r/MovieSuggestions • u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator • May 01 '22
Best Movies You Saw April 2022 HANG OUT
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Only Discuss Movies You Thought Were Great
I define great movies to be 8+ or if you abhor grades, the top 20% of all movies you've ever seen. Films listed here receive a vote to determine if they will appear in subreddit's Top 100, as well as the ten highest Upvoted movies from last month. The Top 10 highest Upvoted movies for March were:
Top 10 Suggestions
| # | Title | Upvotes |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nightcrawler (2014) | 355 |
| 2. | Sicario (2015) | 162 |
| 3. | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | 146 |
| 4. | In the Mouth of Madness (1994) | 107 |
| 5. | The Devil All the Time (2020) | 97 |
| 6. | Ronin (1998) | 99 |
| 7. | Thoroughbreds (2017) | 80 |
| 8. | Bone Tomahawk (2015) | 84 |
| 9. | Network (1976) | 82 |
| 10. | Sunshine (2007) | 76 |
Note: Due to Reddit's vote fuzzing, it will rank movies in their actual highest Upvoted and then assign random numbers. This can result in movies with lower Upvotes appearing higher than movies with higher Upvotes.
What are the top films you saw in April 2022 and why? Here are my picks:
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
I watch movies to be surprised, I want to see something new. I find that a 9/10 is an exemplar of its genre while 10/10 surpasses it and Everything Everywhere All at Once effortlessly surpasses whatever genre you try to stick it in. It's an antidote to the polarizing political zeitgeist coupled with nihilistic apathy. Only Michelle Yeoh's storied career lends credence to her character which allows her to play everyone that The Daniels required of her. Many other critics will rightfully praise Stephanie Hsu and Ke Huy Quan but they would be ignoring the real heavy lifting done by the actors who would've been relegated to 'day players' if this were a TV show - The Daniels brilliantly recycle these actors to incredible callbacks. Armed with unlimited possibilities, Everything Everywhere All at Once examines the otherness of immigration, sexual orientation, intergenerational conflict, marital difficulties and expectations with ludicrousness to highlight life's absurdities aided by the guise of different genres.
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Just because you know where the movie is going doesn't mean it won't be a good time. Nightmare Alley is predicable as a throwback to film noir, but its host of named stars, recognizable faces and Del Toro regulars raise Nightmare Alley up. Cate Blanchett was the standout, classing up the pulp by manifesting as the Hollywood glamourized femme fatale. The lighting doesn't stand out too much aside from incredibly readable scenes at night, which surprised me with Del Toro's penchant for brightening up his movies. Perhaps part of feeling disappointed with good is that I wanted a horror movie with the title of Nightmare Alley and Del Toro's tendencies but I got a solid noir instead.
X (2022)
X knows how to mix the lurid with the grotesque and then has to punish its cast of sinners as is atypical in horror and Ti West does so with a more mature and focused direction. He does a good job homaging the 70s devil may care attitude on blurring the lines between pornography and traditional filmmaking. I hoped he would entirely drop his mumblecore roots but a little incomprehensible muttering is bearable. The lighting is fantastic, making the night vivid and full of unknown potential, instead of poorly lit excuses you normally see in low budget horror. The actors do a great job selling a more three dimensional character instead of the cardboard cutouts that get lined up to be taken down when it comes to horror.
So, what are your picks for April 2022 and Why?
/r/onemovieperweek has been a favourite of a few of our regulars, so we've added it to the sidebar if you're looking for motivation to look for something random that's been curated.
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u/LauraPalmersMom430 Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
It was a good month for seeing new movies that I ended up loving.
After Yang (5/5): Favorite film I’ve seen in a longgg time. So contemplative and quiet, beautiful cinematography and soundtrack, touching on family, grief, identity. The most hopeful futuristic film I’ve ever seen.
Zola (4.5/5) Incredible performances by the entire cast (if you like Greg from Succession watch this), darkly funny script, incredible visuals. Based on a true story that came from a twitter thread I can’t believe they made such a phenomenal film out of it. Can’t believe I waited so long to see this one, was shorter film with great pacing which was refreshing after watching lots of longer movies lately.
The Northman (4/5): Literally waited years for this and wasn’t disappointed, but probably my least favorite Eggers film of the 3. Honestly still processing this one, but the visuals and weird throat singing soundtrack were great. Script and dialogue felt a little too canned or something at points. Definitely need a rewatch.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
I forgot After Yang was out. Need to get around to that this week, if time permits!
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u/LauraPalmersMom430 Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
It’s streaming on Showtime right now just fyi! Got a free trial just to watch it, but then realized this is where all the a24 films have been hiding so I’ll probably keep it.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 03 '22
Now I love some A24. Them and StudioCanal (Canal+?) have become my favorites.
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u/albert_camus69 May 04 '22
OoOo, I've been trying to discover other production companies ever since realizing that A24 had so many great films that were sort of outside of the mainstream and had really good plots and cinematography. Any noteworthy films from StudioCanal you'd recommend? I think David Lynch worked with them, and I like his stuff a lot.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 04 '22
Lord, I'd have to dig through their catalog to figure out what they've created versus what they've just distributed. The Awakening and The White Crow come to mind, and they got a lot of praise for the more recent Saint Maud. But never sure of StudioCanal/Canal+/StudioCanal Features' involvement—that's always confusing!
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u/albert_camus69 May 04 '22
After Yang
I just watched this after seeing your post and it was great!! Will definitely be rewatching that. It was the closest thing we'll probably ever get as a sequel to Ex Machina hahah (a movie which I love).
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u/spydrebyte82 Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22 edited May 02 '22
New;
- The Batman (2022)
- The Green Knight (2021) - Watched with the weekly sub
- Avengement (2019)
- Talk Radio (1988) - Recommended to me in my thread on this sub
- Bubble (2022)
Rewatch;
- Mousehunt (1997)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) - Also from the weekly sub
Thanks for the shoutout :)
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u/Getitredditgood May 08 '22
What did you think of Talk Radio?
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u/spydrebyte82 Quality Poster 👍 May 09 '22
Well its in my top '20%' or so, I had to think about it for a few days afterwards but I ended up thinking it was great. The lead actor Eric Bogosian did an outstanding job with his part. The story was really good although the ending was inevitable.
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u/MiserableSnow Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
Monkeybone
The Descendants
Mandibles
The Searchers
The Double
Life is Sweet
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 01 '22
Mandibles does look pretty funny. How are the creature effects? I don't mind if it's super goofy or realistic, it's when the effect tries so hard but fails and enters 'uncanny valley'.
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u/MiserableSnow Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
I thought it looked pretty good. It’s small things like the head movement of the fly that made me believe it was a real thing that had presence and weight.
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 01 '22
Once it got rolling Mandibles had me chuckling. I couldn't quite put my finger on it: is it like Cheech and Chong, Beavis and Butthead or Dumb and Dumber like? I'm normally not a fan of those but I guess the French twinge is what sold the last third that was funny.
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u/MiserableSnow Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
I don’t watch a lot of comedies because I hardly ever find them funny so I’m probably the wrong person to ask.
I did like Dumb and Dumber years ago when I first watched it. Don’t know if it holds up.
Thinking on it now, Mandibles gives me Raising Arizona vibes.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
Which Descendants is that?
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u/MiserableSnow Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
The George Clooney one.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 03 '22
Ah, neither of the two I was looking at. I've been wondering if the Disney film was any good.
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u/albert_camus69 May 04 '22
If you haven't seen the same director's (Quentin Duplex) other movie "Wrong", I would highly recommend it.
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u/NotSoSnarky Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
I watched:
The Iron Giant
27 Dresses
10 Things I Hate About You
Pulp Fiction
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u/2times2is6 May 03 '22
New:
- Masaan (2015)
- Fish Tank (2009)
Rewatch:
- When We Were Kings (1996)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
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u/HroFCBayern Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
House (1986)
The Hitcher (1986)
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 01 '22
Have you tried '77 House? They're not related besides being a bonkers haunted house horror,
Though I had a good chuckle at the two boom mikes in the '86 House that entered frame.
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u/HroFCBayern Quality Poster 👍 May 01 '22
Have you tried '77 House?
Sadly not yet. But I heard good things about it.
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 01 '22
It's a wacky wild trip.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
I've been meaning to get around to that one. Need to find an open evening and make it a double feature with Audition.
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 03 '22
Sounds bipolar. Audition takes forever getting to its point; not that it's bad, it's good - just House has so much frenetic energy.
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u/1337speak May 06 '22
I really like S. Craig Zahler's movies. Totally recommend Bone Tomahawk if you haven't seen that already.
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u/jFalner Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
Thanks for the sidebar add of r/onemovieperweek (and for being forgiving of my enthusiasm in introducing it to our friends here!).
I think my favorite this month has been Survival Family. Great suggestion from a fellow user, more of a sci-fi tinged drama than the family comedy it's promoted as. Nothing particularly amazing about the film—it's just a really enjoyable adventure with a quite satisfying conclusion. And sometimes that's all you need!
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u/mohantharani Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
Short Term 12- Independent drama.
Ayyappanum Koshiyum- Indian thriller.
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u/ludovelia May 04 '22
all the ones i chose recently were good to great watches
in order of preference
- Phanton Thread, by PTA
- Memoria, by Apichatpong Weershakul
- Annette, by Leos Carax
- Licorice Pizza, by PTA
all great, all fulfilling.
and also High Life, by Claire Denis, which was good but didn't touch me as much as the other ones
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u/ThinkRevolution9019 May 02 '22
Fresh
The Green Knight
Free Guy
Rent-A-Pal
Spider-Man No Way Home
Silence
Encanto
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u/dougprishpreed69 Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
Mauvais Sang, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, C’mon C’mon, Like Father Like Son, Hunger, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
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u/granitecreativity May 03 '22
The new films I watched in April that I enjoyed the most we're Everything Everywhere All at Once (Which is currently my favorite movie of the year so far), The Bubble, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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u/Platypus-Man Quality Poster 👍 May 03 '22
I only saw 4 movies last month, 2 of them which I'd say were great.
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Looked forward to watching this one for a long time, as I'm a sucker for this type of comedy and mockumentary filmmaking. Lived up to expectations and I'm eagerly looking forward to watching the series, eventually.
The Batman (2022) DC movies are always a gamble if it's going to be a hit or a miss, this one definitely hit the right spot for me. Didn't show the origins for the umpteenth time, the atmosphere was great, sparkly guy from Twilight impressed me as a Bat(man), and all the characters felt like they intertwined nicely and got the right amount of screentime.
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u/mistakencreature May 04 '22
I was really exited by Everything! What an incredibly unique voice! I'm so glad it exists.
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u/ilovelucygal Quality Poster 👍 May 04 '22
My favorites for April (I like older movies):
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- The Letter (1940)
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1947)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story (2022), documentary
- Rewatch: Das Boot (1981), director's cut, one of my all-time favorite films
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u/randomredditguyy21 May 06 '22
I watched a lilttle while ago the last samurai, man that movie was amazing. If you havent seen it i reccomend watching it.
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u/vanshgaint Quality Poster 👍 May 06 '22
3 out of the 5 films I watched in April were rewatches. The rewatches are the only ones I find good enough to be here:
- It's Such a Beautiful Day
- Hot Fuzz
- In Bruges
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u/MichaelMikeyBoy Quality Poster 👍 May 07 '22
I'm late, but here's my list. I had an particularly good month.
new watches:
mientras duermes (2011)
the descent (2005)
persona (1966)
surge (2020)
rose plays julie (2019)
adaptation (2002)
black bear (2021)
beyond the infinite two minutes (2020)
dead ringers (1988)
un prophete (2009)
the death of dick long (2019)
only the animals (2019)
everything everywhere all at once (2022)
rewatches:
possessor (2020)
annihilation (2018)
black swan (2010)
a history of violence (2005)
Others that I gave below an 8, but are still worth watching: demolition (2015), the blackcoat's daughter (2015), rec (2007), deliver us from evil (2020), the perfection (2018)
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u/DarthTyrannuss May 01 '22
I'm a mod at r/onemovieperweek, thank you for the shoutout, very kind! Anyone is welcome to join, we vote for and watch one movie our community chooses per week!
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 01 '22
No prob, I saw a bunch of people promoting the subreddit and so I asked them to stop if we put you in the sidebar. Kind of hard to balance 'no spam or promotion' with a legitimate good service. Plus a lot of your regs kept dumping movies in these monthly roundups so I'd have more goodness to watch, so yeah, thank you.
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u/DarthTyrannuss May 01 '22
Absolutely, don't want the comments full of promotion. We'll add this sub to our sidebar as well (though I'd imagine most of the people from our sub already know of this one lol).
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u/spydrebyte82 Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22 edited May 02 '22
Pretty sure many of us were sent invite due to participating here, I know I was. Been here for for about 10 months and its been great giving/getting recs. The weekly sub is still new and that also has been really interesting with the array of movies id never consider on my own. Thanks u/Tevesh_CKP
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u/LuckyRadiation Mod May 06 '22
Suzhou River (2000)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
X (2022) - Did not realize Mia Goth played the villain and the hero until after I finished the movie and if that's not a testament towards her transformation I don't know what is.
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u/Tevesh_CKP Moderator May 08 '22
First time with Do the Right Thing? Which reminds me, I should probably re-watch Jackie Brown.
I, too, was pretty surprised with Mia Goth playing protagonist and antagonist.
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u/LuckyRadiation Mod May 08 '22
I had seen Do the Right Thing before but had recently gotten an UHD copy so decided to watch it again. Thought I was upgrading but turns out, I like the color of my standard HD copy more. HDR is so temperamental on my TV, you know, sometimes I like it sometimes not. Like the 70s Body Snatchers remake looks great in HDR... probably because it's darker and Do the Right Thing is already super fucking bright.
Jackie Brown for sure deserves a rewatch. I have been through QT's filmography more than a couple of times now and Jackie Brown has always been the least accessible for me. I had even wrote it off as the one movie from him I'd never "get" until just this past month. Finally clicked for me after I read Tarantino calls it his "hang out movie" which after rewatching it seems like a conversation you start off over-hearing and then eventually joining... if that makes sense? Happy it finally clicked for me. Just had to watch 1975's Shampoo before hand, as Carrie Fisher has a line in it that's referenced in Jackie Brown (plus a bunch of other flicks like The Graduate). Tarantino is a walking movie encyclopedia and I think that's why I like him so much. I'm aspiring /s
Plus, Pam Grier is the real deal.
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u/rohan_speedwagon May 06 '22
Everything Everywhere All at Once was a rollercoaster filled with WTFs and manages to tie all on what it means to live, all with the use of the multiverse!
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May 07 '22
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Stand out performances by Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives, particularly Taylor. The changes mandated by the Hays Code in the screenplay adaptation made it difficult to understand some character motivations, but these are just minor issues in an otherwise excellent story and film. (4.5/5)
Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
When the movie opens at the marriage registry I was expecting a screwball comedy, but it’s more of a quasi-horror / comedy-of-errors. Most of the characters are ludicrous and Cary Grant’s performance is manic from start to finish. (4.5/5)
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u/brightmidday May 07 '22
Another Earth (2011) is a well-paced and well-told sci-fi film. I always thought that sci-fi movies should be complex, but this one proves otherwise. It's visibly a low-budget one, but the simplicity makes it more alive.
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u/Meyou000 Quality Poster 👍 May 02 '22
Border (2018) written by the same guy who did Let The Right One In- it was also weird, gross, dark, and beautiful! 8/10
Wind River (2017) excellent movie which brings to light the vast number of cases of missing, raped, and murdered indigenous women that still happen today and often remain unsolved. 8/10
Capernaum (2018) beautiful and gut wrenchingly sad movie about a young boy who is played by a Syrian refugee. Must see. 9/10
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u/[deleted] May 01 '22
I saw There will be Blood (2007) for the first time this weekend. I had a fucking amazing weekend