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Most Woke Movies of 2022 (Ranked by VirtueVigil)

The most woke movies of 2022, ranked by our woke score metric.

2022 was a defining year for Hollywood's ideological output. Glass Onion weaponized class resentment as comedy. Don't Worry Darling turned suburban domesticity into a prison break allegory. Strange World delivered Disney's first explicitly gay protagonist and its worst-ever opening weekend. VirtueVigil reviewed every 2022 release in our database and ranked the full set by woke margin, the gap between woke score and traditional score with the most woke films at the top.

All 30 films below have been scored and reviewed in full. The list runs from most woke to least woke, so the films with the highest woke content and the largest gap over their traditional scores appear first. This is comprehensive, not curated. Every 2022 title in the VirtueVigil database with a woke score is included.

Related: Most Woke Movies of 2024, Most Woke Movies of 2023, Woke Box Office Flops.

  1. 1

    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

    STRONGLY WOKE +24 WOKE
    WOKE: 42 TRAD: 18
  2. 2

    Don't Worry Darling

    WOKE +19 WOKE
    WOKE: 21.84 TRAD: 2.7
  3. 3

    Strange World

    WOKE +15 WOKE
    WOKE: 27.5 TRAD: 12.32
  4. 4

    Turning Red

    WOKE +13 WOKE
    WOKE: 17.85 TRAD: 4.55
  5. 5

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    WOKE LEAN +6 WOKE
    WOKE: 18.42 TRAD: 12.67
  6. 6

    Wednesday

    WOKE LEAN +5 WOKE
    WOKE: 16.1 TRAD: 10.64
  7. 7

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    WOKE LEAN +4 WOKE
    WOKE: 16.44 TRAD: 12.26
  8. 8

    Ozark

    WOKE LEAN +4 WOKE
    WOKE: 9 TRAD: 5
  9. 9

    Lightyear

    WOKE LEAN +4 WOKE
    WOKE: 10.22 TRAD: 6.65
  10. 10

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    WOKE LEAN +3 WOKE
    WOKE: 13.6 TRAD: 10.22
  11. 11

    Amsterdam

    WOKE LEAN +1 WOKE
    WOKE: 10.49 TRAD: 9.24
  12. 12

    The Menu

    MIXED 0 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 9.3 TRAD: 9.66
  13. 13

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 1 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 15.34 TRAD: 16.32
  14. 14

    House of the Dragon

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 2 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 12.92 TRAD: 14.54
  15. 15

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 3 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 14.54 TRAD: 17.14
  16. 16

    Babylon

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 4 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 10.5 TRAD: 14.9
  17. 17

    Black Adam

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 5 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 7.68 TRAD: 13.02
  18. 18

    Till

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 8 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 10.29 TRAD: 17.99
  19. 19

    A Man Called Otto

    TRADITIONAL LEAN 9 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 5.5 TRAD: 14
  20. 20

    Smile

    TRADITIONAL 10 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 5.04 TRAD: 14.82
  21. 21

    Nope

    TRADITIONAL 10 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 20 TRAD: 30
  22. 22

    Uncharted

    TRADITIONAL 11 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 5.4 TRAD: 15.96
  23. 23

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    TRADITIONAL 14 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 2.4 TRAD: 16.2
  24. 24

    The Batman

    TRADITIONAL 14 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 8 TRAD: 22.05
  25. 25

    Tulsa King

    TRADITIONAL 16 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 4.9 TRAD: 20.44
  26. 26

    Violent Night

    TRADITIONAL 18 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 2.5 TRAD: 20.58
  27. 27

    Father Stu

    STRONGLY TRADITIONAL 20 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 2 TRAD: 21.84
  28. 28

    Top Gun: Maverick

    STRONGLY TRADITIONAL 20 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 1.05 TRAD: 21.28
  29. 29

    Tár

    STRONGLY TRADITIONAL 21 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 7 TRAD: 28
  30. 30

    The Terminal List

    STRONGLY TRADITIONAL 24 TRAD LEAN
    WOKE: 2.8 TRAD: 26.64

2022: The Woke Year in Review

Glass Onion tops the 2022 list at plus 24 woke margin, the largest gap of any film we reviewed that year. Rian Johnson built an entire film around the thesis that billionaires are idiots propped up by sycophants, and delivered it as a crowd-pleasing mystery. Don't Worry Darling and Strange World follow close behind. The traditional end of the 2022 spectrum is equally striking: Top Gun: Maverick scored strongly traditional and became one of the highest-grossing films of the year. The audience verdict on ideology is built into the box office numbers. Browse all 2022 reviews at virtuevigil.com/reviews/ or see the full year-by-year woke rankings on the lists page.

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