Year-End Lists

Kitty Empire: 10 Best Albums of 2022, as published by The Observer

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

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Cheat Codes
   Danger Mouse and Black Thought
3. Laurel Hell
   Mitski
4. (watch my moves)
   Kurt Vile
5. The Car
   Arctic Monkeys
6. YTI⅃AƎЯ
   Bill Callahan
7. Gemini Rights
   Steve Lacy
8. Motomami
   Rosalía
9. Tempus
   Pole
10. Shebang
    Oren Ambarchi

Ty Burr: Top 20 Films of 2022, in alphabetical order

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• 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

Kristen Baldwin: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. Pachinko
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Barry
4. Better Call Saul
5. The Good Fight
6. Hacks
7. Better Things
8. Los Espookys
9. Severance
10. Reboot

Darren Franich: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Primal
3. We Own This City
4. Barry
5. Players
6. Evil
7. This Fool
8. Below Deck: Sailing Yacht
9. The Bear
10. jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

Ann Hornaday: The 10 Best Movies of 2022, as published by The Washington Post

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

1. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
   Sophie Hyde
4. She Said
   Maria Schrader
5. Armageddon Time
   James Gray
6. The Woman King
   Gina Prince-Bythewood
7. Triangle of Sadness
   Ruben Östlund
8. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
   Bianca Stigter
9. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
10. The Martha Mitchell Effect
    Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy

Lauren Passell: The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022, as published by Lifehacker

[see also 2023]

• Mother Country Radicals
• Bone Valley
• Will Be Wild
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• Wild Boys
• Alabama Astronaut
• Lizzy Cooperman's In Your Hands
• Normal Gossip
• Things Fell Apart
• In The Scenes Behind Plain Sight
• Into the Depths
• Burn Wild
• A Tradition of Violence

Matt Singer: The Best Movies of 2022, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
2. Turning Red
   Domee Shi
3. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
4. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
5. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
6. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
8. Tár
   Todd Field
9. Jackass Forever
   Jeff Tremaine
10. Nope
    Jordan Peele
11. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
12. Confess, Fletch
    Greg Mottola
13. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
14. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
15. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
16. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
17. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
18. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
19. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
20. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

ScreenCrush: The Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2021]

1. The Rehearsal
2. Severance
3. The Bear
4. Better Call Saul
5. Reservation Dogs
6. Hacks
7. Andor
8. The White Lotus
9. Abbott Elementary
10. Stranger Things

Esquire: The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2018]

• Choosing Sides: F1
• Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
• HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
• Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
• Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain
• The Town with Matthew Belloni
• Armchair Expert
• Call Her Daddy
• The Old Man and the Three with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter
• Modern Love
• Sounds Like A Cult
• State of Ukraine
• Don’t Let This Flop
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
• Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
• Sweet Bobby
• The Trojan Horse Affair
• Black Girl Songbook
• Today, Explained
• The Receipts Podcast
• Stuff You Missed in History Class
• The Daily
• Normal Gossip
• The Happiness Lab
• Celebrity Memoir Book Club
• Morbid
• Stuff You Should Know
• Ringer Food
• Against the Rules

The Atlantic: The Best Books of 2022, which they're calling "The Atlantic 10" and "the books that made us think the most this year"

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2019]

• G-Man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
  Beverly Gage
• Spin Dictators

  The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
  Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
  Jamil Jan Kochai
• The Consequences
  Manuel Muñoz
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole
• My Phantoms
  Gwendoline Riley
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin