| # | Weekend end date | Film | Weekend
gross | Top 10 openings |
|---|
| 1 | 9 January 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | NZ$751,144 | The King's Man (#2), The Addams Family 2: Road Trip (#8) |
| 2 | 16 January 2022 | NZ$466,065 | Scream (#5), King Richard (#7) |
| 3 | 23 January 2022 | NZ$325,019 | Spencer (#6) |
| 4 | 30 January 2022 | NZ$200,899 | Hridayam (#7) |
| 5 | 6 February 2022 | Belfast | NZ$367,255 | Jackass Forever (#2), Moonfall (#4) |
| 6 | 13 February 2022 | Death on the Nile | NZ$372,909 | Marry Me (#4), Blacklight (#6) |
| 7 | 20 February 2022 | Uncharted | NZ$632,720 | Aaraattu (#9), The Worst Person in the World (#10) |
| 8 | 27 February 2022 | NZ$357,421 | Gangubai Kathiawadi (#4), Studio 666 (#5), Aaja Mexico Challiye (#6), Bheemla Nayak (#9), Valimai (#10) |
| 9 | 6 March 2022 | The Batman | NZ$1,044,684 | Monster Family 2: Nobody's Perfect (#5) |
| 10 | 13 March 2022 | NZ$826,715 | Off the Rails (#3), Radhe Shyam (#4), The Desperate Hour (#7) |
| 11 | 20 March 2022 | NZ$599,429 | Gekijouban Jujutsu 0 (#2), Dog (#3), Bachchan Pandey (#5) |
| 12 | 27 March 2022 | NZ$409,618 | RRR (#2), The Bad Guys (#10) |
| 13 | 3 April 2022 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | NZ$477,585 | Morbius (#2), The Duke (#4) |
| 14 | 10 April 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore | NZ$807,635 | Ambulance (#6), X (#10) |
| 15 | 17 April 2022 | NZ$487,856 | The Lost City (#2), K.G.F: Chapter 2 (#3), Everything Everywhere all at Once (#6) The Last Bus (#10) |
| 16 | 24 April 2022 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | NZ$603,946 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (#5) |
| 17 | 1 May 2022 | NZ$504,025 | Downton Abbey: A New Era (#2) |
| 18 | 8 May 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | NZ$2,437,200 | Maa (#8) |
| 19 | 15 May 2022 | NZ$1,101,175 | Operation Mincemeat (#3), Saunkan Saunkne (#7) |
| 20 | 22 May 2022 | NZ$608,187 | The Northman (#3), Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (#5), To Olivia (#10) |
| 21 | 29 May 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | NZ$1,969,467 | How to Please a Woman (#6), The Bob's Burgers Movie (#8) |
| 22 | 5 June 2022 | NZ$2,355,708 | Vikram (#4), Samrat Prithviraj (#9), Mothering Sunday (#10) |
| 23 | 12 June 2022 | Jurassic World: Dominion | NZ$1,681,885 | Pil's Adventures (#10) |
| 24 | 19 June 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | NZ$1,095,888 | Lightyear (#3), Nude Tuesday (#4) |
| 25 | 26 June 2022 | Elvis | NZ$1,043,403 | Whina (#5), The Lion King Reo Māori (#6), Jugjugg Jeeyo (#7) |
| 26 | 3 July 2022 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | NZ$838,558 | |
| 27 | 10 July 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | NZ$2,530,560 | Benediction (#10) |
| 28 | 17 July 2022 | NZ$1,468,415 | The Phantom of the Open (#8), Princess Mononoke (#9), The Roundup (#10) |
| 29 | 24 July 2022 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | NZ$931,357 | Where the Crawdads Sing (#3), The Black Phone (#6) |
| 30 | 31 July 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | NZ$409,282 | Chhalla Mud Ke Nahi Aaya (#6), Ek Villain Returns (#9) |
| 31 | 7 August 2022 | Bullet Train | NZ$404,262 | |
| 32 | 14 August 2022 | Nope | NZ$243,278 | Laal Singh Chaddha (#3), Rakshan Bandhan (#9) |
| 33 | 21 August 2022 | Bullet Train | NZ$211,513 | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (#2), Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (#4), Gloriavale (#10) |
| 34 | 28 August 2022 | Andre Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again | NZ$246,818 | Beast (#4) |
| 35 | 4 September 2022 | Muru | NZ$233,710 | Orphan: First Kill (#5), Three Thousand Years of Longing (#6), Lancaster (#8) |
| 36 | 11 September 2022 | Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva | NZ$203,833 | After Ever Happy (#6) |
| 37 | 18 September 2022 | Ticket to Paradise | NZ$379,713 | Moonage Daydream (#3), See How They Run (#4) |
| 38 | 25 September 2022 | NZ$309,265 | DC League of Super-Pets (#2), Avatar (re-release) (#3), Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (#10) |
| 39 | 2 October 2022 | DC League of Super-Pets | NZ$307,118 | Smile (#3), Ponniyin Selvan: Part One (#4), Vikram Vedha (#7), Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (#9) |
| 40 | 9 October 2022 | NZ$438,553 | Don't Worry Darling (#2), Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (#3), Amsterdam (#5) |
| 41 | 16 October 2022 | NZ$408,021 | Halloween Ends (#5), Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia (#10) |
| 42 | 23 October 2022 | Black Adam | NZ$1,212,400 | Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (#2), Dame Valerie Adams: More than Gold (#5) |
| 43 | 30 October 2022 | NZ$685,296 | The Woman King (#3), Frozen: Reo Maori (#4), Barbarian (#6), Thank God (#8) |
| 44 | 6 November 2022 | NZ$345,024 | One Piece Film: Red (#3) |
| 45 | 13 November 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | NZ$1,789,562 | Mister Organ (#4), Uunchai (#8) |
| 46 | 20 November 2022 | NZ$1,158,540 | Drishyam 2 (#4), She Said (#6), Emily (#7), The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2022 (#8) |
| 47 | 27 November 2022 | NZ$609,733 | The Menu (#2), Strange World (#3), Bhediya (#7) |
| 48 | 4 December 2022 | NZ$347,391 | The Road Dance (#8) |
| 49 | 11 December 2022 | NZ$303,772 | |
| 50 | 18 December 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water † | NZ$3,355,135 | |
| 51 | 25 December 2022 | NZ$1,365,571 | Cirkus (#3) |
| 52 | 1 January 2023 | NZ$1,776,285 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (#2), The Banshees of Inisherin (#3), Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (#4), The Lost King (#5), A Man Called Otto (#7) |
