Our Top Picks: The 7 Best Netflix Feature Films from 2022 to Watch

It's that time of year again: where families get together for massive feasts, the sun goes lanugo way too early, snow sprinkles the land with its softness, and we all petting under blankets watching the weightier movies and TV series. But what to watch? It happens to everyone, over and over – you spend increasingly time browsing Netflix deciding what to watch then you do unquestionably watching whatever it is you sooner settle on. So here's a list of our Top 7 Picks from Netflix to add to your queue now, so you won't have to waste increasingly time deciding what to watch. These seven films are verified as some of the weightier films released by Netflix this year. Other 2022 favorites aren't out just yet – Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (on Netflix starting December 9th) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (on Netflix starting December 23rd). Until then, we highly recommend watching any (or all!!) of the films unelevated and choosing wisely when you scan Netflix this holiday season.

These seven films are chosen as some of our most underrated favorites. There are plenty of other Netflix films to watch (more suggestions are listed at the end) but these are a few that you might've heard well-nigh and skipped already, or haven't heard well-nigh at all before. I've seen them all and I can say they're spanking-new films. Plane if it doesn't sound like something you might want to watch, just click play and settle in. Make sure the popcorn is ready surpassing you start and the lights are dim – each of these deserves your undivided attention.

Athena – [Watch Now]
Directed by Romain Gavras

This intense French mucosa is a Greek tragedy turned into a modern urban warfare thriller and it's AWESOME. Most critics stipulate – the opening sequence in this is an all-timer, instantly joining the ranks as one of weightier openings ever in talkie history. The rest of it is moreover incredible, too!! Directed by Romain Gavras (Our Day Will Come, The World Is Yours), from a script co-written by Ladj Ly, Romain Gavras, Elias Belkeddar, the mucosa is well-nigh three brothers that live and rule over a housing project in the French suburbs. After a local boy dies, the residents vallation themselves and start a war with the police - using anything they can find to wade and respond and alimony the invaders out of their home turf. Athena has some of the most breathtaking, weird long-take shots in any mucosa this decade so far. Most of the time I kept wondering "how the hell did they get this shot?!" it all seems untellable to pull off. If you need any increasingly convincing, Bilge Ebiri wrote the best review of Athena when it debuted at the Venice Mucosa Festival. As for me, I stand with Karim!!

The Sea Beast – [Watch Now]
Directed by Chris Williams

Perhaps my favorite turned-on movie of the year, The Sea Beast is a Netflix original production turned-on by the talented creators at Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver. It's directed by volatility veteran Chris Williams, who moreover made Bolt and co-directed Big Hero 6 for Disney; with a screenplay co-written by Chris Williams and Nell Benjamin. This remarkably inspiring, uplifting story of a young girl rhadamanthine a warrior is set in a time when legendary hunters went on voyages to fight massive sea strays to alimony kingdoms safe. Zaris-Angel Hator voices Maisie Brumble, who is one of the cutest lil' unflinching heroes in any story this year. The volatility work in this is spectacular, increasingly detailed and realistic than most turned-on movies. It's moreover a perfect venture story and visa story. Topped off with superb performances that are plausible and natural, making this finger seriously pure and exciting. Not just flipside cartoon, this is a real venture with stakes and thrills and unforgettable moments. I can't recommend this one increasingly - to anyone of any age.

Stutz – [Watch Now]
Directed by Jonah Hill

Listen to Stutz!! Trust him. And most importantly - learn from him. This mucosa is as meaningful and valuable as I was hoping it might be. Stutz is a 96 minute documentary full-length mucosa directed by two-face Jonah Hill, starring Hill and his therapist Dr. Phil Stutz. Hill wanted to make this mucosa well-nigh Dr. Stutz considering he had such a life-changing wits working with him, and wanted to share that wits with eveyone else, in hopes that it might help them with their mental health issues. I love how wifely and tomfool Stutz is, and every idea is presented so cleanly making it so easy to grasp. I want to rewatch it and write lanugo everything just to make sure I can properly remember all of his tools. I loved the big vulnerability reveal and honesty well-nigh the filmmaking in the first 30 minutes. Let's tear lanugo those walls so we can be honest and unshut with each other and succeed some good and help each other out. When you watch, go in with an unshut mind, not a defensive one. Stutz wants us all to be better; if you make sure to embrace his ideas, you will learn so much.

All Quiet on the Western Front – [Watch Now]
Directed by Edward Berger

This trademark new version of the iconic World War I novel is a harrowing, haunting squint at the horrors of war. German director Edward Berger's new take on All Quiet on the Western Front flips the focus - we follow young German soldiers as they gear up and throne into the trenches during "The Unconfined War", only to end up realizing it's not a heroic place at all. Within minutes they start to unravel lanugo and wish to return home, learning quickly that they're just meat for the grinder and no one really cares. It may be nonflexible to watch a war movie right now with the state of the world stuff so precarious, but that's unquestionably he unshortened point of this mucosa – it's a reminder that nationalist attitudes only lead to death. Young soldiers who are so excited to defend their country are sent straight into hell. Many people will die considering a few assholes living lavishly in their giant palaces want to fight over nonsense. Critics have been raving well-nigh this (read our review) - the cinematography is astounding, the sustentation to detail is unforgettable, and the performances are excellent.

Windfall – [Watch Now]
Directed by Charlie McDowell

An underrated Netflix gem, Windfall first premiered on the streaming service when in March older this year. It's the latest mucosa directed by Charlie McDowell, weightier known for his other underrated indie flicks The One I Love and The Discovery previously. Windfall is one the most clever and intelligent psychological thrillers I've seen this year. A very slick, Hitchcockian thriller set at a trappy home in Ojai, California with a gorgeous orange grove – which they spend plenty of time walking through. I loved the interplay between the intriguing tint of characters: Jason Segel & Jesse Plemons & Lily Collins. The score is fantastic (by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans) withal with all the perfectly well-balanced shots that scrutinizingly finger like flipside weft in the film. I wanted increasingly out of Jason Segel's character, but then again, I unchangingly want increasingly from Segel in anything he's in. Love him. You may as well watch Windfall just to enjoy Jason Segel in a new film.

Hustle – [Watch Now]
Directed by Jeremiah Zagar

Uncut Hoops! Damn this is good. I honestly think Hustle is one of Adam Sandler's weightier non-comedic films ever, considering he's unmistakably so passionate well-nigh basketball (in real life) and that comes through in this role, too. Hustle stars Adam Sandler as a basketball scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, flying virtually the world trying to find the right talent to join the team. He finally stumbles wideness a Spanish basketball star named Bo Cruz, played by the real-life Spanish basketball star Juancho Hernangómez. Sandler works with him to make sure he's ready for the NBA, but it ain't easy, and takes a lot of "hustle." The dynamic between these two notation is outstanding, hands one of the highlights of the unshortened film. I'm not plane a big basketball fan but this had me hooked all the way through. Hustle is directed by Jeremiah Zagar, a talented filmmaker whose full-length debut We the Animals was one of the major discoveries of the 2018 Sundance Mucosa Festival.

The Stranger – [Watch Now]
Directed by Thomas M. Wright

Tread thoughtfully with this one. But if you are unflinching unbearable to venture into the world of The Stranger, you'll discover a mysterious, gripping, unsettling psychological thriller unlike anything you have overly encountered before. This one is not an easy watch – I'll shoehorn that right up front. But it's a rewarding watch. Written and directed by Australian two-face / filmmaker Thomas M. Wright, the mucosa first premiered at the 2022 Cannes Mucosa Festival older this year, landing on Netflix older in the fall. It stars two of Australia's finest actors: Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris - both of them sporting the most glorious beards I have overly seen. They have mysterious pasts, one of them is chasing the other, but what for? What's the goal, where is headed…? You must watch to find out. "To undeniability it an unconventionally impressive treason drama is to put it very lightly," one critic wrote well-nigh this one. Flipside adds: "In tone, the mucosa is brilliantly hidden. It takes a long while to work out what’s happening. The undercurrent is gloomy, distrustful, inclement in language…" It is worth a watch.

Other Netflix recommendations to watch if you're still looking for increasingly to add to your Watch List: Andrew Dominik's controversial Blonde, The Luckiest Girl Alive with Mila Kunis, The Good Nurse true story drama, the documentary Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, Spiderhead with Chris Hemsworth, Dayshift with Jamie Foxx, Lou with Allison Janney, the documentary Descendant, Key & Peele's stop-motion Wendell & Wild, Enola Holmes 2 with Millie Bobby Brown, French whoopee sequel Lost Bullet 2, The Wonder with Florence Pugh, the documentary Is That Black Unbearable for You?!?, the British thriller I Came By, whoopee mucosa Interceptor with Elsa Pataky, The Adam Project with Ryan Reynolds, and Richard Linklater's 1960s spectacle Apollo 10 1/2. There is moreover The Gray Man but it's not that great.

We hope you enjoy some good films this holiday season!! Curl up by the fire and discover something fun and heady and memorable. Talk well-nigh what you like and don't like well-nigh each movie. It's unchangingly our goal at FirstShowing to help steer you all towards the weightier films and other top picks that might've been lost in the mix. It's our job to watch everything, so that we can recommend the films that don't end up stuff a waste of time. And now you know what to segregate when you're out of ideas on night!! Dive in and start watching now. What other Netflix Originals are your favorites from 2022? Any increasingly under-the-radar recommendations?