Best Drama movies of 2022 that are award winners or nominees

Top Gun: Maverick(2022)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.



The Batman(2022)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

When the Riddler, a sadistic serial killer, begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.



Black Panther: Wakanda Forever(2022)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.



Elvis(2022)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.



The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.



Babylon(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.



Causeway(2022)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.



Argentina, 1985(2022)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.



Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery(2022)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.



The Fabelmans(2022)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.



Women Talking(2022)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.



Living(2022)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.



Close(2022)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.



Triangle of Sadness(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.



Aftersun(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.



Empire of Light(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.



To Leslie(2022)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.



EO(2022)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.




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