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2022 Movies

Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2022

03 January 2023

Aftersun - Charlotte Wells

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2022

[see also 2023 • 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

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