Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2022

1. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
2. EO
   Jerzy Skolimowski
3. Tár
   Todd Field
4. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
5. Saint Omer
   Alice Diop
6. Benediction
   Terence Davies
7. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
   Richard Linklater
8. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
   Maria Speth
9. Both Sides of the Blade
   Claire Denis
10. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
11. In Front of Your Face
    Hong Sang-soo
12. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
13. Great Freedom
    Sebastian Meise
14. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
15. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
16. Stars at Noon
    Claire Denis
17. Mad God
    Phil Tippett
18. Vortex
    Gaspar Noé
19. Jackass Forever
    Jeff Tremaine
20. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi
21. Nope
    Jordan Peele
22. Playground
    Laura Wandel
23. Armageddon Time
    James Gray
24. Funny Pages
    Owen Kline
25. The Cathedral
    Ricky D'Ambrose

Our Runners-Up

• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Holy Spider
  Ali Abbasi
• The Novelist's Film
  Hong Sang-soo
• One Fine Morning
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• Rock Bottom Riser
  Fern Silva
• Saturday Fiction
  Lou Ye
• Babi Yar. Context
  Sergei Loznitsa
• Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  Dominik Graf
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Neptune Frost
  Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• God's Creatures
  Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun
• Turning Red
  Domee Shi
• Friends and Strangers
  James Vaughan
• Compartment Number 6
  Juho Kuosmanen
• Return to Seoul
  Davy Chou
• My Imaginary Country
  Patricio Guzmán
• Athena
  Romain Gavras
• Dog
  Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin
• Amsterdam
  David O. Russell
• Flux Gourmet
  Peter Strickland
• After Yang
  Kogonada