Best movies of 2022
We dissect the cinema of 2022. Here is our top ranking from best to worst based strictly on our editorial autopsies.
Caye Casas delivers one of the most uncomfortable, cruel, and unbearable black comedies in the history of Spanish cinema—all thanks to a bad decorating decision.
The Philippou brothers make their explosive A24 debut with a suffocating, hyper-realistic horror film that reinvents possession movies for the TikTok era.
A teenage nightmare where bullying reeks of rotting flesh and revenge tastes like fresh blood. Gothic thriller with more grease than a slaughterhouse.
Ti West and Mia Goth team up for a mesmerizing and unhinged retro slasher that pays homage to classic Hollywood melodrama and deranged minds.
Zach Cregger makes his horror debut in spectacular, suicidal fashion, splitting his film in half to deliver the world’s most dangerous Airbnb.
Carlos Vermut plunges us into the abyss of guilt and unspeakable perversion in 'Manticore', a psychological thriller of unbearable discomfort.
A high-end chef joins his family’s diner. Can the flames of culinary passion salvage the chaos—or will the kitchen burn them all alive?
Ti West delivers a filthy, lascivious, and razor-sharp love letter to '70s indie porn and rural slasher classics, set on a Texas farm where the only thing sharper than the knives is the satire.
Gary Oldman turns Jackson Lamb into a corrosive force of nature in one of the best and most cynical revisions of the British espionage thriller.
A scathing review of *The Menu*, the film that’ll make you question the true cost of exclusivity
Dr. Rose Cotter confronts her past in this horror flick that’ll leave you grinning—through sheer terror
Paco Plaza teams up with Carlos Vermut to deliver his most restrained and stylized film yet. A disturbing yet breathtaking intergenerational duel between Almudena Amor and Vera Valdez, swapping cheap scares for the real horror of time’s passage. We break down why this pivot to "elevated horror" deserves high marks under our microscope. 💀
Santiago Fillol serves up a rotten meat platter in 'Slaughterhouse': visual ambition, ravenous actors, and a script bleeding out across the Pampas. Is this art—or just a slaughterhouse of ideas?
A low‑budget zombie apocalypse that works in bursts and bores elsewhere. Byers does what he can with 84 minutes and almost no money.
A scathing critique that acknowledges the hits of Ruth Platt's unsettling work, but points out its lack of surprise and pacing.
Madison travels to Thailand in search of "authenticity" and ends up in an Instagram thriller where likes taste like blood. Art or self-promotion with filters?
Alex Garland delivers a rural horror pamphlet with more pretension than substance. Jessie Buckley suffers, the English countryside seethes, and the patriarchy disguises itself as allegory. Masterpiece or pretentious drivel?
Damien Leone resurrects Art the Clown with more blood, fewer ideas, and a budget that reeks of gas-station pizza. Cult classic or celluloid vomit?
An acidic review of the environmental and commercial controversy surrounding James Cameron's ode to Pandora.
Raúl Cerezo turns a promising concept into 91 minutes of tension that deflates faster than a used airbag. Canned scares or just plain narrative laziness?
