Year-End Lists

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2022 Movies

Rolling Stone: David Fear: 22 Best Movies of 2022

02 December 2022

Hit the Road - Panah Panahi

David Fear: 22 Best Movies of 2022, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Hit the Road
    Panah Panahi
  2. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
  3. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
  4. Till
    Chinonye Chukwu
  5. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
  6. Benediction
    Terence Davies
  7. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
  8. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
  9. Athena
    Romain Gavras
  10. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
  11. Tár
    Todd Field
  12. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
  13. Official Competition
    Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
  14. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
  15. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
  16. X
    Ti West
  17. Living
    Oliver Hermanus
  18. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg
  19. 32 Sounds
    Sam Green
  20. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
  21. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  22. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg

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