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