The 57 Best Movies of 2022

Release Date: January 7, 2022

Named after a female spy during the Revolutionary War, The 355 follows a group of international agents — all women — who band together to track down a dangerous mercenary with a powerful weapon. The cast brings together a set of amazing actresses, including Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Penelope Cruz and Fan Bingbing.

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Release Date: January 14, 2022

Just when you think you’ve seen the last of Ghostface, he pops back up again, usually with a knife in hand. And once again, Sidney Prescott, Dewey Riley, Gale Weathers and the Woodsboro crew have to figure out how these new murders are connected to the ones from 25 years ago.

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Release Date: January 21, 2022

Director Joe Wright, who’s previously taken on adaptations of literary heavyweights like Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina, turns his attention to anther classic. This time, he’s filmed a musical version of Cyrano de Bergerac, based on the 2018 stage show.

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Release Date: January 28, 2022

After Venom, Morbius is next in the series of Spider-Man villains getting their own, stand-alone movies. Jared Leto plays the « living vampire, » a doctor with a rare blood disease on the hunt for an unconventional cure.

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Release Date: February 4, 2022

The Jackass team has been doing ill-advised stunts for more than two decades now — you think approaching their 50s would stop them? They prove they’re up for anything, from encounters with bears, bulls and spiders to physical challenges likely to give them concussions.

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Release Date: February 4, 2022

Get ready to stay up all night: This movie follows a kid who has been trapped by a child killer. He finds a phone connected to the killer’s past victims, who tell him things that might help him escape.

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Release Date: February 4, 2022

Director Roland Emmerich, master of the art of the disaster epic (see: Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 etc.), takes on a catastrophe on a galactic scale: The moon gets knocked out of orbit and comes hurtling towards Earth. Can a ragtag team of scientists save the planet in time?

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Release Date: February 11, 2022

Belfast‘s Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in the second of his Agatha Christie adaptations. In it, famed detective Hercule Poirot is called to solve a murder on the S.S. Karnak, and the list of suspects is long and played by actors like Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Russell Brand and Sophie Okonedo.

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Release Date: February 11, 2022

Bring back the big-screen rom-com! In this one, Jennifer Lopez plays — what else? — a musical mega-star. When her plans to marry another celebrity on stage go awry, she picks a random guy (played by Owen Wilson) to wed instead. They then have to figure out if they made a huge mistake, or if they should make a go of the relationship.

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Release Date: February 18, 2022

Director Michael Bay returns with more action, chases and suspense with a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as foster brothers and criminals. When a heist goes wrong, they steal an ambulance, take hostages and go on the run.

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Release Date: February 18, 2022

This movie serves as a backstory to the famed video-game franchise of the same name. It stars Tom Holland and Mark Whalberg as two adventurers who go on a quest for « the greatest treasure never found. »

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Release Date: February 25, 2022

Mark Rylance stars in a crime drama about a Savile Row tailor who relocates to Chicago and winds up with a clientele of gangsters. Eventually, he finds himself in a position where he must outsmart a group of mobsters in order to survive.

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Release Date: March 4, 2022

A Dark Knight’s work is never done. This time, Robert Pattinson takes up the cowl for a movie directed by Cloverfield‘s Matt Reeves. This one goes back to Batman’s early years in Gotham City, and his first run-in with the Riddler.

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Release Date: March 18, 2022

It’s time to check in once again with the Crawley family. Only this time, the action moves away from the estate in Yorkshire to a grand escape in the South of France.

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Release Date: March 25, 2022

The date-night movie that has something for everybody, Lost City of D stars Sandra Bullock as a reclusive romance novelist. When she goes on a book tour with her cover model (Channing Tatum), the two get involved in kidnapping scenario that turns their tour into a jungle adventure.

Release Date: April 8, 2022

This film comes from the director of John Wick, so expect fast-moving action on a fast, fast train. Brad Pitt stars in a story about five assassins on a moving train who discover their assignments are all connected. Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Bryan Tyree Henry, Joey King, Andrew Koji and Aaron Taylor-Johnson round out the cast.

Release Date: April 8, 2022

For Sega fans, Tails and Knuckles are both in this Sonic sequel. They’re all after the same thing: the Master Emerald, which controls all the powers of the chaos emeralds.

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Release Date: April 15, 2022

The third film in the Fantastic Beasts series still centers on trying to stop Gellert Grindelwald’s nefarious plans, only this time, Mads Mikkelsen has replaced Johnny Depp in playing the dark wizard. In order to stop him, Albus Dumbledore sends Newt Scamander and his friends on a secret mission.

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Release Date: April 22, 2022

As a director, Robert Eggers has made The Witch, about supernatural beings in Puritan New England, and The Lighthouse, about an isolated duo going mad in a lighthouse in Nova Scotia — and his third film is just as unconventional in its subject matter and location. It takes place in an Icelandic village way back in the 10th century, when a Viking prince sets off to avenge his murdered father. Alexander Skarsgård stars in cast that also includes Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe.

Release Date: April 22, 2022

Nic Cage stars in a role in was born to play: Himself! In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, he accepts $1 million to make an appearance at the birthday party of a super fan, who happens to be a drug kingpin. When things go south, he has to adopt some of his film personae to make it out again.

Release Date: May 6, 2022

Sam Raimi, director of three Spider-Man movies (the ones with Tobey Maguire), jumps to a new Marvel character with the sequel to Doctor Strange. Loki fans should definitely tune in, since Wanda Maximoff is going to be joining the Sorcerer Supreme this time around. There will also be some MCU newcomers, like The Baby-Sitter’s Club‘s Xochitl Gomez, who will be playing America Chavez.

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Release Date: May 20, 2022

We’ve seen so many films about superheroes — but what about their pups? In this one, the Justice League is in danger, and Superman’s Krypto has to convince other super-powered pets to go on a rescue mission.

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Release Date: May 20, 2022

No news from Elle Woods in nearly 20 years? We object! Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor are writing the script for the third installment of the Legally Blonde series, so it’s sure to be a hoot.

Release Date: May 27, 2022

It’s been a long wait for Top Gun fans: This movie was originally supposed to come out in 2019, but faced several delays, especially due to the pandemic. But now, they can see Pete “Maverick” Mitchell training his own series of Top Gun graduates, including « Rooster » (Miles Teller), the son of his deceased buddy, « Goose. »

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Release Date: May 27, 2022

Devotees of the TV show of Bob’s Burgers will be delighted to hear it’s headed to the big screen. Even better: It’s a musical! Show creator Loren Bouchard has also described it as a comedy, mystery and coming-of-age story.

Release Date: May 27, 2022

First, The Matrix got its fourth installment. Now, Keanu follows up his John Wick franchise with another entry, which picks up right where John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum leaves off.

Release Date: June 10, 2022

This is the follow-up to 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which ends with dinosaurs being set free to roam around an Earth inhabited by people. This film takes place four years later, when humans are learning how to live with invasive dinosaur species.

Release Date: June 17, 2022

To infinity and beyond! This is a movie about Buzz Lightyear, but it’s not a Toy Story movie. Instead, it’s about the fictional Space Ranger who inspired the toy — what Andy might’ve watched to make him want a Buzz Lightyear action figure in the first place.

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Release Date: June 24, 2022

Normal People‘s Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Delia Owens. It follows a girl called « Marsh Girl » because she lives alone in the wilderness. When a man turns up dead, she becomes the first suspect.

Release Date: July 1, 2022

Now, Minions are everywhere, from toothbrushes to Facebook memes. But where did they get this start? This movie takes it back to the beginning, when the yellow creatures looking for a master cross paths with a wannabe supervillain.

Release Date: July 8, 2022

Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman all return for this MCU movie — though which one of them wields Mjollnir is still up for speculation. And might there be an appearance by the Guardians of the Galaxy?

Release Date: July 22, 2022

Jordan Peele’s horror movies have become events unto themselves, so mark your calendars even though no one really knows what this one is about yet. (The teaser image certainly looks ominous enough.) What we do know is that it stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Barbie Ferreira, Brandon Perea and Michael Wincott.

Release Date: July 29, 2022

The superheroes keep on coming! Dwayne Johnson stars as the title anti-hero in this Shazam! spin-off. It focuses on his entanglements with the Justice Society of America, or JSA.

Release Date: August 12, 2022

This is yet another superhero movie, but one thing makes it distinct: It’s an original screenplay, and not an adaptation of a comic. It’s a family adventure, starring Owen Wilson, about a kid who discovers a secret hero HQ under his house, leading him to ask questions about his estranged father.

Release Date: August 12, 2022

Who doesn’t love a case of mistaken identity? In this action-comedy, Kevin Hart stars as a screw-up who gets mistaken for an international assassin at an Airbnb rental.

Release Date: August 26, 2022

And, just in case you haven’t had your fill of superheroes yet, here’s another one — albeit a darker take on the genre, starring Sylvester Stallone. In it, a kid finds reason to believe that a superhero who had gone missing years earlier might still be around.

Release Date: September 16, 2022

For sci-fi fans, this survival adventure follows an asteroid miner (Anthony Ramos) who gets struck and lands on an alien planet. He must be resourceful and use his AI survival suit to find the only other survivor and escape.

Release Date: September 16, 2022

Helen Mirren stars as Grand-mère, a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi-occupied France in World War II. It’s called « A Wonder Story » because Grand-mère is the grandmother of Julian, the bully in the YA novel and film Wonder by R. J. Palacio.

Release Date: September 23, 2022

Book Smart‘s Olivia Wilde directs this film, about a 1950s housewife living in a utopian community who begins to suspect that her husband is hiding something. Florence Pugh and Harry Styles play the husband and wife.

Release Date: September 23, 2022

In this animated film, the sequel to a 2011 Shrek spin-off, Puss in Boots has already burned through eight of his cat lives. He goes on an adventure to find the Last Wish to restore himself back to nine.

Release Date: September 30, 2022

Ethan Hunt returns for a series of ever-more-daring, stunt-filled escapes. And, if this one doesn’t get the pulse pounding, Mission: Impossible 8 is already filming.

Release Date: October 7, 2022

Tom Holland’s Peter Parker isn’t the only Spider-Man swinging around — don’t forget about Miles Morales! He takes another spin through the multi-verse in this animated feature, which slaps an intriguing « Part One » onto the title at the end of its teaser trailer, so there’s plenty coming more after this adventure.

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Release Date: October 7, 2022

Danielle Deadwyler takes on the nearly impossible task of capturing the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmet Till, and her pursuit of justice after her son’s lynching in 1955. Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison, Sean Patrick Thomas and Haley Bennett join her in the cast.

Release Date: October 14, 2022

Halloween Kills, which came out in October 2021, left things in the Strode household in particular disarray. Halloween Ends will try to end the power of Michael Myers once and for all.

Release Date: November 4, 2022

The Justice League gets another spin-off movie, starring Ezra Miller as The Flash. In this one, he travels back in time to prevent a murder, but the time-travel has surprising ripple effects.

Release Date: November 11, 2022

We may have lost Chadwick Boseman, but the Black Panther sequel will still come out in 2022 — though the part of T’Challa will not be re-cast. The plot is still under wraps, but Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett will be returning.

Release Date: November 18, 2022

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor on their way to breaking the Harvey Weinstein #MeToo story. The movie is based on their book of the same name and it’s directed by Unorthodox‘s Maria Schrader.

Release Date: November 23, 2022

The newest Disney Animation film promises to be an adventure on an epic scale. It follows the legendary Clade family, a clan of explores, whose differences threaten to topple their most recent mission.

Release Date: November 23, 2022

Steven Spielberg has always put a lot of autobiographical elements into his work, but this is the closest he’s come to making a movie about his own life. It’s based on his life growing up in Arizona, and Tony Kushner (who most recently scripted Spielberg’s phenomenal West Side Story) wrote the screenplay.

Release Date: December 16, 2022

It’s been 13 years since we’ve checked in on Jake Sully and Neytiri, and they’ve been in Pandora making a life together. But when an old threat returns, they’re forced out of their home and have to explore Pandora’s other lands.

Release Date: December 16, 2022

On the heels of The Flash, another Justice League character returns to the big screen. Plot details are closely guarded, but James Wan is directing again, and Jason Momoa returns to wield the trident.

Release Date: December 21, 2022

Chris Pratt wants to star in movies of all your childhood favorites. First it was dinosaurs.. Then it was Legos. Now, it’s your NES. He plays Mario in a new, animated Super Mario Bros. adventure, with Charlie Day as his Luigi. The cast is full of comedians: Seth Rogen is Donkey Kong, Jack Black is Bowser and and Fred Armisen is Cranky Kong, among others.

Release Date: December 23, 2022

The end of the year is usually when the biopics start to crop up, and there’s no more worthy a subject than Whitney Houston. Naomi Ackie, known for The End of the F***ing World, tries to fill Houston’s shoes (and pipes).

Release Date: December 25, 2022

Damien Chazelle, director of La La Land, returns for this movie, and the two are said to share a similar milieu: Hollywood. But unlike La La Land, Babylon is a period drama, starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, taking place in the era when silent films gave way to sound.