So, uh, this happened. Never had to do back-to-back movie summaries before – but don’t say I didn’t warn you. It turns out that this is a pretty huge cinematic year.
I don’t know what feels more surreal: The near-certainty that this is the most new release films I’ve ever fit inside a month across my whole life, or the fact we live in a world where I could manage a whole nineteen movies before the first Marvel release of 2022. And a lot of those movies are good! Who knew!
Some of them are even really good; in fact I’m feeling bold enough to say that come the end of December, if my overall movie of the year somehow isn’t on this page I’d be shocked. In that unlikely case we would have truly enjoyed a special 2022.
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The Bad Guys
“Sam Rockwell is back! And he brings thoroughly entertaining support.”
Ambulance
“Michael Bay’s return to big screen spectacle matches his best.”
Cheaper by the Dozen
“Can’t quite fit surprisingly ambitious themes into chaotic, compressed plot.”
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
“An actual screenwriter helps, but “Better than 2” isn’t praise.”
All the Old Knives
“Cool nonlinear structure, fabulously shot, weirdly graphic, pretty poor conclusion.”
Everything Everywhere All At Once
“I barely even have ten words for this outrageous brilliance.”
The Lost City
“Two of physical comedy’s very best elevate some cliched material.”
The Northman
“Brutal, stunningly–shot proto–Hamlet effortlessly weaves fantasy and grime.”
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
“Sustains its ludicrous premise despite Hollywood formula with preposterous performances.”
Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Vagrant Rant 
Posted by ajuric on Jul 8, 2022 at 3:46 am
these were some very good points that were well made