The Menu (2022)
A celebrity chef serves a tasting menu to a room of people who do not deserve it, and the satire of wealth and fine dining is sharp, controlled and very funny until the targets start to sit a little too still. 7.5/10.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
The first German-language film of Remarque's anti-war novel arrives on Netflix as a hard, beautifully made trench picture that is easier to admire than to love. 7.5/10.
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Nope (2022)
Jordan Peele swaps the suburbs for the high desert and aims a summer blockbuster at the question of why we cannot stop looking. Big, strange, and properly cinematic, even when it keeps you at arm's length. 8/10.
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Prey (2022)
A Predator prequel that strips the franchise back to one hunter, one weapon and a question of survival. The leanest entry since the original, and the smartest in years. 8/10.
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Bullet Train (2022)
David Leitch packs a Tokyo bullet train with squabbling assassins and lets the carnage compound. Critics found it overstuffed; I found it the most rewatchable thing of the summer. 9/10.
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The Gray Man (2022)
The Russo brothers spend Netflix's biggest cheque yet on a globe-trotting spy chase with a marquee cast. It is glossy, fast, and a little anonymous, but it is also good fun. 7.5/10.
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Top Gun - Maverick (2022)
Thirty-six years on, Tom Cruise climbs back into the cockpit for a legacy sequel that flies a great deal better than it has any right to. Real jets, real grief, and the most exciting aerial cinema in years. 8/10.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
The Daniels throw the whole multiverse at a tax audit and somehow land a film about a mother and daughter. Exhausting, inventive, and far warmer than its chaos lets on. 8/10.
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The Northman (2022)
Robert Eggers takes his arthouse precision to a Viking revenge saga with a studio budget behind him, and the result is fierce, beautiful and unrelenting. Brutal, committed, and built to be admired more than rewatched. 8/10.
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The Adam Project (2022)
Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds make an unashamed throwback to the family time-travel adventure, and the warmth carries the borrowed parts. 8/10.
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