Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies of 2022


10 Nope

Nope

After random objects falling from the sky result in the death of their father, ranch-owning siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood attempt to capture video evidence of an unidentified flying object with the help of tech salesman Angel Torres and documentarian Antlers Holst.

Director: Jordan Peele
Writers: Jordan Peele
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun
Budget: $68 000 000
Box office: $171 235 000

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9 Alienoid: Part 1 (외계+인 1부 | Oegye+in 1bu)

Oegye+in 1bu

The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.

Director: Choi Dong-hoon
Writers: Choi Dong-hoon, Choi Dong-hoon
Starring: Byung-Hee Yoon, Eui-Sung Kim, Dal-gi Shim
Budget: $13 000 000
Box office: $12 067 000

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8 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

America Chavez and a version of Stephen Strange are chased by a demon in the space between universes while searching for the Book of Vishanti. Strange is killed and Chavez accidentally creates a portal that transports herself and Strange’s corpse to Earth-616, where that universe’s version of Strange rescues Chavez from another demon with help from Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme. Chavez explains that the beings are hunting her because she has the power to travel through the multiverse.

Recognizing witchcraft runes, Strange consults Wanda Maximoff for help but realizes that she is responsible for the attacks.

Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: Michael Waldron, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Xochitl Gomez-Danes
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $955 775 000

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7 The Adam Project

The Adam Project

In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed steals a time jet to escape to 2018 to save his wife, Laura. In the process, he gets injured and crash-lands in 2022. The story then shifts to 12-year-old Adam in 2022, whose father Louis died a year previously. He is bullied at school, gets suspended for fighting in school, and is distant from his mother Ellie. When he is home alone one night, he finds the injured future Adam. The younger Adam refuses to trust the stranger, but future Adam inadvertently mentions the names of both the younger Adam and his dog, Hawking. The younger Adam soon realizes that the stranger in front of him is his future self.

Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner

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6 Three Thousand Years of Longing

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Alithea Binnie is a British scholar who occasionally suffers from hallucinations of demonic beings. During a trip to Istanbul, Alithea purchases an antique bottle and unleashes the Djinn trapped within it. The Djinn offers to grant Alithea three wishes, so long as each one is truly her heart’s desire, but Alithea argues that wishing is a mistake, accusing the Djinn of being a trickster. In response, the Djinn proceeds to tell her three tales of his past and how he ended up trapped in the bottle.

Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Augusta Gore, Antonia Susan Byatt
Starring: Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton, Erdil Yasaroglu
Budget: $60 000 000
Box office: $19 847 000

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5 Prey

Prey

A new predator film. Set 300 years in the past, it will center around a skilled Comanche Nation warrior who protects her tribe against a highly-evolved alien predator.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Writers: Patrick Aison, Dan Trachtenberg, Jim Thomas
Starring: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro
Budget: $65 000 000

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4 The Northman

The Northman

In AD 895, King Aurvandill returns to the island of Hrafnsey, reuniting with his wife, Queen Gudrún, and his heir, Prince Amleth. To prepare Amleth for his eventual ascension, the father and son participate in a ceremony overseen by Aurvandill’s jester, Heimir. Heimir tells Amleth that his destiny is fixed and cannot be escaped, and Amleth vows to avenge his father if Aurvandill is ever slain, rather than live his life in shame. The next morning, Amleth’s bastard uncle Fjölnir stages a palace coup, personally beheads Aurvandill, sacks the hillfort and carries away Gudrún. Amleth narrowly escapes Fjölnir’s assassins and flees by boat, swearing vengeance.

Director: Robert Eggers
Writers: Robert Eggers, Sjón
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang
Budget: $90 000 000
Box office: $69 633 000

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3 Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

A Chinese-American woman being audited by the Internal Revenue Service, who discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from causing the destruction of them all.

Director: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Writers: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis
Budget: $25 000 000
Box office: $104 108 000

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2 The Batman

The Batman

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman explores the corruption that plagues Gotham City and how it may tie to his own family, in addition to coming into conflict with a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Matt Reeves, Peter Craig, Robert Kane
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $770 945 000

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1 Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

Sixteen years after the Na’vi repelled the RDA invasion of Pandora, Jake Sully lives as chief of the Omatikaya clan, and raises a family with Neytiri, which includes sons Neteyam and Lo’ak, daughter Tuk, and adopted children Kiri and Spider, the Pandora-born human son of the late Colonel Miles Quaritch. To the Na’vi’s dismay, the RDA, led by their new leader, Frances Ardmore, returns to colonize Pandora as Earth is dying. Among the new arrivals are Recombinants—Na’vi avatars implanted with deceased human soldiers’ memories — with Quaritch’s recombinant serving as the leader.

Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Budget: $350 000 000
Box office: $1 928 251 000

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