Year-End Lists

Sam Adams: Top 10 Movies of 2022, as posted to his Substack where it's accompanied by a few thoughts about why a Top 10 list may have more, or fewer, than ten entries and why "alphabetizing Top 10 lists is the coward’s way out"

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. After Yang
   Kogonada
2. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
3. Armageddon Time
   James Gray
4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
   Laura Poitras
5. The Eternal Daughter
   Joanna Hogg
6. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
   Martin McDonagh
8. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
9. Fire of Love
   Sara Dosa
10. All That Breathes
    Shaunak Sen
11. Emily the Criminal
    John Patton Ford
12. Resurrection
    Andrew Semans
13. Descendant
    Margaret Brown
14. Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Östlund
15. Speak No Evil
    Christian Tafdrup
16. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun