The Medium Place – 2022 Honorable Mentions

Will Ashton

Henry J. Fromage- 

Once again, I’m giving you way too much to watch. *Sue me (*But actually don’t).

Not Quite “Good” Enough (2022 movies you should watch – in tiers):

First Tier (you could create another great Top 10 out of this, easily)

Causeway – The Cathedral – The Integrity of Joseph Chambers – Everything Everywhere All at Once – Top Gun: Maverick – Saint Omer – God’s Creatures – Master – Holy Spider – Hustle – 88 – Soft & Quiet – Speak No Evil – Watcher – God’s Country – The Bombardment – Aftersun – Turning Red – Broker – Athena – Close

Second Tier

Emergency – When You Finish Saving the World – Utama – Resurrection – KLONDIKE – 892 – Happening – Dual – Neptune Frost – Palm Trees and Power Lines – Girl Picture – Brian and Charles – Leonor Will Never Die – The Civil Dead – Retrograde – Linoleum – Pretty Problems – Seriously Red – The Fallout – The Exam – Vortex – The Northman – Men – Memoria – Operation Mincemeat – A Love Song – Land of Gold – Pink Moon – Peace in the Valley – Employee of the Month – Carajita – Corner Office – X – Elvis – The Innocents – You Resemble Me – You Won’t Be Alone – Huda’s Salon – A Chiara – Thor: Love and Thunder – Nope – Vengeance – The Son – The Whale – Devotion – R.M.N. – Victim – Corsage – Butcher’s Crossing – The Fabelmans – Sanctuary – Viking – Bruiser – Triangle of Sadness – Vengeance – Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood – The Woman King – Thirteen Lives – Funny Pages – Bodies Bodies Bodies – Return to Dust – The Black Phone – Don’t Worry Darling – The Good Nurse – The Same Storm – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Four Samosas – The Stranger – The Menu – Bones and All – Avatar: The Way of Water – Emancipation – Catherine Called Birdy – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – White Noise – Babylon – Argentina, 1985 – Pinocchio – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Eo – Not Okay – The Quiet Girl

After Yang – Living – Nanny – Alice – Cha Cha Real Smooth – Something in the Dirt – Dos Estaciones – Emily the Criminal – Hatching – Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul – PIGGY – blood – Goodafternoon Sweetdream – Snow White Dies in the End – Hannah Ha Ha – Killing the Eunuch KHAN – Honeycomb – Paris in Harlem – Love Tasting – Sissy – Chee$e – To Leslie – I Love My Dad – Spin Me Round – It Is In Us All – Gold – Dog – The Cellar – The Batman – Ted K – Quickening – Against the Ice – Metal Lords – Every Day in Kaimuki – Rounding – Jerry & Marge Go Large – Hommage – Good Girl Jane – Attachment – A Wounded Fawn – Two Sisters and a Husband – Karaoke – Roving Woman – January – A Matter of Trust – The Visitor – Crimes of the Future – Mitra – Official Competition – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Father Stu – Bull – All the Old Knives – Paid in Blood – The Outfit – Prey – Persuasion – Thirteen Lives – Daughter of Rage – Domingo and the Mist – Empire of Light – Muru – Ashkal – Prisoner’s Daughter – Clerks III – On the Come Up – Persuasion – Riceboy Sleeps – Blonde – Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle – The Stranger – Amsterdam – Farha – Armageddon Time – The Send-Off – Hansan: Rising Dragon – She Said – Hunt – Stars at Noon – Medieval – Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon – A Jazzman’s Blues – The Eternal Daughter – Alice, Darling – Shark: The Beginning – The Policeman’s Lineage – Dead for a Dollar – Hot Blooded: Once Upon a Time in Korea – Pacifiction – Three Thousand Years of Longing

Studies in Pure Entertainment:

The Devil You Know – Kimi – Supercool – The Burning Sea – The Adam Project – Deadstream – The Prank – Bitch Ass – The Lost City – Scream – The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – Ambulance – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Death on the Nile – RRR – No Exit – Interceptor – The Man from Toronto – Uncharted – The Bad Guys – Bullet Train – The Roundup – Jurassic Park: Dominion – Day Shift – Carter – Sick – Pearl – A Man of Reason – Project Wolf Hunting – Emergency Declaration – Day Shift – Seoul Vibe – Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers – Orphan: First Kill – Minions: Rise of Gru – Meet Cute – See How They Run – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Confess, Fletch – DC League of Super-Pets – Enola Holmes 2 – Moonshot – Troll – Lightyear – Smile – Rosaline – Alienoid – Beast – The Witch 2: The Other One – Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Fall – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – The Sea Beast – Halloween Ends – Turbo Cola – Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Lou – Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm – Do Revenge – The Gray Man – The Phantom of the Open – Confidential Assignment 2 – Disenchanted – Slash/Back

Docs to Watch:

Fire of Love – 2nd Chance – The Territory – Free Chol Soo Lee – The Exiles – Jihad Rehab – A House Made of Splinters – All that Breathes – Midwives – Descendant – I Didn’t See You There – Aftershock – Facing Monsters – Forget Me Not – Fury – jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy – The Tinder Swindler – Downfall: The Case Against Boeing – Crows are White – This Much I Know to be True – Facing Nolan – Nothing Lasts Forever – We Are Not Ghouls – Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets – Bad Axe – Tiktok Boom – We Feed People – Mija – Devil Put the Coal in the Ground – The Forgotten Ones – Return to Space – Master of Light – La Guerra Civil – La Recua: The Mule Pack Train – Exposure – Our Father – Burning – The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel – American Pain – A Rising Fury – Kaepernick & America – The Big Payback – Leave No Trace – Carol & Johnny – Endangered – Game Change Game – Billion Dollar Babies – Of Medicine and Miracles – Bowery – Battleground – A Story of Bones – Lynch/Oz – God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines – Music Pictures: New Orleans – Lift – Sophia – Hazing – The Courtroom – Sanson and Me – Katrina Babies – Reinventing Mirazur – After Sherman – Body Parts – The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks – Look at Me: XXXTentacion – The Automat – Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – The Fire Cats – Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America – Girl in the Picture – The Princess – Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee – Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1 – Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist – Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul – Untold: Breaking Point – The Princess – The Anthrax Attacks – My Imaginary Country – Refuge – Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake – The Thief Collector – Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case – The Redeem Team – God Forbid: The Sex Scandal that Brought Down a Dynasty – Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes – Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste – Capturing the Killer Nurse – Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich – I Am Vanessa Guillen – The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari – Nail Bomber: Manhunt – A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting – Riotsville, USA – Children of the Mist – Bitterbrush – Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac – Wildcat – Flight/Risk – What We Leave Behind – Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story – The Last Dolphin King – Unicorn Town – The Pez Outlaw – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power – I Am a Killer: Released

Not Quite “Bad” Enough:

I managed to smush 11 terrible films into 10 slots in our Worst Films list, and outside of some mediocrities that don’t bare mention on any list, I suppose I did a pretty solid job avoiding outright terrible movies this year.  I’ll try harder the next one.