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

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!