Year-End Lists

The Atlantic: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

• Andor
• The Bear
• The Rehearsal
• The Dropout
• Derry Girls
• The White Lotus
• Our Flag Means Death
• Somebody Somewhere
• Reservation Dogs
• Minx
• Severance
• Irma Vep
• Abbott Elementary
• Better Things
• Yellowstone

Grace Barber-Plentie: The Best Films of 2022, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

1. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Great Freedom
   Sebastian Meise
4. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
5. Nope
   Jordan Peele
6. Blue Jean
   Georgia Oakley
7. Nanny
   Nikyatu Jusu
8. This House
   Miryam Charles
9. Fire Island
   Andrew Ahn
10. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2022

Okayplayer: 22 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2018]

1. The Forever Story
   JID
2. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
3. Gemini Rights
   Steve Lacy
4. Ramona Park Broke My Heart
   Vince Staples
5. Wasteland
   Brent Faiyaz
6. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Age/Sex/Location
   Ari Lennox
8. Candydrip
   Lucky Daye
9. Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
   Mavi
10. The Elephant Man’s Bones
    Roc Marciano and The Alchemist
11. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
12. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
13. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
14. Honestly, Nevermind
    Drake
15. Broken Hearts Club
    Syd
16. Marigold
    Alex Isley & Jack Dine
17. Kiss The Ring
    Rome Streetz
18. Drill Music in Zion
    Lupe Fiasco
19. Hypnos
    Ravyn Lenae
20. Remember Your North Star
    yaya bey
21. You Still Here, Ho?
    Flo Milli
22. Not Tight
    Domi and JD Beck

Far Out Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

1. The Overload
   Yard Act
2. At The Hotspot
   Warmduscher
3. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
4. The Car
   Arctic Monkeys
5. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
6. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
7. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
8. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
   Weyes Blood
9. Skinty Fia
   Fontaines D.C.
10. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
12. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
13. Hugo
    Loyle Carner
14. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
15. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
16. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
17. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
18. Here Is Everything
    The Big Moon
19. Cub
    Wunderhorse
20. Sound Of The Morning
    Katy J Pearson
21. Heart Under
    Just Mustard
22. Oxy Music
    Alex Cameron
23. Blue Rev
    Alvvays
24. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
25. Wherever You Aren't
    Elizabeth Moen
26. Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
27. God Save the Animals
    Alex G
28. Big Plans for a Blue World
    Wylderness
29. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
30. Tableau
    The Orielles
31. Hop Up
    Orlando Weeks
32. Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval
33. Fossora
    Björk
34. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
35. Palomino
    First Aid Kit
36. Versions of Modern Performance
    Horsegirl
37. Where I'm Meant To Be
    Ezra Collective
38. Flood
    Stella Donnelly
39. And I Have Been – Benjamin Clementine
    And I Have Been
40. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
41. Sometimes, Forever
    Soccer Mommy
42. Mahal
    Toro y Moi
43. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
44. Tresor
    Gwenno
45. Dancing Dimensions
    Ural Thomas & The Pain
46. Being Funny in a Foreign Language
    The 1975
47. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
48. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
49. Fear Fear
    Working Men's Club
50. Most Normal
    Gilla Band

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

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

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:

• Caitlin Quinlan: Best Films of 2022
• Sight & Sound Poll: Elena Lazic: Best Films of 2022
• Sight & Sound Poll: Grace Barber-Plentie: The Best Films of 2022

Michael Sicinski: The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022, which he advises should be taken with a grain or two of salt: "There are always more experimental films produced and released within a calendar year than can ever be watched by any given human being...."

[see also 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023 • The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s • Top 50 Films of 2018 • Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018 • Top 25 Films of 2017 • Top 10 Films of 2016 • Top 12 Films of 2014 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 12 Films of 2012]

1. Instant Life
   Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, Andrew Kim
2. urban solutions
   Arne Hector, Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes, Minze Tummescheit
3. After Work
   Céline Condorelli and Ben Rivers
4. NE Corridor
   Joshua Gen Solondz
5. Against Time
   Ben Russell
6. Maria Schneider, 1983
   Elisabeth Subrin
7. Heron 1954-2002
   Alexis McCrimmon
8. Color Prism Suite #2: Withering Ends
   Zack Parrinella
9. The Time that Separates Us
   Parastoo Anoushahpour
10. Light Signal
    Emily Chao
11. Hors-titre
    Wiame Haddad
12. Lungta
    Alexandra Cuesta
13. Welcome
    Jean-Claude Rousseau
13. The Tomb of Kafka
    Jean-Claude Rousseau
14. The Newest Olds
    Pablo Mazzolo
15. will have been
    Sasha Pirker
16. Paradiso XXXI, 108
    Kamal Aljafari
17. Flora
    Nicolás Pereda
18. open sky / open sea / open ground
    Libertad Gills and Martin Baus
19. Oh, Butterfly!
    Sylvia Schedelbauer
20. Sea Series 23
    John Price

Also very much worth seeking out

• Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright - Prelude
  Gaëlle Rouard
• Darkness, Darkness, Burning Bright - Oraison
  Gaëlle Rouard
• The Demands of Ordinary Devotion
  Eva Giolo
• Eventide
  Sharon Lockhart
• Exhibition
  Mary Helena Clark
• F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now
  Fox Maxy
• Moire / Écume
  Maxime Hot
• Object Permanence
  Alix Blevins
• Puerta a puerta
  Luís Arnías and Jessica Sarah Rinland
• The Sky's In There
  Dani ReStack, Sheilah ReStack
• Vecino Vecino
  Camila Galaz

Justin Chang: Best Movies of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

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

1. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
4. Tár
   Todd Field
5. Benediction
   Terence Davies
6. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
7. Kimi
   Steven Soderbergh
8. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
9. One Fine Morning
   Mia Hansen-Løve
10. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
11. Nope
    Jordan Peele

Ten honorable mentions

• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Descendant
  Margaret Brown
• Tantura
  Alon Schwarz
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley
• Întregalde
  Radu Muntean
• X
  Ti West
• The Novelist's Film
  Hong Sang-soo
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop

And I also recommend

• After Yang
  Kogonada
• Ahed's Knee
  Nadav Lapid
• Ali & Ava
  Clio Barnard
• All That Breathes
  Shaunak Sen
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Avatar: The Way of Water
  James Cameron
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• Beast
  Baltasar Kormákur
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• Both Sides of the Blade
  Claire Denis
• The Cathedral
  Ricky D'Ambrose
• Catherine Called Birdy
  Lena Dunham
• Causeway
  Lila Neugebauer
• A Couple
  Frederick Wiseman
• Dos estaciones
  Juan Pablo González
• Emergency
  Carey Williams
• Emily the Criminal
  John Patton Ford
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Fire Island
  Andrew Ahn
• Fire of Love
  Sara Dosa
• Flux Gourmet
  Peter Strickland
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  Sophie Hyde
• Great Freedom
  Sebastian Meise
• Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
  Adamma Ebo
• Hustle
  Jeremiah Zagar
• In Front of Your Face
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Inspection
  Elegance Bratton
• Living
  Oliver Hermanus
• A Love Song
  Max Walker-Silverman
• Murina
  Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
• Nanny
  Nikyatu Jusu
• Navalny
  Daniel Roher
• Neptune Frost
  Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• Pearl
  Ti West
• Playground
  Laura Wandel
• Pleasure
  Ninja Thyberg
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• She Said
  Maria Schrader
• Something in the Dirt
  Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• Speak No Evil
  Christian Tafdrup
• Stars at Noon
  Claire Denis
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  Bianca Stigter
• Till
  Chinonye Chukwu
• To Leslie
  Michael Morris
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• Triangle of Sadness
  Ruben Östlund
• The Tsugua Diaries
  Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• Vortex
  Gaspar Noé
• Watcher
  Chloe Okuno
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun
• White Noise
  Noah Baumbach
• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio

Gigwise: 51 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Preacher's Daughter
   Ethel Cain
2. Two Ribbons
   Let’s Eat Grandma
3. Being Funny in a Foreign Language
   The 1975
4. If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
   CMAT
5. Midnights (3am Edition)
   Taylor Swift
6. Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
   Bob Vylan
7. Skinty Fia
   Fontaines D.C.
8. Crash
   Charli XCX
9. Cool It Down
   Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
11. Supernova
    Nova Twins
12. Muna
    Muna
13. Reeling
    The Mysterines
14. Let The Festivities Begin!
    Los Bitchos
15. Painless
    Nilüfer Yanya
16. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
17. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
18. Tilt
    Confidence Man
19. The Overload
    Yard Act
20. Sound Of The Morning
    Katy J Pearson
21. Dance Fever
    Florence + The Machine
22. Congregation
    Witch Fever
23. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
24. Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
    Fred again..
25. Everything I Know About Love
    Laufey
26. All Of Us Flames
    Ezra Furman
27. Reason to Smile
    Kojey Radical
28. Unlearning
    Walt Disco
29. Anywhere But Here
    Sorry
30. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
31. Beatopia
    Beabadoobee
32. Hellfire
    black midi
33. Flood
    Stella Donnelly
34. Motomami
    Rosalía
35. Hold the Girl
    Rina Sawayama
36. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
37. Lucky Me
    Phoebe Green
38. Hugo
    Loyle Carner
39. Here Is Everything
    The Big Moon
40. Ivory
    Omar Apollo
41. Guitar Music
    Courting
42. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
43. No Thank You
    Little Simz
44. Garageband Superstar
    Lauran Hibberd
45. froge.mp3
    Piri & Tommy
46. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
47. This Is What I Mean
    Stormzy
48. Blue Rev
    Alvvays
49. Cave World
    Viagra Boys
50. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
51. Self-Titled
    Marcus Mumford

Dazed: The Best Films of 2022

[see also 2023]

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. White Noise
   Noah Baumbach
3. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
4. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
5. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
6. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
8. Peter von Kant
   François Ozon
9. Bones and All
   Luca Guadagnino
10. The Blue Caftan
    Maryam Touzani
11. Moonage Daydream
    Brett Morgen
12. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
13. Joyland
    Saim Sadiq
14. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
15. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
16. Corsage
    Marie Kreutzer
17. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
18. Nope
    Jordan Peele
19. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
20. Sick of Myself
    Kristoffer Borgli

Jordan Ruimy: The 10 Best Movies of 2022, as published by World of Reel

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019]

1. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
3. Tár
   Todd Field
4. Happening
   Audrey Diwan
5. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
6. Funny Pages
   Owen Kline
7. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
   Richard Linklater
8. Kimi
   Steven Soderbergh
8. Watcher
   Chloe Okuno
9. Triangle of Sadness
   Ruben Östlund
10. Babylon
    Damien Chazelle
10. Nope
    Jordan Peele

Runners-Up

• Vortex
  Gaspar Noé
• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• The Menu
  Mark Mylod
• She Said
  Maria Schrader
• Navalny
  Daniel Roher
• Blonde
  Andrew Dominik
• Resurrection
  Andrew Semans
• Elvis
  Baz Luhrmann
• Nitram
  Justin Kurzel
• God's Country
  Julian Higgins
• Dinner in America
  Adam Rehmeier
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger