Year-End Lists

Amy Taubin: Best Films of 2022, as published by Artforum

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. Aghdra
   Arthur Jafa
1. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
1. See You Friday, Robinson
   Mitra Farahani
4. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
5. All That Breathes
   Shaunak Sen
6. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
7. Kimi
   Steven Soderbergh
8. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
   Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
9. Mind Over Murder
   Nanfu Wang
10. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
10. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose

John Waters: Best Films of 2022, as published by Artforum

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Peter von Kant
   François Ozon
2. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
3. Everything Went Fine
   François Ozon
4. Sick of Myself
   Kristoffer Borgli
5. Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer
   Vincent Le Port
6. Detainee 001
   Greg Barker
7. Dinner in America
   Adam Rehmeier
8. Will-o'-the-Wisp
   João Pedro Rodrigues
9. Smoking Causes Coughing
   Quentin Dupieux
10. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino

Paste Magazine: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Andor
2. Barry
3. Abbott Elementary
4. Better Call Saul
5. The Bear
6. What We Do in the Shadows
7. Hacks
8. Our Flag Means Death
9. The Afterparty
10. Reservation Dogs
11. Only Murders in the Building
12. Severance
13. The Rehearsal
14. Minx
15. Ghosts
16. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
17. Under the Banner of Heaven
18. Derry Girls
19. The Dropout
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
21. Bad Sisters
22. Pam & Tommy
23. Ms. Marvel
24. Peacemaker
25. The Righteous Gemstones

Judy Berman: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. The Rehearsal
3. Severance
4. Reservation Dogs
5. This Is Going to Hurt
6. Better Things
7. Atlanta
8. Derry Girls
9. Made for Love
10. Rap Sh!t

Honorable mentions

• Abbott Elementary
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Barry
• Conversations with Friends
• The Girl from Plainville
• Irma Vep
• Search Party
• Sort Of
• What We Do in the Shadows

Promising shows whose new seasons I couldn’t screen in full

• Kindred
• The White Lotus

Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Janky Star
   Grace Ives
2. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
3. Motomami
   Rosalía
4. God Save the Animals
   Alex G
5. Dance Fever
   Florence + The Machine
6. Painless
   Nilüfer Yanya
7. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
8. Natural Brown Prom Queen
   Sudan Archives
9. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
10. Palomino
    Miranda Lambert
11. Take It Like a Man
    Amanda Shires
12. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
13. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding

And 12 more very good records worth mentioning

• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• Remember Your North Star
  yaya bey
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• All Blue
  Julianna Riolino
• Squeeze
  SASAMI
• Broken Hearts Club
  Syd
• We've Been Going About This All Wrong
  Sharon Van Etten
• How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars
  The Weather Station
• And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
  Weyes Blood
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg
• Cruel Country
  Wilco

Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2011]

1. American Heartbreak
   Zach Bryan
2. Motomami
   Rosalía
3. Honestly, Nevermind
   Drake
4. Welcome to the Block Party
   Priscilla Block
5. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
6. Farm to Table
   Bartees Strange
7. Gulch’s final show, Sound & Fury Festival, July 31, 2022
8. Last Ones Left
   42 Dugg and EST Gee
9. Mr. Money with the Vibe
   Asake
10. Disrespectful
    Bad Boy Chiller Crew
11. Un Verano Sin Ti
    Bad Bunny
12. Club Godfather
    Bandmanrill
13. Endure
    Special Interest

And 16 more, alphabetically

• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• 2 Slizzy 2 Sexy (Deluxe)
  Cash Cobain & Chow Lee
• Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
  Tyler Childers
• Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
  Fred again..
• Give or Take
  Giveon
• 7220
  Lil Durk
• Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
  Mavi
• I Used to Think I Could Fly
  Tate McRae
• Heaven Come Crashing
  Rachika Nayar
• Harry's House
  Harry Styles
• Sick!
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Beautiful Mind
  Rod Wave
• Dawn FM
  The Weeknd
• Coping Mechanism
  Willow
• Colors
  YoungBoy Never Broke Again

Honorary late 2021 release

• The D.O.A. Tape
  Kay Flock

Jon Pareles: Best Albums of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2011]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Motomami
   Rosalía
3. Weather Alive
   Beth Orton
4. Natural Brown Prom Queen
   Sudan Archives
5. Nacarile
   iLe
6. No Rules Sandy
   Sylvan Esso
7. Hellfire
   black midi
8. Fossora
   Björk
9. Aethiopes
   Billy Woods
10. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio

And 15 more, alphabetically

• Saturno
  Rauw Alejandro
• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• Where's The One?
  Congotronics International
• Tinta y tiempo
  Jorge Drexler
• Preacher's Daughter
  Ethel Cain
• Caprisongs
  FKA twigs
• Versions of Modern Performance
  Horsegirl
• Classic Objects
  Jenny Hval
• Bamanan
  Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• In These Times
  Makaya McCraven
• Laurel Hell
  Mitski
• Just Like That...
  Bonnie Raitt
• Diaspora Problems
  Soul Glo
• Sometimes, Forever
  Soccer Mommy

IndieWire: The 12 Best New TV Shows of 2022, in order of premiere date but numbered as follows

[see also 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Abbott Elementary
2. Somebody Somewhere
3. Severance
4. Minx
5. Gaslit
6. We Own This City
7. I Love That for You
8. The Bear
9. The Rehearsal
10. The Patient
11. Andor
12. Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire

BBC Radio 6 Music: Albums of the Year 2022

[see also 2021]

1. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
2. The Overload
   Yard Act
3. The Line Is A Curve
   Kae Tempest
4. Topical Dancer
   Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
5. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
6. At The Hotspot
   Warmduscher
7. Skinty Fia
   Fontaines D.C.
8. Cheat Codes
   Danger Mouse and Black Thought
9. The Car
   Arctic Monkeys
10. Tresor
    Gwenno

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz

Nonfiction

• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole