Joe Hughes' Film reviews

Hello and welcome to my fourth annual end of year look back at the films I've throughout the year. This year I managed to watch 387 films with 171 of them being from the past 52 weeks, which is what I'll be focusing on and categorisng in this blog post. Like in the previous 3 installments, this is just my opinion. My choices for best or worst will most likely be different to yours. Art is indeed subejctive. With that out of the way, here is my 2022 in film categorised: The Batman by Greig Fraser All Quiet On The Western Front  by James Friend ELVIS by Mandy Walker Everything Everywhere All At Once by Larkin Seiple Living by Jamie Ramsay NOPE  by Hoyte Van Hoytema Day Shift SCREAM Texas Chainsaw Massacre Maidenhead End of The Road Hatching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever by Ludwig Göransson All Quiet On The Western Front by Volker Bertelmann Entergalactic by Kid Cudi Living by Emilie Levienaise-Fa NOPE by Michael Abels The Batman by Michael Giacchino The Sky is

All movies I saw in the cinema for first time during the month of December 2022 ranked from worst to best. (SPOILER WARNING FOR ALL 4 FILMS PICTURED ABOVE) #4. Matilda: The Musical This was my final cinema trip of December 2022 and this year in general. I would've waited until January 2023 to see this on Netflix, but chose the cinema primarily because I wanted to bump the cinema trips of this month to 4...and also I didn't want to see Avatar II, at least until next year. I think the most I've saw of this film prior to release was the clip of the girl with the red cap dancing through a hallway, it was shared relentlessly on Tiktok to the very point of it being tiresome everytime it came on my FYP. * This was surprisingly enjoyable and was a perfect theatrical translation of a stage musical. Definetley worth seeing a cinema before it arrives on Netflix in a couple of weeks. It was surreal seeing a theatrical version of the opening Netflix logo. There was not a single bad perf