Best Movies of 2022
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The Banshees of InisherinA friendship ends for no reason at all, and McDonagh turns that into a civil war in miniature.Read the review
TárCate Blanchett builds a monster from the inside out, and Field refuses to hand us a verdict on her.
Decision to LeavePark Chan-wook swaps his knives for longing, and builds the most elegant thriller of his career.
Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioStop-motion of astonishing care turns Collodi's puppet into a fable about grief, fascism and mortality, and only the songs fall short.
AftersunA holiday video reconstructed by an adult who finally understands what she was filming.
RRRThree hours of pure escalation, and Rajamouli never once blinks at how big he is willing to go.
All Quiet on the Western FrontA German adaptation at last, magnificently mounted, and further from Remarque than it admits.
The BatmanReeves makes the detective picture the character always deserved, then runs it forty minutes long.
The FabelmansSpielberg turns the camera on his own family and finds an accusation hiding inside the origin story.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryRian Johnson swaps the first film's tight puzzle for a sunlit satire of tech money, and its big rewind is a better trick than the murder.