Dozen Best Movie Posters of 2022
Our "Year in Review" continues. Let the List-Mania commence...
by Nathaniel R
Movie posters are not what they used to be. This is not an aesthetic "everything was better in the past" complaint but a fact; they aren't as present an advertising force as they were when one tall rectangular image and tagline would do the bulk of the advertising work to define a film. Now that work is dispersed in multiple shapes and images and visual modes, the old school poster included. Posters aren't quite a lost art but they are in Big Hollywood which prefers to make every poster a hideous inhuman collage of movie stars, think Frankenstein's Monster if Dr Frankenstein, had eschewed body parts and just used hundreds of faces in mismatched sizes to build his undead "man".
But enough complaints. Let's celebrate the posters that did right by their movies this year...