From top-gun mavericks to hormonal pandas, here are the cinematic highlights of this half-year.

It’s been a weird, unpredictable year for many things, including movies.

is still a hell of a drug.

Best Movies of the Year So Far 2022

Credit: Amazon Prime; Everett Collection; Paramount Pictures; Allyson Riggs/A24; Disney/Pixar; Scott Yamano/Netflix; Andrew Cooper/Universal

(And also, the one where everybody’s on mushrooms.)

Hustle

Who knew thatAdam Sandler’sgargantuan Netflix dealcould yield a hoop dream likeHustle?

Ambulance

Insanity, thy name isMichael Bay.

Top Gun Maverick

Paramount Pictures

Renate Reinsve as Julie in ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Renate Reinsve in ‘The Worst Person in the World’.Sundance Institute

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.Allyson Riggs/A24

Hustle

Scott Yamano/Netflix

‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood’

Stanley, voiced by Milo Coy, heads to the moon in ‘Apollo 10 1/2’.Netflix

NAVALNY, Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny in “Navalny”.Everett Collection

Turning Red

‘Turning Red’.Disney/Pixar

HAPPENING

Anamaria Vartolomei in ‘Happening’.Everett Collection

MASTER

Amazon Studios

Ambulance

Universal Pictures