Year-End Lists

Film Comment: Best Films of 2022, a poll of the magazine's contributors

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1. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
2. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
3. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
4. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
5. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
7. In Front of Your Face
   Hong Sang-soo
8. Nope
   Jordan Peele
9. The Novelist's Film
   Hong Sang-soo
10. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose
11. Tár
    Todd Field
12. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
13. The Girl and the Spider
    Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher
14. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
15. One Fine Morning
    Mia Hansen-Løve
16. A Night of Knowing Nothing
    Payal Kapadia
17. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
18. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
19. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
20. Benediction
    Terence Davies
20. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Best Films of 2022 Beatrice Loayza · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Caden Mark Gardner · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Christina Newland · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Daniel Kasman · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Dennis Lim · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Gina Telaroli · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Jonathan Romney · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Kevin B. Lee · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Lawrence Garcia · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Ryan Swen · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Vadim Rizov · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Vikram Murthi · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2022 Florence Almozini · Filmmaker Magazine · Film Comment Poll