Top six underrated films of December 2022, from a difficult-to-watch abortion drama to an Oscar frontrunner | Entertainment News,The Indian Express
As we bid farewell to another great year for movies, here are five near-perfect films to close out your 2022 with -- from a handful of timeless festival darlings to an urgent feminist call-to-action.
The sad reality is that the model mainly favours certain kinds of films — like the navel-gazing and self-indulgent Bardo, directed by two-time directing Oscar-winner Alejandro G Inarritu, now available to stream on Netflix after premiering at Venice; and Ariyippu, a COVID-era drama directed by Kerala’s Next Gen flagbearer Mahesh Narayanan, also available on Netflix after playing at Locarno.
You can check out our lists of top films from January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November by clicking on them.
But the culture of watching great films has declined so rapidly in India (and in most countries outside Europe, really) that it is entirely possible for future generations to not have heard the name Inarritu at all. Even a couple of decades ago, revival houses in Delhi and Mumbai would screen classics to packed houses. Nobody expected these movies to generate the crores that is considered a mark of success in our money-minded society. Forget getting a chance to watch the films of Andrei Tarkovsky on the big screen; anything below a certain budget bracket these days struggles to find reasonable exhibition.
That being said, here are five films that deserve your attention ahead of the 2023 awards season, where several (if not all) of them will be in consideration.
Happening – Available to stream on AMC+ in the United States
Rating: 5