Year-End Lists

Ty Burr: Top 20 Films of 2022, in alphabetical order

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• After Yang
  Kogonada
• Aftersun
  Charlotte Wells
• All That Breathes
  Shaunak Sen
• Athena
  Romain Gavras
• Avatar: The Way of Water
  James Cameron
• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Descendant
  Margaret Brown
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• The Eternal Daughter
  Joanna Hogg
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Men
  Alex Garland
• No Bears
  Jafar Panahi
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• The Northman
  Robert Eggers
• Return to Seoul
  Davy Chou
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Tár
  Todd Field
• The Woman King
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley

Runners-up (meaning they’re really good and you should see them too.)

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  Laura Poitras
• Barbarian
  Zach Cregger
• Crimes of the Future
  David Cronenberg
• Decision to Leave
  Park Chan-wook
• Dos estaciones
  Juan Pablo González
• Fire of Love
  Sara Dosa
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  Sophie Hyde
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Hold Me Tight
  Mathieu Amalric
• Holy Spider
  Ali Abbasi
• The Janes
  Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes
• Kimi
  Steven Soderbergh
• Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
  Sacha Jenkins
• A Love Song
  Max Walker-Silverman
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  Dean Fleischer Camp
• Sr.
  Chris Smith
• Till
  Chinonye Chukwu
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio