50 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2022
40. Ambulance
Michael Bay returns with a refreshingly smaller-scale action-thriller that nevertheless looks plenty bombastic - a high-octane remake of the 2005 Danish film of the same name.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star as adoptive brothers whose daring bank heist goes horribly wrong, leaving them on the run from the cops in an ambulance with a police officer they wounded and a paramedic (Eiza González).
After years of exhaustingly over-the-top action flicks, this seems like a welcome scaling-down for Bay, confining much of the action to a small - albeit moving - space, with a terrific cast to boot.
Nobody's expecting massive nuance from this, but it has a good shot at bringing the best out of Bay's adrenalised filmmaking style.
Ambulance releases on April 8.
39. Men
Alex Garland is one of the most fascinating genre filmmakers working today, what with the one-two brilliance of both Ex Machina and Annihilation.
Expectations are high, then, for his new horror-drama Men, in which a woman (Jessie Buckley) holidays in the English countryside following her husband's death.
Little about the story is known beyond that, but given Garland's prior work it's reasonable to expect something deeply unsettling, with a possible technological or extraterrestrial spin.
Buckley stars opposite Rory Kinnear and Paapa Essiedu, in a film that should further bolster A24's reputation as the go-to destination for thoughtful, left-field horror yarns.
Men releases later this year.