)
Hong Sang-soo, SK 2021
83 points, 3 votes

He’s been on a run … a 25-plus year run

Two films written, directed, edited, and released this week alone.

xp yes a run.

I have yet to watch The Novelist's Film

Kim Min-hee stars in many of Hong's films (not this one), which include my two favorites - On the Beach at Night Alone and Right Now, Wrong Then, both of which feature two different settings. I really like her screen presence

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30. The Cathedral
Ricky D'Ambrose, US 2021
84 points, 3 votes

Liked Both Sides of the Blade. As I said to my wife leaving the theater, "nice to check in on the gang."

Memoria was my #1. I mostly went by the year things are listed by on letterboxd, regardless of when they opened theatrically, but Memoria's release was so wacky it's a special case.

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29. Emily The Criminal
John Patton Ford, US 2022
85 points, 4 votes

for whatever reason, it is hard for me to believe this is a good movie

it's fine but definitely worse than every movie i've seen that's listed under it on these poll results

I want it to be good because Aubrey Plaza, I'm not watching it as I suspect I will be disappointed.

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26= Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond, US 2022
87 points, 3 votes

bound to make a killing on next year's poll

Emily the Criminal is a good time. It's not best-of-year material for me in any way, but if you like Aubrey Plaza I'd recommend it. A nice diversion, that's all.

The last 15 minutes of Showing Up are among the year's loveliest -- and by year I mean 2023.

Showing Up is one of those films I keep meaning to see.

missed a screening this week bcz of rain :(

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26= The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin)
Colm Bairéad, IE 2022
87 points, 3 votes

I keep meaning to watch this one. I loved the book its based on.

Two in a row I really like (but saw one too late to vote for).

He’s been on a run … a 25-plus year run

Two films written, directed, edited, and placed this poll alone.

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26= The Novelist’s Film (소설가의 영화)
Hong Sang-soo, SK 2022
87 points, 3 votes, 1 #1

boy, I've missed several Hong films he's released in the last week.

I voted for Showing Up this year, and I’ll vote for it again next year

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25. Babylon
Chazelle, Comden, Green, Donen, Kelly, US 2022
89 points, 4 votes

Mmm, thought this was a mess. Not a boring one, to be fair.

True.

Saw some scenes going around that were so, so bad.

I heard you like painstaking epics dedicated to historic modes of film-making

Babylon absolutely rips until the last 20 minutes

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24. Mad God
Phil Tippett, US 1990-2021
93 points, 3 votes

depicts a world that is absolutely rotten with cosmic, grotesque cruelty. still beautiful somehow

I enjoyed Babylon much more that I thought I would. It was too long, and I don't remember the ending that much, but the ending credits were fantastic

The Cathedral is really good, it is a story about a quiet observational kid in a dysfunctional family on Long Island in the 80s/90s who develops an interest in art and film. It is an almost embarrassingly confessional film

Mad God <3

This very quickly became one of my favourite movies.

It sounds like an animated variant of Hard To Be a God, which is a dreadful nihilistic film, so I'm not inclined to be interested

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22= The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg, UK 2021
100 points, 4 votes

As discussed on the Hogg thread, an interesting bookend to the Julie Hart saga. Seeing that frame reminds me that it's stuck with me, I can conjure several specific scenes from it along with its effectively gothy atmosphere.

hoggthread

idk if this one even opened here - I totally missed it, but would have made an effort to catch a hoggshift to Tilda as lead/s if I'd known.

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22= AmbuLAnce
Bay, Pedersen, Munch-Petersen, Fedak, US 2022
100 points, 5 votes

never heard of it

^ holding out for Amiamibulance

A++

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21. Glass Onion
Rian Johnson, US 2022
101 points, 4 votes

booooo

loved ambulance, like only the good parts of every michael bay movie smashed together, plus the vertiginous drone photography was something i'd almost categorize as "formal innovation"

glass onion had one visually interesting scene (when the lights went out) but also had an exhausting mid-film twist that nullified the film's energy and then it had one of the most awkwardly staged scenes of catharsis (breaking glass) i can remember. my parents hated it. we watched logan lucky the next night and it restored my faith in craig and entertaining talky capers

teamup when?

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Redo the poll without the 4 Glass Onion ballots

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20. Saint Omer
Alice Diop with Amrita David and Marie NDiaye, FR 2022
103 points, 4

Watching Saint Omer in a Walt Disney World resort hotel room was 2022's most surreal movie watching experience.

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19. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Jane Schoenbrun, US 2021
110 points, 5 votes

Woo!

Cool lil movie.

21st for Glass Onion is okay; I thought it might be Top 5 or 10. I don't know if I've loathed a generally acclaimed film more the past decade.

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18. The Worst Person In The World (Verdens verste menneske)
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, NO 2021
126 points, 5 votes

received 80 points from 3 votes in 2021

The worst response rate in the world.

High on my list. I mentioned on another thread how moved I was by Aksel's long monologue about the world passing him by.

If you haven't seen it (read or don't read...):

"The world that I knew...has disappeared. For me it was all about going to stores. Record stores. I'd take the tram to Voices in Grünerløkka. Leaf through used comics at Pretty Price. I can close my eyes and see the aisles at Video Nova in Majorstua. I grew up in a time when culture was passed along through objects. They were interesting because we could live among them. We could pick them up. Hold them in our hands. Compare them...I spent my life doing that. Collecting all that stuff, comics, books, and I just continued, even when it stopped giving me the powerful emotions I felt in my early 20s. I continued anyway. And now it's all I have left. Knowledge and memories of stupid, futile things nobody cares about."

We're out of the five-vote-zone.

All solid consensus from here on in.

loved this too

glass onion was so, so bad

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17. The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh, US 2022
146 points, 6 votes, 1 #1

I'm going to adopt "Knowledge and memories of stupid, futile things nobody cares about" as my answer if anybody ever asks what my IQ is.

Could be a board description tbh.

ive not watched it

the line people rave about jars so badly that ive no faith in the rest of it

Fine little movie, amazed it did so well last year.

hes gone into another level with three billboards imo- a very flawed and often sloppy movie but seems to have gotten him canonised as a genius of tragicomic profanity (which morbs iirc always had him down as from the eatly plays)

i think the setting helped this one tbh but gleeson/farrell are a great duo and should be mandated to work together every two years

Still very much hate Banshees, but I do like seeing Colin F cry without any pity or solace to be found

I reserved my hate for Three Billboards and my meh-tude for Banshees.

I really like The Worst Person In the World. Renate Reinsve is fantastic, and Anders Danielson Lie is one of my favorite movie boyfriends ever. I didn't think to vote for it though, and that image of it that keeps being shown is awful

which? the image that sic used?

I love that, it’s the perfect image of bad decisions and hedonism

yeah same, one of the best moments in the movie

xps I didn't realize Memoria was being counted as 2022. (It opened in 2021 in NYC.) That would have been my #1.

(Not asking to change my ballot - carry on!)

Flux Gourmet, Glass Onion both too low, Flux was the film that I went to last year at the film festival not knowing anything about it other than having a general vibe of Peter Strickland (vibe immaculately maintained by not having seen any of his films) and was delighted all the way through - came out thinking "I should see more stuff blind! Also make the trek to the arty cinema more often, and plan way ahead of time for the film festival next year!" Naturally the cinema and the festival both closed shortly afterwards.

Theater closed for cleaning today. Mark off your calendars for a movie marathon tomorrow.

Just finally saw The Worst Person in the World a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. Skinamarink has got to be the most boring film I've ever seen.

hes gone into another level with three billboards imo- a very flawed and often sloppy movie but seems to have gotten him canonised as a genius of tragicomic profanity

who are the people doing this canonising and when can they be brought to justice?

didn't love banshees but it's far superior to billboards fwiw

tbf its true to say that most reaction i saw to billboards was measured but it got a lot of oscar noms and our boy doesnt need any encouragement shall we say

ill catch banshees when im in the mood over the next few years perhaps

i had completely forgotten banshees existed

it was fine

Siouxsie and the Banshees of Inisherin, starring Barry Keoghan as Budgie and Brendan Gleeson as Robert Smith.

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16. Barbarian
Zach Cregger, US 2022
152 points, 7 votes

best first twenty minutes of a horror movie last year. the rest bleh imo

i'll admit justin long the landlord was pretty funny

My initial thoughts on this one were that there was a whole lot of signaling (e.g. Me Too; urban gentrification) without there seemingly being much to say about any of it. But it's precisely that latter part that feels most tapped into the horror of living in the here-and-now, so ... bonus points?

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15. Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund, SE/DE/FR/UK 2022
157 points, 7 votes

Didn't hate this, but wasn't anywhere near my ballot either

forgot to vote here, and might not have voted for barbarian, but justin long trying to goose the square footage of his house by extending his tape measure into the creepy murder pit was a great joke

I loved Barbarian, I thought it was smart and surprising all the way thru.

there were some thrilling moments in Triangle of Sadness and it was worth watching, but I didn't vote for it

My viewing companion for Triangle pointed out, at the end, that the last act is lifted almost wholesale from an episode of The Golden Girls

:)

the friend I watched it with writes books about old Hollywood, and he was convinced in the end that they should have allowed him to reshape the script for them and trim it down

I did agree it was somewhat too long

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14. No Bears (خرس نیست)
Jafar Panahi, IR 2022
174 points, 6 votes, 1 #1

ha! I really liked No Bears. The Bear I'm more ambivalent about

although Jeremy Allen White as Gene Wilder on ketamine is a great concept!

from A.O. Scott's review:

"The title refers to an encounter he has on the way to the swear room, a meeting with a stranger that seems like something out of a folk tale. The man cautions that there are dangerous bears lurking in the darkness, and later dismisses his own warning. “Our fear empowers others,” he says. “No Bears!”

That’s a good slogan, and a necessary belief in a very scary world, but also, maybe, a consoling fiction. To insist that there are no bears may just be a polite way of acknowledging that the bears are us."

From the creators of No Dames comes No Bears

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13. Everything Everywhere All At Once
the Danielses, US 2022
179 points, 6 votes, 1 #1

don't everyone everywhere all talk at once

glad it was this low

Got through 10 minutes at home, never went back.

yeah I also had to turn it off after 45 mins or so, just not for me!

Inventive froth that exhausted me before it was done. Glad for the Oscars it generated tho, nothing to hate.

I did not dislike this movie. But enough is in fact enough

Yep

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12. Bones and All
Guadagnino, Kajganich, DeAngelis, IT 2022
183 points, 7 votes

my no. 2 :)

beautiful ominous heartbreaking impressionistic road movie where people eat each other

Interesting ordering throughout this poll tbh

hated everything all at once so much

Love EEAAO and it was my #1 but we have all been over why already so let's move on

Same (or would've been if I voted). I vow to watch all the movies that beat it so I can roll my eyes knowledgeably - though I do not have great hopes for Luca Guadignino Revisits: Can Beautiful People Do Bad Things, Really?

We've arrived at the "rage" part of the thread title

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11. RRR
Rajamouli, Keeravani, Prasad, Burra, IN 2022
183 points, 6 votes, 3 #1s

Sorry, the "rrrage" part

my mother-in-law turned this one off because it "wasn't realistic"

probably would've been top 3 for me if i voted

Except for the nationalist/colorist stuff the movie truly whips

Three #1s and didn't even crack the Top 10

Super fun, the nationalist stuff was off-putting but no more so than e.g. Maverick.

aw cmon in maverick there wasnt even an enemy

just some....guys with planes out there

I'm looking forward to the top 10, I'm expecting Tár, EO, Aftersun, and Nope at least. I'm curious about what the others will be

I expect both of my top 2 to be in there

Well! Thanks to everyone who voted or posted, another great run with a satisfying range of stories, creators, and styles. See you all here next year for the 2023 poll.

I've been waiting to post "TOO LOW" for a particular movie for ages and idk maybe it didn't make the cut for this year also maybe i shd have watched more shit so i could put a ballot together

Super fun, the nationalist stuff was off-putting but no more so than e.g. Maverick.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sexta-feira, 15 de Dezembro de 2023 23:31 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

aw cmon in maverick there wasnt even an enemy

just some....guys with planes out there

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sexta-feira, 15 de Dezembro de 2023 23:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Nationalism where the bad guy is the British Empire beats nationalism where the bad guys are some guys with planes any time of the week.

There are admitidely quite a few Indian blockbusters where the bad guy is Pakistan (or rather, in true cold war plausible deniability fashion, "a rogue faction within the Pakistani government") that feel dicier.

look i wouldnt want to be mistaken for a british empire fan

Indian nationalism was fine when it was just the Brits they was after

It wasn’t the anti-British nationalism at all that felt sketchy in RRR, it was just the awareness of how cozily it fits with Modi’s Hindu nationalist ideology/mythology. Felt a little like Zhang Yimou’s HERO to me — a dazzling historical epic that serves to reinforce the stature of a contemporary regime.

^^^^^

I'm looking forward to the top 10, I'm expecting Tár, EO, Aftersun, and Nope at least. I'm curious about what the others will be

― Dan S, Friday, December 15, 2023 7:17 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'm still hoping for Crimes of the Future. I know some of us liked it!

i’m betting on crimes happening

Glass Onion already made it

Crimes of the Future was #3 on my ballot..

Crimes of the Future was #3 on my ballot..

― birdistheword, Saturday, December 16, 2023 8:06 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same!

yes tipsy I agree and didn't think you were objecting to the anti-British stance, was just pointing out that purely in terms of "who are the baddies" RRR is fine

and yeah again there's far worse in terms of cozying up to Modi in the Indian film industry

so we are awaiting your top 10 sic! it's been two days now since you have posted. please come back!

feel like that post wrapped things up nicely tho

The longer this goes on, the more likely we are all to remember RRR being the poll winner

hey, if voodoo chili had voted, we could have gone further, but

darn

This is starting to get a little indulgent

It's all part of his sic plan

Well I finally saw Saint Omer and it would have been top 2 or 3 lol.

look, if the rest of you are prepared to accept that anything else is essentially ghost votes and doesn't really count...

Oh lord, how many TV shows made the top 10?

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10. The Northman
Eggers and Sjón, US 2022
190 points, 7 votes 1 #1

tbf that actress does do ten TV shows a year these days

Mistakenly read that as 7 #1 votes at first (and no other votes)

this is as good as a movie can get and it's so great that they're still making these KINDS of movies

Yeah Northman ripz

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9 All the Beauty and The Bloodshed
Poitras, Goldin, US 2022
215 points, 8 votes

idk how many true ilx filmheads also watch on cinema, but i was quoting tim heidecker. though i do truly love the northman and it was my #1

i enjoyed all the beauty and the bloodshed on the level of like a pretty good doc i watched on hbo, which i think is where i watched it. not sure why it got elevated to eoy cinemah consideration. i guess b/c poitras + nan goldin?

I saw it at the ICA, it was good but probably wouldn't have made by ballot if I'd seen more than 20 new films from 2022

sorry, I have a cold

I found the documentary about the artist more interesting than the one about the social activist.

Yeah that was the weaker half for sure

yes. there was an embarrassing waft of the self-congratulatory NPR liberal about it

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8. Benediction
Terence Davies, UK 2021
245 points, 8 votes, 1 #1

Thank you to the #1 voter and the six other voters! Am coming around to the idea that TD's final feature was his best

My #1.

The time passages are exquisite; few directors meld the lyrical and the acerbic (Mankiewicz might've approved).

It seems to me Mank's next move should be toward the graveyard

Mank, Mank, Mank -- what are you two? Lovers?

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7. EO (IO)
Jerzy Skolimowski, PL 2022
254 points, 9 votes

I wasn't part of the consensus.

didn't ass

On a roll

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6. Aftersun
Charlotte Wells, UK 2022
257 points, 9 votes, 1 #1

I wasn't part of the consensus. (OK, not entirely true, but I was def less enthusiastic than the median.)

spoiler

I liked Aftersun. I feel like the shift toward seeing our parents as three-dimensional people with mysteries of their own is an under- appreciated and represented part of coming of age.

i was also impressed at the sure hand behind the camera and script that didn’t have to resort to anything obvious to convey these things

the undercurrent of dread in aftersun made it something special imo

Yeah I kind of kept expecting something really bad to happen but was glad when it didn't. The dread was more about realizing how adrift her father was, how she couldn't reach him or really depend on him.

I turned it off. It was boring and the father/daughter relationship did not feel natural to me at all.

The director also had one of the most insufferable Criterion Closet videos.

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5. Crimes Of The Future
David Cronenberg, CA 2022
275 points, 11 votes, 1 #1

my no. 1 :)))))))

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4. The Fabelmans
Fabelman, Kushner, US 2022
279 points, 11 votes, 1 #1

'berg and 'berg divided by 1.07526882% of the vote there

And there's my #1

Eric!

Had to account for the legendary ILX-Spielberg handicap

In my top five. I hadn't loved a Spielberg joint as much since Lincoln or even Munich.

Ditto. That, Munich and A.I. are all as good as or better than anything he made prior to the last one

Aftersun is amazing, a truly heart wrenching experience.

anyone still here?

Crimes of the Future was a hoot. I didn't love Fabelmans but liked it more than I expected. I thought all of the stuff about him trying to become a filmmaker was great. Was less sold on the Michelle Williams plot, but it was fine.

I just mixed a martini.

hey, same! three olives.

so I guess you didn't make a

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3. Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심)
Park and Chung, SK 2022
323 points, 12 votes

On my ballot.

Was slightly let down by Decision to Leave but in retrospect it's lingered more than I would have thought. Not my favorite Park but it's got something going on.

I guess everyone else made a decision to leave

one olive left

I used DTL to fill out my ballot but I already don’t know if it would make my ballot this year, for instance

maybe?

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2. Nope
Jordan Peele, US 2022
420 points, 15 votes, 1 #1

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1. TÁR
Todd Field, US 2022
507 points, 17 votes, 3 #1s

congratulations todd field

not sure why it got elevated to eoy cinemah consideration. i guess b/c poitras + nan goldin?

the family stuff imo

Top 5: liked one, didn't see one, disappointed by one, plus two directors who lost me years ago.

Saw the top 6, liked-not-loved most of them, Nope my favorite of the bunch.

A little surprised Nope did that well tbh, but happy to see the one movie that was actually fun to talk about last year too this poll

Nope was my #1; my #2 (Aftersun) could have been on top if I'd been in a slightly different mood on voteday.

Tar is fun to talk about, it’s true. I think the discourse may be more fun than the movie, but it still gets credit for that.

BUBBLING UNDER:

62. Turning Red 46 points, 3 votes
60. Moonage Daydream 48 points, 4 votes
53. Confess, Fletch 56 points, 3 votes
52. Avatar: The Way Of Water 57 points, 3 votes

great to see Decision to Leave, still TOO LOW

Benediction is one of best movies of the last decade imo

I was expecting it to win tbh. Maybe 'cos its stans were the most vocal. It was my #2. Amazing film.

I didn't vote but approve of the winner. Guess I need to see Benediction and Crimes of the Future.

(Ok, I re-read the log line for Crimes of the Future and remembered why I've been avoiding it.)

Crimes is the only one I didn’t see. I presume that’s one of the two directors Clem gave up on and can guess at the other one but, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, I’ll keep watching them until they kick. Scorsese too even tho my relationship with him is very clearly not simpatico

I can understand viewers recoiling from Crimes of the Future; I wouldn't if they did from Benediction. Something for everyone: period detail, bon mots, hot gays, death.

benediction was v v late style to me, especially whenever it digressed into poetry readings over distorted static images of world war i. i could understand ppl not getting down with it if it weren’t the late style of terence davies the best filmmaker of all time. it also came very close to being the proust adaptation i always wanted from him

crimes: also late style, but essentially cronenberg: bodies changing, developing into portals (cronenberg loves holes) to something else. also one of the funniest movies about being disenchanted with the corny arts scene you’re in

The Fabelmans late style too

in my world of young people crimes of the future is far, far more accessible than benediction. i went to see crimes with friends who all generally liked it. i wouldn't dream of subjecting them to benediction, which i fell asleep to at home (not at all a condemnation, i fall asleep to some great movies.) i love terence davies but i haven't connected with a quiet passion or, obv, benediction yet the way i'd like, though i'm sure i will eventually

xpost crimes and flux gourmet would be a great double feature re: disenchantment with corny arts scene

Im not sure what was up with Kristen Stewart's twitchy performance in Crimes but I dug it

in my world of young people crimes of the future is far, far more accessible than benediction

Sounds horrible

One film has explosions, body fluids, visual wit, and polymorphous sexuality. The other film was directed by David Cronenberg.

the crimes of the future image is from the 1970 short

Adrian Tripod forever

can't believe this unprecedented blunder

Turn in your badge and gun

What makes this especially unfair is that sic himself is never one to nitpick over small details.

lol

at least there have never been jokes in any of the other images in these polls so you can tell this really was a fuckup

we're just nitsicing

I vow to watch all the movies that beat it

Bitterly regretting this now that it means I have to watch the Bergses - the rest should be fun.

the notoriously unfun directors of jurassic park and the fly

I don't get on with Cronenberg's body horror, it squicks me out - and that's fine, that what he's there for, I'm sure if someone talked to him, described me to him, he'd say yes, that right, that's part of the job, squicking this dude out, in fact it's the good part of the job, other bits I can take or leave, but squicking this guy out, that's what it's about.

Spielberg's made a lot of good films, but there's a huge gate barring me wanting to see this film, and over the gate is carved "I called it... The Fablemans! The Fablemans! Look, maybe if I write it down..."

No no it’s FabELmans you see.

i think i admire anyone still watching spielberg movies after the spy bridge one but i couldnt ever bother my arse again myself

The spy movie was terrible (not as bad as the Indiana Jones thing though) but Fablemans is pretty great once you push past the treacly intro

hm

its a lot more thornier and layered than you'd expect it to be

I know that the knee-jerk things people say about Spielberg are exactly the things I say about Scorsese and it's tiresome on both sides, but I also understand what it's like to be done with a filmmaker others persist in lauding, so Merry Christmas to inadequate cinephiles one and all!

Bridge of Spies ruled

I've not seen it but am surprised at that being the dividing line for darra, so many "god I can't be arsed" Spielberg projects before it.

He was coming off Lincoln and War Horse ffs (didn't see those either)

i think we can manage a curt nod of acknowledgement to each other on the above, eric

daniel, tbh it was the last straw and i also didnt see the other two you mentioned tbh

the last one i think was any good _at all_......without checking what i have or havent watched or was or wasnt him....was catch me if you can....?

Lincoln's one of his best films.

since Catch Me If You Can (good one!), he's made War of the Worlds and Munich in one year, two formidable achievements for any director; Lincoln and its rather adult take on shabby politics the likes of which most Americans didn't often watch onscreen (especially in the year of Argo); and, depending on your tolerance, experiments in modes he hadn't essayed like Bridge of Spies and West Side Story, not to mention The Fabelmans. That a director his age and with his dough still gives in to restlessness is pretty admirable!

Fabelmans is the Spielberg movie I’ve enjoyed with the fewest reservations in at least 35 years.

And he was virtually dead to me after Ready Player One.

I at least enjoy Rylance in Bridge of Spies

What Alfred just said, more or less

I keep forgetting that he made Ready Player One, it's like shameful Tim Burton knock-off Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children actually being directed by Tim Burton.

xp Also, unlike Scorsese (cutting off the bonhomie because the holidays don't last), Spielberg is still expanding his fields of interest/theme/execution. Scorsese is still stuck doing endless variations of bad men doing bad things

How enchanting!

tintin underrated

Tintin visually repugnant

Fabelmans is the Spielberg movie I’ve enjoyed with the fewest reservations in at least 35 years.

It’s the only good one of the six I’ve seen in the last 34 years.

Had to account for the legendary ILX-Spielberg handicap
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Wednesday, December 20, 2023 4:15 PM (two days ago)

i did watch munich and thought it formidable tbf

Couldn't disagree more with the claim that Scorsese is simply doing "endless variations of bad men doing bad things," it's absurdly reductive and not even remotely accurate, especially when you consider, The Age of Innocence, Kundun, My Voyage to Italy, Hugo and Silence, all of which are among the very best films he's done over the past 30 years. But I wouldn't even label his earlier films that way, you might as well dismiss the vast majority of dramatic stories as simply "bad people doing bad things."

I have mixed feelings about Spielberg's work, but I pretty much tell everyone that if you have any interest in his films, you need to see The Fabelmans, it's essential - one may have mixed feelings about how he's interpreted certain elements of his life, but he lays everything out there.

(And I agree, Tintin is repugnant to look at - re-interpreting a charmingly hand-drawn comic strip with motion capture was just horrendously misguided.)

Looking back at last 34 years, there's at least four that I'd watch again: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can and Lincoln. Amazingly, three of those were all done back-to-back, probably his most impressive run since the '70s. A.I. Artificial Intelligence is easily my favorite and I initially disliked it - every time I've gone back to it (at least several times spread out over a long period time), it seemed richer and more complex than I first realized. Minority Report benefits greatly from A.I. - they used a of the same technical innovations - but it is also an excellent adaptation in its own right. It gets knocked a lot for the final act (and I can't disagree that it's a letdown) but to be fair, IIRC that's the most faithful portion of the adaptation since that particular conspiracy was very prominent in the original story. And Catch Me If You Can is incredibly smooth filmmaking, Spielberg makes it look so easy (and DiCaprio's pretty great in it, probably his best performance that simply leans into his star persona).

I have some reservations about Lincoln - I know the religious overtones are intentional, and if any U.S. President warrants it, it's Lincoln, but occasionally it feels a bit much to me, especially the way they visually compose his most dramatic scenes. But the performances and especially the intellectual ideas carry it through - the acclaim for Kushner's script is wholly deserved.

*they used a lot

I did really like that shot in Tintin where Tintin's hair turns into the desert that Tintin and Haddock are riding in.

Lincoln still the last film I walked out on - American self-seriousness at its absolute worst

Tintin is staggeringly ugly and misconceived

Frustrating thing about Tintin was that the credits were really well done, in a style much closer to Herge. Then the film proper begins and the horror the horror

Lincoln still the last film I walked out on - American self-seriousness at its absolute worst

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, December 23, 2023

How else would we have conquered the world?

It sounds like an animated variant of Hard To Be a God, which is a dreadful nihilistic film, so I'm not inclined to be interested

― Dan S, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 01:14 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

HTBAG is one of the greatest dark comedies ever made, so I'm taking this as a recommendation

anyway I barely saw anything from 2022 and didn't vote, but cosigning all the Aftersun love, that film has stayed with me

The bravura chase sequence in Tintin is impressive in the style of old silent comedies - it'd be improved if it was silent though, and we couldn't hear Andy Serkis's Scottish accent.

It occurs to me that no one posted their list here.

1. Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2. Ice-Breaker: The '72 Summit Series
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. She Said
6. TÁR
7. EO
8. It Ain't Over
9. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
10. The Quiet Girl

Crimes of the Future
Bones and All
Dark Glasses
Benediction
Avatar: The Way of Water
Nope
Mad God
Tár
Aftersun
Ambulance
Pearl
The Munsters
EO
Terrifier 2
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Orphan: First Kill
You Won't Be Alone
Skinamarink
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick

not enough people here have seen dark glasses!!!!

Benediction
Decision to Leave
The Fabelmans
Aftersun
Happening
All the Beauty and All the Bloodshed
Peter von Kant
Armageddon Time
Saint Omer
Tár
The Eternal Daughter
Moonage Daydream
Crimes of the Future
Stars at Noon
God's Country
Corsage
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Nope
One Second
Candela

I wish more people had watched Armageddon Time.

I did.

The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, USA)
Benediction (Terence Davies, UK)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
No Bears (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)
The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, USA)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichart, USA)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop, France)
Lvx Æterna (Gaspar Noé, France)
Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis, France)
Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise, Germany)
Vortex (Gaspar Noe, France)
TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
Close (Lukas Dhont, Belgium)
Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
Nope (Jordan Peele, USA)
Playground (Laura Wandel, France)
Barbarian (Zach Cregger, USA)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, USA)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, USA)
Goodbye Fletch (Greg Mottola, USA)
Introduction (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea)

I couldn't get access to that Hong trio.

They’re all on home video at this point

(Oh god, I just sounded 100 years old saying that)

The top 20 of my 30-film ballot:

1. Nope (Peele)
2. Aftersun (Wells)
3. Banshees of Inisherin (McDonagh)
4. After Yang (Kogonada)
5. The Quiet Girl (Bairéad)
6. TÁR (Field)
7. No Bears (Panahi)
8. Flux Gourmet (Strickland)
9. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels)
10. In the Court of the Crimson King (Amies)
11. Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg)
12. Prey (Trachtenberg)
13. Emily the Criminal (Ford)
14. Decision to Leave (Park)
15. Glass Onion (Johnson)
16. RRR (Ramajouli)
17. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (del Toro)
18. The Northman (Eggers)
19. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Hyde)
20. The Fabelmans (Spielberg)

Thanks to sic for pollrunning. I like this model of giving us an extra year to see more films and stew over what we've seen.

TÁR
RRR
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Barbarian
Talk to Me
Turning Red
The Northman
Wendell & Wild
The Bob's Burgers Movie
Well Wishes My Love, Your Love

I didn't see a lot of movies from 2022 (or 2023). which is how a lot of memes went over my head.

Cette Maison
Petite Maman
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
The Cathedral
No Bears
The Eternal Daughter
Aftersun
Benediction
Till
The People's Joker
Apollo 10 1/2
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Bones and All
Saint Omer
Nope
The Fabelmans
Both Sides of the Blade
Memoria
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Women Talking

2023 voting open!