Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2022 — Part Three: The Top Ten!

This post is a work in progress! I'm adding, one by one, comments on my ten favorite films of 2022. Each film is announced with its poster, synopsis, trailer, and my very own video commentary. Enjoy!

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• Writers and directors: “Daniels” (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

• Synopsis via Letterboxd: “An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.”

• My synopsis (from Looking Closer): “Evelyn (played by the great Michelle Yeoh) lives an exasperating life of multi-tasking as a wife trying to save her marriage to Waymond (Ke Huy Quan); a mother trying to save her relationship with her despairing daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu); a laundromat manager trying to save the family business from an aggressive auditor (Jamie Lee Curtis); a daughter trying to take care of her declining father Gong Gong (James Hong); and a dreamer (a novelist, a singer, and more) trying to sustain her romantic hopes — but when she discovers that she is just one of countless Evelyns living different lives across an incomprehensibly complicated ‘multi-verse,’ she must learn to advance her multi-tasking skills exponentially in order to fight a demonic power called Jobu Tupaki, a black hole that threatens to suck all meaning from the universe, and that is rapidly corrupting her daughter.”

At Looking Closer, you can read my mulitiple conversations about multiple viewings of this multi-verse movie.

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