The 50 Best Movies of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 4, 2023

Here is Metacritic's final list of the 50 best-reviewed movies of 2022, ranked by Metascore. This list only includes films receiving at least 7 reviews from professional critics.

All films released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 in at least one U.S. theater or directly to streaming or VOD/digital services were eligible for inclusion. Short films and reissues are excluded. Titles are ranked by Metascore (a weighted average of scores from top professional critics) prior to rounding based on scores as of January 1, 2023.

Additional content by Keith Kimbell.

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86 One Fine Morning (Un beau matin)

(#19) Really more of a 2023 movie than a 2022 release (but we'll count it), writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s follow-up to Bergman Island won the Best European Film Prize at the 2022 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. The French-language drama tells the story of a single mother (a much-praised Léa Seydoux) trying to balance her father’s progressing dementia and a complicated new love affair. It marks a return to France and a return to form for Hansen-Løve, who seems to have found the perfect partner in Seydoux, resulting in her best reviews since 2016’s Things to Come, another portrait made up of minute details with a beautifully complex performance at its center.

One Fine Morning will begin its regular North American theatrical rollout in LA and NY on January 27, 2023 following a one-week theatrical qualifying run in early December.

“I can go on and on about the multiple tiny lightning bolts Hansen-Løve catches in her bottle. Arguably the biggest lightning she caught was hiring Seydoux.” —Alex Saveliev, Film Threat

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