De humani corporis fabrica(Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
The Five Devils(Léa Mysius)
RRR(S S Rajamouli)
Glass Onion(Rian Johnson)
Showing Up(Kelly Reichardt)
Additional 2022 Films By Rating
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)
Three Thousand Years of Longing(George Miller)
The Bob's Burgers Movie(Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman)
The Integrity of Joseph Chambers(Robert Machoian)
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)
Where(Tsai Ming-liang)
There There(Andrew Bujalski)
Cha Cha Real Smooth(Cooper Raiff)
Walk Up(Hong Sangsoo)
Pretty Problems(Kestrin Pantera)
Secret Headquarters(Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
Both Sides of the Blade(Claire Denis)
The Woman King(Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Flux Gourmet(Peter Strickland)
Moonage Daydream(Brett Morgen)
Coma(Bertrand Bonello)
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)
Uncharted(Ruben Fleischer)
She Said(Maria Schrader)
Holy Spider(Ali Abbasi)
Rimini(Ulrich Seidl)
Pacifiction(Albert Serra)
The Novelist's Film(Hong Sang-soo)
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)
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)
The Whale(Darren Aronofsky)
You Won't Be Alone(Goran Stolevski)
Cairo Conspiracy(Tarik Saleh)
Bones and All(Luca Guadagnino)
The Fabelmans(Steven Spielberg)
The Line(Ursula Meier)
Ambulance(Michael Bay)
Moonfall(Roland Emmerich)
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.