Best Things of 2022

While I’m definitely going to continue with this rundown of all my favorite things read, watched, played and listened to in the past year, a definite trend I have to shout out: the movies are back, baby! And not just at AMC Theatres - I mean I rediscovered my personal love of (and attention span for) feature films in a way I haven’t embraced since, if we’re being honest, even before the pandemic. (I’m fairly certain I crossed over 30 new releases and over 100 new-to-me watches for the first time since at least 2017)

So while my tippy-top best movies of the year so far are presented here in non-judgmental alphabetical order, the EMOs are going to return with a true vengeance early in 2023, and I also want to write up some of my thoughts from year one of a Mubi subscription, whose one-movie-added-per-day and clear time limits set up some stakes and boundaries around cinephilia in the great morass of streaming that I found extremely rewarding. More to come over at The Best Films of Our Lives if that’s of interest.

Away we go,

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Movies

TV Series

Limited Series

Podcasts

Games

(catching up in my first year of Switch ownership I also can say that yes, Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Animal Crossing and Metroid Dread are very good; but both you and Nintendo don’t really need me to plug those)