Another season at our local drive in has ended, and I thought it would be fun to review every single film we saw this year. To keep things short, the reviews are five words only, and most were written immediately after the films ended and therefore were first impressions. Lastly we saw several films twice, and in each case we reviewed them both times. Here’s a seasons worth of film reviews, in order…
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 – Jim Carey steals the show.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Left early due to boredom.
Dr Strange in The Multiverse of Madness – Bonkers in the best way.
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Starts well but ends weak.
Dr Strange in The Multiverse of Madness – Better than the first time.
Top Gun Maverick– An entertaining military recruitment film.
Jurassic World Dominion – Dirt on an old boot.
Thor: Love And Thunder – Fun overall despite excessive comedy.
Lightyear – Charmless and a bit boring.
League of Super Pets – The best DC universe film?
Nope – Best film of the year.
Nope – Even better on second viewing.
Black Phone – Didn’t tread any new ground.
Bullet Train – We left after 20 minutes.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes – Most entertaining film of 2022.
Bullet Train – Stupid but also slightly entertaining.
Minions: Rise of Gru – A very predictable kids film.
Beast – Written and directed by fools.
The Invitation – Should have been called ‘Crapula’.
Tremors – Six degrees of monster worms!
Brain Dead – Seventeen percent on rotten tomatoes.
Dawn of The Dead – Grim and chilling zombie archetype.
Phenomenon – Jennifer Connelly is a star!
The Woman King – Spoiler: the king is male.
Pearl – Equal parts disturbing and funny.
Jurassic World Dominion – Time to flush this franchise.
Spider Man: No Way Home – One of the MCU’s best.
Lyle Lyle Crocodile – Many smiles for this crocodile.
Black Adam – Objectibly terrible; I enjoyed it!
Black Adam – The Rock meets CGI cutscene.
Halloween Ends – It never should have started.
That’s a lot of films, and we absolutely got our moneys worth from our season pass. While some of the films were objectively awful, even a bad film can be watchable at a drive-in, and it’s always fun to go. You can bet we’ll be getting the pass again for 2023 and doing this all again next year 🙂
Incidentally while Nope was probably the ‘best’ film of the year, Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes was unquestionably my most entertaining. The fight scenes in particular were the work of genius, and I had a big smile on my face throughout the entirety of the film. Watch it!