It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when critics encapsulate their favorite movies in list format. Below, just before the calendar turns to 2023 and before ballots are due for our annual award nominations, a round up of some of our members’ favorites of 2022.
Among sixteen lists, ten mention Tár, Everything Everywhere All At Once appears on nine, Aftersun and Top Gun: Maverick on eight, with RRR rounding out the top five most mentioned favorites. Stay tuned for our official nominations which will be released on January 9th!
![]() | Aaron White: Feelin’ Film Top Gun: Maverick | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | The Batman | Avatar: The Way of Water | Cha Cha Real Smooth | Aftersun | Fire of Love | Ambulance | Blonde | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery |
![]() | Brian Taibl : Brian the Movie Guy Top Gun: Maverick | The Batman | The Banshees of Inisherin | Elvis | Tár | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Prey | Hustle | The Fabelmans | RRR |
![]() | Calvin Kemp & Vaughn Swearingen : The Twin Geeks Aftersun | The Banshees of Inisherin | Crimes of the Future | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Hit The Road | The Lad Goodbye | Magic Spot | Powerlands | Something in the Dirt | Tár |
![]() | Chase Hutchinson : The Inlander Aftersun | We’re All Going to the World’s Fair | The Banshees of Inisherin | Tár | Nope | Mad God | After Yang | Everything Everywhere All at Once | RRR | Saint Omer |
![]() | Erik Samdahl : Filmjabber Top Gun: Maverick | The Northman | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Thirteen Lives | Pleasure | The Fallout | Speak No Evil | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Hustle | RRR |
![]() | Josh Bis : The SunBreak Tár | Aftersun | EO | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | The Banshees of Inisherin | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | The Fabelmans | Nope | Top Gun: Maverick | Women Talking |
![]() | Justin Moore: Justin Watches Movies The Batman | Cha Cha Real Smooth | Babylon | Nope | Barbarian | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Top Gun: Maverick | Avatar: the Way of Water | The Whale | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery |
![]() | Kathy Fennessy : Seattle Film Blog EO | Decision to Leave | Benediction | Crimes of the Future | Lost Illusions | Happening | Aftersun | X | Great Freedom | Compartment Number 6 |
![]() | Linda Gwilym : Movie Pie Fire of Love | Top Gun: Maverick | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Close | Thirteen Lives | Cha Cha Real Smooth | Compartment Number 6 | Aftersun | Return to Seoul | Tár |
![]() | Matt Oakes: Silver Screen Riot Everything Everywhere All At Once | RRR | Pearl | Tár | Top Gun: Maverick | The Northman | Barbarian | Speak No Evil | The Innocents | The Menu |
![]() | Michael Clawson : Drink in the Movies The Eternal Daughter | Mr. Bachmann and His Class | The Girl and the Spider | Decision to Leave | Tár | Il Buco | Friends and Strangers | Aftersun | Wood and Water | Crimes of the Future |
![]() | Morgen Schuler : The SunBreak Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Official Competition | Triangle of Sadness | Nope | Eternal Spring | Tár | After Yang | RRR | EO | Everything Everywhere All At Once |
![]() | René Sánchez : Cine Sin Fronteras Tár | Aftersun | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Decision to Leave | EO | Women Talking | Hit the Road | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Bardo | Saint Omer |
![]() | Sara Michelle Fetters : SGN & Moviefreak The Banshees of Inisherin | The Eternal Daughter | Turning Red | Pearl | We’re All Going to the World’s Fair | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | All Quiet on the Western Front | Three Thousand Years of Longing | Top Gun: Maverick | Bones and All |
![]() | Sean Gilman : Seattle Screen Scene The Novelist’s Film & In Front of Your Face (tie) | The Fabelmans | Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 | Three Thousand Years of Longing | Detective vs. Sleuths | Decision to Leave | A New Old Play | Avatar: the Way of Water | Baby Assassins | RRR |
![]() | Taylor James Baker : Drink in the Movies Lux Æterna | Blonde | Jackass Forever | Babylon | Vortex | The Whale | All Quiet on the Western Front | Tár | Official Competition | Kimi |