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2022 Movies

The Playlist: The 25 Best Films Of 2022

07 December 2022

Tár - Todd Field

The Playlist: The 25 Best Films Of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Tár
    Todd Field
  2. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
  3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  4. Nope
    Jordan Peele
  5. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
  6. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    Guillermo del Toro
  7. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
  8. Athena
    Romain Gavras
  9. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
  10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
  11. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
  12. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
  13. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    Sophie Hyde
  14. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  15. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
  16. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
  17. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino
  18. After Yang
    Kogonada
  19. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
  20. Nanny
    Nikyatu Jusu
  21. Catch the Fair One
    Josef Kubota Wladyka
  22. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
  23. Benediction
    Terence Davies
  24. The Batman
    Matt Reeves
  25. The Northman
    Robert Eggers

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