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It’s sort of hard to deny “the film of the year” is Everything Everywhere All At Once, regardless of your personal attachment to it. The widespread love for its incredible cast, its Rick & Morty-esque plotting and humor (it’s The Matrix with hot dog fingers), and its willingness to go where Marvel’s own Multiverse of Madness failed to explore has landed it in constant conversation since release. I adored Yeoh, Quan, and Hong in the film, and there were several sequences I’ll think about for a long time.
I also struggled with some of its depiction of homophobia, and the centering of Evelyn’s growth and redemption in that relationship rather than Joy’s trauma. Maybe a good review would help me think through that aspect of the film. I’m hopeful someday that, with some distance, some of the more heated responses to criticism I’ve seen wind down, and the total dismissal of the film that anger’s earned can heal. I think films grow when people talk about them, and right now it’s hard to have a conversation. It’s
This year, when many of the “best films” started to feel more terminally online than ever and discussion of so many films devolved into various inane (and sometimes insane) culture wars, I asked myself repeatedly whether or not I would bother writing my Top 22 of 2022. I imagined myself a dragon hoarding my gems, beckoning people into my lair to look but not touch. The main reason I decided to go forward with it is pretty simple: I enjoy doing it and it’s one of the few types of writing that comes pretty ea