The Movies We Loved in 2022
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The gang discusses the movies they enjoyed (or really didn’t enjoy) in 2022.
Abe: “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Moonage Daydream”
Christine: “Top Gun: Maverick”
Noah: “Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers” (yes, seriously).
John: “Singin' in the Rain”
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, December 28th, 2022. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm John Baudhourt's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always. |
| 0:34.0 | Executive editor Abe Greenwald Hi, A. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi, John. |
| 0:37.0 | Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen-Heikrstein. |
| 0:42.2 | Hi, John. |
| 0:42.8 | An associate editor and author of the Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman. Hi, Noah. |
| 0:46.8 | Hi, John. |
| 0:47.9 | So in in line with our just sharing with you our bounty of cultural |
| 0:54.3 | choices and likes and dislikes and all that this week, we thought maybe we would talk about |
| 1:02.2 | the movies. Of course, it's hard to talk about the movies now because this has been |
| 1:07.3 | the worst year for movies in maybe ever. |
| 1:11.9 | I was looking back by the way and 2019, 2020, 2019 was great. |
| 1:18.0 | It was an amazingly good year for movies like Little Women and 1917. |
| 1:27.8 | There were like almost everything it was nominated for best picture was actually |
| 1:31.1 | credible and decent and that of course hasn't been the case lately and there's been |
| 1:38.0 | just a desert of movie choices and things coming out that flopped at theaters and coming out |
| 1:43.4 | and streaming and nobody wanted to watch them and all of that. So it's the real question is have |
| 1:49.3 | we have we have we crossed the Rubicon and motion pictures really are no longer the center piece |
| 1:56.0 | of American popular culture and this is now shifted to streaming which also has its challenges |
| 2:01.6 | streaming television but just doesn't have the same home hasn't for years but really something |
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