Year-End Lists

IndieWire: The Best Films of 2022, as voted by film critics from around the world

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
5. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
6. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
7. Nope
   Jordan Peele
8. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
9. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
11. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
12. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
13. Benediction
    Terence Davies
14. The Eternal Daughter
    Joanna Hogg
15. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
16. Elvis
    Baz Luhrmann
17. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
18. Women Talking
    Sarah Polley
19. Living
    Oliver Hermanus
20. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino
21. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
22. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
23. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    Guillermo del Toro
24. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
25. After Yang
    Kogonada
26. Hit the Road
    Panah Panahi
27. In Front of Your Face
    Hong Sang-soo
28. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
29. X
    Ti West
30. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
31. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
    Bianca Stigter
32. All Quiet on the Western Front
    Edward Berger
33. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
    Richard Linklater
34. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer Camp
35. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
36. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
37. Nanny
    Nikyatu Jusu
38. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
39. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
40. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
41. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
42. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
43. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu
44. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
45. Moonage Daydream
    Brett Morgen
46. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
47. Corsage
    Marie Kreutzer
48. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
49. Three Thousand Years of Longing
    George Miller
50. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine