The New York Times released, this Monday (6), its list of the ten best films of 2022. Below, check out the complete ranking with their respective synopses and where to watch them:
It follows a donkey who meets good and bad people on his travels, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes. (coming soon)
Nelly, an eight-year-old girl, has just lost her grandmother and helps her parents clean up the house where the deceased lived. She explores the residence and its surroundings where a tree house is built. One day, the girl meets a girl her own age in the forest. The two discover they have much more in common than they thought. (Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV)
The keepers of a California horse ranch encounter a mysterious force that affects human and animal behavior. (Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV)
Two parallel love stories where the partners are hindered by hidden and inevitable obstacles. The narrative presents the force of superstition and the mechanics of power. (unavailable)
What if every breath, every sound, every moment was recorded? During the Covid-19 pandemic in Seattle, an agoraphobic tech worker uncovers evidence of a violent crime as she peruses a data stream, and is met with resistance and red tape when she tries to report it to her company. To get involved, she realizes that she must face her greatest fear by walking out of her apartment and onto the streets of the city, which are filled with protesters after the City Council passed a law restricting movement. of the homeless population. (HBO Max, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies & TV)
A middle-aged woman and her elderly mother are confronted with long-buried secrets when they return to the former family home, once a stately home turned into an almost empty hotel, but full of mysteries. (unavailable)
O Acontecimento is an adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel, and takes place in France in 1963, even when abortion was illegal in the country. Anne is a student with a promising future and, when she discovers she is pregnant, immediately presses for her dismissal, but her doctor warns her of the ruthless laws against seeking or aiding an abortion and her attempts to reach out to her closest friends. dear are rejected. . . As the weeks pass, with no support or access, an increasingly desperate Anne adamantly persists in seeking every possible means to terminate her pregnancy in hopes of reclaiming her future. The film graphically and directly depicts not only the perils and outrages of Anne’s harrowing search, but also how the surrounding indifference exacerbates her situation, immersing us in her character’s certainty that the failure of this pregnancy would surely be the end of her life. also. (HBO Max)
In Decision to Leave, Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) is the youngest inspector in the Busan Police Department. On weekends he lives in a foggy seaside town with his beloved wife, but on weekdays in the city he is so dedicated to his work that he keeps watch every night instead of sleeping. But his life begins to get complicated when the body of a climber is found at the base of a steep rocky mountain. After a crazy episode in which Hae-joon and his boss use a motorized pulley to climb the mountainside, they wonder if the dead man fell or was pushed. The prime suspect is his widow, Seo-rae (Tang Wei), a beautiful Chinese immigrant who doesn’t seem the least bit perturbed by his death. But how could Seo-rae, a caretaker adored by her elderly clients, be the prime suspect in her murder? She can’t have committed murder, can she? (unavailable)
In 1961, filmmaker Robert Gardner organized the Harvard Peabody Expedition to Dutch New Guinea (now West Papua). Funded by the Dutch colonial government and private donations, and made up of many of the wealthiest members of American society wielding 16mm film cameras, still cameras, reel-to-reel tape recorders, and a microphone, the expedition settled for five months in the Baliem Valley, between the Hubula people (also known as the Dani). This led to Gardner’s highly influential film Dead Birds, two books of photographs, Peter Matthiessen’s book Under the Mountain Wall and two ethnographic monographs. Michael Rockefeller, a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family (Standard Oil), was tasked with taking photos and recording sound in and around the world of Hubula. Expedition Content is an augmented sound work composed of the 37 hours of archive tape documenting the strange encounter between the expedition and the Hubula people. The show reflects on intertwined and complex historical moments in the development of approaches to multimodal anthropology, the lives of Hubula and Michael, and the ongoing history of colonialism in West Papua. (unavailable)
An epic and moving story about artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through interviews, photographs and rare footage of her struggle to hold the Sackler family accountable for America’s opioid crisis. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras, the film weaves together Goldin’s past and present, the profoundly personal and urgent politics of her actions and revelations. (unavailable)
With information from The New York Times
Featured Image: Nan Goldin
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
