
And if you love good directors, well, this is a year for you: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig's Barbie ( Barbenheimer!) proved to be just as good as we thought they would be, and Martin Scorsese's The Killers of the Flower Moon (with Jesse Plemons, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert De Niro in tow), David Fincher's The Killer will hit Netflix, and Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things are all still on the way. Liked Top Gun: Maverick? Tom Cruise went even bigger with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh film in his long-running stunt-heavy spy franchise.

Horror has been shining, with Scream 6 leading the way and A24's Talk To Me proving to be a sleeper work of twisted art. The Batmanand Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverproved that superhero movies can be artful, Sam Raimi took his shot with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessto prove that an old horror master can still make things happen with a big budget, and Steven Spielberg showed us how one of the greatest directors of all time (Steven Spielberg) came to be in The Fabelmans.Ģ023 is hoping to keep that momentum going.

Tár and The Banshees of Inisherin gave us some incredible performances from Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell that left us thinking for a long time. The Whale ushered in a masterful, acclaimed, comeback performance from Brendan Fraser. Movies like Top Gun: Maverickand Avatar: The Way of Waterdominated the box office on the big screen, in such a significant, dramatic way, that drama like 2020's " Tenet has been delayed over and over again" feels like a distant memory.īut 2022 didn't just see success at the movies by way of the box office we also saw movies that managed to remind us why we love this stuff in the first place.

After 2022, it's hard to remember how much danger it felt like ~the movies~ were in, back in, say, 2020 and the early part of 2021.
