Another year has wrapped production, and the production assistants are here to clean up! Just in time for the 2023 Oscars, Ben, Wilson, and Eli mop up the mess left by superheroes and conductors, stop motion shells and Na’vi, interdimensional travelers and cannibals, mourners and partiers. By breaking down the year’s big trends–– directors fictionalizing their autobiographies, Marvel sinking slowly, rich filmmakers attempting to pillory wealth inequality–– the Deep Cut trio gets a handle on what made 2022 so weird. The boys get personal, too, talking about the movies and moments from last year that shaped who they are as moviegoers and friends. Finally, each co-host’s coveted top 3 films of the year are revealed…

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Movies discussed on this episode:
Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells)
Ambulance (dir. Michael Bay)
Armageddon Time (dir. James Gray)
Autobiography (dir. Makbul Mubarak)
Avatar the Way of Water (dir. James Cameron)
Babylon (dir. Damien Chazelle)
Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh)
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves)
Benediction (dir. Terrence Davies)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (dir. Ryan Coogler)
Bones and All (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Broker (dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu) - Listen to our Kore-eda episode here.
The Cathedral (dir. Ricky D’Ambrose)
A Couple (dir. Frederick Wiseman) - Find our episode on this here, and our interview with Wiseman here!
Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg)
Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook)
Deep Water (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, a.k.a. The Daniels)
The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Fire Island (dir. Andrew Ahn) - Find our episode on this here.
Girl Picture (dir. Alli Haapasalo)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson)
Hit the Road (dir. Panah Panahi)
Il Buco (dir. Michelangelo Frammartino)
Joyland (dir. Saim Sadiq)
Leila’s Brothers (dir. Saeed Roustayi)
Low Tide: A Newly Restored Work by Thomas Wright (dir. George Matthews)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer Camp)
Memoria (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod)
No Bears (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)
The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers)
The Novelist’s Film (dir. Hong Sang-soo)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (dir. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson)
Ponniyan Selvan Part 1 (dir. Mani Ratnam) - Find our episode on this here.
Return to Sender (dir. Russell Goldman) - Watch Russell's short here!
Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chau)
RRR (dir. S. S. Rajamouli) - Our extended coverage on this forthcoming!
Small, Slow But Steady (dir. Sho Miyake)
Tár (dir. Todd Field)
Teenage Emotions (dir. Frédérick Da)
The Territory (dir. Alex Pritz)
To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self (dir. Mabel Cheung & William Kwok Wai-Lun)
Top Gun Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)
Trenque Lauquen (dir. Laura Citarella)
Triangle of Sadness (dir. Ruben Östland)
Under the Fig Trees (dir. Erige Sehiri)
The Whale (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
When the Waves Are Gone (dir. Lav Diaz)
White Noise (dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Worst Person in the World (dir. Joachim Trier)

2022 TV Mentions:
Better Call Saul (created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould)
Irma Vep (created by Olivier Assayas)
The Rehearsal (created by Nathan Fielder)