41 Movies We Can't Wait to See in 2022

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( 2022 PREVIEW [41 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2022]( From the J.Lo rom-comaissance to new horror from Jordan Peele and Ari Aster — plus sequels, sequels, sequels. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of the Studios The movies are back! Or so we hope whenever COVID-era box-office records are smashed again as a [car rockets off into space]( or a Spider-Man [finds himself (and his other selves too)](. Box-office grosses more than doubled from 2020 to 2021, and while that’s good news (for theaters, yes, but especially for Marvel and Sony, whose films took four of the top five highest-earning spots), we’re still a long way from what we used to count as “normal.” Omicron numbers are surging, sending release dates into another spiral of uncertainty. There are so many questions: Will this year’s Sundance Film Festival unfold in person as planned? Will we ever see Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas seduce each other in Dark Water, once slated to release in January and now once again TBD? Will the first published version of this entire list be obsolete in a week’s time? [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [Yellowjackets:]( We Are What We Pretend to Be • [The Bachelor Season Premiere:]( Everybody Hates Clayton [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Who’s the Saddest on This Is Us? Time once again to get reacclimated with the sadness that is life with the Pearsons.]( [The Nirvana Baby’s Nevermind Porn Lawsuit Has Been Dismissed Here we are now, litigate us.]( [These Are the Shows Closing or Canceling Performances Because of Omicron Waitress, Thoughts of a Colored Man, and Jagged Little Pill have ended their runs early.]( [Andy Cohen Regrets That He Drunkenly ‘Slammed’ Ryan Seacrest on New Year’s Eve But he stands by what he said about de Blasio.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo: NBC If you need your memory refreshed before season six arrives or if you’ve never watched the show, we rounded up 18 essential episodes of [This Is Us](. [Read more from Vulture]( If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved