Movies

Clockwise from top left: The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Only Murders in the Building, Nope, This Is Going to Hurt and The Dropout

Arts

The best movies and TV of 2022, picked for you by NPR critics

7:00am December 20, 2022

Whether you plan to head out to the theater, or binge from the couch, our critics have gathered together their favorite films and TV shows of the year. Happy watching!

It seems like there is no mission too impossible for Tom Cruise

6:02am December 20, 2022

While filming in South Africa, Tom Cruise thanked his fans for making Top Gun: Maverick a box office hit as he jumped out of an aircraft. He is shooting the new Mission Impossible movie.

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For more than a month, witnesses gave graphic testimony of how former film producer Harvey Weinstein would lure women to private meetings in hotel rooms that quickly turned violent.

Harvey Weinstein found guilty on 3 of 7 charges in Los Angeles

7:32pm December 19, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

Weinstein's legal trouble is far from over. In London, he faces criminal charges of indecent assault of a woman in 1996.

Angelo Badalamenti in a portrait taken Feb. 9, 1990. The composer, best known for his work with director David Lynch, died Dec. 11, 2022.

The fantasia of Angelo Badalamenti, veil-piercing composer

4:36pm December 19, 2022

by Meaghan Garvey

Among other things Badalamenti's music, soft and bizarre and surging, was an emotional compass for the uncanny creations of director David Lynch.

Arts

A critic revisits his list of the TV and movies he wished he covered in 2022

1:27pm December 19, 2022

by John Powers

Every year, John Powers looks back on the great features he never got around to talking about. This year's list includes White Lotus, The Menu, Nanny and Dark Winds — plus one vodka commercial.

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Fans have long debated whether there was room for both Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) on the makeshift raft in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.

Arts

James Cameron aims to finally put that 'Titanic' door debate to rest, 25 years later

9:15am December 19, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The blockbuster hit theaters on Dec. 19, 1997. Since then, fans have debated whether Jack could have survived on the makeshift raft. Now Cameron says a forensic analysis rules that out definitively.

James Cameron's epic movie 'Titanic' was released 25 years ago

5:06am December 19, 2022

Starring Leonardo de Caprio and Kate Winslet, Titanic became the first movie to gross a billion dollars. The special effects of the late 1990s are part of what made this film a blockbuster.

Taraneh Alidoosti arrives for a movie premiere at the Cannes film festival in southern France on May 25. Iranian authorities arrested Alidoosti, one of the country's most famous actresses, on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests, state media said Saturday.

Iran arrests a top actress who expressed solidarity with a man executed over protests

1:16pm December 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning movie The Salesman, was detained after she made an Instagram post about the first man recently executed for crimes committed during nationwide protests.

Arts

Take the plunge: Avatar's underwater scenes are immersive and extraordinary

2:05pm December 16, 2022

by Justin Chang

Avatar: The Way of Water may not be one of the best movies of the year, but it is one of the best movie-going experiences of the year. (Think: Jacques Cousteau on shrooms.)

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Books
Arts

What a classic '50s Western can teach us about the Hollywood Blacklist

2:04pm December 16, 2022

by Terry Gross

Author Glenn Frankel says the 1952 film High Noon was inspired by the toxic political climate of the time. Originally broadcast Feb. 21, 2017.

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