The Top 10 Movies of 2022

An annual ranking.

This was as “normal” a movie year that we’ve had since the pandemic hit, but it still had that end-of-days vibe every movie year seems to have anymore: It strikes me as a worrisome sign that so many prestige end-of-year releases had “the power of the movies” as their explicit subject, which is not something anyone would feel obliged to say out loud if the movies themselves weren’t in…