The 20 Best Movies of 2022 So Far

After a brief awards-qualifying run late last year, Norwegian drama The Worst Person in the World received a proper theatrical release in February of this year—just a few days ahead of receiving a pair of Academy Award nominations (for both Best International Feature and, more surprisingly for a foreign-language film, Best Original Screenplay). And those certainly weren't the only honors given to the concluding chapter in director Joachim Trier's "Oslo Trilogy." Worst Person is an episodic character study that spends four years with a woman in her early thirties, played by Renate Reinsve in her first (but certainly not her last) lead performance. Trier's film began collecting accolades at its Cannes debut last summer (where Reinsve won best actress honors) and continued to do so through its American release this year.

“The film has the measured and expansive quality of real life, which could have been dull. It’s anything but that. Instead, by making Julie so real and vivid, Reinsve and Trier accomplish something rare. They make everything that happens to her feel as interesting as if it were happening to you.” —Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle