Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021]

The Top 3 Poetry Collections of The Year

• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
  Chen Chen
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong

Other Poetry Favorites

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• Content Warning

  Everything
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Customs
  Solmaz Sharif
• Girls That Never Die
  Safia Elhillo
• In the Hands of the River
  Lucien Darjeun Meadows
• Magnolia
  Nina Mingya Powles
• Normal Distance
  Elisa Gabbert
• Refusenik
  Lynn Melnick
• Smoking the Bible
  Chris Abani
• The Call-Out
  Cat Fitzpatrick
• The Rupture Tense
  Jenny Xie
• The Symmetry of Fish
  Su Cho
• The Trees Witness Everything
  Victoria Chang
• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
  Franny Choi
• Togetherness
  Wo Chan
• Woman Without Shame
  Sandra Cisneros

Connie Pan: 10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022, as published by Book Riot

[see also 2023]

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• All the Flowers Kneeling
  Paul Tran
• As She Appears
  Shelley Wong
• Ask the Brindled
  No‘u Revilla
• Girls That Never Die
  Safia Elhillo
• Golden Ax
  Rio Cortez
• Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
  C.T. Salazar
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• Magnolia
  Nina Mingya Powles
• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
  Chen Chen

Kevin Slane: The Best Movies of 2022, as published by Boston.com

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
3. Nope
   Jordan Peele
4. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
5. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
6. After Yang
   Kogonada
7. Kimi
   Steven Soderbergh
8. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
   Rian Johnson
9. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
10. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg

Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2022, noting about Descendant that "I'm biased - Higher Ground produced"

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

• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Emily the Criminal
  John Patton Ford
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• Descendant
  Margaret Brown
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Till
  Chinonye Chukwu
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• The Good Boss
  Fernando León de Aranoa
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• A Hero
  Asghar Farhadi
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• Tár
  Todd Field
• After Yang
  Kogonada

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2022, noting that he's "a bit biased" on that first one

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

• The Light We Carry

  Overcoming in Uncertain Times
  Michelle Obama
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Black Cake
  Charmaine Wilkerson
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah

Josh Larsen: Top 10 Films of 2022, as posted at Larsen on Film and discussed on Filmspotting

[see also 2018]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. After Yang
   Kogonada
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
4. Nope
   Jordan Peele
5. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
   Dean Fleischer Camp
7. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
8. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
   Guillermo del Toro
9. Don't Worry Darling
   Olivia Wilde
10. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop

Adam Kempenaar: Top 10 Films of 2022, as discussed on Filmspotting

[see also 2018]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
5. After Yang
   Kogonada
6. Close
   Lukas Dhont
7. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
8. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
9. RRR
   S.S. Rajamouli
10. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg

Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Midnights
   Taylor Swift
2. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
3. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
4. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
5. Harry's House
   Harry Styles
6. Preacher's Daughter
   Ethel Cain
7. Black Radio III
   Robert Glasper
8. Good Morning Gorgeous
   Mary J. Blige
9. A Light for Attracting Attention
   The Smile
10. Fossora
    Björk
11. Dance Fever
    Florence + The Machine
12. Cheat Codes
    Danger Mouse and Black Thought
13. Take It Like a Man
    Amanda Shires
14. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
15. Air
    Sault
16. Humble Quest
    Maren Morris
17. Dawn FM
    The Weeknd
18. Big Time
    Angel Olsen
19. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
20. I Don't Know What I'm Doing
    Nerina Pallot
21. Surrender
    Maggie Rogers
22. Hugo
    Loyle Carner
23. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
24. Forever
    Phife Dawg
25. Three Dimensions Deep
    Amber Mark
26. Sometimes, Forever
    Soccer Mommy
27. Hawaii
    Pete Yorn
28. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
29. If I Were A Butterfly
    Rayland Baxter
30. Anaïs Mitchell
    Anaïs Mitchell
31. Circles
    Léon
32. Things Are Great
    Band of Heroes
33. King's Disease III
    Nas
34. Two
    Dubstar
35. The Loneliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
36. The Tipping Point
    Tears for Fears
37. Sick!
    Earl Sweatshirt
38. Fragments
    Bonobo
39. Palomino
    Miranda Lambert
40. Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly
    Tanika Charles
41. Palomino
    First Aid Kit
42. STR4TASFEAR
    STR4TA
43. Strange Mornings In the Garden
    The Loyal Seas
44. Fear of the Dawn
    Jack White
45. Angels & Queens – Part I
    Gabriels
46. Gold
    Alabaster DePlume
47. Oh To Be That Free
    Michaela Anne
48. Some Nights I Dream of Doors
    Obongjayar
49. Never Let Me Go
    Placebo
50. Numb
    Lewis Taylor
51. In Real Life
    Mandy Moore
52. Could We Be More
    Kokoroko
53. Earthling
    Eddie Vedder
54. No Fear of Time
    Black Star
55. Brood X
    Leona Naess
56. Wolf Hours
    Minute Taker
57. Prism
    Say She She
58. A Legacy of Rentals
    Craig Finn
59. Masquerade
    Bananarama
60. Moody31
    Lydia Persaud
61. True North
    A-ha
62. Vision Board
    Lyrics Born
63. Sad Cities
    Sally Shapiro
64. Freewheelin' Woman
    Jewel
65. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
66. C'mon You Know
    Liam Gallagher
67. NA Meeting
    Lu Chin Chen
68. Unlimited Love
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
69. Two Ribbons
    Let’s Eat Grandma
70. Life In Plastic
    Tom Aspaul
71. Ghosts on Tape
    Blood Red Shoes
72. Back in Black
    Cypress Hill
73. Night Call
    Years & Years
74. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
75. Loose Future
    Courtney Marie Andrews
76. White Jesus Black Problems
    Fantastic Negrito
77. Emotional Eternal
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
78. Carry Me Home
    Levon Helm and Mavis Staples
79. Carving Canyons
    Lissie
80. Gemini Rights
    Steve Lacy
81. Just Like That...
    Bonnie Raitt
82. Present Tense
    Yumi Zouma
83. Bloodline Maintenance
    Roy Harper
84. Age/Sex/Location
    Ari Lennox
85. CAZIMI
    Caitlin Rose
86. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
87. Alpha Zulu
    Phoenix
88. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
89. No Regular Dog
    Kelsey Waldon
90. Digital Roses Don't Die
    Big K.R.I.T.
91. Home, Before and After
    Regina Spektor
92. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
93. Serpentina
    Banks
94. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
95. Mahal
    Toro y Moi
96. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
97. Cruel Country
    Wilco
98. Vinyl Days
    Logic
99. A Bit of Previous
    Belle and Sebastian
100. Dirt Femme
     Tove Lo

Caitlin Quinlan: Best Films of 2022, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Alcarràs
   Carla Simón
5. Human Flowers of Flesh
   Helena Wittmann
6. Pacifiction
   Albert Serra
7. This House
   Miryam Charles
8. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
9. Robe of Gems
   Natalia López
10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
11. Nope
    Jordan Peele
12. Corsage
    Marie Kreutzer
13. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
14. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
15. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
16. Dos estaciones
    Juan Pablo González

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2022

Michael Phillips: The Top 10 Best Movies of 2022, as published by The Chicago Tribune, in alphabetical order

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

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Compartment Number 6
  Juho Kuosmanen
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  Dean Fleischer Camp
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• Let the Little Light Shine
  Kevin Shaw
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood

Plus a few honorable mentions, in alphabetical order

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• After Yang
  Kogonada
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• Prey
  Dan Trachtenberg
• She Said
  Maria Schrader
• Till
  Chinonye Chukwu
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley