Join us for part 2 of the 7th annual Movies Are Reel Best Of deliberations!
Most Disappointing:
Thor: Love and Thunder
V/H/S/99
Men
Sonic: The Hedgehog 2
The Northman
Jurassic World: Dam minions
Scream (2022)
The Black Phone
Death on the Nile
The Batman
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Glass Onion: A Kives Out Mystery
Best Performance:
Amber Midthunder as Naru - Prey
Johnny Knoxville as Johnny Knoxville - Jackass Forever
Gabriel LaBelle as Sammy Fableman - The Fablemans
Michelle Williams as Mitzi Fableman - The Fablemans
Ram Charan as Alluri Sitarama Raju - RRR
Rachel Sennott as Alice - Bodies Bodies Bodies
Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár - TÁR
Mia Goth as Pearl - Pearl
Mia Goth as Pearl / Maxine Minx - X
Brendan Gleeson as Colm Doherty - The Banshees of Inisherin
Colin Farrell as Pádraic Súilleabháin - The Banshees of Inisherin
Colin Farrel as Jake - After Yang
Colin Farrel as The Penguin - The Batman
Rebecca Hall as Margaret - Resurrection
Tilda Swinton as Alithea Binnie - Three Thousand Years of Longing
Idris Elba as the Djinn - Three Thousand Years of Longing
Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Adam Driver as Jack Gladney - White Noise
Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood - Nope
Danielle Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Jenny Slate as Marcel - Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Standout Moment
Rebecca Hall trauma dumps on the intern in Resurrection
Tim Roth has a bun in his oven in Resurrection
“We have to be kind”/”In Another Life” /Waymon’s End Monologue in Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Mission Run / the final 40 minutes in Top Gun Maverick
The entire 3/4ths of Three Thousand Years of Longing
Nicholas Hoult cooks a piece of shit dish in The Menu
"I Just Don't Like Ya No More" in The Banshees of Inisherin
The end credits in Pearl
Pearl’s Monogue in Pearl
The ending in Tar
“Conservative Teacher Owns Woke Student 😂” in Tar
The opening interview/”You Cannot Start Without Me” in Tar
Nautu Nautu in RRR
Komuram Bheemudo in RRR (spoilers!)
“Do you want to meet the greatest director ever?” in The Fablemans
“A podcast takes a lot of work!” in Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
Every time they go underwater in Avatar: The Way of Water
The opening in Nope
Raining blood in Nope
Killing the Alien in Nope
The opening credits in After Yang
“He’s white?” in Elvis
If I Can Dream performance in Elvis
Unchained Melody performance in Elvis
New Body Rhumba in White Noise
Capitalist vs Socialist Joke Hour in Triangle of Sadness
“I started therapy!” in The Fablemans
Killing the Predator in PREY
Opening Monologue in The Batman
Silence of the lambs/Snake + Lights Bit in Jackass Forever
In Morbius
Don’t Go In There Award
Barbarian- AirBNB
Nope- Jupiter’s Claim
Mad God- The direction Down
The Batman- Gotham in general
Best Old Movie
Jurge:
Funny Games (1997)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Lost Highway
Ryan:
History of the Occult
Ghostwatch
Dredd but in 3D
Karrie:
Nathan For You: Finding Frances
The Descent
Orlando
(also Ghostwatch)
Top 10 Movies of 2022:
TÁR
RRR
Triangle of Sadness
X
The Fablemans
Pearl
Top Gun: Maverick
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Menu
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Fire of Love
NOPE
Marcel the Shell
Elvis
Barbarian
After Yang
Decision to Leave
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies
White Noise
Mad God
Morbius
Bones and all
Flux Gourmet
Aftersun