Top Ten Film Actresses of 2022
In no particular order:
1. Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
2. Cate Blanchett (Tár)
3. Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
4. Hong Chau (The Whale)
5. Maika Monroe (Watcher & Significant Other)
6. Rebecca Hall (Resurrection)
7. Guslagie Malanda (Saint Omer)
8. Park Ji-Min (Return to Seoul)
9. Viola Davis (The Woman King)
10. Dakota Johnson (Cha Cha Real Smooth & Persuasion)
I’d be remiss not to also mention: Dolly de Leon in Triangle of Sadness, Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Taylor Russell in Bones and All, Anamaria Vartolomei in Happening, Aubrey Plaza in Emily the Criminal, Regina Hall in Honk for Jesus, Mia Goth in Pearl, Anna Diop in Nanny, Bella Ramsey in Catherine Called Birdy, and Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
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Top Ten Film Actors of 2022
In no particular order:
1. Colin Farrell (After Yang, The Banshees of Inisherin, Thirteen Lives, & The Batman)
2. Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
3. Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
4. Daniel Kaluuya (Nope)
5. Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness)
6. Sami Slimane (Athena)
7. Daniel Katz (The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet)
8. Justin H. Min (After Yang)
9. Theo Rossi (Emily the Criminal)
10. Austin Butler (Elvis)
I’d be remiss not to also mention: Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway & Bullet Train, Carloto Cotta in You Won’t Be Alone, Daryl McCormack in Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Adam Driver in White Noise, Sebastian Stan in Fresh, Gang Dong-Won in Broker, Jeremy Pope in The Inspection, Diego Calva in Babylon, and Gabriel LaBelle in The Fabelmans.
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Top Ten Films of 2022
1. After Yang
2. Petite Maman
3. You Won’t Be Alone
4. Nope
5. The Fabelmans
6. Aftersun
7. The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet
8. Athena
9. Everything Everywhere All at Once
10. The House
Also recommend Return to Seoul, RRR, Prey, Something in the Dirt, Catherine Called Birdy, Tár, Saint Omer, Bullet Train, Persuasion, Emily the Criminal, Bones and All, Watcher, and Happening
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Top Ten Film Ensembles of 2022
In no particular order:
1. Fire Island
2. Women Talking
3. The Fabelmans
4. Triangle of Sadness
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Nope
7. Everything Everywhere All at Once
8. After Yang
9. The Woman King
10. Thirteen Lives
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Top 25 Film Actors of 2022
1. Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
2. Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin, After Yang, The Batman, & Thirteen Lives)
3. Cate Blanchett (Tár)
4. Sami Slimane (Athena)
5. Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
6. Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
7. Park Ji-Min (Return to Seoul)
8. Daniel Kaluuya (Nope)
9. Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
10. Hong Chau (The Whale)
11. Viola Davis (The Woman King)
12. Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness)
13. Guslagie Malanda (Saint Omer)
14. Rebecca Hall (Resurrection)
15. Dakota Johnson (Cha Cha Real Smooth & Persuasion)
16. Maika Monroe (Watcher & Significant Other)
17. Daniel Katz (The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet)
18. Austin Butler (Elvis)
19. Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness)
20. Theo Rossi (Emily the Criminal)
21. Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You Leo Grande)
22. Justin H. Min (After Yang)
23. Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway & Bullet Train)
24. Taylor Russell (Bones and All)
25. Carloto Cotta (You Won’t Be Alone)
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Blonde (2022) Review
Even if you look at Blonde as a fictional story of a fictional version of Marilyn Monroe, you are still left in the world of a director who does not respect his protagonist.
Andrew Dominik takes Monroe's dignity at every opportunity. It's clear that Dominik views Monroe as less than a person and in doing so condemns Ana de Armas to the same fate.
Every character in this film feels hollow as Dominik paints every relationship in Monroe's life as insincere. It seems clear that Dominik pities Monroe and reviles the choices she made (those of fact and fiction). His inability to see Marilyn Monroe as more than just a victim, rendered him incapable of directing de Armas to give a meaningful performance beyond the costume and makeup.
I was surprised by the blatant anti-abortion sentiments strewn throughout the film. They are both disgusting and disrespectful. We'll never know if Marilyn Monroe was truly haunted by having an abortion (if she even had one), but we do know that Andrew Dominik believes she should have been.
Dominik's inflated ego seeps its way into every piece of this film. He is not the visionary he believes himself to be and even at its core, this film is abysmal and renders poor performances from a talented cast.
I found myself comparing Blonde to the new Elvis film. Baz Luhrmann imbued his style and craft into his film while still treating Elvis with compassion. Even when portraying Elvis' struggles, it never felt like Elvis was being exploited or judged. Each director painted his own picture of an American icon, but with Luhrmann it was clear that his picture was drawn with care and respect for Elvis as a human being. Whereas Blonde is a picture of Monroe drawn by a man who looked down on her and her legacy.
Part of me wonders if this was a big joke to Dominik; a social experiment to see if he could exploit de Armas as Monroe was exploited. If it was, then I guess in a sense his experiment worked because we all showed up to watch.
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Most Anticipated Films of August 2022
Resurrection (8/5)
Bullet Train (8/5)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (8/5)
Emily the Criminal (8/12)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (8/31)
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The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Blow the Man Down (2019)
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
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Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)
Blue Ruin (2013)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Blue Velvet (1986)
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The Green Knight (2021)
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Green Room (2015)
Greenberg (2010)
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Color Streamlist: Red
Turning Red (2022)
Red Eye (2005)
The Red Turtle (2016)
Blood Red Sky (2021)
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Most Anticipated Films of July 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (7/15)
Persuasion (7/15)
Nope (7/22)
The Gray Man (7/22)
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Movie Streamlist: Fell to Earth
Color Out of Space (2019)
Attack the Block (2011)
Stardust (2007)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
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Movie Streamlist: Something in the Water
Jaws (1975)
Signs (2002)
Sea Fever (2019)
Anaconda (1997)
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Father’s Day Streamlist: Father Figures
Moonlight (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 & 2 (2014 & 2017)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Snowpiercer (2013)
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