Aaron Pierre is closing out his big year on a literal high note.

Glittering rock ‘n’ roll, women warriors and kings, spellbinding multiverses and stories of friendship and family permeated 2022 cinema and the AP Top 25 Movies list.

In Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” there is the dialogue on screen and another off it.

Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner.

For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear.