THE BEST

1) "The Whale'--movie theatre--1 hour & 57 minutes--Brendan Fraser mesmerizing as a 600 pound man trying to connect with his daughter after leaving his family for his gay lover which leads to binge eating when the latter died.
2) "Ordinary People"--Prime Amazon streaming--movie--2 hours & 5 minutes--Robert Redford's first picture directing and he won an Oscar--I have not seen this film since 1980 and it is brilliant--you feel the pain of the parents and brother losing their son/brother and how each does or doesn't deal with it.
3) "Whatever happened, Nina Simone?"--Netflix streaming--documentary--1 hour & 42 minutes--this is her story told in her words, her songs and her daughter's observation--she was a brilliant woman, a first-rate singer and piano player, a civil rights fighter and who is one of my favorites but I wasn't aware of the pain she went through and lived with.
4) "Matilda The Musical"--Netflix streaming--1 hour & 56 minutes--an extraordinary girl with a sharp mind and vivid imagination takes on an abusive, kid-hating school adult leader--Alish Wier as Matilda and Emma Thomas as Miss Trunchbill are great adversaries--and the kids are great--when it opened on Broadway in 2013 I had no interest in seeing it and when it started streaming for whatever reason I turned it on and was completely surprised and couldn't stop watching it!
5) "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"--Netflix--streaming--movie--1 hour & 57 minutes--reinvention of the classic story of a wooden puppet brought to life--this is not Disney's Pinocchio--it is scary, strange, the stop motion dazzles--from beginning to end a winner!

AVERAGE (Not exceptional but a few winning points and easy to watch)

6) "Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery"--Netflix--Streaming Movie--2 hours & 19 minutes--Detective Blanc heads to Greece to unravel a mystery--all-star cast--beautiful scenery--a few 'red herrings'--pleasant film.
7) "Emily in Paris"--Netflix--series--3 seasons--10 episodes each season--total 15 hours & 24 minutes--a Chicago girl goes to Paris for a new life--would fit on any network station so streaming here is an advantage--filmed in Paris and in every scene the women change outfits, like a dozen at least in each episode--Lily Collins shines as Emily and must wear at least 100 different outfits each season but I thought Ashley Park & Phillipine Leroy-Beaulieu outstanding in their roles.
8) "Single All The Way"--Netflix--streaming--movie--1 hour & 41 minutes--Peter asks his best friend to pose as his boyfriend on a Christmas visit home--a gay rom-com following a nongay script with that Hollywood ending and tears--PS Please, please, no more Jennifer Coolidge in pictures for a few years!
9) "Firefly Lane"--Netflix streaming--Season 2--9 episodes--7 hours & 40 minutes--best friends Tully & Kate support each other from their teens to their 40s--if you miss it you aren't missing much but if you see it, it is a pleasant series with laughs.
10) "The Recruit"--Netflix streaming--season 1--8 episodes--7 hours & 20 minutes--rookie lawyer at the CIA falls into the world of espionage--the lead, Noah Centineo, has the charm and Laura Haddock as a Russian spy is a perfect foil--comedy thriller.
11) "Where The Crawdads Sing"--Netflix--movie--2 hours & 5 minutes--a young woman who grew up in the marshes of North Carolina is a suspect in the murder of a well-to-do young man--a lot better than I expected but who was is the murderer?

DON'T BOTHER

12) "I Am A Stalker"--Netflix--season 1--8 episodes--6 hours--stalkers and victims are interviewed 13) I Am a Killer--Netflix-- season 3--6 episodes--5 hours--death row inmates give accounts of their murdering--both are documentaries & no solutions.
13) "Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would"--40 minutes--14) "Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune" 1 hour--both are on Netflix--both are standup comics--both are not funny and neither even made me smile.

DEFINITELY ON MY LIST OF WORST FILMS OF 2022

15) "Babylon"--movie theatre--3 hours and 9 minutes--5 minutes of good acting by Brad Pitt doesn't make up for very bad editing, a screenplay 2 hours too long, regurgitation by elephants and human beings in many forms, gross orgy scenes and too many of them, bad accent by Jean Smart and except for beautiful Lu Jun Li and some quick scenes of Gene Kelly and cast from "Singing In The Rain" nothing is worth watching in this so-called story of Hollywood.