2022-Movie Review Compilation and Statistics

2022 is in the books! Here’s a collection of all the movie reviews we wrote for the year. Overall it seems like a decent year for movies, at least based on the grades. We reviewed exactly 100 movies for 2022. Twenty-nine movies got a rating in the A-range—that’s almost 1-in-3 movies landing in the A-range. Not bad!

Thirty-eight movies got a grade in the B-range. And together the As and Bs accounted for 67% of movies.

We have agreed here at RunPee that we should only give out one A++ movie a year. That grade is for what we expect will be the best movie we see all year. I have my A++ to Top Gun: Maverick. Christene, my sister, obviously can’t be bothered to keep track because she gave three movies an A++. I’ll have a talk with her about that. 🙂

There were three MCU movies, getting grades of A (Thor: Love and Thunder), B- (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), and a C+ (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever). But in retrospect, I might drop Thor down to a B+ because honestly, it’s nowhere near as good as Spider-Man: No Way Home which was a solid A+ in 2021.

Since we added a grade for A++ we also included a grade for WTF. Those are for movies that were so bad they shouldn’t have been made. Sis and I both dropped that bomb on one movie each. Studio 666 by me and Men by Sis.

Movie Reviews by Dan Gardner

Grade: A++

Top Gun: Maverick

Grade: A+

She Said

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Grade A

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Thor: Love and Thunder

Grade: B+

The Batman

The Lost City

Nope

Grade: B

Strange World

Avatar: The Way of Water

I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Dog

Cyrano

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

The Bob’s Burgers Movie

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Bullet Train

Grade: B-

Tár

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Grade: C+

Black Adam

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Devotion

Violent Night

Grade: C

Family Camp

Grade: C-

Infinite Storm

Jurassic World Dominion

Grade: D

Morbius

Grade: D-

The Northman

Grade: WTF?

Studio 666

Movie Reviews by Christene Johnson

Note: our rule is that we only get to use one A++ grade per year. Obviously my sister doesn’t know how to count. 🙂

Grade: A++

Barbarian

Till

Babylon

Grade: A+

Scream

Ambulance

The Black Phone

Grade: A

Pearl

See How They Run

Bros

The Tiger Rising

Jackass Forever

Marry Me

The Bad Guys

Grade: B+

Halloween Ends

Bones and All

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

X

Father Stu

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

DC League of Super-Pets

Grade: B

Ticket to Paradise

Grade: B-

Lifemark

Grade: C+

Mack & Rita

The Invitation

Don’t Worry Darling

Moonfall

Peace River

The Contractor

Grade: C

Amsterdam

Prey for the Devil

Grade: C-

The Menu

Grade: D+

The 355

Memory

Grade: D

Blacklight

Grade: F

Firestarter

Watcher

Grade: WTF?

Men

Movie Reviews by Jill Florio

A+
The King’s Daughter

A
Redeeming Love

A-
The Banshees of Inisherin

B+
Uncharted

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Downton Abbey: A New Era

B
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

C+
Death on the Nile

D+
The Fabelmans

Movie Reviews by Steve T.

A
Vengeance

Gigi & Nate

Elvis

A-
A Love Song

The Woman King

B+
Medieval

B
Emily the Criminal

Beast

Fall

Breaking

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul

Confess, Fletch

Smile

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

B-
The Forgiven

C+
The Silent Twins

Terrifier 2

C
Easter Sunday

C-
Bodies Bodies Bodies

D
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery