Todd McCarthy’s Best Movies Of 2022
deadline.comWe’re fast approaching the end of the third year of Covid and it’s clear by now, if it wasn’t before, that filmgoing will never be the same.
The habit is gone, everyone has become accustomed to checking out films at home rather than in theaters, it’s unclear what films people are actually seeing and what they think of them, and it’s evident that most people have, with certain exceptions, simply lost the incentive to mobilize, to actually get off their butts and plunk them down in a theater to see a movie.
For a life-long film fanatic as well as a critic for more than a few decades, I’m dismayed that it’s all come to this, but I can’t pretend otherwise, that I don’t see the writing — and the images — on the wall.
Given these dire circumstances, it’s been a tolerably decent year where quality cinema is concerned, as long as you can figure out if, when and where a film you want to see is playing, or if it isn’t already on TV.
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