This is a list of all my favourite films of 2022.
Some films already had their festival premiere in 2021 but had their wide release in 2022.
★★★★★ Favourite / Classic / Masterpiece
★★★★½ Exceptional
★★★★ Great
★★★½ Very Good but some flaws
★★★ Interesting but flawed
★★½ Major flaws but some good ideas
Aftersun
★★★★½
dir. Charlotte Wells
Drama
[UK / USA, 2022]
Memoria
★★★★½
dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Fantasy Drama
[Thailand / Colombia / UK / France / et al, 2021]
ドライブ・マイ・カ (Drive My Car)
★★★★½
dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Introspective Drama
[Japan, 2021]
L’Événement (Happening)
★★★★
dir. Audrey Diwan
Drama Thriller
[France, 2021]
A Night of Knowing Nothing
★★★★
dir. Payal Kapadia
Documentary
[France / India, 2021]
Cow
★★★★
dir. Andrea Arnold
Documentary
[UK, 2021]
The Northman
★★★★
dir. Robert Eggers
Epic Historical Action Thriller
[USA, 2022]
ONODA 一万夜を越えて (Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle)
★★★½
dir. Arthur Harari
War Drama
[France / Japan / Germany / Belgium / Italy / Cambodia, 2021]
Verdens Verste Menneske (The Worst Person in the World)
★★★½
dir. Joachim Trier
Romantic Comedy-Drama
[Norway / Denmark / France / Sweden, 2021]
Competencia Oficial (Official Competition)
★★★½
dir. Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
Comedy
[Spain / Argentina, 2021]
A Chiara
★★★½
dir. Jonas Carpignano
Drama
[Italy / France / USA / Sweden, 2021]
Retrograde
★★★½
dir. Matthew Heineman
Documentary
[USA, 2022]
The Territory
★★★½
dir. Alex Pritz
Documentary
[USA / UK / Brazil / Denmark, 2022]
Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
★★★½
dir. Edward Berger
Epic Anti-War
[Germany / USA, 2022]
Final Account
★★★½
dir. Luke Holland
Documentary
[USA / UK, 2020]
Descendant
★★★½
dir. Margaret Brown
Documentary
[USA, 2022]
The Janes
★★★½
dir. Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin
Documentary
[USA, 2022]
犬王 (Inu-Oh)
★★★½
dir. Masaaki Yuasa
Japanese Animated Musical
[Japan, 2021]
RRR
★★★½
dir. S. S. Rajamouli
Epic Action Drama
[India, 2022]
The Fallout
★★★½
dir. Megan Park
Drama
[USA, 2021]
Athena
★★★½
dir. Romain Gavras
Epic Action Drama
[France, 2022]
Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider)
★★★½
dir. Ramon und Silvan Zürcher
Drama
[Switzerland, 2021]
Avatar: The Way of Water
★★★½
dir. James Cameron
Epic Science Fiction
[USA, 2022]
Prey
★★★½
dir. Dan Trachtenberg
Science Fiction Action
[USA, 2022]
The Good Nurse
★★★½
dir. Tobias Lindholm
Drama
[USA, 2022]
Top Gun: Maverick
★★★½
dir. Joseph Kosinski
Action Drama
[USA, 2022]
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
★★★½
dir. Richard Linklater
Animated Coming-of-Age Drama
[USA, 2022]
The Sea Beast
★★★½
dir. Chris Williams
Computer-Animated Adventure
[USA / Canada, 2022]
These lists might also be of interest:
Film Lists Archive
Watch-List 06/22
Films of 2022 I’m Looking Forward to See
Favourite Films of 2021