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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87 The Banshees of Inisherin

(#15) Writer-director Martin McDonagh's latest darkly comedic tale of misanthropy may not quite be his highest-scoring film to date—that would be Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, one point better—but, like the latter, it is likely headed to multiple Oscar nominations. Banshees is set on a remote Irish island in the 1920s where the long-standing friendship between two men (Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson) suddenly erupts into a bitter and violent feud. Both Farrell and Gleeson are favorites for acting nominations, as are co-stars Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan.

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“It’s an end-of-friendship breakup movie that swings between the hilarious, the horrifying and the heartbreaking in magnificent fashion.” —Mark Kermode, The Observer

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