Year-End Lists

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2022 Movies

Esquire: The Best Movies of 2022

08 December 2022

The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier

Esquire: The Best Movies of 2022

[see also 2010s]

  1. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
  2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  3. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
  4. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
  5. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
  6. X
    Ti West
  7. Ahed's Knee
    Nadav Lapid
  8. Navalny
    Daniel Roher
  9. Hustle
    Jeremiah Zagar
  10. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
  11. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
  12. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
  13. After Yang
    Kogonada
  14. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
    Akiva Schaffer
  15. Vinyl Nation
    Kevin Smokler and Christopher Boone
  16. Fresh
    Mimi Cave
  17. Deep Water
    Adrian Lyne
  18. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
  19. Where the Crawdads Sing
    Olivia Newman
  20. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
  21. Fire Island
    Andrew Ahn
  22. Orphan: First Kill
    William Brent Bell
  23. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
  24. The Gray Man
    Anthony and Joe Russo
  25. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    Eric Appel
  26. Don't Worry Darling
    Olivia Wilde
  27. Nope
    Jordan Peele
  28. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino
  29. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
  30. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
  31. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
  32. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Ryan Coogler
  33. Broker
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  34. The Eternal Daughter
    Joanna Hogg
  35. Tár
    Todd Field

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