Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Movies of 2022

[see also 2024 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

1. Hit the Road
   Panah Panahi
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Athena
   Romain Gavras
4. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
5. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
   Guillermo del Toro
6. X
   Ti West
7. A Hero
   Asghar Farhadi
8. Nope
   Jordan Peele
9. Tár
   Todd Field
10. RRR
    S.S. Rajamouli
11. A Love Song
    Max Walker-Silverman
12. Turning Red
    Domee Shi
13. Kimi
    Steven Soderbergh
14. Dual
    Riley Stearns
15. Belle
    Mamoru Hosoda
16. Avatar: The Way of Water
    James Cameron
17. The Banshees of Inisherin
    Martin McDonagh
18. The Sea Beast
    Chris Williams
19. After Yang
    Kogonada
20. Crimes of the Future
    David Cronenberg
21. Decision to Leave
    Park Chan-wook
22. Argentina, 1985
    Santiago Mitre
23. Babylon
    Damien Chazelle
24. Broker
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
25. The Menu
    Mark Mylod
26. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    Rian Johnson
27. The Northman
    Robert Eggers
28. Top Gun: Maverick
    Joseph Kosinski
29. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
30. White Noise
    Noah Baumbach
31. Elvis
    Baz Luhrmann
32. Inspector Ike
    Graham Mason
33. Mad God
    Phil Tippett
34. EO
    Jerzy Skolimowski
35. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
36. Nitram
    Justin Kurzel
37. Hold Me Tight
    Mathieu Amalric
38. Watcher
    Chloe Okuno
39. Dos estaciones
    Juan Pablo González
40. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
41. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    Laura Poitras
42. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
43. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb
    Jon Bois
44. A Couple
    Frederick Wiseman
45. Prey
    Dan Trachtenberg
46. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu
47. Girl Picture
    Alli Haapasalo
48. Children of the Mist
    Diem Ha Le
49. Neptune Frost
    Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
50. No Bears
    Jafar Panahi