The 29 most exciting movies coming out before the end of 2022
2022 is already starting to wrap up. Pretty wild, right?
It’s been a good year at the movies, with plenty of theatrical and straight-to-streaming releases that have left a mark on us and kept us entertained. But as usual, many studios and streamers have saved some of their best for last, and there are an exciting slate of movies coming out in the final months of the year.
We’ve got blockbusters, genre fare, likely awards darlings, and so much more. Here are the movies we’re most excited to see before the end of 2022, in the order in which they will be released.
The Senegalese action-horror thriller Saloum follows a trio of wise-cracking mercenaries who, after abducting a drug lord from Guinea-Bissau and absconding with his trove of gold bricks, journey to Sine-Saloum, Senegal, to hide out until the heat dies down. Little do they know, the region harbors a strange and malevolent force that threatens their lives as well as their big payday. —Toussaint Egan
Premieres on Shudder on Sept. 8
I’ve heard exactly two things about Barbarian from friends who have seen it: (1) it’s one of the best, funniest, and scariest horror movies of the year, and (2) you’re best served by knowing nothing going in.
Comedian Zach Cregger, perhaps best known as one of the founding members of The Whitest Kids U’ Know, directed this horror movie starring Georgina Campbell (Black Mirror), Bill Skarsgård (the It movies), and Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers). Campbell plays a woman who shows up to a rental house she booked, only to find another lodger already there. Things get a lot stranger from that point! —PV
In theaters on Sept. 9
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery isn’t the only nouveau whodunnit in the cards this fall. See How They Run, based on its
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