Year-End Lists

BuzzFeed: Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2010s]

1. The Bear
2. Severance
3. Abbott Elementary
4. Better Call Saul
5. Reservation Dogs
6. Barry
7. Derry Girls
8. Dead to Me
9. Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
10. The Dropout
11. Our Flag Means Death
12. Pachinko
13. Stranger Things
14. Heartstopper
15. A League of Their Own
16. The Summer I Turned Pretty
17. The White Lotus, season 2
18. Atlanta
19. Ghosts
20. House of the Dragon
21. For All Mankind
22. The Sex Lives of College Girls
23. Bad Sisters
24. Hacks
25. Euphoria
26. Ms. Marvel
27. Andor
28. Peaky Blinders
29. What We Do in the Shadows
30. From Scratch
31. Peacemaker

BuzzFeed: The Best Books of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

Literary Fiction

• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
  Emme Lund
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
  Noor Naga

Romance

• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
  Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
• Mistakes Were Made
  Meryl Wilsner

Nonfiction

• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Fight Like Hell

  The Untold History of American Labor
  Kim Kelly
• Finale

  Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
  D.T. Max
• Crying in the Bathroom
  Erika L. Sánchez
• High-Risk Homosexual
  Edgar Gomez
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• A Heart That Works
  Rob Delaney
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson

Historical

• The Hacienda
  Isabel Cañas
• Lavender House
  Lev A.C. Rosen

Fantasy

• Babel

  An Arcane History
  R.F. Kuang
• Siren Queen
  Nghi Vo
• When Women Were Dragons
  Kelly Barnhill

Mystery/Thriller

• A Novel Obsession
  Caitlin Barasch
• The Violin Conspiracy
  Brendan Slocumb

Randy Myers: Top 10 Movies of 2022, as published by San Jose Mercury News

[see also 2020]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
3. Close
   Lukas Dhont
4. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
5. Tár
   Todd Field
6. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
   James Cameron
8. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
9. Babylon
   Damien Chazelle
10. Barbarian
    Zach Cregger

The runners up

• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• The Inspection
  Elegance Bratton
• You Won't Be Alone
  Goran Stolevski
• Living
  Oliver Hermanus

Tomris Laffly: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

• Avatar: The Way of Water
  James Cameron
• Babylon
  Damien Chazelle
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Bitterbrush
  Emelie Mahdavian
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Murina
  Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
• No Bears
  Jafar Panahi
• Tár
  Todd Field

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Sheila O’Malley: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Corsage
  Marie Kreutzer
• Dinner in America
  Adam Rehmeier
• Elvis
  Baz Luhrmann
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Jackass Forever
  Jeff Tremaine
• Moonage Daydream
  Brett Morgen
• No Bears
  Jafar Panahi
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Sarah Knight Adamson: Top 10 Movies of 2022

[see also 2021]

1. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
2. The Woman King
   Gina Prince-Bythewood
3. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
4. She Said
   Maria Schrader
5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
   Rian Johnson
6. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
7. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
   Ryan Coogler
9. Corsage
   Marie Kreutzer
10. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron

Runners Up

• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Causeway
  Lila Neugebauer
• The Batman
  Matt Reeves
• Babylon
  Damien Chazelle
• Thor: Love and Thunder
  Taika Waititi
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
  Tom Gormican
• DC League of Super-Pets
  Jared Stern
• The Inspection
  Elegance Bratton

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Peyton Robinson: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

1. Nope
   Jordan Peele
2. Pleasure
   Ninja Thyberg
3. X
   Ti West
4. Bones and All
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The African Desperate
   Martine Syms
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth
   Cooper Raiff
7. God's Country
   Julian Higgins
8. Causeway
   Lila Neugebauer
9. Resurrection
   Andrew Semans
10. Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Halina Reijn

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Nell Minow: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2019 • 2016]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Rest Alphabetical

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Living
  Oliver Hermanus
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• The Outfit
  Graham Moore
• Skies of Lebanon
  Chloé Mazlo
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi

Runners-up

• Avatar: The Way of Water
  James Cameron
• The Bad Guys
  Pierre Perifel
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
  Akiva Schaffer
• Devotion
  J.D. Dillard
• Fire Island
  Andrew Ahn
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• The Inspection
  Elegance Bratton
• The Legend of Molly Johnson
  Leah Purcell
• Spoiler Alert
  Michael Showalter
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Nandini Balial: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  Guillermo del Toro
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• Prey
  Dan Trachtenberg
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Triangle of Sadness
  Ruben Östlund
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Monica Castillo: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
3. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
5. Riotsville, U.S.A.
   Sierra Pettengill
6. Descendant
   Margaret Brown
7. Hustle
   Jeremiah Zagar
8. The Tsugua Diaries
   Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
9. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022