The 25 Best Films of 2022
From After Yang to Top Gun, we break down our favorite movies of the year.
From After Yang to Top Gun, we break down our favorite movies of the year.
The new Netflix Holiday Romance fails to be a worthy launching pad for Lindsay Lohan’s comeback.
Prime Video’s billion-dollar extension of Tolkien’s universe gets off to a rollicking, worldbuilding start.
After the disappointing Persuasion, a guide to making the author’s stories work on-screen.
The director talks the film’s rediscovery and release in the Criterion Collection.
Tired and overdone jokes predictably pork this season’s roast.
Geralt of Rivia trades monsters-of-the-week for a long-form story that pushes the show forward in exciting and intriguing ways.
Lamb, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut feature, is moody and captivating but shaky thematics keep it from living up to its own promise.
Kenneth Branagh directs a moving film about a working class Irish family impacted by the Troubles.
Phillip Noyce and Naomi Watts team up for a preposterous, formulaic high-concept thriller that does nothing tasteful with its premise.
Hugh Jackman chases down the ghost of Rebecca Ferguson through futuristic memory tech in Lisa Joy’s ponderous, limp tech-noir pastiche.
Patrick Hughes’ follow up to The Hitman’s Bodyguard brings plenty of action, but little else.
“Death and Nightingales” – a star-studded miniseries adaptation of Edmund McCabe’s novel, is brilliantly acted but trips over its bleakness.
Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious war epic Apocalypse Now depicts a bloody, dark night of the soul for the American mythos.
Mira Nair’s 1988 breakout remains a scintillating tale of poverty in India’s slums, even as it toes the line of exploitation.
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The documentary about the destructive beauty of meteors is equal parts perplexing and engaging.
Niki Caro’s remake of the animated classic slots nicely into the Chinese war epic formula, but a bit of Disney magic gets lost in the mix.
Criterion compiles a legend’s filmography into a single set, Gamera gets a big box, & more in our rundown of August’s DVD & Blu-ray releases.
Phantoms trouble the survivors of Ardham in an outstanding episode that pays homage to classic haunted house movies.
The director’s sole English-language film to date is a simmering, occasionally empty exercise in Hitchcockian style.