Year-End Lists

Mara Davis: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by Paste Magazine

[see also 2023]

• America's Girls
• Bonaparte
• Bone Valley
• Into It with Sam Sanders
• Sweet Bobby
• Sympathy Pains
• Things Fell Apart
• We Were Three
• Wild Boys
• Will Be Wild

Little White Lies: The 25 Best Television Shows of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Severance
2. Barry
3. The Last Movie Stars
4. Station Eleven
5. Somebody Somewhere
6. The White Lotus
7. For All Mankind
8. This Is Going to Hurt
9. Bad Sisters
10. The Patient
11. Yellowjackets
12. The Bear
13. The English
14. Hacks
15. The Good Fight
16. Pachinko
17. Andor
18. Abbott Elementary
19. Only Murders in the Building
20. Derry Girls
21. A League of Their Own
22. The Dropout
23. Babylon Berlin
24. Under the Banner of Heaven
25. Peaky Blinders

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2022, a survey of more than 200 music critics

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

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
3. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Dawn FM
   The Weeknd
5. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
6. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
7. God Save the Animals
   Alex G
8. Motomami
   Rosalía
9. Un Verano Sin Ti
   Bad Bunny
10. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
11. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
12. Midnights
    Taylor Swift
13. Being Funny in a Foreign Language
    The 1975
14. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
15. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
16. Ramona Park Broke My Heart
    Vince Staples
17. Gemini Rights
    Steve Lacy
18. Harry's House
    Harry Styles
19. Farm to Table
    Bartees Strange
20. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
21. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
22. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
23. Hypnos
    Ravyn Lenae
24. Muna
    Muna
25. Big Time
    Angel Olsen
26. Diaspora Problems
    Soul Glo
27. Angel in Realtime
    Gang of Youths
28. Caprisongs
    FKA twigs
29. Expert in a Dying Field
    The Beths
30. I Walked With You A Ways
    Plains
31. Boat Songs
    MJ Lenderman
32. Honestly, Nevermind
    Drake
33. Painless
    Nilüfer Yanya
34. The Forever Story
    JID
35. ILYSM
    Wild Pink
36. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
37. The Loneliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
38. Cruel Country
    Wilco
39. Palomino
    Miranda Lambert
40. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
41. Crash
    Charli XCX
42. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
43. Few Good Things
    Saba
44. The Elephant Man’s Bones
    Roc Marciano and The Alchemist
45. God's Country
    Chat Pile
46. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
47. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
48. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
49. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
50. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon

Dan Einav: Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Financial Times

• The Bear
• Severance
• Station Eleven
• The Rehearsal
• Pachinko
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
• The English
• Abbott Elementary
• Bad Sisters
• The White Lotus

HuffPost: The Best Movies Of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2012]

• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Entergalactic
  Fletcher Moules
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  Sophie Hyde
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• Fire Island
  Andrew Ahn
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Smile
  Parker Finn
• X
  Ti West
• Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
  Adamma Ebo
• Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
  Celeste Bell and Paul Sng
• My Love Affair with Marriage
  Signe Baumane
• Huesera
  Michelle Garza Cervera
• Sidney
  Reginald Hudlin
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• She Said
  Maria Schrader
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  Guillermo del Toro

HuffPost: The Best TV Shows Of 2022

[see also 2023]

Reboots That Were Actually Interesting

• A League of Their Own
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Reboot

Great Second Seasons

• Reservation Dogs
• Hacks
• Starstruck
• Abbott Elementary
• The Sex Lives of College Girls
• The White Lotus
• Industry
• Sort Of
• Inside Job
• The Ms. Pat Show

New Arrivals

• Mo
• Pachinko
• The Baby
• Severance
• The Bear
• This Fool
• From Scratch
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
• The Gilded Age

Returning Favorites

• Ramy
• Stranger Things
• Evil

Bidding Our Farewells

• Queen Sugar
• Ozark

Esquire: The Best Books of 2022

[see also The 20 Best Books of 2023 • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 50 Best Books of 2021 • The Best Books of the 2010s • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

1. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
   James Hannaham
2. Harry Sylvester Bird
   Chinelo Okparanta
3. Young Mungo
   Douglas Stuart
4. Time Is a Mother
   Ocean Vuong
5. Trust
   Hernan Diaz
6. Liarmouth

   A Feel-Bad Romance
   John Waters
7. Butts

   A Backstory
   Heather Radke
8. Fight Like Hell

   The Untold History of American Labor
   Kim Kelly
9. Overdue

   Reckoning with the Public Library
   Amanda Oliver
10. Woman, Eating
    Claire Kohda
11. The Passenger
    Cormac McCarthy
12. Fen, Bog and Swamp

    A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
    Annie Proulx
13. Because Our Fathers Lied

    A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
    Craig McNamara
14. A Ballet of Lepers

    A Novel and Stories
    Leonard Cohen
15. Lost & Found

    A Memoir
    Kathryn Schulz
16. Less Is Lost
    Andrew Sean Greer
17. Fairy Tale
    Stephen King
18. The Furrows
    Namwali Serpell
19. The Book of Goose
    Yiyun Li
20. Liberation Day
    George Saunders
21. The Pink Hotel
    Liska Jacobs
22. Nuclear Family
    Joseph Han
23. Night of the Living Rez
    Morgan Talty
24. Phasers on Stun!

    How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World
    Ryan Britt
25. Raising Lazarus

    Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis
    Beth Macy
26. Tracy Flick Can't Win
    Tom Perrotta
27. Cult Classic
    Sloane Crosley
28. The Angel of Rome and Other Stories
    Jess Walter
29. Dirtbag, Massachusetts

    A Confessional
    Isaac Fitzgerald
30. Sea of Tranquility
    Emily St. John Mandel
31. The Candy House
    Jennifer Egan
32. The Immortal King Rao
    Vauhini Vara
33. Scoundrel

    How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
    Sarah Weinman
34. The Invisible Kingdom

    Reimagining Chronic Illness
    Meghan O’Rourke
35. True Story

    What Reality TV Says about Us
    Danielle J. Lindemann
36. Anthem
    Noah Hawley
37. Olga Dies Dreaming
    Xóchitl González
38. To Paradise
    Hanya Yanagihara
39. How Civil Wars Start

    And How to Stop Them
    Barbara F. Walter
40. How High We Go in the Dark
    Sequoia Nagamatsu
41. Notes on an Execution
    Danya Kukafka
42. South to America

    A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    Imani Perry
43. Vladimir
    Julia May Jonas
44. The Employees
    Olga Ravn
45. Thank You, Mr. Nixon
    Gish Jen
46. Moon Witch, Spider King
    Marlon James
47. Groundskeeping
    Lee Cole
48. Trust the Plan

    The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
    Will Sommer
49. How to Take Over the World

    Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
    Ryan North
50. Ancestor Trouble

    A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
    Maud Newton

Michael J. Anderson: Ten Best Films of 2022, and click through to see his archive of lists going back decades. It's fun to browse.

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2017]

1. Pacifiction
   Albert Serra
2. The Novelist's Film
   Hong Sang-soo
3. Walk Up
   Hong Sang-soo
4. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
5. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
   Richard Linklater
6. Coma
   Bertrand Bonello
7. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
8. Unrest
   Cyril Schäublin
9. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
10. A Couple
    Frederick Wiseman

Variety: The Best New Podcasts of 2022

• The Sunshine Place
• The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
• HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
• Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy
• Welcome to Provincetown
• The Trojan Horse Affair
• All There Is with Anderson Cooper
• Club Random with Bill Maher
• Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
• Vibe Check
• Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
• Batman Unburied
• Trials To Triumphs
• Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen
• Maejor Frequency
• Normal Gossip
• Teaching Texas
• Kym
• Father Wants Us Dead
• Twin Flames

Mark Kermode: 10 Best Films of 2022, as published by The Observer

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

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
4. Gangubai Kathiawadi
   Sanjay Leela Bhansali
5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
   Guillermo del Toro
6. The Quiet Girl
   Colm Bairéad
7. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
8. Moonage Daydream
   Brett Morgen
9. Ali & Ava
   Clio Barnard
10. Catherine Called Birdy
    Lena Dunham