Roundup: Top Films of 2022 from Seattle Critics

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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

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