Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: The Best Music of 2022, as published by Gay City News along with a list of songs from other albums and some notable reissues from LGBTQ artists

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• Pink Dolphins
  Anteloper
• Tana Talk 4
  Benny the Butcher
• Hellfire
  black midi
• Flaming Swords
  Fievel Is Glauque
• All Of Us Flames
  Ezra Furman
• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• 11
  Sault
• Midnights
  Taylor Swift
• Bad Mode
  Hikaru Utada
• Lyfë
  Yeat

Runners-up

• White Trash Revelry
  Adeem the Artist
• The Afrorack
  Afrorack
• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• A Bit of Previous
  Belle and Sebastian
• No Reino Dos Afetos
  Bruno Berle
• Expert in a Dying Field
  The Beths
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Antidawn
  Burial
• The Portrait You Painted of Me
  Alison Cotton
• KOA II Part 1
  Kabza De Small
• I Love
  (G)I-dle
• Warm Chris
  Aldous Harding
• Amaryllis
  Mary Halvorson
• Belladonna
  Mary Halvorson
• N'Djila Wa Mudujimu
  Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa
• Xaybu: The Unseen
  Sélébéyone, Steve Lehman, Maciek Lasserre
• No Thank You
  Little Simz
• Flowers Rot, Bring me Stones
  Moundabout
• Muna
  Muna
• Bronco
  Orville Peck
• Ugly Season
  Perfume Genius
• Space Beyond the Solar System
  Raw Poetic
• Once Upon A Time
  Romance
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• Nothing To Declare
  700 Bliss
• Hideous Bastard
  Oliver Sim
• Ramona Park Broke My Heart
  Vince Staples
• Oddinary
  Stray Kids
• Multitude
  Stromae
• SOS
  SZA
• Finally, New
  They Hate Change
• DFTK
  Yung Kayo

Steve Erickson: Top Films of 2022, as published by Gay City News

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

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• The Cathedral
  Ricky D'Ambrose
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Feast
  Tim Leyendekker
• Jackass Forever
  Jeff Tremaine
• Neptune Frost
  Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
• Resurrection
  Andrew Semans
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop
• Something in the Dirt
  Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun

Runners-up

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  Dominik Graf
• Great Freedom
  Sebastian Meise
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (episode "The Outside")
  Ana Lily Amirpour
• Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
  Dan Olson
• Mad God
  Phil Tippett
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  Bianca Stigter
• Vortex
  Gaspar Noé

Sasha Frere-Jones: 2022 in Music

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

• soliloquy for brian
  caroline mckenzie
• Azurescens
  Ssabae
• Living Room
  Roméo Poirier
• East Portal
  East Portal
• Butterfly DNA
  Yunzero
• Sent from my Telephone
  Voice Actor
• Järnnätter
  Civilistjävel!
• Bajascillators
  Bitchin Bajas
• slicing space-time into objects
  Xu
• Something More Beautiful Than Perfection
  Xu
• Music For Four Guitars
  Bill Orcutt
• Repeater
  Water Damage
• Deep in View
  Cola
• Aethiopes
  Billy Woods
• You Belong There
  Daniel Rossen
• Live at Commend, NYC
  Carlos Niño & Friends
• The Ruby Cord
  Richard Dawson
• Two Sisters
  Sarah Davachi
• The Parable Of The Poet
  Joel Ross
• Ugly Season
  Perfume Genius
• We've Been Going About This All Wrong
  Sharon Van Etten
• Born At The Disco
  Jennifer O'Connor
• KWALK
  various artists
• WINO-KET
  various artists
• Renaissance
  Beyoncé
• A Brain Wholly Outside
  Lalén Ríos Luna
• Surface of the Earth
  Surface of the Earth
• Red Ribbon
  Yuta Matsumura
• To Illustrate
  various artists
• Ghost Riders
  various artists
• Alto//Piano
  Everest Magma
• Shebang
  Oren Ambarchi
• Force of the Wind
  SOYUZ
• Returns
  Warm Currency
• Ballads
  Time is Away
• Piece for Cello and Saxophone
  Terry Jennings
• Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
  Blut Aus Nord
• ¡Ay!
  Lucrecia Dalt
• Storm Queen
  Grace Cummings
• Orange
  CS + Kreme
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• TikTok LIVE Performance
  Rosalía
• Once Upon A Time
  Romance
• Immunotherapy
  Nozomu Matsumoto
• Collection Particulière
  Omertà
• The River Doesn’t Like Strangers
  Chelsea Carmichael
• Rehearsal Park
  Jake Acosta
• caroline
  caroline
• Chasing the Phantom
  Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat
• In Amber
  Hercules and Love Affair
• Ghosts
  Haress
• The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
  Širom
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg

Jason Parham: The 12 Best Albums of 2022, as published by Wired

[see also 2021 • 2019]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Ramona Park Broke My Heart
   Vince Staples
3. Gemini Rights
   Steve Lacy
4. Um, Hello
   LAYA
5. 11
   Sault
5. Untitled (God)
   Sault
6. Spirituals
   Santigold
7. Fantasy Gateway
   Cuco
8. Shape Up
   Leikeli47
9. Un Verano Sin Ti
   Bad Bunny
10. Luv 4 Rent
    Smino
11. Black Girl Magic
    Honey Dijon
12. The Forever Story
    JID

eight more albums (in alphabetical order) that are worth your time

• Age/Sex/Location
  Ari Lennox
• Cometa
  Nick Hakim
• Dance Fever
  Florence + The Machine
• God Save the Animals
  Alex G
• Honestly, Nevermind
  Drake
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• My Shadow
  Quinton Brock
• Natural Brown Prom Queen
  Sudan Archives

Peter Travers: The 10 Best Movies of 2022, as aired on ABC News’s Good Morning America

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

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
5. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
6. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
7. Nope
   Jordan Peele
8. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
9. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
10. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
10. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron

Julie Gentile: Eight of the Best Queer Albums of 2022, as published by Autostraddle

1. Ugly Season
   Perfume Genius
2. Nymph
   Shygirl
3. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
4. Preacher's Daughter
   Ethel Cain
5. Black Girl Magic
   Honey Dijon
6. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
7. Clearing
   Hyd
8. Muna
   Muna

Honorable Mentions

• Hold the Girl
  Rina Sawayama
• Blue Water Road
  Kehlani
• Bronco
  Orville Peck
• Ivory
  Omar Apollo

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Movies of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

1. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Athena
   Romain Gavras
4. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
   Guillermo del Toro
6. X
   Ti West
7. A Hero
   Asghar Farhadi
8. Nope
   Jordan Peele
9. Tár
   Todd Field
10. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
11. A Love Song
    Max Walker-Silverman
12. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
13. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
14. Dual
    Riley Stearns
15. Belle
    Mamoru Hosoda
16. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
17. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
18. The Sea Beast
    Chris Williams
19. After Yang
    Kogonada
20. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
21. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
22. Argentina, 1985
    Santiago Mitre
23. Babylon
    Damien Chazelle
24. Broker
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
25. The Menu
    Mark Mylod
26. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
27. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
28. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
29. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
30. White Noise
    Noah Baumbach
31. Elvis
    Baz Luhrmann
32. Inspector Ike
    Graham Mason
33. Mad God
    Phil Tippett
34. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
35. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
36. Nitram
    Justin Kurzel
37. Hold Me Tight
    Mathieu Amalric
38. Watcher
    Chloe Okuno
39. Dos estaciones
    Juan Pablo González
40. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
41. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
42. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
43. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb
    Jon Bois
44. A Couple
    Frederick Wiseman
45. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg
46. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu
47. Girl Picture
    Alli Haapasalo
48. Children of the Mist
    Diem Ha Le
49. Neptune Frost
    Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
50. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Films of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2019]

• The Balcony Movie
  Paweł Łoziński
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Nobody's Hero
  Alain Guiraudie
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop
• De humani corporis fabrica
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• The Worst Ones
  Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
• The Batman
  Matt Reeves
• Leila's Brothers
  Saeed Roustayi
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Notable mentions

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Ambulance
  Michael Bay
• Crimes of the Future
  David Cronenberg

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2019 • 2018]

• Stumpwork
  Dry Cleaning
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• God Save the Animals
  Alex G
• Boat Songs
  MJ Lenderman
• Conduit
  Coby Sey
• Painless
  Nilüfer Yanya
• Star in the Hood
  Klein
• Paste
  Moin
• Sent from my Telephone
  Voice Actor
• An Insult to the Sport
  They Are Gutting a Body of Water & A Country Western

Notable mentions

• Songs About Housework
  Su Lyn
• Killing Nothing
  Boldy James & Real Bad Man
• Forbidden Feelingz
  Nia Archives

Brittany Spanos: Best Music of 2022, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2021 • 2020]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Midnights
   Taylor Swift
3. Harry's House
   Harry Styles
4. Dawn FM
   The Weeknd
5. Being Funny in a Foreign Language
   The 1975
6. Honestly, Nevermind
   Drake
7. Dance Fever
   Florence + The Machine
8. Caprisongs
   FKA twigs
9. The Loneliest Time
   Carly Rae Jepsen
10. Holy Fvck
    Demi Lovato