The 30 best films of 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

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.

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29 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.

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28 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.

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27 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.

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26 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?

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25 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.

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24 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.”

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23 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.

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22 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.

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21 Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심 | 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.

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20 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.

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19 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.

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18 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.

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17 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.

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16 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.

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15 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.

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14 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.

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13 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.

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12 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?

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11 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.

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10 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.

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9 All Quiet on the Western Front (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.

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8 RRR

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

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7 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.

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6 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.

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5 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.

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4 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.

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3 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.

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2 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.”

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1 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.

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