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Best Movies of 2022, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
140 films from 2022 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Top Gun: Maverick ('2022), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Where the Crawdads Sing, 7.2 on IMDb against 43 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Top Gun: Maverick '2022 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 78 | 8.2 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 2 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 3 | Everything Everywhere All at Once '2022 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 93% | 81 | 7.7 | Daniel Scheinert |
| 4 | All Quiet on the Western Front '2022 | War / Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 76 | 7.7 | Edward Berger |
| 5 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish '2022 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.9 | - | 73 | 8.2 | Joel Crawford |
| 6 | RRR '2022 | Action / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 83 | 7.7 | S. S. Rajamouli |
| 7 | Avatar: The Way of Water '2022 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 76% | 67 | 7.6 | James Cameron |
| 8 | The Whale '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 64% | 60 | 7.8 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 9 | The Banshees of Inisherin '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 96% | 87 | 7.5 | Martin McDonagh |
| 10 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio '2022 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama | 7.6 | 27% | 79 | 8.0 | Mark Gustafson |
| 11 | A Man Called Otto '2022 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 70% | 51 | 7.7 | Marc Forster |
| 12 | Bullet Train '2022 | Action / Comedy / Thriller | 7.3 | 53% | 49 | 7.4 | David Leitch |
| 13 | Aftersun '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 95 | 7.7 | Charlotte Wells |
| 14 | Thirteen Lives '2022 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 66 | 7.8 | Ron Howard |
| 15 | The Fabelmans '2022 | Drama | 7.5 | 92% | 85 | 7.6 | Steven Spielberg |
| 16 | Elvis '2022 | Musical / Drama | 7.3 | 77% | 64 | 7.4 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 17 | Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts '2022 | Documentary | 8.0 | 93% | - | 7.3 | Joe Pearlman |
| 18 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery '2022 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 91% | 81 | 7.0 | Rian Johnson |
| 19 | Hustle '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 94% | 68 | 7.7 | Jeremiah Zagar |
| 20 | The Menu '2022 | Comedy / Horror | 7.1 | 88% | 71 | 7.2 | Mark Mylod |
| 21 | Triangle of Sadness '2022 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 71% | 63 | 7.0 | Ruben Östlund |
| 22 | TÁR '2022 | Musical / Drama | 7.4 | - | 93 | 7.1 | Todd Field |
| 23 | Suzume '2022 | Animation / Drama / Fantasy | 7.6 | - | 77 | 7.9 | Makoto Shinkai |
| 24 | Prey '2022 | Thriller / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 94% | 71 | 7.6 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 25 | Where the Crawdads Sing '2022 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 34% | 43 | 7.5 | Olivia Newman |
| 26 | Close '2022 | Drama | 7.8 | 91% | 81 | 7.8 | Lukas Dhont |
| 27 | Babylon '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 57% | 61 | 7.3 | Damien Chazelle |
| 28 | The Northman '2022 | Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 90% | 82 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 29 | Barbarian '2022 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 92% | 78 | 6.9 | Zach Cregger |
| 30 | The Outfit '2022 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 86% | 69 | 7.1 | Graham Moore |
| 31 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent '2022 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 87% | 68 | 6.8 | Tom Gormican |
| 32 | Pearl '2022 | Horror / Drama | 7.0 | 93% | 76 | 7.2 | Ti West |
| 33 | The Black Phone '2022 | Horror / Thriller | 6.9 | 81% | 65 | 7.5 | Scott Derrickson |
| 34 | Decision to Leave '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 94% | 85 | 7.3 | Park Chan-wook |
| 35 | Werewolf by Night '2022 | Action / Fantasy / Horror | 7.1 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Michael Giacchino |
| 36 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness '2022 | Fantasy / Action | 6.8 | 73% | 60 | 7.2 | Sam Raimi |
| 37 | The Tinder Swindler '2022 | Documentary / Crime | 7.1 | 97% | - | 7.0 | Felicity Morris |
| 38 | Turning Red '2022 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Domee Shi |
| 39 | Nope '2022 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.8 | 83% | 77 | 6.8 | Jordan Peele |
| 40 | Sisu '2022 | Action / War / Thriller | 6.9 | 94% | 70 | 7.4 | Jalmari Helander |
| 41 | The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special '2022 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 95% | - | 7.1 | James Gunn |
| 42 | The Beasts '2022 | Thriller / Drama | 7.5 | 99% | 85 | 7.5 | Rodrigo Sorogoyen |
| 43 | The Sea Beast '2022 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 94% | 74 | 7.3 | Chris Williams |
| 44 | The Woman King '2022 | Action / Drama / War | 6.9 | 94% | 76 | 7.6 | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| 45 | The Bad Guys '2022 | Action / Animation / Comedy / Crime | 6.9 | 87% | 64 | 7.5 | Pierre Perifel |
| 46 | Enola Holmes 2 '2022 | Mystery / Crime | 6.8 | 93% | 64 | 7.4 | Harry Bradbeer |
| 47 | The Adam Project '2022 | Sci-Fi / Comedy | 6.7 | 68% | 55 | 7.0 | Shawn Levy |
| 48 | The Good Nurse '2022 | Drama / Crime / Mystery | 6.8 | 74% | 65 | 6.9 | Tobias Lindholm |
| 49 | DC League of Super-Pets '2022 | Comedy / Animation / Sci-Fi / Action | 6.8 | 72% | 56 | 7.1 | Jared Stern |
| 50 | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers '2022 | Animation / Comedy / Mystery | 6.9 | - | 66 | 7.0 | Akiva Schaffer |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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