Either with my wife or by myself, I watched over 70 movies this year. Only a few of them were films I’d seen before, including a few Star Trek movies. I rectified a longstanding oversight and finally saw Blade Runner and I watched Heat for the first time after reading Heat 2.
A few of them were documentaries and a number were foreign films, including the two Midnight Diner movies that it took quite a while to track down. Several were seasonal movies we watched over the past couple of weeks—A Bad Moms Christmas is not our usual fare, but we like all the actors and it was actually quite funny.
Narrowing down the list to a top 12 was a bit of a challenge. To be honest, some of the titles didn’t remind me of anything at all, so I had to Google them to remember what they were about. That said, I was relieved to discover there were none that I have no recollection of whatsoever. Movie titles aren’t always memorable, as it turns out—even the James Bond films sometimes have titles that don’t jar my memory of the films themselves.
Anyhow, here is my top 12 list, in chronological order. I cheated a bit by adding the documentary that makes a terrific companion to Thirteen Lives.
- Don’t Look Up
- Nightmare Alley
- Licorice Pizza
- Death on the Nile
- Peace By Chocolate
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Thirteen Lives / The Rescue
- Pinocchio
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Emily the Criminal
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
