Year-End Lists

Bilge Ebiri: The Best Movies of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. Athena
   Romain Gavras
2. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
3. Both Sides of the Blade
   Claire Denis
4. Cyrano
   Joe Wright
5. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
6. Three Thousand Years of Longing
   George Miller
7. Compartment Number 6
   Juho Kuosmanen
8. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
   Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
9. Murina
   Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
10. Descendant
    Margaret Brown

Alison Willmore: The Best Movies of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Tár
   Todd Field
4. All That Breathes
   Shaunak Sen
5. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
6. Both Sides of the Blade
   Claire Denis
7. Nope
   Jordan Peele
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
9. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
10. Flux Gourmet
    Peter Strickland

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2022

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

1. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
2. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
3. Tár
   Todd Field
4. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
5. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
6. Benediction
   Terence Davies
7. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
   Richard Linklater
8. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
   Maria Speth
9. Both Sides of the Blade
   Claire Denis
10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
11. In Front of Your Face
    Hong Sang-soo
12. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
13. Great Freedom
    Sebastian Meise
14. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
15. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
16. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
17. Mad God
    Phil Tippett
18. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
19. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
20. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
21. Nope
    Jordan Peele
22. Playground
    Laura Wandel
23. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
24. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
25. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose

Our Runners-Up

• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Holy Spider
  Ali Abbasi
• The Novelist's Film
  Hong Sang-soo
• One Fine Morning
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Rock Bottom Riser
  Fern Silva
• Saturday Fiction
  Lou Ye
• Babi Yar. Context
  Sergei Loznitsa
• Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  Dominik Graf
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Neptune Frost
  Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• God's Creatures
  Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• Friends and Strangers
  James Vaughan
• Compartment Number 6
  Juho Kuosmanen
• Return to Seoul
  Davy Chou
• My Imaginary Country
  Patricio Guzmán
• Athena
  Romain Gavras
• Dog
  Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin
• Amsterdam
  David O. Russell
• Flux Gourmet
  Peter Strickland
• After Yang
  Kogonada

Odie Henderson: 10 Best Movies of 2022, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
3. Descendant
   Margaret Brown
4. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
5. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
6. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
   Rian Johnson
7. Benediction
   Terence Davies
8. Nope
   Jordan Peele
9. The Woman King
   Gina Prince-Bythewood
10. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg

Runners-up

11. Till
    Chinonye Chukwu
12. Riotsville, U.S.A.
    Sierra Pettengill
13. Hold Your Fire
    Stefan Forbes
14. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
15. Is That Black Enough for You?!?
    Elvis Mitchell
16. Lightyear
    Angus MacLane
17. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
18. Devotion
    J.D. Dillard
19. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
20. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    Anthony Fabian

Matt Patches: The Best Movies of 2022, as published by Polygon

[see also 2023 • 2010s • 2019]

1. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
2. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
3. Catherine Called Birdy
   Lena Dunham
4. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
5. Turning Red
   Domee Shi
6. The Woman King
   Gina Prince-Bythewood
7. Tár
   Todd Field
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
9. Confess, Fletch
   Greg Mottola
10. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine

Tasha Robinson: The Best Movies of 2022, as published by Polygon

[see also 2023 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
3. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
   Rian Johnson
4. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
5. Inu-Oh
   Masaaki Yuasa
6. The Woman King
   Gina Prince-Bythewood
7. Athena
   Romain Gavras
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
9. The Northman
   Robert Eggers
10. Cyrano
    Joe Wright

Barry Hertz: The 10 Best Films of 2022, as published by The Globe and Mail

1. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
2. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
3. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
4. Petite Maman
   Céline Sciamma
5. Tár
   Todd Field
6. Athena
   Romain Gavras
7. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
8. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
9. Scarborough
   Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson
10. Babylon
    Damien Chazelle
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
10. Elvis
    Baz Luhrmann

Polygon: The Best Movies of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2019]

The Top 10 Movies of 2022

1. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
2. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
4. Nope
   Jordan Peele
5. Barbarian
   Zach Cregger
6. Tár
   Todd Field
7. Saloum
   Jean Luc Herbulot
8. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
9. Ambulance
   Michael Bay
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

The Best of the Rest

• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun
• Athena
  Romain Gavras
• After Yang
  Kogonada
• Catherine Called Birdy
  Lena Dunham
• A Hero
  Asghar Farhadi
• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Crimes of the Future
  David Cronenberg
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• Baby Assassins
  Yugo Sakamoto
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• Inu-Oh
  Masaaki Yuasa
• Fire Island
  Andrew Ahn
• Thirteen Lives
  Ron Howard
• I Was a Simple Man
  Christopher Makoto Yogi
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Prey
  Dan Trachtenberg
• Confess, Fletch
  Greg Mottola
• Hustle
  Jeremiah Zagar
• Belle
  Mamoru Hosoda
• Orphan: First Kill
  William Brent Bell
• Cyrano
  Joe Wright
• The Batman
  Matt Reeves
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Long Walk
  Mattie Do

The Skinny: Films of 2022

[see also 2021]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
4. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. Nope
   Jordan Peele
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
7. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
8. Happening
   Audrey Diwan
9. The Worst Person in the World
   Joachim Trier
10. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson

Owen Gleiberman: The Best Films of 2022, as published by Variety

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012]

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
3. The Batman
   Matt Reeves
4. Bros
   Nicholas Stoller
5. Navalny
   Daniel Roher
6. Holy Spider
   Ali Abbasi
7. I Wanna Dance with Somebody
   Kasi Lemmons
8. Vengeance
   B.J. Novak
9. Turn Every Page
   Lizzie Gottlieb
10. 13: The Musical
    Tamra Davis