Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2021
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2022
Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan: Favorite Books of 2022
Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013
Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2022
more...
2022 Movies
Ty Burr: Top 20 Films of 2022
18 December 2022
Ty Burr
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Top 20 Films of 2022
, in alphabetical order
[see also
2021
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2010s
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2014
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2012
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2011
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After Yang
Kogonada
Aftersun
Charlotte Wells
All That Breathes
Shaunak Sen
Athena
Romain Gavras
Avatar: The Way of Water
James Cameron
The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh
Descendant
Margaret Brown
EO
Jerzy Skolimowski
The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg
Men
Alex Garland
No Bears
Jafar Panahi
Nope
Jordan Peele
The Northman
Robert Eggers
Return to Seoul
Davy Chou
RRR
S.S. Rajamouli
Tár
Todd Field
The Woman King
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Women Talking
Sarah Polley
Runners-up (meaning they’re really good and you should see them too.)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras
Barbarian
Zach Cregger
Crimes of the Future
David Cronenberg
Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook
Dos estaciones
Juan Pablo González
Fire of Love
Sara Dosa
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Sophie Hyde
Happening
Audrey Diwan
Hold Me Tight
Mathieu Amalric
Holy Spider
Ali Abbasi
The Janes
Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes
Kimi
Steven Soderbergh
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Sacha Jenkins
A Love Song
Max Walker-Silverman
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Dean Fleischer Camp
Sr.
Chris Smith
Till
Chinonye Chukwu
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Jane Schoenbrun
The Wonder
Sebastián Lelio