De humani corporis fabrica(Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
The Five Devils(Léa Mysius)
RRR(S S Rajamouli)
Glass Onion(Rian Johnson)
Additional 2022 Films By Rating
Showing Up(Kelly Reichardt)
All That Breathes(Shaunak Sen)
Skinamarink(Kyle Edward Ball)
Aftersun(Charlotte Wells)
Speak No Evil(Christian Tafdrup)
Close(Lukas Dhont)
Emergency(Carey Williams)
Top Gun: Maverick(Joseph Kosinski)
Trenque Lauquen(Laura Citarella)
KIMI(Steven Soderbergh)
No Bears(Jafar Panahi)
EO(Jerzy Skolimowski)
Fire of Love(Sara Dosa)
Descendant(Margaret Brown)
Confess, Fletch(Greg Mottola)
One Fine Morning(Mia Hansen-Løve)
Avatar: The Way of Water(James Cameron)
Pinocchio(Guillermo Del Toro & Mark Gustafson)
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood(Richard Linklater)
Return to Seoul(Davy Chou)
Godland(Hlynur Pálmason)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed(Laura Poitras)
Jackass Forever(Jeff Tremaine)
Crimes of the Future(David Cronenberg)
Nobody's Hero(Alain Guiraudie)
Three Thousand Years of Longing(George Miller)
The Bob's Burgers Movie(Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman)
The Integrity of Joseph Chambers(Robert Machoian)
Hundreds of Beavers(Mike Cheslik)
The Northman(Robert Eggers)
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft(Werner Herzog)
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande(Sophie Hyde)
Barbarian(Zach Cregger)
The Kingdom Exodus(Lars von Trier)
Unrest(Cyril Schäublin)
Everything Everywhere All at Once(Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing(Rory Kennedy)
R.M.N.(Cristian Mungiu)
The Night of the 12th(Dominik Moll)
Where(Tsai Ming-liang)
There There(Andrew Bujalski)
Cha Cha Real Smooth(Cooper Raiff)
Geographies of Solitude(Jacquelyn Mills)
Walk Up(Hong Sangsoo)
Pretty Problems(Kestrin Pantera)
Personality Crisis: One Night Only(Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi)
Secret Headquarters(Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
Viking(Stéphane Lafleur)
Both Sides of the Blade(Claire Denis)
The Woman King(Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Flux Gourmet(Peter Strickland)
Moonage Daydream(Brett Morgen)
Coma(Bertrand Bonello)
Mediterranean Fever(Maha Haj)
The Eight Mountains(Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness(Sam Raimi)
This Much I Know to Be True(Andrew Dominik)
Triangle of Sadness(Ruben Östlund)
Downton Abbey: A New Era(Simon Curtis)
Uncharted(Ruben Fleischer)
She Said(Maria Schrader)
Holy Spider(Ali Abbasi)
Rimini(Ulrich Seidl)
Pacifiction(Albert Serra)
Mother and Son(Léonor Serraille)
The Novelist's Film(Hong Sang-soo)
Leila's Brothers(Saeed Roustaee)
Emily the Criminal(John Patton Ford)
The Eternal Daughter(Joanna Hogg)
Something in the Dirt(Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
Hunt(Lee Jung-jae)
Broker(Kore-eda Hirokazu)
Tori and Lokita(Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Lost King(Stephen Frears)
Corsage(Marie Kreutzer)
The Inspection(Elegance Bratton)
The Outwaters(Robbie Banfitch)
Bigbug(Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Alcarràs(Carla Simón)
Elvis(Baz Luhrmann)
Armageddon Time(James Gray)
Stonewalling(Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka)
Metal Lords(Peter Sollett)
X(Ti West)
Master Gardener(Paul Schrader)
Amsterdam(David O. Russell)
Funny Pages(Owen Kline)
Athena(Romain Gavras)
Women Talking(Sarah Polley)
Nope(Jordan Peele)
Nostalgia(Mario Martone)
The Whale(Darren Aronofsky)
A Couple(Frederick Wiseman)
You Won't Be Alone(Goran Stolevski)
Cairo Conspiracy(Tarik Saleh)
Bones and All(Luca Guadagnino)
The Fabelmans(Steven Spielberg)
Scarlet(Pietro Marcello)
The Line(Ursula Meier)
Ambulance(Michael Bay)
Moonfall(Roland Emmerich)
Brother and Sister(Arnaud Desplechin)
Saint Omer(Alice Diop)
Stars at Noon(Claire Denis)
Out of the Blue(Neil LaBute)
Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list.