Year-End Lists

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

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

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