2022 Favorites: New and Recent Movies

The best 2022 movies:

1. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon & Silvan Zürcher)
4. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
5. Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
6. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
7. Athena (Romain Gavras)
8. Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland)
9. After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (Bertrand Mandico)
10. Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)
11. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
12. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
13. Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman)
14. Benediction (Terence Davies)
15. Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
16. Nope (Jordan Peele)
17. Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens)
18. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
19. Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
20. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)


The best from the previous five years, watched this year:

1. The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson)
2. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
4. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
5. The Timekeepers of Eternity (Aristotelis Maragkos)
6. Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro)
7. Social Hygiene (Denis Côté)
8. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
9. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
11. Procession (Robert Greene)
12. Madame Hyde (Serge Bozon)