Year-End Lists

Danny Leigh: Best Films of 2022, as published by Financial Times

• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Playground
  Laura Wandel
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Pleasure
  Ninja Thyberg
• No Bears
  Jafar Panahi
• The Duke
  Roger Michell
• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Navalny
  Daniel Roher
• Vortex
  Gaspar Noé

Wired: The 12 Best Books of 2022

• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Lambda
  David Musgrave
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• The Value of a Whale

  On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
  Adrienne Buller
• Best Young Woman Job Book

  A Memoir
  Emma Healey
• The Employees
  Olga Ravn
• Cursed Bunny
  Bora Chung
• Tremors in the Blood

  Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
  Amit Katwala
• Eating to Extinction

  The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
  Dan Saladino
• Dr. No
  Percival Everett
• How Far the Light Reaches

  A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
  Sabrina Imbler

No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2022

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

1. I Walked With You A Ways
   Plains
2. The New Faith
   Jake Blount
3. Anaïs Mitchell
   Anaïs Mitchell
4. Age of Apathy
   Aoife O'Donovan
5. Feel Like Going Home
   Miko Marks
6. Breaking The Thermometer
   Leyla McCalla
7. Crooked Tree
   Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
8. Kingmaker
   Tami Neilson
9. Done Come Too Far
   Shemekia Copeland
10. Big Time
    Angel Olsen
11. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
12. The Spur
    Joan Shelley
13. Teeth Marks
    S.G. Goodman
14. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
15. Rolling Golden Holy
    Bonny Light Horseman
16. The Flowers That Bloom in Spring
    Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert
17. Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
18. Birds in the Ceiling
    John Moreland
19. Peculiar, Missouri
    Willi Carlisle
20. I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This...
    Tomberlin

Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2022

[see also 2019 • 2018]

1. Weather Alive
   Beth Orton
2. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
   Weyes Blood
3. A Light for Attracting Attention
   The Smile
4. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
5. Natural Brown Prom Queen
   Sudan Archives
6. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
7. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
8. Once Twice Melody
   Beach House
9. Fossora
   Björk
10. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
11. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
12. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
13. Preacher's Daughter
    Ethel Cain
14. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
15. El Mirador
    Calexico
16. Take It Like a Man
    Amanda Shires
17. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
18. SOS
    SZA
19. Ugly Season
    Perfume Genius
20. Surrender
    Maggie Rogers

Uproxx: The Best Movies Of 2022

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

1. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
2. Nope
   Jordan Peele
3. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
5. The Menu
   Mark Mylod
6. Emily the Criminal
   John Patton Ford
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
8. Tár
   Todd Field
9. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
   Rian Johnson
10. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron

honorable mentions

• Babylon
  Damien Chazelle
• Jackass Forever
  Jeff Tremaine
• Fresh
  Mimi Cave
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
  John Rice and Albert Calleros

Clash Magazine: Albums Of The Year 2022

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

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Natural Brown Prom Queen
   Sudan Archives
3. I Love You Jennifer B
   Jockstrap
4. Preacher's Daughter
   Ethel Cain
5. Ramona Park Broke My Heart
   Vince Staples
6. Motomami
   Rosalía
7. Alpha Place
   Knucks
8. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
9. Surrender
   Maggie Rogers
10. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
11. Hideous Bastard
    Oliver Sim
12. Loggerhead
    Wu-Lu
13. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
14. Some Nights I Dream of Doors
    Obongjayar
15. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
16. Midnights
    Taylor Swift
17. Two Ribbons
    Let’s Eat Grandma
18. Cheat Codes
    Danger Mouse and Black Thought
19. Remember Your North Star
    yaya bey
20. This Is What I Mean
    Stormzy
21. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
22. Reason to Smile
    Kojey Radical
23. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
24. Hold the Girl
    Rina Sawayama
25. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
26. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
27. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
28. Love, Damini
    Burna Boy
29. Soul Sold Separately
    Freddie Gibbs
30. Finally, New
    They Hate Change
31. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
32. Fossora
    Björk
33. Giant Palm
    Naima Bock
34. Few Good Things
    Saba
35. Trouble The Water
    Show Me the Body
36. Where I'm Meant To Be
    Ezra Collective
37. Diaspora Problems
    Soul Glo
38. Running In Waves
    George Riley
39. God Save the Animals
    Alex G
40. Blue Rev
    Alvvays
41. Tilt
    Confidence Man
42. Caprisongs
    FKA twigs
43. Supernova
    Nova Twins
44. The Tipping Point
    Tears for Fears
45. Could We Be More
    Kokoroko
46. Unlimited Love
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
47. The Overload
    Yard Act
48. Being Funny in a Foreign Language
    The 1975
49. Gemini Rights
    Steve Lacy
50. Crash
    Charli XCX
51. Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
    Fred again..
52. The Loneliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
53. Louie
    Kenny Beats
54. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
55. Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
    Porridge Radio
56. Beatopia
    Beabadoobee
57. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
58. Nymph
    Shygirl
59. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
60. Pripyat
    Marina Herlop

Jessica Kiang: Top 50 Movies of 2022, as posted to Twitter in an epic thread with links to her (or others') reviews

[see also 2023]

1. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
2. Unrest
   Cyril Schäublin
3. Rimini
   Ulrich Seidl
4. Nope
   Jordan Peele
5. Corsage
   Marie Kreutzer
6. The Eight Mountains
   Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
7. Tár
   Todd Field
8. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
9. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
10. R.M.N.
    Cristian Mungiu
11. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
12. A Room of My Own
    Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze
13. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
14. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
15. Hole in the Head
    Dean Kavanagh
16. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
17. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
18. The Plains
    David Easteal
19. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
20. The Wonder
    Sebastián Lelio
21. Falcon Lake
    Charlotte Le Bon
22. Beautiful Beings
    Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
23. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
24. Walk Up
    Hong Sang-soo
25. Tommy Guns
    Carlos Conceição
26. You Have to Come and See It
    Jonás Trueba
27. Pamfir
    Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
28. Incredible But True
    Quentin Dupieux
29. Axiom
    Jöns Jönsson
30. Dos estaciones
    Juan Pablo González
31. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
32. Robe of Gems
    Natalia López
33. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose
34. Lullaby
    Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
35. Neptune Frost
    Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
36. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
37. Watcher
    Chloe Okuno
38. The Damned Don't Cry
    Fyzal Boulifa
39. Jethica
    Pete Ohs
40. Utama
    Alejandro Loayza Grisi
41. Small, Slow But Steady
    Shô Miyake
42. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
43. Blue Jean
    Georgia Oakley
44. The Woman King
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
45. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
46. Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    Antonio Lukich
47. A Far Shore
    Masaaki Kudô
48. Catherine Called Birdy
    Lena Dunham
49. A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On
    Gentian Koçi
50. Moonfall
    Roland Emmerich

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

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

1. De todas las flores
   Natalia Lafourcade
2. The Forever Story
   JID
3. Cave World
   Viagra Boys
4. Diaspora Problems
   Soul Glo
5. Hellfire
   black midi
6. God Don't Make Mistakes
   Conway the Machine
7. Ants From Up There
   Black Country, New Road
8. Natural Brown Prom Queen
   Sudan Archives
9. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
10. Marchita
    Silvana Estrada
11. Topical Dancer
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
12. Hostile Architecture
    Ashenspire
13. Baby
    Petrol Girls
14. Darklife
    death’s dynamic shroud
15. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
16. Aethiopes
    Billy Woods
17. God's Country
    Chat Pile
18. White Trash Revelry
    Adeem the Artist
19. Free LSD
    OFF!
20. Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
    Meridian Brothers
21. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
22. Super Champon
    Otoboke Beaver
23. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
24. Drill Music in Zion
    Lupe Fiasco
25. Too Much to Ask
    Cheekface
26. It's Almost Dry
    Pusha T
27. SOS
    SZA
28. King's Disease III
    Nas
29. Shape Up
    Leikeli47
30. Louie
    Kenny Beats
31. Melt My Eyez See Your Future
    Denzel Curry
32. Caprisongs
    FKA twigs
33. The Loser
    Gospel
34. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
35. American Gurl
    Kilo Kish
36. Morbidity Triumphant
    Autopsy
37. Luv 4 Rent
    Smino
38. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
39. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
40. Crystalline Exhaustion
    Krallice
41. The Ruby Cord
    Richard Dawson
42. Cheat Codes
    Danger Mouse and Black Thought
43. Age/Sex/Location
    Ari Lennox
44. Hiss
    Wormrot
45. Artificial Brain
    Artificial Brain
46. You Belong There
    Daniel Rossen
47. His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
    Backxwash
48. Crest
    Bladee and Ecco2K
49. Forget Your Own Face
    Black Dresses
50. Bothered / Unbothered
    JER

Electric Lit: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top Three Nonfiction Books of the Year

• Body Work

  The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
  Melissa Febos
• I'm Glad My Mom Died
  Jennette McCurdy
• The Crane Wife

  A Memoir in Essays
  C.J. Hauser

Other Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year

• Bad Sex
  Nona Willis Aronowitz
• The Best American Essays 2022
  Alexander Chee (editor)
• Dirtbag, Massachusetts

  A Confessional
  Isaac Fitzgerald
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Girls Can Kiss Now
  Jill Gutowitz
• Heretic
  Jeanna Kadlec
• High-Risk Homosexual
  Edgar Gomez
• How Far the Light Reaches

  A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
  Sabrina Imbler
• How to Read Now

  Essays
  Elaine Castillo
• I Came All This Way to Meet You

  Writing Myself Home
  Jami Attenberg
• In Sensorium

  Notes for My People
  Tanaïs
• Manifesto

  On Never Giving Up
  Bernardine Evaristo
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Some of My Best Friends

  Essays on Lip Service
  Tajja Isen
• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• The Tiger and the Cage

  A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
  Emma Bolden
• Virology

  Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
  Joseph Osmundson
• When They Tell You To Be Good
  Prince Shakur
• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  Zora Neale Hurston

Electric Lit: Favorite Novels of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top 3 Novels of the Year

• Little Rabbit
  Alyssa Songsiridej
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman

Other Favorite Novels

• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Big Girl
  Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• Briefly, A Delicious Life
  Nell Stevens
• Brown Girls
  Daphne Palasi Andreades
• Dinosaurs
  Lydia Millet
• Disorientation
  Elaine Hsieh Chou
• Foster
  Claire Keegan
• Greenland
  David Santos Donaldson
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
  Noor Naga
• Less Is Lost
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• Nobody's Magic
  Destiny O. Birdsong
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Post-Traumatic
  Chantal V. Johnson
• Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
  Bushra Rehman
• Scattered All Over the Earth
  Yoko Tawada
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• The Town of Babylon
  Alejandro Varela
• Thrust
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• True Biz
  Sara Nović
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas