Year-End Lists

Sean Fennessey: My Favorite Movies of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2010s]

1. Nope
   Jordan Peele
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
5. Babylon
   Damien Chazelle
6. Armageddon Time
   James Gray
7. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
8. Barbarian
   Zach Cregger
9. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
10. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
11. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
12. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
13. Pearl
    Ti West
13. X
    Ti West
14. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
15. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
16. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
17. Ambulance
    Michael Bay
18. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
19. Sr.
    Chris Smith
20. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
21. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
22. Women Talking
    Sarah Polley
23. White Noise
    Noah Baumbach
24. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    Guillermo del Toro
25. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
    Richard Linklater
26. After Yang
    Kogonada
27. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
28. Navalny
    Daniel Roher
29. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
30. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose
31. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
32. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino
33. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
34. Close
    Lukas Dhont
35. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
36. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg
37. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
38. Speak No Evil
    Christian Tafdrup
39. Something in the Dirt
    Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
40. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
41. Men
    Alex Garland
42. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
43. Nanny
    Nikyatu Jusu
44. The Menu
    Mark Mylod
45. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
46. All Quiet on the Western Front
    Edward Berger
47. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
48. Riotsville, U.S.A.
    Sierra Pettengill
49. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
50. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
51. Emily the Criminal
    John Patton Ford
52. Both Sides of the Blade
    Claire Denis
53. Sundown
    Michel Franco
54. The Wonder
    Sebastián Lelio
55. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    Elvis Mitchell
56. Causeway
    Lila Neugebauer
57. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer Camp
58. Scream
    Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
59. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
60. Belle
    Mamoru Hosoda
61. Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Halina Reijn
62. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    Sam Raimi
63. The Stranger
    Thomas M. Wright
64. Confess, Fletch
    Greg Mottola
65. Murina
    Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
66. One Fine Morning
    Mia Hansen-Løve
67. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
68. Living
    Oliver Hermanus
69. Athena
    Romain Gavras
70. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
71. God's Country
    Julian Higgins
72. Fresh
    Mimi Cave
73. Terrifier 2
    Damien Leone
74. Moonage Daydream
    Brett Morgen
75. Fire Island
    Andrew Ahn
76. Windfall
    Charlie McDowell
77. No Exit
    Damien Power
78. Hustle
    Jeremiah Zagar
79. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
    Akiva Schaffer
80. The Sea Beast
    Chris Williams
81. Violent Night
    Tommy Wirkola
82. A Love Song
    Max Walker-Silverman
83. Till
    Chinonye Chukwu
84. Jurassic Punk
    Scott Leberecht
85. Benediction
    Terence Davies
86. Strange World
    Don Hall
87. She Said
    Maria Schrader
88. The Inspection
    Elegance Bratton
89. Deep Water
    Adrian Lyne
90. Munich – The Edge of War
    Christian Schwochow
91. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
92. Smile
    Parker Finn
93. Bros
    Nicholas Stoller
94. Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
    Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
95. Watcher
    Chloe Okuno
96. Emergency
    Carey Williams
97. Pleasure
    Ninja Thyberg
98. Dual
    Riley Stearns
99. A Wounded Fawn
    Travis Stevens
100. Nitram
     Justin Kurzel