Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies of 2022


20 Moon Man (独行月球 | Du xing yue qiu)

Du xing yue qiu

Dugu Yue, a former flight dynamics engineer, is hired as a maintenance man for Project United Nations Moon Shield (UNMS), an operation spearheaded by the Chinese government which is intended to protect the Earth from an incoming asteroid named “π”. The plan is to deploy a group of new super missiles, called the Cosmic Strike Hammers, to shatter the asteroid and then use the moon to shield Earth from its fragments. Eight years after their launch, the Cosmic Strike Hammers successfully shatter “π”; but one of the missiles was thrown off course by a solar storm, leaving some of the asteroid fragments heading towards the UNMS moon station. The facility is hastily evacuated, and in the chaos Yue is accidentally left behind. Arriving too late to board the last evacuation rocket, he witnesses one major fragment striking Earth, seemingly wiping out all of humanity.

Director: Zhang Chiyu
Writers: Zhang Chiyu, Cho Seok
Starring: Shen Teng, Ma Li, Chang Yuan
Box office: $460 237 000

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19 Vesper

Vesper

After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

Directors: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
Writers: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper
Starring: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen
Box office: $1 630 000

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18 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald briefly meet in a Muggle teashop where they acknowledge their mutual feelings. Grindelwald vows to destroy the Muggle world, but Dumbledore denounces the plan as madness, saying he once supported it only because he was young and foolish.

In Kweilin, China, 1932, Newt Scamander helps a Qilin — a magical creature that can see into one’s soul as well as the future — give birth. Grindelwald’s acolytes, led by Credence, attack and kill the mother, then kidnap the newborn. Grindelwald kills the creature, intending to harness its ability of precognition. Unbeknownst to them, the Qilin had twins, the younger of which Newt saved.

Director: David Yates
Writers: Steven Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $406 950 000

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17 Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor’s retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.

Director: Taika Waititi
Writers: Jenn Robinson, Stan Lee, Jason Aaron
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale
Budget: $250 000 000
Box office: $343 256 000

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16 Black Adam

Black Adam

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods, Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Writers: Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $392 952 000

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15 Eterna: Part One (Этерна: Часть первая)

Этерна: Часть первая

The legitimate heir to the throne in exile and the son of a murdered rebel – what do they have in common? Each has his own goal: one dreams of taking the throne and returning the family to its former glory, the other is to take revenge on the murderer of his father, who serves the usurpers.

Director: Evgeny Newski
Writers: Sergei Yudakov, Evgeny Baranov, Vera Kamsha
Starring: Anar, Pavel Krainov, Yuri Chursin

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14 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

T’Challa, king of Wakanda, is dying from an unspecified terminal illness which his sister Shuri believes can be cured by the “heart-shaped herb”. Shuri attempts to synthetically recreate the herb after it was destroyed by Erik Killmonger, but fails to do so before T’Challa dies.

One year later, Wakanda is under pressure from other nations to share their vibranium, with some parties attempting to steal it by force. Queen Ramonda implores Shuri to continue her research on the herb, hoping to create a new Black Panther that will defend Wakanda, but she refuses due to her belief that the Black Panther is a figure of the past.

Director: Ryan Coogler
Writers: Joe Robert Cole, Stan Lee, Ryan Coogler
Starring: Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira
Box office: $837 510 000

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13 M3GAN

M3GAN

A nine-year-old girl named Cady loses her parents in a car accident. She is sent to live with her aunt Gemma, a roboticist at the high-tech Seattle toy company Funki. Gemma is covertly using the company’s resources to develop M3GAN (Model 3 Generative Android), a child-sized humanoid robot doll powered by artificial intelligence, designed to be the ultimate companion. After a faulty test occurs with M3GAN in their lab, Gemma’s boss David discovers the project and orders her to discontinue work on it.

Director: Gerard Johnstone
Writers: Akela Cooper, James Wan
Starring: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng
Budget: $12 000 000
Box office: $96 721 000

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12 After Yang

After Yang

Jake and Kyra live with their adoptive daughter Mika and Yang, a previously owned robotic child they purchased from certified reseller Second Siblings, rather than from his original maker, Brothers & Sisters Incorporated. When Yang becomes unresponsive, Jake goes on a mission to repair him. Brothers & Sisters recommend replacing Yang, which means his body will decompose. Not wanting to upset Mika, Jake becomes determined to save his robotic child. In a flashback, Yang reassures a curious Mika that she is still part of the family despite being adopted.

Director: Kogonada
Writers: Kogonada, Alexander Weinstein
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja
Box office: $672 000

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11 Land of Legends (Сердце пармы)

Сердце пармы

The film takes place in the 15th century in the Ural, which Moscow troops want to capture. Mikhail, Prince of Great Perm with the help of local residents and old gods will try to fight back.

According to the authors, the epic drama Heart of Parma is the history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the conflict of civilizations is the fate of the Russian prince Mikhail, who fell in love with the young Tiche, a witch-lamia capable of taking on the form of a lynx. Passion for the pagan and fidelity to forbidden love, a campaign against the Voguls, bloody battles and a short peace, the battle between Grand Duchy of Moscow and Parma, the hero will face trials in which it is not so terrible to part with life as to commit treason.

Director: Anton Megerditschew
Writers: Sergei Bodrow, Ilja Tilkin, Ksenija Datnowa
Starring: Alexander Kusnezow, Elena Erbakova, Sergei Puskepalis
Budget: ₽714 350 100
Box office: $14 799 000

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