Year-End Lists

Cinema Scope: Top 10 Films of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Pacifiction
   Albert Serra
2. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
3. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
4. Unrest
   Cyril Schäublin
5. The Novelist's Film
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
7. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
8. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
9. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
   Ashley McKenzie
10. The Plains
    David Easteal

Special mentions

• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Mutzenbacher
  Ruth Beckermann
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Walk Up
  Hong Sang-soo

Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
2. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
3. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
4. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
5. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
7. Nope
   Jordan Peele
8. We're All Going to the World's Fair
   Jane Schoenbrun
9. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
9. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
10. Armageddon Time
    James Gray

David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2022, this year's installment of his video countdown, as witty, tuneful, and emotional as ever

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

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
4. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
5. Descendant
   Margaret Brown
6. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
7. We're All Going to the World's Fair
   Jane Schoenbrun
8. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
9. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
10. Nope
    Jordan Peele
11. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
12. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
13. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
14. After Yang
    Kogonada
15. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
16. Benediction
    Terence Davies
17. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
18. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
19. Ahed's Knee
    Nadav Lapid
20. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
21. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
22. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
23. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
24. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
25. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg

Nick Schager: Best Movies of 2022, as published by The Daily Beast

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

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
2. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
   Bianca Stigter
3. Murina
   Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
4. Playground
   Laura Wandel
5. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
6. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
7. Benediction
   Terence Davies
8. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
9. Vortex
   Gaspar Noé
10. Ambulance
    Michael Bay

Honorable Mention

• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Great Freedom
  Sebastian Meise
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• A Wounded Fawn
  Travis Stevens
• The Quiet Girl
  Colm Bairéad
• All Quiet on the Western Front
  Edward Berger
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• Men
  Alex Garland
• Living
  Oliver Hermanus
• Flux Gourmet
  Peter Strickland
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Both Sides of the Blade
  Claire Denis
• Blonde
  Andrew Dominik
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski

Scott Tobias: The Best Movies of 2022, as posted at The Reveal where it appears alongside fun selections like "Reason for Hope," "Reason for Despair," "Most Annoying Discourse," and "Most Anticipated Film" of next year

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

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
4. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
5. After Yang
   Kogonada
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
7. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
8. Benediction
   Terence Davies
9. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
10. Confess, Fletch
    Greg Mottola
11. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
12. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
13. Both Sides of the Blade
    Claire Denis
14. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
15. Hit the Road
    Panah Panahi

Sam Adams: Top 10 Movies of 2022, as posted to his Substack where it's accompanied by a few thoughts about why a Top 10 list may have more, or fewer, than ten entries and why "alphabetizing Top 10 lists is the coward’s way out"

[see also 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. After Yang
   Kogonada
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Armageddon Time
   James Gray
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
5. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
6. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
8. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
9. Fire of Love
   Sara Dosa
10. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
11. Emily the Criminal
    John Patton Ford
12. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
13. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
14. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
15. Speak No Evil
    Christian Tafdrup
16. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
4. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
5. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
6. Top Gun: Maverick
   Joseph Kosinski
7. Benediction
   Terence Davies
8. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
9. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
10. Nope
    Jordan Peele
11. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
12. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
13. Women Talking
    Sarah Polley
14. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
15. After Yang
    Kogonada
16. The Eternal Daughter
    Joanna Hogg
17. One Fine Morning
    Mia Hansen-Løve
18. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
19. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
20. Elvis
    Baz Luhrmann
21. The Novelist's Film
    Hong Sang-soo
22. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
23. Ambulance
    Michael Bay
24. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
25. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
26. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
27. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
28. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
29. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
30. The Plains
    David Easteal
31. Return to Seoul
    Davy Chou
32. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
33. Bones and All
    Luca Guadagnino
34. Blonde
    Andrew Dominik
35. Ahed's Knee
    Nadav Lapid
36. Mad God
    Phil Tippett
37. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
38. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
39. The Girl and the Spider
    Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher
40. Friends and Strangers
    James Vaughan
41. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    Dean Fleischer Camp
42. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
43. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
44. Both Sides of the Blade
    Claire Denis
45. Three Thousand Years of Longing
    George Miller
46. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
    Dominik Graf
47. Magic Spot
    Charles Roxburgh
48. Living
    Oliver Hermanus
49. De humani corporis fabrica
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
50. A Night of Knowing Nothing
    Payal Kapadia

Guy Lodge: Top 50 Movies of 2022, as posted to Twitter in an epic thread

1. Tár
   Todd Field
2. The Plains
   David Easteal
3. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
4. Godland
   Hlynur Pálmason
5. Corsage
   Marie Kreutzer
6. A Room of My Own
   Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze
7. Elvis
   Baz Luhrmann
8. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
9. Safe Place
   Juraj Lerotic
10. Will-o'-the-Wisp
    João Pedro Rodrigues
11. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
12. Walk Up
    Hong Sang-soo
13. You Have to Come and See It
    Jonás Trueba
14. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
15. Rimini
    Ulrich Seidl
16. Atlantis
    Yuri Ancarani
17. Aftersun
    Charlotte Wells
18. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
19. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
20. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose
21. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
22. The Damned Don't Cry
    Fyzal Boulifa
23. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
24. Sharp Stick
    Lena Dunham
25. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
26. Apolonia, Apolonia
    Lea Glob
27. Flux Gourmet
    Peter Strickland
28. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
29. Watcher
    Chloe Okuno
30. The Wonder
    Sebastián Lelio
31. Other People's Children
    Rebecca Zlotowski
32. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
33. Nope
    Jordan Peele
34. Small, Slow But Steady
    Shô Miyake
35. The Eight Mountains
    Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
36. A House Made of Splinters
    Simon Lereng Wilmont
37. The Quiet Girl
    Colm Bairéad
38. A Piece of Sky
    Michael Koch
39. Unrest
    Cyril Schäublin
40. Alcarràs
    Carla Simón
41. Barbarian
    Zach Cregger
42. Horseplay
    Marco Berger
43. Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Halina Reijn
44. Tommy Guns
    Carlos Conceição
45. Robe of Gems
    Natalia López
46. Both Sides of the Blade
    Claire Denis
47. Blue Jean
    Georgia Oakley
48. Dog
    Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin
49. The Silent Twins
    Agnieszka Smoczynska
50. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    Guillermo del Toro

Keith Phipps: The Best Movies of 2022, as posted at The Reveal where it appears alongside fun selections like "Reason for Hope," "Reason for Despair," "Most Annoying Discourse," and "Most Anticipated Film" of next year

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
2. Tár
   Todd Field
3. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
4. After Yang
   Kogonada
5. Nope
   Jordan Peele
6. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
9. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
10. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
11. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
12. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
13. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
14. Hit the Road
    Panah Panahi
15. Happening
    Audrey Diwan

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Films of 2022, as submitted to La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Memoria
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Men
  Alex Garland
• Potemkinistii
  Radu Jude
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Debut Film

• American: An Odyssey to 1947
  Danny Wu

This list contributes to:

• La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Movies of 2022