The 30 best films of 2022


10 Thirteen Lives

Thirteen Lives

A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.

Director: Ron Howard
Writers: William Nicholson, Don MacPherson
Starring: Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen, Joel Edgerton
Budget: $55 000 000

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9 All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)

Im Westen nichts Neues

All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

Director: Edward Berger
Writers: Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson
Starring: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer

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8 RRR

RRR

A fictitious story about two legendary revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Writers: S.S. Rajamouli, Sai Madhav Burra, Madhan Karky
Starring: Ram Charan Teja, NTR Jr., Olivia Morris
Budget: $69 000 000
Box office: $150 121 000

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7 Babylon

Babylon

From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Writer: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Olivia Wilde
Budget: $78 000 000
Box office: $5 300 000

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6 The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans

A semi-autobiography from Spielberg’s own childhood. Set in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, this coming-of-age epic is told through the lens of Sammy Fabelman, who falls in love with moviemaking and grapples with the family turmoil that would ultimately shape an iconic career. Caught between his eccentric artist mother and his pragmatic computer engineer father, Sammy must carve out his own identity as the family traverse the country and he navigates the minefields of home and school life.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
Starring: Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano
Box office: $9 286 000

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5 The Banshees of Inisherin

The Banshees of Inisherin

Year 1923. A pair of lifelong friends on a remote Irish island find themselves at an awkward time in their relationship when one of them no longer wants to be friends.

Director: Martin McDonagh
Writer: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon
Box office: $19 769 000

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4 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, Bob Kane
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $770 836 000

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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.

Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Writers: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis
Budget: $25 000 000
Box office: $103 384 000

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2 Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer
Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly
Budget: $140 000 000
Box office: $1 488 732 000

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1 Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na’vi race to protect their planet.

Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Budget: $350 000 000
Box office: $1 397 417 000

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