The Oscars? Psh. We got the real best movies of 2022 right here!

It’s that time of year again where the folks at Ranked celebrate our favourite movies of last year in our annual Top 5 Movies episode! And what a year for movies we had in 2022 from action, drama, rom-coms, animation, horror, etc. there was something of great quality for everyone in 2022 (except for arguably super-hero films #sorrynotsorry). So join Tuong La and Film Nerds Taylor Fleming, Alyssa Wooldrige, and Laura Gordon as they slap the Oscars out of the way to bring you the real Top 5 Movies of 2022.

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Ground Rules

• Movies must have come out in 2022
• Does NOT need to be an Oscar contender.
• Some movies came out last year don’t qualify for this year’s Oscars. We don’t really care about that. As long as it came out in 2022 it’s fair game to us
• “Specials” don’t count as movies. (ie Comedy Specials)
• Movies that are on our list are OUR favorite movies of 2022 and therefore don’t need to be considered the “best” for everyone else.
• Documentaries count
• Some movies came out in 2021 but had a wider release in 2022. If by and large it was more accessible in 2022 (like it had an international release in 2022) then that counts.

*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as some unordered lists and some ordered lists

Group Top 5

5. Tár

4.  Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

3. The Banshees of Inisherin

2. Top Gun: Maverick

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

Tuong’s Top 10 List (ordered)

10. The Batman

9. The Banshees of Inisherin

8. Turning Red

7. The Menu

6. Barbarian

5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

4. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

3. RRR

2. Aftersun

1.Everything Everywhere All at Once

Honorable Mentions: Avatar: Way of Water, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Spirited, Nope, Pinocchio (the animated one), The Lost City, The Woman King, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Glass Onion, Prey, Top Gun: Maverick

Dishonourable Mentions: Halloween Ends, Morbius, basically all the MCU movies that came out in 2022 just bummed me out which is weird for me to say as this is the first year none of them really resonated with me besides Wakanda Forever but even that has disappeared in my memory.

Taylor’s Honourable Mentions (unordered)

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Tár
• RRR

Taylor has a lot of overlapping honourable mentions but wanted to shout out “the best year of horror” in a very long time so here goes:

• Nope
• Fresh
• Scream
• X/Pearl
• The Innocence
• Prey
• Resurrection
• Freaky
• Incantation
• Barbarian
• Watcher
• VHS 99
• Sissy
• Terrifier 2
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
• Saloum
• Candyman
• Men
• Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion
• Something in the Dirt
• Deadstream
• The Sadness

Alyssa’s List

• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Fablemans
• The Lost City
• Afteryang
• Babylon
• Women Talking
• Vengeance
• Confess, Fletch
• Triangle of Sadness
• The Batman

Laura’s List

• Spirited
• The Woman King
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Falling for Christmas
• Something from Tiffany’s
• The Christmas Retreat
• The Noel Diary
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Bros.
• Glass Onion
• Living
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• Women Talking