![]() ![]() Those individual ballots were totted up into the Top 20 below. With all the year’s major releases now out, the members of Team Empire were polled for their top 10 films of 2022. As Vin Diesel perhaps said it best: “The movies.” And it’s been a year of comebacks – not just from Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, but the cinema itself. It’s been a year of auteurs taking on gigantic budgets and doing fascinating things with them. It’s been a year of searing social commentary, delivered in the form of gripping crowdpleasers. ![]() It’s been the year of the multiverse, both in the MCU and beyond. It’s been a doozy – with picturehouses back open and in full swing, massive blockbusters sweeping across screens and into our eyeballs, and all kinds of cinematic surprises winning our hearts. Here we are: somehow it’s December already, 2022 has flown by at Mach 10 speed, and it’s already time to tot up the very best movies of the year. ![]()
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