Deadline’s Top International Films Of 2022

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As 2022 draws to an end, Deadline’s critics have each chosen their top three movies of the year to hail from abroad. Some were festival world premieres, and some have made the International Feature Oscar shortlist (not all were put forth by their country of origin, nor are they each in a foreign language).

Donkeys certainly made a splash, including in one 2020 French title that only saw U.S. release this year. Here are Deadline critics’ top international films of 2022, based on their respected individual opinions (in alphabetical order by title): ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT  The last time Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front was made as a theatrical motion picture was nearly a century ago in 1930.

It took home Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. Can history repeat itself? I wouldn’t bet against it as this official German entry for Best International Film at the Oscars seems to have across the board support at the Academy having already been mentioned in five categories on the shortlist, as well as winning nominations from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice among other groups including the National Board Of Review.

Director Edward Berger tells the story for the first time from the German point of view as young men are first enthusiastic, then increasingly devastated as they are being enlisted to fight in World War I.