Best Movies of 2022: Our Individual Top 10 Lists

The best movies of 2022, according to our writers! Read our individual top 10 lists, with 89 great films that were released this year!

2022 has been an incredible film for movies, and each film festival brought a series of noteworthy, excellent films that defined what has been an unforgettable year for movies. Not only that, but theatrical and even streaming releases continue to surprise to this day, with the recent addition of Babylon Women Talking, Avatar: The Way of Water and Glass Onion to an already fantastic catalogue of films. So what are the best movies of 2022, according to our writers? Below are the individual top 10 lists of 26 of our staff writers, giving you a total of 89 great films from 2022 to add to your watchlists!

Don’t forget to also read Loud and Clear Reviews’ definitive list of the 20 best movies of 2022, and happy watching!

Please note: our individual top 10 lists only include movies that have had their first U.S. or U.K. release in the year 2022, not counting film festival debuts. Not all of our critics have been able to see all of this year’s releases.

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AARON MURRAY

1. Nope
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. We’re All Going To The World’s Fair
4. Smile
5. Barbarian
6. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
7. On The Count of Three
8. Vortex
9. The Batman
10. The Northman

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ADELE CAMPISI

1. Emily
2. Cha Cha Real Smooth
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Three Thousand Years of Longing
5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
6. Luckiest Girl Alive
7. The Banshees Of Inisherin

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ANTHONY BOWMER

1. Benediction
2. The Fabelmans
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. Crimes of the Future
5. Armageddon Time
6. RRR
7. Three Thousand Years of Longing
8. Nope
9. The Novelist’s Film
10. Section 1

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ARTHUR GOYAZ

1. Happening
2. We’re All Going To The World’s Fair
3. Avatar: the Way of Water
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. TÁR
6. RRR
7. Crimes of the Future
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Cha Cha Real Smooth
10. Three Thousand Years of Longing

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BETHANY LOLA

1. Women Talking
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Watcher
4. TÁR
5. Triangle of Sadness
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth
7. Barbarian
8. Terrifier 2
9. Happening
10. Stars at Noon

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BRANYAN TOWE

1. Cha Cha Real Smooth
2. Babylon
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Bodies Bodies Bodies
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
6. She Said
7. Clerks III
8. The Batman
9. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
10. Avatar: The Way of Water

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CAMERON FAIRCHILD

1. In Front of Your Face
2. Crimes of the Future
3. The Fabelmans
4. The Novelist’s Film
5. Natchathiram Nagargiradhu
6. Armageddon Time
7. Three Thousand Years of Longing
8. EO
9. Fire (Both Sides of the Blade)
10. Neptune Frost

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DANIEL ALLEN

1. Aftersun
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Turning Red
5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
6. Causeway
7. Top Gun: Maverick
8. Elvis
9. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
10. What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?

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EDGAR ORTEGA

1. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
2. The Fabelmans
3. The Batman
4. Avatar: The Way of Water
5. Everything Everywhere All At Once
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. The Northman
8. Nope
9. Top Gun: Maverick
10. RRR

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ETHAN HILL

1. The Fabelmans
2. TÁR
3. Nope
4. Fire Island
5. After Yang
6. Aftersun
7. Top Gun: Maverick
8. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
9. Prey
10. Everything Everywhere All At Once

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HECTOR A. GONZALEZ

1. TÁR
2. Happening
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
4. The Eternal Daughter
5. Close
6. Moonage Daydream
7. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
8. Crimes of the Future
9. Aftersun
10. Stars at Noon

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IRENE FREDUCCI

1. The Banshees Of Inisherin
2. Blonde
3. Ennio
4. TÁR
5. Amsterdam
6. Death on the Nile
7. The Son
8. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
9. The Whale
10. Top Gun: Maverick

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JACK WALTERS

1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Aftersun
3. Nope
4. Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. TÁR
6. The Fabelmans
7. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
8. The Northman
9. The Batman
10. The Banshees of Inisherin

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JAKE BURBAGE

1. Aftersun
2. The Quiet Girl
3. Jackass Forever
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. The Batman
6. TÁR
7. See How They Run
8. The Eternal Daughter
9. Bones and All
10. There There

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JONATHAN VARGAS

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. The Batman
3. The Banshees Of Inisherin
4. Nope
5. Babylon
6. Aftersun
7. Bodies Bodies Bodies
8. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
9. Bros
10. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

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JOSEPH TOMASTIK

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. The Whale
4. The Woman King
5. The Menu
6. Soft & Quiet
7. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
8. The Northman
9. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
10. Bodies Bodies Bodies

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JOSHUA STEVENS

1. TÁR
2. The Fabelmans
3. The Batman
4. Nope
5. Moonage Daydream
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Bodies Bodies Bodies
8. Top Gun: Maverick
9. Decision to Leave
10. The Northman

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LANEY GIBBONS

1. Aftersun
2. Cha Cha Real Smooth
3. Scream (2022)
4. Elvis
5. Fresh
6. Do Revenge
7. X
8. Bodies Bodies Bodies
9. Triangle of Sadness
10. Turning Red

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MICHAEL CARVELLI

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Decision to Leave
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. TÁR
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
7. Triangle of Sadness
8. Nope
9. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
10. After Yang

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NILS GOLLERSRUD

1. Compartment No. 6
2. Avatar: The Way of Water
3. Crimes of the Future
4. Ennio
5. The Fabelmans
6. Fire of Love
7. Ambulance
8. White Noise
9. Saint-Narcisse
10. The Northman

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OLIVIA SAVAGE

1. Cha Cha Real Smooth
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Bones and All
4. Aftersun
5. Do Revenge
6. Bodies Bodies Bodies
7. Everything Everywhere All At Once
8. Nope
9. She Said
10. The Batman

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SERENA SEGHEDONI

1. Aftersun
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. The Whale
4. Babylon
5. TÁR
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. Bros
8. White Noise
9. Living
10. RRR

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WESLEY HUNT

1. RRR
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. My Father’s Dragon
4. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
5. The Bad Guys
6. Avatar: The Way of Water
7. Turning Red
8. The Batman
9. Entergalactic
10. Wendell and Wild

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WILLIAM STOTTOR

1. Aftersun
2. Bones and All
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. The Eternal Daughter
6. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
7. Close
8. Hit the Road
9. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
10. The Northman

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YEHUDA SIEGEL

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. A Hero
3. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
4. Avatar: The Way of Water
5. Decision to Leave
6. TÁR
7. The Fabelmans
8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
9. Nope
10. Bones and All

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ZOË ROSE BRYANT

1. Bones and All
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. Babylon
5. Women Talking
6. The Fabelmans
7. TÁR
8. Cha Cha Real Smooth
9. Top Gun: Maverick
10. She Said

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