Indeed, another year of incredible movies comes to an end and what a year it has been. What a year this has been. The crowded streaming landscape, the decline of the collective movie-going experience and the ever-shortening window between theatrical and home-viewing are just some of the factors that have made movies appear more marginal — issues certain to be amplified with news of the Netflix-Warner Bros. merger and what seems an inevitable squeeze on competition. Yet, contrary to all that justifiable alarm, this still turned out to be quite a year for movies, and the success of audacious, highly original entertainment like Sinners or One Battle After Another, lets us hope we’re not yet condemned to be stuck in an endless loop of the same regurgitated IP. Yes, I did not see every single release this year, however, from what I have seen this are some of the best of the list, according to my viewing experience, a mix of both theatrical and streaming releases:
- One Battle After Another
- Bugonia
- Train Dreams
- Sinners
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- Hamnet
- F1
- Frankenstein
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- 28 Years Later
- Dust Bunny
- Mickey 17
- Superman
- Predator: Badlands
- Avatar: Fire and Ash
