In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2022, Bilge Ebiri, Beatrice Loayza, and David Sims—about the year in cinema. Read the first entry here. Dear Ava-TárRRRs, It really has been the year of the donkey, hasn’t it? Between EO and The Banshees of Inisherin, that’s two Eeyores that seem to carry the weight of the world in their droopy little eyes. Then there’s My Donkey, My Lover, and I, a sprightly French comedy starring the always-magnetic Laure Calamy (the unhinged assistant in Call My Agent!) as a desperately-in-love schoolteacher who realizes, after some intensive...