Top 10 Movies of 2022 | A CineFix Movie List

Another trip around the sun means it’s time for another CineFix Best Movies of the Year list. 2022 saw a ton of movies back in theaters and a ton of butts back in seats! From James Cameron bringing us a return to Pandora and (hopefully) the biggest IMAX screen you can find, to a good year for indie horror films like Barbarian and Fresh and some great work by some familiar faces, here are our picks for the 10 best movies of 2022.

Our Picks:

10 - Comedy - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - dir. Tom Gormican
9 - Horror - Crimes of the Future - dir. David Cronenberg
8 - Thriller - Decision to Leave - dir. Park Chan Wook
7 - Animation - Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood - dir. Richard Linklater
6 - Documentary - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - dir. Laura Poitras
5 - Fantasy - The Northman - dir. Robert Eggers
4 - Action Epic - RRR - dir. S.S. Rajamouli
3 - Sci-Fi Kung-Fu Action-Comedy Existential Family Drama - Everything Everywhere All At Once - dir. Daniels
2 - Prestige Drama - Tár - dir. Todd Field
1 - Indie Drama - Aftersun - dir. Charlotte Wells

This video was written and edited by Billy Jackson.

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Movies in order of appearance:
0:00 Introduction
Top Gun Maverick
Avatar: The Way of Water
Turning Red
Nope
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Fire of Love
Three Thousand Years of Longing
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Menu
The Batman
Jackass Forever
0:27 - Comedy
Do Revenge
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Weird: The AI Yankovic Story
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Clerks III
Bros
Jackass Forever
No. 10 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - dir. Tom Gormican
2:29 - Horror
Men
Prey
Fresh
Barbarian
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Watcher
X
Pearl
Nope
No. 9 - Crimes of the Future - dir. David Cronenberg
4:10 - Thriller
The Beasts
The Menu
Triangle of Sadness
Emily the Criminal
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
See How They Run
No. 8 - Decision to Leave - dir. Park Chan Wook
5:45 - Animation
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
The Girl from the Other Side
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild
The Bob's Burgers Movie
The Bad Guys
No. 7 - Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood - dir. Richard Linklater
8:12 - Documentary
Girl in the Picture
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Navalny
Moonage Daydream
Poly Syrene: I am a Cliche
Lucy and Desi
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy
Cow
All That Breathes
No. 6 - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - dir. Laura Poitras
10:11 - Fantasy
Three Thousand Years of Longing
The House
No. 5 - The Northman - dir. Robert Eggers
12:21 - - Sci-Fi Kung-Fu Action-Comedy Existential Family Drama
After Yang
The Grandmaster of Kung Fu
Free Guy
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
The Fabelmans
Spiderhead
Shadow Master
Violent Night
More Than Ever
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Adam Project
Kung Fu Ghost
Bullet Train
Empire of Light
Cha Cha Real Smoot
No. 4 - Everything Everywhere All At Once - dir. Daniels
14:36 - Action Epic
Bullet Train
Ambulance
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Top Gun Maverick
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Thor: Love and Thunder
Free Guy
No. 3 - RRR - dir. S.S. Rajamouli
17:29 - Prestige Drama
Women Talking
The Woman King
The Banshees of Inisherin
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Whale
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handul of Truths
Babylon
Blonde
Empire of Light
The Fabelmans
No. 2 - Tár - dir. Todd Field
19:34 - Indie Drama
Bones and All
Joyland
After Yang
Funny Pages
Both Sides of the Blade
Hit the Road
No. 1- Aftersun - dir. Charlotte Wells

[revolutionaryexchangeprodu]

The twist with Top Gun/RRR is one of the best moments in the history of these videos.

[henrikhanssen]

I loved your intros to Everything Everywhere and RRR. Here are my expectations, people. Please continue to confound them.

[ryllharu]

CineFix continuing the tradition of discussing films that exist outside of US and UK, especially in their honorable mentions. Something all too many of their contemporaries refuse to acknowledge.

[waffleweave]

Your recommendation of Aftersun intrigued me and I just watched it. Holy crap. I haven’t cried that hard in a long time. I cannot believe that was the film debut for this director. An absolute masterpiece.

[samtepal]

Who's gonna tell them that Free Guy was a 2021 movie, released widely in August of 2021

[cameron]

Aftersun is truly a marvel. Im still haunted by the last shot of the film and i'll never be able to shake it.

[marielozoria]

15:52 yall cannot even imagine how loudly i screamed

[nicblueberry]

Aftersun is SO good, and sadly isn't getting nearly as much attention as a lot of other films of this year. I hope it'll get an Oscar nom, if only to get more eyes on it. It's just one of those films I can't stop thinking about, for the best reasons.

[nathannferreira]

The most surprising thing for me is that I watched The Northman and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent in a theater on the same day, back to back.

[matthewpyne]

That RRR heelturn was *chef's kiss*

[zarakkhan]

This for me was the Oscars this year. And I should stop being amazed by you guys but here I am still amazed that you mentioned Joyland and RRR.

[cool]

I just gotta say that the moment yah did the Top Gun to RRR swap had me in tears. As a long time Cinefix fan, it was a perfect Cinefix swap and it will live on in my as one of my favorite moments of the Movielist series.

[noelleobrien]

If you haven’t watched it yet, Puss in Boots the last wish is unbelievably good and feels like a Kung Fu Panda movie more than a shrek spin off. It’s gorgeous and has one of the best villains ever put in an animated film. It uses Spiderverse style animation to the best effect, and is an absolute blast once the story gets going.

[krusnik]

Really proud of myself for actually seeing the movies on this list. Most years I be slacking

[harrykelly]

The final 20 minutes of Aftersun shattered me. You had this quiet subconscious sense of what was building but it kicks you in the teeth in the most beautiful way regardless. Also, ‘Knowing the exact perfect instance to make it’s heartbreaking Irish goodbye’, the characters in the film are Scottish, but the lead Paul is Irish, easy mistake! Fantastic film.

[fragrf]

Love Aftersun so much. It captures nostalgia and memory so perfectly.

[christianzafiroglu]

Just saw RRR and it was everything you say it is. Perfect. Spectacle, funny, songs, dances, volcanic action, tragedy, mini-films unto themselves (check that opening scene!) and filmed with such a ridiculous level of intensity it threatens to spin out of control. It blew me away. More than once I hollered out “What the hell?” And was thrilled by it.

[aaronokeeffe]

So happy to see Aftersun getting the love it deserves👍

[allenrubinstein]

Now THAT is how you do a top ten of the year. Cinefix schooling the online critical community!!!!