Year-End Lists

Matt Zoller Seitz: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

1. I Didn't See You There
   Reid Davenport
2. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
   Bianca Stigter
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
4. Jackass Forever
   Jeff Tremaine
5. Triangle of Sadness
   Ruben Östlund
6. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
7. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
8. Ahed's Knee
   Nadav Lapid
9. Tár
   Todd Field
10. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa

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• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Marya E. Gates: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

1. Babylon
   Damien Chazelle
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
3. Fire of Love
   Sara Dosa
4. Strawberry Mansion
   Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley
5. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
6. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
7. Girl Picture
   Alli Haapasalo
8. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
   Guillermo del Toro
9. Nanny
   Nikyatu Jusu
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer Camp

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Katie Rife: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

1. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
2. Bones and All
   Luca Guadagnino
3. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
4. Corsage
   Marie Kreutzer
5. We're All Going to the World's Fair
   Jane Schoenbrun
6. Happening
   Audrey Diwan
7. After Yang
   Kogonada
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
9. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

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• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Christy Lemire: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• After Yang
  Kogonada
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Fire of Love
  Sara Dosa
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  Dean Fleischer Camp
• Pearl
  Ti West
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Tár
  Todd Field

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Brian Tallerico: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com

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

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
5. After Yang
   Kogonada
6. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
7. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
8. All That Breathes
   Shaunak Sen
9. Broker
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
10. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski

Runners-up

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Bad Axe
  David Siev
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• Hold Me Tight
  Mathieu Amalric
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• Moonage Daydream
  Brett Morgen
• No Bears
  Jafar Panahi
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  Bianca Stigter
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley

This list contributes to:

• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Ben Kenigsberg: Top Ten Films of 2022, as published by RogerEbert.com, where he explains the rationale for stretching the list to twelve entries

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

1. The Kingdom: Exodus
   Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred
2. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
3. The Girl and the Spider
   Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher
4. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
5. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
6. There There
   Andrew Bujalski
7. Reflection
   Valentyn Vasyanovych
8. Happening
   Audrey Diwan
9. Armageddon Time
   James Gray
10. Last Flight Home
    Ondi Timoner
11. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
12. Friends and Strangers
    James Vaughan

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• RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2022

Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

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

1. Aethiopes
   Billy Woods
2. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
3. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
4. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
   Denzel Curry
5. Weather Alive
   Beth Orton
6. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
7. Myopia
   Mizmor & Thou
8. Pigments
   Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn
9. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
10. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
11. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
12. Cheat Codes
    Danger Mouse and Black Thought
13. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
14. ¡Ay!
    Lucrecia Dalt
15. Painless
    Nilüfer Yanya
16. Hygiene
    Drug Church
17. Fossora
    Björk
18. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
19. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    The Comet Is Coming
20. Panamá 77
    Daniel Villarreal
21. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
22. Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval
23. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
24. Hellfire
    black midi
25. Blending
    High Vis
26. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
27. God's Country
    Chat Pile
28. Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?
    The Soft Pink Truth
29. It's Time... To Rise From the Grave
    Undeath
30. In These Times
    Makaya McCraven
31. Florist
    Florist
32. Threshold
    Cloud Rat
33. Heart Under
    Just Mustard
34. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
35. Null
    KEN mode
36. Versions of Modern Performance
    Horsegirl
37. Jazz Codes
    Moor Mother
38. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
39. Arkhon
    Zola Jesus
40. Diaspora Problems
    Soul Glo
41. Step on Step
    Charles Stepney
42. Heterosexuality
    Shamir
43. Revelators
    Revelators Sound System
44. Body Prophecy
    Black Magnet
45. Estrela Acesa
    Sessa
46. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
47. Sun's Signature
    Sun's Signature
48. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
49. Building Something Beautiful For Me
    Loraine James
50. Comradely Objects
    Horse Lords

Patrick Rapa: The Best Books of 2022, as published by The Philadelphia Inquirer

[see also 2021]

1. Either/Or
   Elif Batuman
2. If I Survive You
   Jonathan Escoffery
3. The Hero of This Book
   Elizabeth McCracken
4. The Candy House
   Jennifer Egan
5. An Immense World

   How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
   Ed Yong
6. Devil House
   John Darnielle
7. My Government Means to Kill Me
   Rasheed Newson
8. Ducks

   Two Years in the Oil Sands
   Kate Beaton
9. The School for Good Mothers
   Jessamine Chan
10. The Immortal King Rao
    Vauhini Vara

BBC Culture: The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022, compiled by Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker

• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• The Kingdom of Sand
  Andrew Holleran
• Bournville
  Jonathan Coe
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Trespasses
  Louise Kennedy
• The Whalebone Theatre
  Joanna Quinn
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
  Rebecca Wait
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Darling
  India Knight
• There Are More Things
  Yara Rodrigues Fowler
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• Fairy Tale
  Stephen King
• Nightcrawling
  Leila Mottley
• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka
• The Colony
  Audrey Magee
• The Last White Man
  Mohsin Hamid
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Best of Friends
  Kamila Shamsie
• Booth
  Karen Joy Fowler
• Shrines of Gaiety
  Kate Atkinson
• Cult Classic
  Sloane Crosley
• Young Mungo
  Douglas Stuart
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Love Marriage
  Monica Ali
• Tiepolo Blue
  James Cahill
• Fire Island

  A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
  Jack Parlett
• Pure Colour
  Sheila Heti
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Memphis
  Tara M. Stringfellow
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• How High We Go in the Dark
  Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Burning Questions

  Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
  Margaret Atwood
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
  Warsan Shire
• In the Margins

  On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
  Elena Ferrante
• Moon Witch, Spider King
  Marlon James
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• French Braid
  Anne Tyler
• To Paradise
  Hanya Yanagihara
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• The Exhibitionist
  Charlotte Mendelson
• Free Love
  Tessa Hadley
• Black Cake
  Charmaine Wilkerson
• Auē
  Becky Manawatu

Nina Hernandez: The Best Albums of 2022, as published by Chron

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Un Verano Sin Ti
   Bad Bunny
3. Gemini Rights
   Steve Lacy
4. Ivory
   Omar Apollo
5. Aguilera
   Christina Aguilera
6. Coping Mechanism
   Willow
7. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
   Sharon Van Etten
8. Jaguar Sound
   Adrian Quesada
9. Ali
   Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
10. Mani/Pedi
    Baby Tate