Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: Notable Films Of 2022, which "is not ranked, and doesn't necessarily follow the chronological order of viewing"

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

Top Stuff

• The Cathedral
  Ricky D'Ambrose
• Compartment Number 6
  Juho Kuosmanen
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• Deception
  Arnaud Desplechin
• The Worst Person in the World
  Joachim Trier
• The Automat
  Lisa Hurwitz
• The Tale of King Crab
  Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• Both Sides of the Blade
  Claire Denis
• Vortex
  Gaspar Noé
• Lux Æterna
  Gaspar Noé
• Flux Gourmet
  Peter Strickland
• Crimes of the Future
  David Cronenberg
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
  John Rice and Albert Calleros
• Murina
  Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
• Mad God
  Phil Tippett
• Emily the Criminal
  John Patton Ford
• Saloum
  Jean Luc Herbulot
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
  George Miller
• A Couple
  Frederick Wiseman
• Pacifiction
  Albert Serra
• The Whale
  Darren Aronofsky
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Tár
  Todd Field
• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Petrov's Flu
  Kirill Serebrennikov
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Utama
  Alejandro Loayza Grisi
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Causeway
  Lila Neugebauer
• One Fine Morning
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Sr.
  Chris Smith
• The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
  Bruce Weber
• Broker
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• No Bears
  Jafar Panahi

Honorable Mention

• The Duke
  Roger Michell
• The Torch
  Jim Farrell
• The Long Walk
  Mattie Do
• The Unknown Man of Shandigor
  Jean-Louis Roy
• Men
  Alex Garland
• Miracle
  Bogdan George Apetri
• Faith
  Valentina Pedicini
• Prey
  Dan Trachtenberg
• Hustle
  Jeremiah Zagar
• The Princess
  Ed Perkins
• Costa Brava, Lebanon
  Mounia Akl
• A Love Song
  Max Walker-Silverman
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Athena
  Romain Gavras
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop
• Adopting Audrey
  M. Cahill
• Amsterdam
  David O. Russell
• White Noise
  Noah Baumbach
• Hold Me Tight
  Mathieu Amalric
• Avatar: The Way of Water
  James Cameron
• Come le tartarughe
  Monica Dugo
• Mountain Onion
  Eldar Shibanov
• Palimpsest
  Hanna Marjo Västinsalo
• Banu
  Tahmina Rafaella