Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: Best Movies of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

1. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
4. Tár
   Todd Field
5. Benediction
   Terence Davies
6. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
7. Kimi
   Steven Soderbergh
8. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
9. One Fine Morning
   Mia Hansen-Løve
10. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
11. Nope
    Jordan Peele

Ten honorable mentions

• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Descendant
  Margaret Brown
• Tantura
  Alon Schwarz
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley
• Întregalde
  Radu Muntean
• X
  Ti West
• The Novelist's Film
  Hong Sang-soo
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop

And I also recommend

• After Yang
  Kogonada
• Ahed's Knee
  Nadav Lapid
• Ali & Ava
  Clio Barnard
• All That Breathes
  Shaunak Sen
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Avatar: The Way of Water
  James Cameron
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• Beast
  Baltasar Kormákur
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• Both Sides of the Blade
  Claire Denis
• The Cathedral
  Ricky D'Ambrose
• Catherine Called Birdy
  Lena Dunham
• Causeway
  Lila Neugebauer
• A Couple
  Frederick Wiseman
• Dos estaciones
  Juan Pablo González
• Emergency
  Carey Williams
• Emily the Criminal
  John Patton Ford
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Fire Island
  Andrew Ahn
• Fire of Love
  Sara Dosa
• Flux Gourmet
  Peter Strickland
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  Sophie Hyde
• Great Freedom
  Sebastian Meise
• Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
  Adamma Ebo
• Hustle
  Jeremiah Zagar
• In Front of Your Face
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Inspection
  Elegance Bratton
• Living
  Oliver Hermanus
• A Love Song
  Max Walker-Silverman
• Murina
  Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
• Nanny
  Nikyatu Jusu
• Navalny
  Daniel Roher
• Neptune Frost
  Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• Pearl
  Ti West
• Playground
  Laura Wandel
• Pleasure
  Ninja Thyberg
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• She Said
  Maria Schrader
• Something in the Dirt
  Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
• Speak No Evil
  Christian Tafdrup
• Stars at Noon
  Claire Denis
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  Bianca Stigter
• Till
  Chinonye Chukwu
• To Leslie
  Michael Morris
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• Triangle of Sadness
  Ruben Östlund
• The Tsugua Diaries
  Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• Vortex
  Gaspar Noé
• Watcher
  Chloe Okuno
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun
• White Noise
  Noah Baumbach
• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio