Year-End Lists

Alissa Wilkinson: The 25 Best Movies of 2022, as published by Vox

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

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
4. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
5. Riotsville, U.S.A.
   Sierra Pettengill
6. We Met in Virtual Reality
   Joe Hunting
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
8. Emily the Criminal
   John Patton Ford
9. The Cathedral
   Ricky D'Ambrose
10. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
11. Nope
    Jordan Peele
12. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
13. After Yang
    Kogonada
14. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
15. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
16. Murina
    Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
17. She Said
    Maria Schrader
18. Speak No Evil
    Christian Tafdrup
19. A Love Song
    Max Walker-Silverman
20. Donbass
    Sergei Loznitsa
21. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
22. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
23. Women Talking
    Sarah Polley
24. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer Camp
25. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine

Honorable mentions, a.k.a. great films you should seek out

• 2nd Chance
  Ramin Bahrani
• Babylon
  Damien Chazelle
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Catherine Called Birdy
  Lena Dunham
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• The Fallout
  Megan Park
• Fire of Love
  Sara Dosa
• Friends and Strangers
  James Vaughan
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• I Didn't See You There
  Reid Davenport
• Mija
  Isabel Castro
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• One Fine Morning
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• Tantura
  Alon Schwarz
• The Territory
  Alex Pritz
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  Bianca Stigter
• Turn Every Page
  Lizzie Gottlieb
• The Whale
  Darren Aronofsky

Erika Balsom: Best Films of 2022, as published by Artforum

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

1. "Enfin le Cinéma! Arts, images et spectacles en France 1833-1907" Exhibit at Musée d’Orsay
2. Mutzenbacher
   Ruth Beckermann
3. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
4. The United States of America
   James Benning
5. Foragers
   Jumana Manna
6. Regrouping
   Lizzie Borden
7. "John Smith: Introspective (1972 – 2022)" Program at Close-Up Film Centre and the ICA
8. "Dance" Collaboration by Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt
9. Unrest
   Cyril Schäublin
10. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra

James Quandt: Best Films of 2022, as published by Artforum

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

1. Where Is This Street? Or with No Before or After
   João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
2. The Novelist's Film
   Hong Sang-soo
3. The Adventures of Gigi the Law
   Alessandro Comodin
4. Unrest
   Cyril Schäublin
5. Pacifiction
   Albert Serra
6. Stonewalling
   Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji
7. Autobiography
   Makbul Mubarak
8. The Long Farewell
   Kira Muratova
9. Agnès Varda - Pier Paolo Pasolini - New York - 1967
   Agnès Varda
10. Dry Ground Burning
    Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós

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

The Economist: The Best Films of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• Moonage Daydream
  Brett Morgen
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  Guillermo del Toro
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• Triangle of Sadness
  Ruben Östlund
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi

Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2022 as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, listed alphabetically. Check out his site for a few more highlights, like "Best TV Series," "Best Film Book," and "Best Film Podcast."

[see also The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2021 • Top Ten Films of 2020 • The 50 Best Films of the 2010s • Top 20 Films of 2019 • Top 20 Films of 2018 • Top Ten Films of 2017]

• A Couple
  Frederick Wiseman
• Crimes of the Future
  David Cronenberg
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Human Flowers of Flesh
  Helena Wittmann
• De humani corporis fabrica
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• The Novelist's Film
  Hong Sang-soo
• Pacifiction
  Albert Serra
• Showing Up
  Kelly Reichardt
• Tales of the Purple House
  Abbas Fahdel

Jeffrey M. Anderson: Top Ten Films of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
3. Mad God
   Phil Tippett
4. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
5. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
6. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
7. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
8. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
9. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
   Sam Raimi
10. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
    Richard Linklater

Ten Runners-Up

• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Blonde
  Andrew Dominik
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• Pearl
  Ti West
• Tár
  Todd Field
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun

Ten Honorable Mentions

• All Quiet on the Western Front
  Edward Berger
• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• Both Sides of the Blade
  Claire Denis
• Dinner in America
  Adam Rehmeier
• Emergency
  Carey Williams
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• Holy Spider
  Ali Abbasi
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Sundown
  Michel Franco

Guilty Pleasures & Little Treasures

• The Automat
  Lisa Hurwitz
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
  Halina Reijn
• Death on the Nile
  Kenneth Branagh
• Do Revenge
  Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
• Dual
  Riley Stearns
• The Menu
  Mark Mylod
• The Sadness
  Rob Jabbaz
• Stars at Noon
  Claire Denis
• Violent Night
  Tommy Wirkola
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
  Eric Appel
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio
• X
  Ti West