What a year it has been! Next month we will have our full feature with all of our writers’ input on why they chose these films for our top list. For now, we just wanted to share our picks for the best films of 2022. Happy Holidays!

Honorable mentions: Resurrection (Andrew Semans), God’s Creatures (Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis), Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (Ana Lily Amirpour), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), Highway One (Jaclyn Bethany), I’ll Show You Mine (Megan Griffiths), Battleground (Cynthia Lowen), My Love Affair with Marriage (Signe Baumane), Runner (Marian Mathias), Fixation (Mercedes Bryce Morgan), Relative (Michael Glover Smith), Babylon (Damien Chazelle), The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier), Alis (Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas Van Hemelryck), and Monica (Andrea Pallaoro).

1. Women Talking – Directed by Sarah Polley
2. The Woman King – Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
3. Happening – Directed by Audrey Diwan
4. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – Directed by Sophie Hyde
5. Palm Trees and Power Lines – Directed by Jamie Dack
6. Aftersun – Directed by Charlotte Wells
7. Medusa – Directed by Anita Rocha da Silveira
8. You Resemble Me – Directed by Dina Amer
9. Clara Sola – Directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
10. Saint Omer – Directed by Alice Diop
11. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Directed by Laura Poitras
12. Beba – Directed by Rebeca Huntt
13. Girl Picture – Directed by Alli Haapasalo
14. The Blue Caftan – Directed by Maryam Touzani
15. Till – Directed by Chinonye Chukwu
16. Pleasure – Directed by Ninja Thyberg
17. Turning Red – Directed by Domee Shi
18. Murina – Directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
19. Anonymous Sister – Directed by Jamie Boyle
20. Mothering Sunday – Directed by Eva Husson
21. Nanny – Directed by Nikyatu Jusu
22. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
23. The Justice of Bunny King – Directed by Gaysorn Thavat
24. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. – Directed by Adamma Ebo
25. Everything Everywhere All At Once – Directed by Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
26. Please Baby Please – Directed by Amanda Kramer
27. The Year Between – Directed by Alex Heller
28. Neptune Frost – Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
29. She Said – Directed by Maria Schrader
30. Triangle of Sadness – Directed by Ruben Östlund
31. Master – Directed by Mariama Diallo
32. Bodies Bodies Bodies – Directed by Halina Reijn
33. Fire of Love – Directed by Sara Dosa
34. I Blame Society – Directed by Gillian Wallace Horvat
35. Roving Woman – Directed by Michal Chmielewski
36. Band – Directed by Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir
37. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody – Directed by Kasi Lemmons
38. Joyland – Directed by Saim Sadiq
39. Bones and All – Directed by Luca Guadagnino
40. Provo – Directed by Emma Thatcher
41. Don’t Worry Darling – Directed by Olivia Wilde
42. The African Desperate – Directed by Martine Syms
43. Emily the Criminal – Directed by John Patton Ford
44. Watcher – Directed by Chloe Okuno
45. Good Girl Jane – Directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz
46. Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches – Directed by Julia Marchesi
47. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché – Directed by Paul Sng, Celeste Belle
48. Sirens – Directed by Rita Baghdadi
49. Sisters Rising – Directed by Brad Heck, Willow O’Feral
50. elephant – Directed by Maria Judice