Year-End Lists

Jeffrey M. Anderson: Top Ten Films of 2022, as posted at Combustible Celluloid

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014]

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2. The Fabelmans
   Steven Spielberg
3. Mad God
   Phil Tippett
4. Aftersun
   Charlotte Wells
5. No Bears
   Jafar Panahi
6. Crimes of the Future
   David Cronenberg
7. Decision to Leave
   Park Chan-wook
8. Women Talking
   Sarah Polley
9. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
   Sam Raimi
10. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
    Richard Linklater

Ten Runners-Up

• The Banshees of Inisherin
  Martin McDonagh
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Blonde
  Andrew Dominik
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  Rian Johnson
• Happening
  Audrey Diwan
• Nope
  Jordan Peele
• Pearl
  Ti West
• Tár
  Todd Field
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
  Jane Schoenbrun

Ten Honorable Mentions

• All Quiet on the Western Front
  Edward Berger
• Armageddon Time
  James Gray
• Both Sides of the Blade
  Claire Denis
• Dinner in America
  Adam Rehmeier
• Emergency
  Carey Williams
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• Holy Spider
  Ali Abbasi
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• RRR
  S.S. Rajamouli
• Sundown
  Michel Franco

Guilty Pleasures & Little Treasures

• The Automat
  Lisa Hurwitz
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
  Halina Reijn
• Death on the Nile
  Kenneth Branagh
• Do Revenge
  Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
• Dual
  Riley Stearns
• The Menu
  Mark Mylod
• The Sadness
  Rob Jabbaz
• Stars at Noon
  Claire Denis
• Violent Night
  Tommy Wirkola
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
  Eric Appel
• The Wonder
  Sebastián Lelio
• X
  Ti West