what are your 3 favorite movies of 2022 so far?

Benediction is excellent. I've been trying to convince people to watch it but they seem to think its a Merchant Ivory type movie

RRR
Benediction
Decision To Leave

Gonna watch Corsage tonight. Eric's boys in Slant liked it.

Benediction
EO
The Fabelmans

i wanna see eo so goddamn bad

Let this take sweeten the deal:

Jerzy Skolimowski's #EO doesn't "remake" Au Hasard Balthazar but replaces and dismisses the Christian allegory of Bresson's masterpiece. Nihilist critics love it. https://t.co/EhrKnkjSjk

— Armond White (@3xchair) December 2, 2022

They threw in a cardboard ladydonkey to sweeten the deal!

EO looks great.

adding Bones and All to my 3. im not sure what movie it replaces yet

You need to watch Benediction, The Fabelmans, Aftersun, and Peter Von Kant

bones and all entered my top three too, 1 and 3 are still crimes of the future and mad god. mad god hopefully no. 1 on sight & sound 2032

Definitely need to catch Pacifiction before next week if I can

Aftersun destroyed me. what a debut

Same. While we're editing, I'll add that, and maybe We're All Going to the World's Fair, which I wasn't sure would have the same effect on rewatch but pretty much did.

My FFCC nomination ballot:

Benediction
Aftersun
Decision to Leave

I love this thread, because three movies forces folks to focus, and people like me, who don't get to see nearly as many movies a year as they'd like (but still lots!) get a better lay of the (ILX) land than I would from a, say, top 50 movies of the year list. For example, I recall reading positive reviews of "Aftersun" months ago, but I more or less forgot about it, so now it's back toward the top of my "must watch" list.

Crimes of the Future
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
RRR

Causeway
I Love My Dad
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

Lots still to see, of course; in terms of prioritizing what to watch, I am definitely feeling Josh’s xpost.

Aftersun destroyed me. what a debut

Decision to Leave is a really dazzling film.

visually and as an acting showcase, sure, contrivance of the narrative felt a bit hokey tho, guess it was a vehicle for the visual poetry or whatever

saw Enys Men yesterday, that might be more of a 2023 film but would be close to or at the top of my 2022 list, obv owes a lot to its UK cinema forebears (shades of Under The Skin, Penda's Fen blah blah) but also came off as a far-more-successful take on the Upstream Color slow sound-games, hopefully with a better IRL ending between director and actor as well

Crimes of the Future
Corsage
Hit the Road

RRR
Aftersun
Decision To Leave

"visually and as an acting showcase, sure, contrivance of the narrative felt a bit hokey tho, guess it was a vehicle for the visual poetry or whatever"

Lol @ Pynchon fan complaining about plot.

Aftersun destroyed me. what a debut

― They do the Shug a loo, do the Shy Tuna, do the Kemba Walker (fionnland)

yes, omg

dunno if I mentioned this but coming back from Aftersun a dude on the tube complimented my outfit and I think it might've been because I looked like I was about to start sobbing