Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-2022/
UPDATED: 1/30/23
NOTE: It seems RT has deprecated the list I have used historically. It hasn't updated in months. I found a similar list that is being updated. I will pull from that going forward. If they resume updates on the other list, I will switch back to that.
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Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-2022/
Note: Count is off by two because Corsage and Ted K are double counted (127/128 & 148/149).
The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the UK during 2022
List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/06/the-50-best-films-movies-of-2022-in-the-uk
Ranked as in the list
1: Aftersun
2: The Quiet Girl
3: Parallel Mothers
4: Flee
5: Licorice Pizza
6: Hit the Road
7: RRR
8: The Wonder
9: Memoria
10: Decision to Leave
11: Funny Pages
12: Moonage Daydream
13: The Banshees of Inisherin
14: Playground
15: Bones and All
16: Mass
17: You Won’t Be Alone
18: Living
19: Official Competition
20: The Northman
21: The Innocents
22: Nitram
23: Descendant
24: Fire of Love
25: The Gravedigger’s Wife
26: White Noise
27: No Bears
28: Cow
29: The Souvenir Part II
30: The Worst Person in the World
31: Crimes of the Future
32: Corsage
33: All That Breathes
34: Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
35: All Quiet on the Western Front
36: A Banquet
37: Great Freedom
38: Small Body
39: Prayers for the Stolen
40: Benediction
41: Everything Went Fine
42: We (Nous)
43: Brian and Charles
44: The Woman King
45: Vortex
46: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
47: Happening
48: Paris, 13th District
49: Top Gun: Maverick
50: Compartment No 6
The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the US during 2022
List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/06/the-50-best-movies-films-of-2022-in-the-us
Ranked as in the list
1: Aftersun
2: Tár
3: The Quiet Girl
4: Hit the Road
5: RRR
6: The Fabelmans
7: The Wonder
8: Memoria
9: Decision to Leave
10: Saint Omer
11: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
12: Funny Pages
13: Moonage Daydream
14: The Banshees of Inisherin
15: Playground
16: Bones and All
17: You Won’t Be Alone
18: Living
19: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
20: Empire of Light
21: Official Competition
22: The Northman
23: The Innocents
24: Nitram
25: Descendant
26: Fire of Love
27: White Noise
28: No Bears
29: Cow
30: Crimes of the Future
31: Corsage
32: All That Breathes
33: Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
34: All Quiet on the Western Front
35: Great Freedom
36: Small Body
37: Benediction
38: Everything Went Fine
39: The Eternal Daughter
40: We (Nous)
41: Brian and Charles
42: The Woman King
43: Vortex
44: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
45: Happening
46: Holy Spider
47: Paris, 13th District
48: Top Gun: Maverick
49: Broker
50: Bros
List compiled from (article and podcast): https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/2022/12/22/902-top-10-films-of-2022-with-michael-phillips-and-marya-e-gates
Four Top 10 lists - from Adam, Josh, Michael Phillips and Marya E. Gates
Ranked by number of consensus Top 10 selections (most Top 10 selections first), then average place from all the lists
1: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Josh, Marya, Michael)
2: Aftersun (Adam, Josh)
3: TÁR (Adam, Michael)
4: The Banshees of Inisherin (Adam, Marya)
5: After Yang (Adam, Josh)
6: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Marya, Michael)
7: Decision to Leave (Adam, Josh)
8: Hit The Road (Adam, Josh)
9: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Josh, Marya)
10: Saint Omer (Josh, Michael)
Besides the 10 consensus movies, there are some outliers that only made it to one Top 10 list
Adam:
11: Close
12: No Bears
13: RRR
14: The Fabelmans
Josh:
15: Everything Everywhere All At Once
16: Nope
17: Don’t Worry Darling
Michael:
18: Compartment No. 6
19: EO
20: Kimi
21: Let the Little Light Shine
22: The Woman King
23: Turning Red
Marya:
24: Babylon
25: Fire of Love
26: Strawberry Mansion
27: The Eternal Daughter
28: Girl Picture
29: Nanny
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-2022-movies/
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-wide-release-movies-2022/
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-limited-release-movies-2022/
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-documentaries-2022/
My favorite films not seen
list auto imported from imdb by https://github.com/cecobask/imdb-trakt-sync on Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:06:17 UTC
A.O. Scott is a former co-chief film critic at The New York Times. Here are his best movies of 2022
List compiled from: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/movies/best-movies-2022.html#link-2f28f15e
Ranked as in the list (honorable mentions start at #11 and are listed in alphabetical order)
1: Nope (Jordan Peele)
2: Neptune Frost (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman)
3: Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth)
4: Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
5: No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
6: Tár (Todd Field)
7: Lost Illusions (Xavier Giannoli)
8: Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland)
9: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
10: Down with the King (Diego Ongaro)
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Honorable mentions (listed alphabetically)
11: A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)
12: All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
13: Armageddon Time (James Gray)
14: Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
15: Descendant (Margaret Brown)
16: Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa)
17: Dos estaciones (Juan Pablo González)
18: Everything Everywhere All at Once (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
19: The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
20: Fire in the Mountains (Ajitpal Singh)
21: Futura (Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher)
22: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
23: Happening (Audrey Diwan)
24: The Inspection (Elegance Bratton)
25: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
26: Marx Can Wait (Marco Bellocchio)
27: Pleasure (Ninja Thyberg)
28: The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
29: Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
30: X (Ti West)
As of 12/27
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/movies/best-movies-2022.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/movies/best-movies-2022.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes
Rotten Tomatoes: Best of 2022
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