The 30 best films of 2022


Best Movies 2022

Across 12 months, movies have taken us to all kinds of new worlds and experiences – from berserker Viking brawls, to WWI and to the Comanche nation to face down one ugly mother–– well, you get the picture.

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30 Deep Water

Deep Water

Based on the celebrated novel by famed mystery writer Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), “Deep Water” takes us inside the marriage of picture-perfect Vic and Melinda Van Allen to discover the dangerous mind games they play and what happens to the people that get caught up in them.

Director: Adrian Lyne
Writers: Zach Helm, Sam Levinson, Patricia Highsmith
Starring: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts

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29 Nope

Nope

A man and his sister discover something sinister in the skies above their California horse ranch, while the owner of a nearby theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.

Director: Jordan Peele
Writer: Jordan Peele
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea
Budget: $68 000 000
Box office: $171 235 000

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28 After Yang

After Yang

When his young daughter’s beloved companion – an android named Yang – malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn’t know was there.

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

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27 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Young Alfred “Al” Yankovic becomes interested in parodying songs despite his father’s disapproval. Al’s mother secretly purchases an accordion for him, but his father destroys it when Al is caught at an illicit polka party, thus straining Al’s relationship with his parents.

Years later, an older Al is living with his roommates Steve, Jim, and Bermuda, and trying to join bands as an accordion player but he is constantly rejected. While listening to “My Sharona” on the radio and fixing a bologna sandwich, Al is inspired to write “My Bologna”. He sends the song to a local radio DJ, who puts it on the air immediately; he then goes to Scotti Brothers Records, where the brothers mock him, but are willing to reconsider if Al gains more experience.

Director: Eric Appel
Writers: Eric Appel, Weird Al Yankovic
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Diedrich Bader, Rainn Wilson

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Don’t Worry, Darling

 

26 Don’t Worry, Darling

Don't Worry Darling

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. The 1950’s societal optimism espoused by their CEO, Frank – equal parts corporate visionary and motivational life coach – anchors every aspect of daily life in the tight-knit desert utopia. While the husbands spend every day inside the Victory Project Headquarters, working on the “development of progressive materials,” their wives – including Frank’s elegant partner, Shelley – get to spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their community. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is discretion and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause. But when cracks in her idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why. Just how much is Alice willing to lose to expose what’s really going on in this paradise?

Director: Olivia Wilde
Writers: Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke
Starring: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine
Box office: $86 709 000

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25 The Gray Man

The Gray Man

When the CIA’s most skilled mercenary – whose true identity is known to none- accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.

Directors: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Writers: Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $454 000

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24 Bones and All

Bones and All

Maren Yearly who is on “a cross-country trip as she searches for the father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her.”

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: David Kajganich, Camille DeAngelis
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Kendle Coffey
Box office: $14 134 000

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23 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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22 The Northman

The Northman

A history set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.

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

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21 Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심 | Hyeeojil gyeolsim)

Hyeeojil gyeolsim

A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains meets the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

Director: Park Chan-Wook
Writers: Park Chan-Wook, Seo-kyeong Jeong
Starring: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Jung-hyun Lee
Budget: $10 000 000
Box office: $22 810 000

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