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Best Movies of 2022 That You Might Have Missed

The Banshees of Inisherin

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Colm (Brendan Gleeson) forsakes the “dull” Pádraic (Colin Farrell) in part because he’s chilled by the prospect of leaving no mark upon the world from his modest perch on a tiny Irish island; this in turn unmoors Pádraic from his default gentility.

HBO

NOPE

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While Jordan Peele’s latest attempt to refresh the horror genre wasn’t met with quite as much box office success as Get Out or Us, I have a good feeling the alien thriller NOPE is the one we’ll all still be watching years, even decades, from now.

Peacock, Apple TV, Prime Video

Everything Everywhere All at Once

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There’s nothing in the directing Daniels duo’s past (Swiss Army Man, The Death of Dick Long) that ever suggested they could craft a Marvel-worthy epic that also has really emotion — highlighted by Michelle Yeoh’s amazing turn as a Chinese American immigrant who owns a struggling laundromat and has sudden access to an infinitely weird number of parallel universes.

Showtime, Paramount+, Prime Video, Hulu

Top Gun: Maverick

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As a human, Tom Cruise is somewhat of an unrelatable weirdo. As Maverick, even the second time around, he’s just about perfect and would have been enough to connect this sequel to Tony Scott’s 1986 film. But, since this is a blockbuster about fighter jets, friendship and freedom, director Joseph Kosinski opted to bombard his audience with callbacks to the first Top Gun, going so far as to get “Danger Zone” out of the mothballs.

Apple TV, Prime Video

Confess, Fletch

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Diverging from Chevy Chase’s smarmy take on the lead role, Jon Hamm plays detective I.M. Fletcher as an irresistibly rumpled smartass, his strong moral compass allowing for an insubordinate streak that gets the better of cops and rich losers. If this were the ’50s, or the ’70s, or maybe the ’90s, Hamm would be one of America’s biggest movie stars.

Paramount+, Showtime, Hulu

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

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The mockumentary follows our one-inch-tall hero (voiced by Slate) as he embarks on a mission to find his long-lost family, all while serving as caretaker for his elderly grandmother (Rossellini), who is starting to show signs of dementia and, we later learn, slowly dying.

Prime Video, Apple TV

Crimes of the Future

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In a biological dystopia in which human bodies spontaneously grow strange new organs, body artist (and author surrogate) Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) faces the problems of aging, writ metaphorical: tumorous growths, trouble digesting. But in the playful partnership, in art and life, of Saul and Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Cronenberg also discovers a boundless, eternally youthful sense of wonder, pleasure and creativity.

Hulu, Prime Video

X

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Rather than implicitly sneering at its protagonists for their recklessness or recoiling in pure horror over the elderly couple who bring about their doom, West recognizes the fleeting promise of youth alongside the invisibility that comes for all of us as old age saps our bodies — but not necessarily our desires. Both ends of this cycle are embodied by Mia Goth, in a stunning dual role as ambitious burgeoning porn star Maxine and the wistful murderess Pearl (further explored in the companion film Pearl, released later in the year).

Showtime, Prime Video

The Northman

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Eggers certainly gave himself a difficult task by attempting to craft a saga based on the Scandinavian legend of Amleth, the direct inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but he was able to add a worthy story to that lineage by coaxing unforgettable performances out of leads and supporting actors alike (Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang) and marrying them with beautifully brutal cinematic stylings that combined the best of down-and-dirty shoots in Ireland and Iceland with the requisite hand of ethereal CGI

Prime Video

While 2022 featured a few frustrating examples of worthy comedies being buried on streaming services rather than being granted a wide theatrical release, it also offered a little reassurance that not every blockbuster has to be a superhero movie with the success of summer popcorn flicks like NOPE and Top Gun: Maverick. And of course, as always, there were plenty of compelling indie arthouse films to sink our teeth into as well.

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