Movies: Popular Movies of 2022

Movies in chronological context: 2022 (MMXXII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade. The United Nations declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development, and the International Year of Glass. 2022 saw the continued impact of an inflation surge as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began in 2020, has continued, and the year saw the lifting of COVID restrictions, and reopening of international borders. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, has caused the displacement of 13.7 million Ukrainians (7.7 million internally displaced persons and 6 million refugees) and lead to international condemnations and sanctions, the withdrawal of hundreds of companies from Russia, and the exclusion of Russia from major sporting events. ()