![]() ![]() Does every ounce of the story make perfect sense and conform to the laws of reality? No, it absolutely does not. Drone cameras soar through car chases, handheld shots give us an up-close view of panicked amateur surgery, and every explosion looks incredible. The movie has all the hallmarks of Bay’s best work, like The Rock and Bad Boys, mixed with the mastery of new technologies that he’s shown in more recent works like 13 Hours. But it’s action director extraordinaire Michael Bay who is the real star of the show.Īfter 10 years in the dark dungeons of Transformers sequels, Ambulance is the best version of Michael Bay. The robbers are played by Yahya Abdul Mateen II, who brings a sympathetic presence to the high-stakes chase, and Jake Gyllenhaal at his unhinged best. This is the only movie you’ll see this year (or probably ever) where one man gets beaten to death with oversized floppy dildos, while another changes the world with the Kurt Vonnegut-derived message “Be kinder to each other.” - Tasha RobinsonĬast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza GonzálezĪmbulance follows two brothers who steal an ambulance after a botched bank heist and lead the Los Angeles Police Department on a chase across the city, all with a couple of accidental hostages in the back. Part metaphorical attempt to reckon with the chaos of the internet age, part life-affirming argument against despair, and part reckless absurdist action movie, it’s simultaneously hilarious and touching, an impressive special-effects experiment and a tremendous mental reboot on the order of The Matrix. It’s a wild, winning multiverse comedy slash kung-fu epic about a depressed laundromat owner ( Michelle Yeoh) who’s called on to save billions of alternate universes from evil, but that only scratches the surface of what the Daniels are out to achieve. People who only know filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert from their tongue-in-cheek 2016 indie-movie parody Swiss Army Man - yes, that’s the one where Daniel Radcliffe spends the whole movie as a vomiting, farting corpse - may be surprised at the sheer scope, scale, and ambition of the writer-directors’ movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, which absolutely lives up to its name. That’s, like, your opinion.Ĭast: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis ** There’s no such thing as a definitive list of the best movies. Just don’t be a jerk about it.Īnd if you like lists, we’ve got more lists - specifically lists of the best TV, games, anime, and books of the year. We’ll also have movies that didn’t make the cut but were worth mentioning, as well as our staffers’ top 10 ballots for your perusal. But that’s why we’re a team! With our powers combined, we’ve seen nearly all of the relevant 2022 releases, and we’ve sorted through our feelings to determine which ones are the best - just for you.īelow are Polygon’s top 10 movies of the year, as voted on by our staffers. That means only a select few have seen The Way of Water, and very few people have seen Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Fabelmans, or Glass Onion, to name a few examples. Nobody has had a chance to see everything - we’re publishing this in early December, which meant collecting ballots in November. We were able to take that data and translate it into this extremely scientific*, definitive** list of the best movies of the year. We asked Polygon’s staffers to submit their favorite movies of the year. If it made us laugh, made us cry, made us ponder, or made us squeal in excitement, it’s probably here. What makes a movie worth including as one of Polygon’s best? We like many different types of movies here, from genre fare to the kind of stuff that makes you think. From big theatrical events like Top Gun: Maverick to a shockingly good year in horror, it’s been a memorable year at the movies. ![]()
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