My 30 most anticipated movies of 2022 are listed below in release date order.
Matt Reeves’ The Batman is my most anticipated film of 2022, followed by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), Thor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
About 18 movies in my list are not based on existing big franchises and they are marked with an asterisk. They are either from an original screenplay or based on a book.
You can click on the release dates to view the trailers.
1. The Batman (March 4)
2. Pixar’s Turning Red (March 11) *
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once (March 25) *
4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (May 6)
5. Alex Garland’s Men (May 20) *
6. DC League of Super-Pets (May 20)
7. Jurassic World: Dominion (June 10)
8. Pixar’s Lightyear (June 17)
9. Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone (June 24) *
10. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (June 24) *
11. Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8)
12. David Leitch’s Bullet Train (July 15) *
13. Jordan Peele’s Nope (July 22) *
14. Russo Brothers’ The Gray Man (TBA) *
15. Black Adam (July 29)
16. Distant (September 16) *
17. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (October 7)
18. Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge (TBA) *
19. Joseph Kosinski’s Spiderhead (TBA) *
20. Gareth Evans’ Havoc (TBA) *
21. The Flash (November 4)
22. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (November 11)
23. Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives (November 18) *
24. Rian Johnson’s Knives Out 2 (TBA)
25. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (TBA) *
26. Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (TBA) *
27. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans (November 23) *
28. David Fincher’s The Killer (TBA) *
29. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (December 16)
30. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (December 25) *
