Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2022, a poll of more than 90 critics

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
3. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
5. Nope
   Jordan Peele
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
7. One Fine Morning
   Mia Hansen-Løve
8. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
9. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
10. Tár
    Todd Field
11. Corsage
    Marie Kreutzer
12. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
13. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
14. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
15. The Eternal Daughter
    Joanna Hogg
16. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
17. Elvis
    Baz Luhrmann
18. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
19. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
20. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
21. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
22. The Quiet Girl
    Colm Bairéad
23. De humani corporis fabrica
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
24. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
25. The Plains
    David Easteal
26. Flux Gourmet
    Peter Strickland
27. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    Guillermo del Toro
28. Hit the Road
    Panah Panahi
29. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
30. Living
    Oliver Hermanus
31. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
32. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
33. This House
    Miryam Charles
34. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
35. Memoria
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
36. Men
    Alex Garland
37. The Novelist's Film
    Hong Sang-soo
38. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
39. Trenque Lauquen
    Laura Citarella
40. Unrest
    Cyril Schäublin
41. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
42. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
    Richard Linklater
43. Both Sides of the Blade
    Claire Denis
44. Dry Ground Burning
    Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
45. Enys Men
    Mark Jenkin
46. The Innocents
    Eskil Vogt
47. Moonage Daydream
    Brett Morgen
48. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
49. A Room of My Own
    Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze
50. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Best Films of 2022 Elena Lazic · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
• The Best Films of 2022 Eric Hynes · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
• The Best Films of 2022 Grace Barber-Plentie · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll