Year-End Lists

Alissa Wilkinson: The 25 Best Movies of 2022, as published by Vox

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
4. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
5. Riotsville, U.S.A.
   Sierra Pettengill
6. We Met in Virtual Reality
   Joe Hunting
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
8. Emily the Criminal
   John Patton Ford
9. The Cathedral
   Ricky D'Ambrose
10. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
11. Nope
    Jordan Peele
12. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
13. After Yang
    Kogonada
14. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
15. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
16. Murina
    Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
17. She Said
    Maria Schrader
18. Speak No Evil
    Christian Tafdrup
19. A Love Song
    Max Walker-Silverman
20. Donbass
    Sergei Loznitsa
21. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
22. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
23. Women Talking
    Sarah Polley
24. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer Camp
25. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine

Honorable mentions, a.k.a. great films you should seek out

• 2nd Chance
  Ramin Bahrani
• Babylon
  Damien Chazelle
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Catherine Called Birdy
  Lena Dunham
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• The Fallout
  Megan Park
• Fire of Love
  Sara Dosa
• Friends and Strangers
  James Vaughan
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• I Didn't See You There
  Reid Davenport
• Mija
  Isabel Castro
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• One Fine Morning
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• Tantura
  Alon Schwarz
• The Territory
  Alex Pritz
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  Bianca Stigter
• Turn Every Page
  Lizzie Gottlieb
• The Whale
  Darren Aronofsky