Year-End Lists

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2022 Movies

Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2022

15 December 2022

Crimes of the Future - David Cronenberg

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

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  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
  21. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun

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