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2022 Movies

IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2022

01 December 2022

Aftersun - Charlotte Wells

IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2022, as voted on by the entire IndieWire staff

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2015]

  1. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
  2. Tár
    Todd Field
  3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  4. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
  5. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
  6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
  7. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
  8. Nope
    Jordan Peele
  9. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
  10. After Yang
    Kogonada
  11. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
  12. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
  13. Benediction
    Terence Davies
  14. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
  15. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
  16. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
  17. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
  18. Corsage
    Marie Kreutzer
  19. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
  20. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
  21. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
  22. Beba
    Rebeca Huntt
  23. Fire Island
    Andrew Ahn
  24. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
  25. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund

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