More Movies Like This, Please: 2022 List

I started something in 2012. Whenever I saw a new movie I liked, I would jump onto Twitter, identify the movie, then simply tweet: “More movies like this, please.”

Then I thought, Why don’t I do an annual More Movies Like This, Please list?

What do I mean by “more movies like this, please”? Not big popcorn flicks. Hey, I love huge spectacle movies as much as the next guy, but we know Hollywood is going to make them, studios don’t need encouragement to produce prequels, sequels, remakes, tentpoles, and so forth.

Rather, I’m talking about movies Hollywood seems to have a hard time committing to nowadays for a variety of reasons, most of them related to economics and conventional wisdom about what supposedly will work / won’t work.

Here are some of elements I’m looking for in my More Movies Like This, Please list:

• More adult dramas
• More mid-budget movies [$25–50M], smaller stories that need larger budgets to be told well
• More original movies [based on an original screenplay]
• More movies targeting people who love movies and appreciate the history of movies
• More movies that represent the vision of one writer / writer-director or team of writers / writer-directors
• More movies that explore interesting, unique and unusual subcultures
• More movies written, directed, and/or starring BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and women
• More movies that take risks
• More movies that approach narrative in different ways
• More cinematic movies
• More quirky, whimsical, oddball movies reflecting a distinctive take on the world
• More movies where the focus is on characters, not special effects
• More movies that make me think
• More movies that have no reason to exist other than the fact they have a great story to tell.

So here is my 2022 More Movies Like This, Please list [Note: These only include movies I’ve seen]:

After Yang
The Banshees of Inisherin
Barbarian
Call Jane
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Decision to Leave
Emergency
Emily the Criminal
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Girl Picture
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Mr. Malcolm’s List
Nope
The Northman
Pearl
Something in the Dirt
Speak No Evil
Summering
Tár
Till
Turning Red
The Worse Person in the World
Watcher
When You Finish Saving the World
Women Talking

There are a bunch of movies I’ve yet to see: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Woman King, Living, RRR, The Menu, The Black Phone, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Bones and All. I suspect several of these would make my list.

TV series I watched in 2022 which I recommend: The Bear, Barry, Hacks, The Dropout, Andor, Atlanta, Only Murders in the Building, Westworld, The White Lotus, Severance, The AfterParty, Paper Girls.There are so many other TV series I just haven’t been able to get to. Too. Much. Content!

How about you? Which movies would you put on your More Movies Like This, Please list?