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The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022
The ongoing refrain of every TV critic, especially come end-of-year time: There’s too much TV. This year is no exception, with networks and streaming services alike competing for our attention with one big-budget, well-crafted set of eight-to-ten-hour stories after another. It’s the kind of model that doesn’t seem built to last, and 2022 might see … The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022
Triangle of Sadness sails a darkly funny sea of class rage
Ruben Östlund write & directs a witty, timely satire about what happens when disaster forces the haves & the have-nots together.
The Rings of Power tries to do too much at once
The Lord of the Rings spinoff’s latest episode, “Partings,” has intrigue to spare.
TIFF 2022: Falcon Lake sails when exploring adolescence
While Charlotte Le Bron’s directorial debut doesn’t wholly succeed in hybridizing genres, it excels when telling its young leads’ stories.
The Serpent Queen shows her fangs
Starz’s new historical drama slithers ahead, buoyed by its collection of excellent women performers.
The Patient gives viewers the quintessential therapeutic experience: ambivalence
Hulu’s dramatic thriller is smart, meticulous, and buoyed by strong performances and yet still feels incomplete.
The Invitation is one to decline
A solid cast can’t liven up this bizarrely-structured and bloodless horror movie.
Inside the weird, wild Gothic drama of V.C. Andrews movies
As Lifetime premieres a new addition to the Dollanganger Saga, we offer a crash course on what’s led us all to this.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds & the morals of a world resigned to suffering
A visit to one of the franchise’s traditional allegory-filled worlds holds a mirror up to the real one.
In The Piano, Jane Campion and Holly Hunter navigate silence
Campion’s multi-Oscar winner studies the thorns of speaking, silence, and desire through impeccable performances.
Star Trek: Picard dips into darkness, but the plunge is too shallow
A jaunt to a grim alternate timeline misses the point of Mirror Universe-style tales.
Ozark delivers slow-burn tension in Season 4 Part 1
The Netflix suspense drama continues to deliver with methodical brilliance.
In Spencer, food is a weapon to control and torment
Pablo Larraín’s sympathetic “fable” about Diana, Princess of Wales, also compassionately addresses the secret shame of eating disorders.
The Roys’ war moves from ludicrous to dramatic in this week’s Succession
Choosing a presidential candidate means that the Roy family battle lines will be drawn and re-drawn in a razor-sharp episode.
The Shrink Next Door tells a sad story about blind trust & cruel con artistry
Will Ferrell & Paul Rudd star in a mostly true, often too hard to watch story about a psychiatrist who fleeces his gullible, lonely patient.
The Baby-Sitters Club returns for a heartwarming season 2
Netflix’s good-hearted adaptation of the classic YA books digs deeper into the ever-complex relationships between its teen characters.
What We Do in the Shadows is still killing it in season 3
The undead roommates finally begin to learn how to live together as the FX sitcom continues its extraordinary run as the funniest show on TV
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf is best at its bleakest
Nightmare of the Wolf is a gorgeously animated, narratively lumpy prequel to The Witcher that boasts an excellent, harrowing climax.
Hydra Blu-ray review: strong acting, great fights, killer mood
Hydra, from master action director Kensuke Sonomura, boasts both thrilling duels between lethal assassins and warm, skillful character work.
Berlinale 2021: “Drift Away” is a riveting but frustrating police thriller
Xavier Beauvois’ procedural offers intriguing day-in-the-life police work, despite an abrupt late-film shift into melodrama.