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Forbes: Mark Hughes: The Top 20 Best Films Of The Year 2022

29 December 2022

The Woman King - Gina Prince-Bythewood

Mark Hughes: The Top 20 Best Films Of The Year 2022, as published by Forbes

  1. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
  2. Till
    Chinonye Chukwu
  3. Women Talking
    Sarah Polley
  4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  5. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
  6. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
  7. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
  8. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
  9. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
  10. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
  11. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
  12. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Ryan Coogler
  13. All Quiet on the Western Front
    Edward Berger
  14. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
  15. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
  16. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg
  17. Saloum
    Jean Luc Herbulot
  18. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    Guillermo del Toro
  19. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino
  20. Emily the Criminal
    John Patton Ford

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