Year-End Lists

David Fear: 22 Best Movies of 2022, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
2. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
   Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
3. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
4. Till
   Chinonye Chukwu
5. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
6. Benediction
   Terence Davies
7. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
9. Athena
   Romain Gavras
10. Fire of Love
    Sara Dosa
11. Tár
    Todd Field
12. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
13. Official Competition
    Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
14. Saint Omer
    Alice Diop
15. The Fabelmans
    Steven Spielberg
16. X
    Ti West
17. Living
    Oliver Hermanus
18. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg
19. 32 Sounds
    Sam Green
20. Happening
    Audrey Diwan
21. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
22. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg

Honorable Mentions

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Bones and All
  Luca Guadagnino
• Catherine Called Birdy
  Lena Dunham
• Corsage
  Marie Kreutzer
• Donbass
  Sergei Loznitsa
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• God's Country
  Julian Higgins
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
  Guillermo del Toro
• Men
  Alex Garland
• Montana Story
  Scott McGehee and David Siegel
• Moonage Daydream
  Brett Morgen
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• Peter von Kant
  François Ozon
• Playground
  Laura Wandel
• Return to Seoul
  Davy Chou
• The Silent Twins
  Agnieszka Smoczynska
• Top Gun: Maverick
  Joseph Kosinski
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio