22 Movies We’re Excited to See in 2022

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2

Current U.S. Release Date: April 8

Following the success of 2020’s “just before the pandemic” release of Sonic the Hedgehog, Jim Carrey’s mustachioed villain, now fully transformed into a more classic-looking Doctor Robotnik, returns from the Mushroom Planet in search for the Master Emerald, with the help of an Idris Elba-voiced Knuckles the Echidna. Ben Schwartz is also back, voicing speedy super hedgie Sonic, who now must team with a new friend, Tails, in order to stop the emerald from falling into Eggman’s hands.

THE NORTHMAN

Current U.S. Release Date: April 22

In what some are already jokingly referring to as the origin story for True Blood’s Eric Northman, The Northman stars Alexander Skarsgård as a Viking prince on an epic journey to seek justice for his murdered father. The Witch and The Lighthouse’s Robert Eggers brings his flair for all things grim and haunting to this period revenge tale, which also stars Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, and Bill Skarsgård along with established Eggers players Willem Dafoe and Anya Taylor-Joy.

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

Current U.S. Release Date: May 6

Director Sam Raimi not only returns to the world of Marvel superheroes, but officially joins the MCU with the second Doctor Strange movie, which now, thanks to Spider-Man: No Way Home, is probably one of the most buzzed about movies of 2022. The helmer of the Sony’s original Spidey trilogy, Raimi, even brings Danny Elfman with him to provide the score as Benedict Cumberbatch’s Strange enlists (a much more powerful) Wanda Maximoff to help him contend with threats from a crumbling multiverse. Original Doctor Strange stars Rachel McAdams and Chiwetel Ejiofor return, as Christine and Mordo, while Xochitl Gomez makes her MCU debut as America Chavez.

JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION

Current U.S. Release Date: June 10

The second Jurassic trilogy concludes with its own collision of old and new as both casts combine for one final dino-pocalypse. O.G. Park players Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum (who cameoed in 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) join World headliners Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard for an adventure set four years after the events of the last movie. With genetically engineered dinosaurs auctioned to companies around the world and others released on the U.S. mainland, humanity is now dealing with invasive dinos at every turn.