The 30 best films of 2022


20 Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing

A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was once involved with.

Director: Olivia Newman
Writers: Lucy Alibar, Delia Owens
Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson
Budget: $24 000 000
Box office: $140 230 000

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19 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.

Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe
Budget: $40 000 000
Box office: $13 280 000

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18 The Greatest Beer Run Ever

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

New York, 1967. To show support for his neighborhood friends serving in Vietnam, Chickie Donohue decides to travel to the frontline by himself to bring the soldiers a little piece of home — their favorite can of American beer. However, what started as a well-meaning journey quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime as Chickie confronts the reality of this controversial war and his reunions with his childhood buddies thrust him into the complexities and responsibilities of adulthood.

Director: Peter Farrelly
Writers: Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Pete Jones
Starring: Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Jake Picking

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17 Vortex

Vortex

The story follows an elderly couple. He has heart problems and she suffers from Alzheimer’s. A look close to the reality of this marriage that tries to deal with its diseases and the passage of time.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Writers: Gaspar Noé
Starring: Françoise Lebrun, Dario Argento, Alex Lutz
Box office: $340 000

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16 Aftersun

Aftersun

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father 20 years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.

Director: Charlotte Wells
Writer: Charlotte Wells
Starring: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall
Box office: $2 229 000

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15 Tár

Tár

World-renowned musician Lydia Tár is just days away from recording the symphony that will take her to the very heights of her already formidable career. Tár’s remarkably bright and charming six-year-old adopted daughter Petra has a key role to play here. And when elements seem to conspire against Lydia, the young girl is an important emotional support for her struggling mother.

Director: Todd Field
Writer: Todd Field
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant
Box office: $5 514 000

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14 Triangle of Sadness

Triangle of Sadness

Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion while exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich passengers, a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers and an idiosyncratic, alcoholic, Marx-quoting captain. At first, all appears Instagrammable. But a storm is brewing, and heavy seasickness hits the passengers during the seven-course captain’s dinner. The cruise ends catastrophically. Carl and Yaya find themselves marooned on a desert island with a group of billionaires and one of the ship’s cleaners. Hierarchy is suddenly flipped upside down, as the housekeeper is the the only one who knows how to fish.

Director: Ruben Östlund
Writer: Ruben Östlund
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Zlatko Buric
Box office: $17 262 000

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13 Hustle

Hustle

Sandler stars as a down-on-his-luck basketball scout who, while abroad, discovers a generational talent with a rocky past. Without his team’s approval, he decides to bring the phenom back with him, giving them both one last shot to prove they are NBA-worthy.

Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Writers: Taylor Materne, Will Fetters
Starring: Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Ben Foster

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12 Bullet Train

Bullet Train

Five assassins find themselves on a fast moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to each other. The question becomes who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station?

Director: David Leitch
Writers: Zak Olkewicz, Kotaro Isaka
Starring: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Budget: $90 000 000
Box office: $239 268 000

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11 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

A darker version of the classic children’s fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.

Directors: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, Carlo Collodi
Starring: Gregory Mann, David Bradley, Ewan McGregor
Box office: $71 000

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