15 that remain with me after a dense and various year of films, most viewed in a theater. Some were late 2021 releases that lacked found single night or festival screenings in LA this year (six at 2220 Arts & Archives).

A New Old Play – Qiu JiongjiongA Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal KapadiaAleph – Iva RadivojevicDecision to Leave – Park Chan-wookEO – Jerzy SkolimowskiFire of Love – Sara DosaFrom the Planet of the Humans – Giovanni CioniGeographies of Solitude – Jacquelyn MillsIncroyable mais vrai – Quentin DupieuxMemoria – Apichatpong WeerasethakulMen – Alex GarlandMurina – Antoneta Alamat KusijanovicNeptune Frost – Saul Williams, Anisia UzeymanRiotsville, USA – Sierra PettengillThe Girl and the Spider – Ramon & Silvan Zürcher

Best good-bad film: RRR