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Dec 25, 2022 · Below, we’ve compiled a list of 2022’s best 40 movies, including offerings from Netflix, Marvel, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros.
- Spiderhead
- Bardo
- Windfall
- Munich: The Edge of War
- The Stranger
- The Good Nurse
- Blonde
- The Wonder
- Hustle
- Apollo 10 ½
One month after Joseph Kosinski won the box office with Top Gun: Maverick, Netflix dropped his highly unusual science fiction thriller Spiderhead. Its emphasis on scrutinizing tech geniuses felt particularly timely, and the premise of a test subject (Miles Teller) tormented by a strange inventor (Chris Hemsworth) felt particularly timely in 2022. H...
Alejandro González Iñárritu has never been a filmmaker who has avoided excess, and Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, may be his most self-aggrandizing film to date. However, it’s also his most sincere and personal; the story of a documentary filmmaker (Daniel Giménez Cacho) wrestling with his critics, his new fatherhood, and his herita...
Windfall may feel like a leftover from the “pandemic era” of intimate thrillers shot in isolated locations, but the film’s minimalist approach only makes it more thrilling. Jason Segal gives a hapless, yet emphatic performance as a robber who desperately tries to negotiate with a kidnapped billionaire (Jesse Plemons) and his girlfriend (Lily Collin...
Sometimes, you just need a great “dad movie,” and Munich: The Edge of War is the perfect old-fashioned World War II chamber piece that works as an informative and entertaining glimpse at the past. The always likable 1917 star George McKay gives a surprisingly nuanced performance as Hugh Legat, a British agent tasked with negotiating with old friend...
Undercover cop movies deserve a comeback, and The Stranger might be the closest thing we’ll get to Donnie Brasco in 2022. Based on a shocking true story, the film follows the Australian policeman Mark Frame (Joel Edgerton) as he explores a child abuse case related to the suspect Harry Teague (Sean Harris). While it's simply a riveting two-hander wh...
The true story behind The Good Nurse is so shocking that if it was fiction, it would have been dismissed as completely unbelievable. While it would have been easy to sensationalize the story, director Tobias Lindholm creates an earnest procedural that follows the nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) as she steadily realizes that her coworker, Char...
Blonde may be the most controversial film of the year, and many may have tuned the film out entirely due to Andrew Dominick’s callous remarks to the press. Yet, there is incredible craftsmanship that has been buried; Blonde isn’t as much a biopic about Marilyn Monroe as it is an analysis of her image, and what values were projected on her by a crue...
Florence Pugh may have been getting more attention for the Don’t Worry Darling controversy than anything else this year, but she’s much stronger in this underrated British independent film. The Wonder follows the 19th century English nurse Lib Wright as she struggles to care for a child forcing herself to fast to the point of malnourishment. Like T...
Adam Sandler has made several standard Happy Madison movies at Netflix, but surprisingly he took on a serious role as a basketball scout in Hustle. It’s great to see Sandler make the type of movie that you don’t really see anymore; it’s an old-fashioned, inspiring sports drama that puts its emphasis on the characters. Sandler takes himself seriousl...
Richard Linklater returns to the world of animation for this slice-of-life story about a child’s experience during the summer of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s obviously inspired by Linklater’s own experiences growing up in Houston, Texas, and rather than trying to summarize everything into a more structured narrative, Apollo 10 ½ simply feels li...
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- "Sr." (2022) This time of the year is perfect for content about families, and "Sr." one-ups that by focusing on a super-famous son (Robert Downey Jr.) and his iconic father (Robert Downey).
- Enola Holmes 2 (2022) You've probably seen advertising for Netflix's second Enola Holmes movie. Its existence is nothing close to a secret. What you might not know is that it's been a hit with reviewers.
- Is that Black Enough for You?!? (2022) One of the three films on this list with 100% ratings, Is that Black Enough for You?!? proves that Netflix's documentaries are resonating with critics.
- Moneyball (2011) Fortunately, some of the beloved additions to Netflix come from outside its walls. Moneyball, which arrived during the interim window since I last wrote this column, is a fantastic 2011 movie about underdogs in sports.
- The Sea Beast. Director: Chris Williams. Cast: Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris. RottenTomatoes Rating: 94% IMDb Rating: 7.1/10. Expectations were very high for this new animated movie from former Disney director Chris Williams; by most accounts, they were met and then some.
- RRR. Director: S. S. Rajamouli. Starring: N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt. RottenTomatoes Rating: 91% IMDb Score: 8.1/10. Acquired by Netflix internationally as an Original title following its explosive theatrical run in India, RRR has broken out of India to perform well and generate buzz around the world even finding its way into the Netflix US top 10s.
- Hustle. Director: Jeremiah Zagar. Starring: Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Ben Foster, Juancho Hernangómez, Robert Duvall. RottenTomatoes Rating: 92% IMDb Score: 7.4/10.
- The Bombardment. Director: Ole Bornedal. Starring: Alex Høgh Andersen, Danica Curcic, Caspar Phillipson. RottenTomatoes Rating: 100% IMDb Score: 7.3. Also known as The Shadow in My Eye or Skyggen i mit øje in Denmark where the movie originates from, this harrowing movie recounts some of the untold stories of WW2 particularly in my home country of the United Kingdom.
- All Quiet on the Western Front. There have been several screen adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front over the years, yet none illustrate the true cost of war quite like Edward Berger’s 2022 version.
- Pinocchio. Having premiered at the London Film Festival, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio was the second major streaming Pinocchio movie after Robert Zemeckis Dinsey+'s version that remade Walt Disney's classic 1941 film.
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Daniel Craig returns to investigative Knives Out duties, reprising the role of Detective Benoit Blanc, everyone’s favorite “Kentucky fried foghorn leghorn” crime solver in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
- The Wonder. Florence Pugh steals the show in Sebastian Lelio’s science vs. religion flick, the quietly haunting The Wonder. Inspired by several true stories of miraculously “fasting” Victorian girls, The Wonder tells the haunting and sobering chronicle of an 11-year-old Irish girl, Anna O’Donnell (Kila Lord Cassidy), who has reportedly abstained from any food consumption for several months.
Dec 22, 2022 · Here are our top 10 Netflix Original movies released in 2022. For the past few years, December has been a joyous month for Netflix as they have been showered with praise for several films ending up in the thick of the Awards Season races.
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Dec 29, 2022 · According to Netflix, the top 4 most popular shows of all time were released in 2022, with Stranger Things 4, Wednesday, Dahmer, and the second season of Bridgerton being huge wins for the service. Even further down the viewership list, there were some good wins for Netflix.
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