My favourites to least favourite movies (And occasional TV show) released in the UK in 2022

Note - As we enter 2023 and I look back on the the list, I feel like it was a weird year for film. Firstly, because there are some unconventional films on there, but also because 1-5 are really high as my favourites. The  6-20ish are pretty much all in contention for 6-10. I just couldn’t pick! This was a good year in film, there was the usual handful of great to very good films, but a ton of good ones. More than most years.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Glass Onion
4. The Batman
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
8. Decision to Leave
9. Fire of Love
10. RRR

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Apartment
• Sorry to Bother You
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• American Psycho
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Horrible Bosses
• Working Girl
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Matrix

Inspired by the Films At Home YouTube channel, this is my list of my favorite films from each year I’ve been alive, starting from 1988!

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Beauty and the Beast
• A League of Their Own
• Jurassic Park
• Pulp Fiction
• Die Hard With a Vengeance
• Fargo
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• The Big Lebowski

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Best interrogation scene in film

• Inglourious Basterds
• Prisoners
• Casino Royale
• Promising Young Woman
• Blade Runner
• Man on Fire
• When They See Us
• The Dark Knight
• Reservoir Dogs
• Nightcrawler

Anime I’ve seen - First handful on the list are my favorites

• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away
• Cowboy Bebop
• The Boy and the Beast
• The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
• Perfect Blue
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Akira
• Your Name.

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Best chemistry in film

I couldn’t keep it to 10!

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
3. The Nice Guys
4. Booksmart
5. WandaVision
6. RRR
7. Only Lovers Left Alive
8. 10 Things I Hate About You
9. Sleepless in Seattle
10. Queen & Slim

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Love, Death & Robots: Three Robots
• Love, Death & Robots: Good Hunting
• Love, Death & Robots: The Witness
• Love, Death & Robots: Sonnie's Edge
• Love, Death & Robots: Beyond the Aquila Rift
• Love, Death & Robots: Ice Age
• Love, Death & Robots: The Secret War
• Love, Death & Robots: When the Yogurt Took Over
• Love, Death & Robots: Sucker of Souls

I mean, the Last of Us on HBO is number 1, by far and away, but keeping it strictly to movies, man this list is difficult! Had to put a couple that aren’t strictly based on anything. Tron legacy is still enjoyable for me, especially its aesthetics and music. I look forward to see if Mario makes it on there. D&D was excellent!

Letterboxd, update the system to allow TV series! I’d be very interested to revisit this list in a few years with subsequent Last of Us seasons, as well as Horizon and God of War, whatever format they come out on!

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Ready or Not
• TRON: Legacy
• Pokémon: The First Movie
• Tag
• Game Night
• Pokémon the Movie 2000
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu
• Pokémon 3: The Movie
• Sonic the Hedgehog

• The Fly
• Planet of the Apes
• The Shape of Water
• The Batman
• The Thing
• Hook
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Dark Knight
• Earth Girls Are Easy

I know Metropolis wasn’t nominated for an Oscar (Were the Oscars around in 1927?🤔), but the score is phenomenal and influential and most certainly should be on the list.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Interstellar
• Metropolis
• Carol
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Joker
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Dune
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Jaws

• Moon
• The Martian
• Cast Away
• The Revenant
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Swiss Army Man
• Into the Wild
• Locke
• I Am Legend
• Arctic

My favourite best Picture nominees

• There Will Be Blood
• Jaws
• No Country for Old Men
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• BlacKkKlansman
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Dune
• Promising Young Woman
• Jojo Rabbit
• The Martian

• Logan
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Annette
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Dopesick
• Legally Blonde
• No Time to Die
• Death to 2021
• No Sudden Move
• The Hunt

...plus 214 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Best films set in the snow

• The Revenant
• Wind River
• Fargo
• Snowpiercer
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Shining
• Frozen
• The Thing
• The Hateful Eight
• Arctic

Best enemies-to-lovers films

• Silver Linings Playbook
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Palm Springs
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Australia
• You've Got Mail
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Singin' in the Rain
• La La Land

Best films set in forests or jungles

• Apocalypse Now
• Jurassic Park
• Princess Mononoke
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Tarzan
• The Witch
• The Jungle Book
• Predator

Best films about loners and misfits

• Into the Wild
• Blade Runner 2049
• Nightcrawler
• Her
• Yojimbo
• The Batman
• Taxi Driver
• Moonlight
• Pig
• Lost in Translation

Best body-swap films

• Moon
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Your Name.
• Avatar
• Get Out
• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• 13 Going on 30
• Soul
• Freaky
• Big

Best UFO films

1. Arrival
2. District 9
3. The Thing
4. Independence Day
5. Attack the Block
6. Earth Girls Are Easy
7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
8. Signs
9. Annihilation
10. Super 8

Best films about/involving trains

Turns out I haven’t seen many train movies, this is all I could scrape together. Might need to do some homework this week! Can’t wait to see where Bullet train ends up 🤔

1. Snowpiercer
2. Train to Busan
3. Source Code
4. Bullet Train
5. Murder on the Orient Express
6. Unstoppable
7. The Darjeeling Limited
8. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Best magical-realist film moments

• The Green Mile
• The Shape of Water
• Spirited Away
• Black Swan
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Big Fish
• A Monster Calls
• Life of Pi
• Midnight in Paris
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Best unseen villains in horror

• The Shining
• Jaws
• Alien
• The Thing
• The Babadook
• Hereditary
• The Witch
• The Invisible Man
• Nope
• Rosemary's Baby

Best character hair in film

• The Fifth Element
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Amadeus
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• No Country for Old Men
• Elvis
• Labyrinth
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Actors writing/directing themselves

• The Great Dictator
• Citizen Kane
• Jojo Rabbit
• A Quiet Place
• The Gift
• Singin' in the Rain
• Fences
• Braveheart
• A Star Is Born
• What We Do in the Shadows

I’m kind of obsessed with Iceland. I’ve been there twice and am in love with the country and people. I take any opportunity to see their impressive landscape, as well as there magical northern lights and to also appreciate the wit of the peoples. Can’t wait to go back again and again!

The list below are films that are primarily made by Icelandic people, but not exclusively. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has to make it on there as it is the film that really introduced me to the country! To state the obvious there is some weird stuff here, so the rankings are a little rough and haphazard, so don’t pay to much attention to the middle and bottom. As it’s all pretty good stuff.

• Woman at War
• A White, White Day
• Unnur
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Under an Arctic Sky
• Lamb
• Arctic
• Nest
• The County
• Of Horses and Men

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
7. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
8. Return of the Jedi
9. Solo: A Star Wars Story
10. Obi-Wan Kenobi

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What makes a film weird?

I don’t know! You just know it when you see it. Some weird films are subtly weird, others are more overt and bat shit crazy. Very generally I consider a weird film to be more Indy (usually) or one that slipped under the radar of people around me.
You know? That film that when your non film buff friends ask “what you’d recommend?” and you explain this fantastic movie that is interesting and/or bizarre and then they look at you with a puzzled look on their face. That is a weird film.

Weird films are ones that may have a particular sense of humor or are high concept or are artsy fartsy… Or a mixture of all and more. This list is a reminder of films I’ve watched and some I really like that aren’t blockbuster franchise films, a list I can on to my friends.

Not in any particular order, although the first half of the list is pretty representative of my favorites.

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Dune
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Nice Guys
• The Big Lebowski
• Jojo Rabbit
• Looper
• Parasite
• Ex Machina
• Swiss Army Man

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The French Dispatch
• Isle of Dogs
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Bottle Rocket
• The Darjeeling Limited

My favourites to least favourite movies (And occasional TV show) released in the UK in 2021

• Dune
• Minari
• Promising Young Woman
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Another Round
• One Night in Miami...
• tick, tick... BOOM!
• The Green Knight
• Palm Springs

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Gentlemen
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Mangrove
• Red, White and Blue
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Lovers Rock
• The Way Back

...plus 210 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

BFI Top 💯

• Vertigo
• Citizen Kane
• Tokyo Story
• The Rules of the Game
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Searchers
• Man with a Movie Camera
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• 8½

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

AFI Top 💯

• Citizen Kane
• The Godfather
• Casablanca
• Raging Bull
• Singin' in the Rain
• Gone with the Wind
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Schindler's List
• Vertigo
• The Wizard of Oz

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Nightcrawler
• Inception
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Logan
• Blade Runner 2049
• A Quiet Place
• The Nice Guys
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• War for the Planet of the Apes
• Avengers: Infinity War

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Hamilton
2. Da 5 Bloods
3. The Gentlemen
4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
5. One Night in Miami...
6. The King of Staten Island
7. Mangrove
8. Bad Boys for Life
9. On the Rocks
10. The Invisible Man

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. 1917
2. Parasite
3. Jojo Rabbit
4. Marriage Story
5. Knives Out
6. Ford v Ferrari
7. Avengers: Endgame
8. Doctor Sleep
9. The Peanut Butter Falcon
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Little Women
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Blindspotting
• The Gentlemen
• Hellboy
• Jojo Rabbit
• The Irishman
• 1917
• Missing Link

...plus 155 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.