• Jan. 15, My Neighbor Totoro
  • Jan. 21, Transporter 2†
  • Jan. 26, The Eternals
  • Jan. 29, Prisoners of the Ghostland
  • Feb. 18, Ron’s Gone Wrong
  • Feb. 26, 300†
  • Feb. 27, Pig
  • Mar. 6, The Batman
  • Mar. 6, The King’s Man
  • Mar. 11, Free Guy
  • Mar. 12, Army of Thieves
  • Mar. 18, Spider-Man: No Way Home
  • Apr. 9, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
  • Apr. 15, Surrogates†
  • Apr. 16, Blade†
  • Apr. 19, Tenet†
  • Apr. 23, The Green Knight
  • May 5, 13 Assassins†
  • Jun. 4, Equilibrium†
  • Jun. 11, Eraser†
  • Jun. 14, Ghost in the Shell (2017)
  • Jun. 21, Wrath of Man†
  • Jun. 28, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  • Jul. 1, 47 Ronin
  • Jul. 2, Nobody
  • Jul. 8, Wild Card
  • Jul. 22, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
  • Jul. 27, Deadpool†
  • Jul. 30, Police Story†
  • Aug. 1, The Dark Knight Rises†
  • Aug. 1, Logan†
  • Aug. 3, Troy
  • Aug. 6, Warrior†
  • Aug. 9, The Paper Tigers
  • Aug. 11, Something Ventured
  • Aug. 12, Prey
  • Aug. 26, Lightyear
  • Sept. 4, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
  • Sept. 8, The Professor: Tai Chi’s Journey to the West
  • Sept. 11, Thor: Love and Thunder
  • Sept. 15, Avengers: Infinity War†
  • Oct. 14, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines†
  • Oct. 15, A Touch of Sin (2013)
  • Oct. 18, Werewolf By Night
  • Oct. 18, Kung-Fu Panda
  • Oct. 30, Black Adam
  • Nov. 21, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Nov. 23, Black Panther†
  • Dec. 17, Casino Royale†
  • Dec. 23, Quantum of Solace†
  • Dec. 24, Strange Worlds
  • Dec. 25, Jurassic Park†
  • Dec. 25, Death on the Nile
  • Dec. 26, Skyfall†
  • Dec. 29, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

† denotes a re-watch

55 movies finished last year, down from 81 in 12021; 21 of these were re-viewings (not counted—any number of children’s films I could recite from memory in their entirety). Percentage of rewatches is down slightly, though, from 43% to 38%.

At the end of the last review, I wrote,

I’ll have to do a better job of veering towards unforgettable, for either good or bad reasons.

Do I think I did better at this? Not really! Am I ok with that? Yes! I’m not really in a space to push myself with my limited viewing time, but that’s just the situation for now, and not forever. For instance, Venom: Let There Be Carnage will be memorable because it was the first movie I watched while holding my newborn son, a scant three days old. I started A Touch of Sin on paternity leave, but didn’t finish it for months; certainly, a lot of the impact was lost with that break. And as far as impact is concerned, The Green Knight probably had the most emotional jolt, but I found even that wore off after a few days. Regression to the mean is a powerful force that may not be as impacted by events as much as we think, but by the consistent application of force that may flow from those events.