50 Best Movies of 2022 Ranked (and Where to Watch Them All)

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2022 saw the comeback of major box office success following two years of struggling returns. With a diverse mix of heart-pumping action, touching dramas, majorly anticipated sequels, remarkable foreign films, and all that’s in between, the year truly featured something for everyone. The first half of the year contained a number of familiar franchises returning to full capacity theaters including Hotel Transylvania:Transformania, Scream, Jackass Forever, The Batman, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Jurassic World Dominion. The sequel to 1986’s Top Gun with Top Gun: Maverick became the second highest grossing film of the year behind another long-awaited sequel mentioned soon. The franchises did not slow down as the year progressed as seen with such titles as Minions: The Rise of Gru, Thor: Love and Thunder, Halloween Ends, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Disenchanted, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and the release to end all releases, over ten years in the making, Avatar: The Way of Water.

Sprinkled throughout the year were family-friendly titles with Turning Red, Lightyear, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, DC League of Super-Pets, Strange World and two releases of Pinocchio with Robert Zemeckis’ straight-to-Disney+ rendition and Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award winning version. There were a number of phenomenal female-led films as well including Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar winning performance in Everything,Everywhere All at Once, Viola Davis in The Woman King, Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till in Till, Cate Blanchett in Tár and Angela Bassett in Wakanda Forever, just to name a few. Foreign films also dominated with critics and audiences alike with such titles as Germany's war drama All Quiet on the Western Front,South Korea's romance/mystery Decision to Leave, Ireland's coming-of-age drama The Quiet Girl, Argentina's historical legal drama Argentia, 1985, India's epic action drama RRR, Poland's drama EO, and Belgium's coming-of-age drama Close. 2022 overall had an incredible array of films to choose from regardless of preferred genre. Here are 50 of the best movies of the year and where to find them.

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  1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

    #1

    A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

  2. The Banshees of Inisherin

    #2

    Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

  3. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    #3

    A cash-strapped documentary maker decides to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends.

  4. Happening

    Happening

    2021

    #4

    France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

  5. Burning Days

    Burning Days

    2022

    #5

    With the mayoral election approaching, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of a small Turkish town suffering from a water supply crisis gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.

  6. Aftersun

    Aftersun

    2022

    #6

    Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty 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.

  7. Argentina, 1985

    Argentina, 1985

    2022

    #7

    A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

  8. Decision to Leave

    Decision to Leave

    2022

    #8

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

  9. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    #9

    Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.

  10. Till

    Till

    2022

    #10

    In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.

  11. Missing Home

    Missing Home

    2022

    #11

    A married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.

  12. TÁR

    TÁR

    2022

    #12

    As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

  13. Belle

    Belle

    2021

    #13

    Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.

  14. RRR

    RRR

    2022

    #14

    A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

  15. Top Gun: Maverick

    Top Gun: Maverick

    2022

    #15

    After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

  16. The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    2022

    #16

    Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

  17. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

    #17

    During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

  18. After Yang

    After Yang

    2022

    #18

    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.

  19. The Quiet Girl

    The Quiet Girl

    2022

    #19

    In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.

  20. The Batman

    The Batman

    2022

    #20

    In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.