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Best films US 2022

23 December 2022

  • Top 50 Films - 4 - 1. Parallel Mothers, Aftersun and The Quiet Girl

    The 50 best movies of 2022 in the US

    The No 1 film is a stunning directorial debut, one of the finest cinematic moments of any year – see which other movies you may have missed
  • Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio in Aftersun.

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 1 – Aftersun

    This extraordinary debut by director Charlotte Wells tells the poignant story of a father-daughter relationship. Understated, deceptively simple, it shimmers with mystery and tragedy
  • Charlotte Wells<br>Writer-director Charlotte Wells poses for a portrait at Mother Tongue restaurant in Toronto to promote the film "Aftersun," during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

    Charlotte Wells on Aftersun, The Guardian’s best film of the year: ‘The grief expressed is mine’

    The Scottish director discusses the impact and autobiography of her debut film, about a father (Paul Mescal) and daughter (Frankie Corio) on holiday in the late 1990s

22 December 2022

  • ‘Y’all are weirdos’ … Daniel Scheinert (left) and Daniel Kwan.

    ‘Y’all are weirdos!’ How Everything Everywhere All at Once became sleeper hit of the year

    Co-directors and writers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – aka “the Daniels” – on their madcap sci-fi fantasy, 2022’s indisputable mainstream breakthrough
  • Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski

    Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski: ‘Of all Tom Cruise’s characters, Maverick might be closest to his real personality’

    The belated sequel to Top Gun is easily the highest-grossing film of 2022 – as well as Tom Cruise’s most successful movie ever. Its director explains how hard it was to make the film and why its star never, ever gives up
  • TAR, Cate Blanchett, 2022. © Focus Features /Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2K8W9G7 TAR, film still, Cate Blanchett, 2022. © Focus Features /Courtesy Everett Collection

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 2 – Tár

    A career-best Cate Blanchett embodies the cold center of Todd Field’s audacious character study of a composer grappling with her sins

21 December 2022

  • Full of secrets … Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl.

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 3 – The Quiet Girl

    Sent to stay with distant relatives in rural Ireland, nine-year-old Cáit brings love back into their weary lives – though this gentle story has sinister depths

20 December 2022

  • Hit the Road - Press film still

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 4 – Hit the Road

    Emotion bubbles beneath the surface of Panah Panahi’s outstanding road movie, as a family help one son leave Iran – while keeping the truth from his little brother

19 December 2022

  • NT Rama Rao Jr as Komaram Bheem in RRR

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 5 – RRR

    An epic tale of two Indian revolutionaries told in all its plot-twisting, tiger-fighting, action-packed glory makes for a joyous, often ludicrous movie of air-punching brilliance

16 December 2022

  • This image released by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment shows Michelle Williams in a scene from "The Fabelmans." (Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment via AP)

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 6 – The Fabelmans

    Steven Spielberg’s thorny family drama gave us unusual insight into how the world’s most famous director came to be

15 December 2022

  • Kíla Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke and Florence Pugh in The Wonder.

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 7 – The Wonder

    A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – and Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance

13 December 2022

  • Park Hae-il and Tang Wei in Decision to Leave.

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 9 – Decision to Leave

    Tang Wei is intense, intimidating and delectable as a woman being investigated over her husband’s mysterious death, in Park Chan-wook’s gorgeous Hitchcockian thriller

12 December 2022

  • SAINT OMER 2022 de Alice Diop Kayije Kagame. Prod DB © Srab Films - Arte France Cinema<br>2K8K9XW SAINT OMER film still 2022 de Alice Diop Kayije Kagame. Prod DB © Srab Films - Arte France Cinema

    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 10 – Saint Omer

    Alice Diop’s award-winning courtroom drama doubles as an unsentimental study in empathy with one of the year’s most mesmerising performances
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