In most years, the problem with assembling a Top 10 list is in finding enough titles that I would deem to be excellent. In 2022, the exact opposite problem arrived: I had to cut an additional 10 or so superb features. In my line of work, that’s a good problem to have.
‘Corsicana’
With a hearty mix of John Ford, Howard Hawkes, and Clint Eastwood, first-time director Isaiah Washington’s revisionist Western posing as a detective procedural is an unqualified masterpiece. Real-life U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves (Washington) scours most of middle Texas searching for a band of thugs whose depravity knows no bounds.
