Year-End Lists

Bilge Ebiri: Top 25 Films of 2022, as published by Slate as a part of their annual Movie Club

1. Athena
   Romain Gavras
2. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
3. Both Sides of the Blade
   Claire Denis
4. Cyrano
   Joe Wright
5. Three Thousand Years of Longing
   George Miller
6. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
7. Compartment No. 6
   Juho Kuosmanen
8. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
   Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
9. Murina
   Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
10. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
11. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
12. Blonde
    Andrew Dominik
13. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
14. Babylon
    Damien Chazelle
15. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
16. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
17. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
18. Huda's Salon
    Hany Abu-Assad
19. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
20. Benediction
    Terence Davies
21. Babi Yar. Context
    Sergei Loznitsa
22. Playground
    Laura Wandel
23. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
24. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
25. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen