100 Films to Look Forward To in 2022

Welcome to 2022! With the calendar fully turned over from 2021, we’re about to get an entire slate of new movies to dig into. This coming weekend, The 355 is the first major release of the year. Beyond that? Well, there’s literally everything. Last year, I posed this list for 2021 on January 1st (here) and managed to hit on a lot of the major flicks. Of course, I didn’t hit on everything, and even some of the ones I did have graduated to this list. Today, you’ll see my collection of the 100 bits of cinema that I most think are worth considering during the impending twelve months. Fun, right? Yeah, I thought so.

Below, you’ll find a number of films that I’m excited about in the year to come. In a handful of cases, I’ve already seen them. In fact, there may even be reviews on the site (linked when so). Hey, maybe I’m even embargoed on one or two bigger ones? Who knows? Regardless, 2022 has some really intriguing titles on the horizon. There are blockbusters like The Batman, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Flash, Jurassic World: Dominion, Mission: Impossible 7, Thor: Love and Thunder, Top Gun: Maverick, and more. We have Oscar fare like Babylon, The Fablemans, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, She Said, and The Whale, to name a few. Plus, there are things that just appeal to certain audiences, but that’s cool too. Obviously, considering I have Clerks III on this list ranked highly, I’m fine with that. Take a look next and stay tuned for all of these titles, or at least the ones that don’t get delayed…

Here now are 100 movies to look forward to this year:

1. Clerks III
2. The Batman
3. Babylon
4. The Whale
5. She Said
6. The Fablemans
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Blonde
9. Bubble
10. Deep Water
11. Nope
12. Mission: Impossible 7
13. The Worst Person in the World
14. Maestro
15. Poor Things
16. Armageddon Time
17. Thor: Love and Thunder
18. The Actor
19. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
20. The Flash
21. Pleasure
22. Top Gun: Maverick
23. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
24. Lightyear
25. Jurassic World: Dominion
26. Creed III
27. Disappointment Blvd.
28. The Gray Man
29. Cat Person
30. Bullet Train
31. Halloween Ends
32. The Son
33. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)
34. Don’t Worry Darling
35. Next Goal Wins
36. The Banshees of Inseherin
37. TAR
38. Apollo 10 1/2
39. I Wanna Dance With Somebody
40. Avatar 2
41. Red, White and Water
42. Untitled David O. Russell Project
43. Batgirl
44. Rebel Ridge
45. Barbie
46. Asteroid City
47. Turning Red
48. White Noise
49. Knives Out 2
50. The Northman
51. Crimes of the Future
52. Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)
53. Uncharted
54. Emancipation
55. The Good Nurse
56. Elvis
57. Bones and All
58. Kitbag
59. Havoc
60. Black Adam
61. Three Thousand Years of Longing
62. Showing Up
63. KIMI
64. The Survivor
65. Triangle of Sadness
66. Scream
67. After Yang
68. Dual
69. Women Talking
70. The Listener
71. Prey
72. Men
73. Empire of Light
74. The Greatest Beer Run
75. Bros
76. Ambulance
77. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
78. When You Finish Saving the World
79. Dog
80. The Lost City
81. Moonfall
82. Brothers
83. Operation Mincemeat
84. The Black Phone
85. Everything Everywhere All At Once
86. Morbius
87. Peter Pan & Wendy
88. Nitram
89. I Want You Back
90. Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
91. The Haunted Mansion
92. Borderlands
93. Legally Blonde 3
94. Hellraiser
95. Pinocchio
96. Super Mario
97. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
98. The Way of the Wind (The Last Planet)
99. Death on the Nile
100. Rifkin’s Festival

Here’s to a great year (and film year) in 20221