Best Films of 2022: Individual Ballots

The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment‘s contributors and colleagues! On this page, you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Released Films of 2022 category, covering features that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2022 in the United States. To see which films came out on top, check out our Best Films of 2022 list, which features original appreciations from critics, as well as links to features, reviews, and interviews about these films and directors from across the year.

And for new films that our voters loved but which do not yet have stateside distribution, check out our Best Undistributed Films of 2022 list.

Peruse the poll results of yesteryear.

Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)

Jamsheed Akrami (critic, scholar)

Aftersun
Ahed’s Knee
Aisha
The Banshees of Inisherin
Cinema Sabaya
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
The Good Boss
Happening
Hit the Road
Hustle
Is that Black Enough for You?!?
No Bears
Stars at Noon
TÁR
Till
Triangle of Sadness
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
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Florence Almozini (programmer, Film at Lincoln Center)

  1. The Girl and the Spider
  2. The Eternal Daughter
  3. Nope
  4. The Worst Person in the World
  5. Armageddon Time
  6. In Front of Your Face
  7. The African Desperate
  8. EO
  9. The Cathedral
  10. Stars at Noon
  11. Friends and Strangers
  12. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  13. The Super 8 Years
  14. The Inspection
  15. Corsage
  16. Aftersun
  17. God’s Creatures
  18. Neptune Frost
  19. The Novelist’s Film
  20. Hold Me Tight

Erika Balsom (critic, scholar)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Crimes of the Future
EO
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
The Girl and the Spider
A Night of Knowing Nothing
No Bears
The Novelist’s Film
The Tsugua Diaries
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

Margaret Barton-Fumo (critic)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. Aftersun
  3. Funny Pages
  4. Ali & Ava
  5. Decision to Leave
  6. Flux Gourmet
  7. Resurrection
  8. Armageddon Time
  9. The Eternal Daughter
  10. In Front of Your Face
  11. Il buco
  12. Petite maman
  13. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  14. Stars at Noon
  15. Triangle of Sadness
  16. All That Breathes
  17. Vortex
  18. Fire of Love
  19. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  20. Nothing Compares

Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)

Chris Boeckmann (critic, programmer)

  1. There Will Be No More Night
  2. The Rehearsal
  3. El gran movimiento
  4. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  5. The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
  6. Petite maman
  7. We
  8. TÁR
  9. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  10. One Man Dies a Million Times
  11. Jackass Forever
  12. Friends and Strangers
  13. Top Gun: Maverick
  14. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  15. Barbarian
  16. jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
  17. Dog
  18. I Didn’t See You There
  19. Deep Water
  20. Dos Estaciones

 

Lukas Brasiskis (programmer, E-flux Screening Room)

  1. The Novelist’s Film
  2. Showing Up
  3. De humani corporis fabrica
  4. The Eternal Daughter
  5. Will-o’-the-Wisp
  6. Pacifiction
  7. Saint Omer
  8. Walk Up
  9. My Imaginary Country
  10. EAMI
  11. Stars at Noon
  12. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

 

Richard Brody (critic, The New Yorker)

  1. Benediction
  2. Nope
  3. Armageddon Time
  4. No Bears
  5. Both Sides of the Blade
  6. Hit the Road
  7. Amsterdam
  8. Saint Omer
  9. The Eternal Daughter
  10. The Cathedral
  11. Till
  12. Don’t Worry Darling
  13. Saturday Fiction
  14. In Front of Your Face
  15. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  16. Framing Agnes
  17. Ahed’s Knee
  18. The Novelist’s Film
  19. The Inspection
  20. A Couple

“A year of very good movies, but fewer than recently usual in two prime categories: American independent films and nonfiction; whether because of mere happenstance of the schedules of production and distribution or because of a general trend remains to be seen—same time next year.’’

 

Maya S. Cade (programmer)

  1. Saint Omer
  2. Neptune Frost
  3. The African Desperate
  4. Aftersun
  5. Our Father, the Devil
  6. Descendant
  7. Nanny
  8. Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
  9. Is That Black Enough For You?!?
  10. The Inspection

“This year was also a rich feast of repertory restoration premieres (Drylongso, Alma’s Rainbow, The Passion of Remembrance, et al.)!”

 

Phoebe Chen (critic)

  1. EO
  2. The Girl and the Spider
  3. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  4. The Cathedral
  5. Saint Omer
  6. Decision to Leave
  7. Crimes of the Future
  8. A New Old Play
  9. Terra Femme
  10. TÁR
  11. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

 

Edo Choi (programmer, Museum of the Moving Image)

  1. The Fabelmans
  2. Irma Vep
  3. Armageddon Time
  4. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  5. Both Sides of the Blade
  6. The Eternal Daughter
  7. In Front of Your Face
  8. Crimes of the Future
  9. Feathers
  10. White Noise
  11. Benediction
  12. Compartment No. 6
  13. Il buco
  14. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  15. One Fine Morning
  16. Stars at Noon
  17. Outside Noise
  18. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  19. Dos Estaciones
  20. Zero Fucks Given

 

Bedatri Datta Choudhury (programmer, DOC NYC; critic, The Philly Inquirer)

  1. All That Breathes
  2. Utama
  3. We
  4. Petite maman
  5. No Bears
  6. Saint Omer
  7. The Worst Person in the World
  8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  9. Hit the Road
  10. All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
  11. The Girl and the Spider
  12. The Banshees of Inisherin
  13. The Eternal Daughter
  14. Riotsville, U.S.A.
  15. Cow
  16. Dos Estaciones
  17. Memory Box
  18. Cane Fire

 

Matt Connolly (critic)

  1. Aftersun
  2. Petite maman
  3. Nope
  4. The Banshees of Inisherin
  5. Triangle of Sadness
  6. Armageddon Time
  7. Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
  8. TÁR
  9. The Woman King
  10. Bros

 

Jordan Cronk (critic, programmer, Acropolis Cinema)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. The Novelist’s Film
  3. EO
  4. The Fabelmans
  5. In Front of Your Face
  6. Irma Vep
  7. Il buco
  8. The Tsugua Diaries
  9. A Couple
  10. The Girl and the Spider
  11. The Cathedral
  12. El gran movimiento
  13. A New Old Play
  14. Babi Yar. Context
  15. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  16. Întregalde
  17. From Where They Stood
  18. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  19. Stars at Noon
  20. Los conductos

 

Adrian Curry (critic, designer)

  1. The Cathedral
  2. The Worst Person in the World
  3. Aftersun
  4. Compartment No. 6
  5. Kimi
  6. Elvis
  7. Ahed’s Knee
  8. This Much I Know to Be True
  9. Cow
  10. Blonde

 

Daniel Eagan (critic)

  1. The Banshees of Inisherin
  2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  3. Top Gun: Maverick
  4. All That Breathes
  5. Fire in the Mountains
  6. The Outfit
  7. Love After Love
  8. Black Adam
  9. Bullet Train
  10. RRR
  11. Darlings

“It’s difficult to exclude series like Irma Vep, Pachinko, Slow Horses, etc.”

 

Matthew Eng (critic)

  1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  2. The Fabelmans
  3. One Fine Morning
  4. In Front of Your Face
  5. Aftersun
  6. Riotsville, U.S.A.
  7. Il buco
  8. EO
  9. Compartment No. 6
  10. Babi Yar. Context
  11. Fire of Love
  12. Great Freedom
  13. Donbass
  14. Nope

 

Lawrence Garcia (critic)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. One Fine Morning
  3. Il buco
  4. EO
  5. The Tsugua Diaries
  6. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  7. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  8. Introduction
  9. Întregalde
  10. The Cathedral
  11. Outside Noise
  12. Emily the Criminal
  13. Ahed’s Knee
  14. Vortex
  15. Wood and Water

 

Caden Mark Gardner (critic)

  1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  2. The Fabelmans
  3. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  4. Crimes of the Future
  5. TÁR
  6. Saint Omer
  7. Armageddon Time
  8. Funny Pages
  9. Neptune Frost
  10. The Cathedral
  11. The Eternal Daughter
  12. The Tsugua Diaries
  13. Benediction
  14. Bones and All
  15. Nope
  16. Aftersun
  17. Strawberry Mansion
  18. Sharp Stick
  19. Jackass Forever
  20. Vortex

 

Devika Girish (critic, Film Comment)

  1. The Girl and the Spider
  2. Los conductos
  3. Saint Omer
  4. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  5. One Fine Morning
  6. The Fabelmans
  7. Crimes of the Future
  8. We
  9. Expedition Content
  10. The Super 8 Years
  11. Aftersun
  12. The Metamorphosis of Birds
  13. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  14. Nope
  15. Benediction
  16. I Didn’t See You There
  17. Decision to Leave
  18. The Eternal Daughter
  19. The African Desperate
  20. The Cathedral

Best TV: The Kingdom Exodus

Best New-Old Picks: The Day of Despair, Untitled 77-A

 

Leonardo Goi (critic)

  1. Aftersun
  2. Stars at Noon
  3. The Cathedral
  4. The Worst Person in the World
  5. The Eternal Daughter
  6. No Bears
  7. One Fine Morning
  8. The Tale of King Crab
  9. EO
  10. Athena
  11. El Gran Movimiento
  12. TÁR
  13. Crimes of the Future
  14. Il buco
  15. Babi Yar. Context
  16. Los Conductos
  17. Dos Estaciones
  18. The African Desperate
  19. Neptune Frost
  20. Flux Gourmet

 

Leo Goldsmith (critic, scholar)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. Expedition Content
  3. The Cathedral
  4. El gran movimiento
  5. In Front of Your Face
  6. The Eternal Daughter
  7. Il buco
  8. Aftersun
  9. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  10. Cane Fire

 

Emerson Goo (critic)

  1. Cane Fire
  2. El gran movimiento
  3. Aftersun
  4. Decision to Leave
  5. Il buco
  6. We
  7. Hold Me Tight
  8. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  9. Every Day in Kaimukī

 

Jessica Green (programmer)

The African Desperate
Bad Axe
Bantú Mama
Beba
The Cathedral
Descendant
Dos Estaciones
Fire Island
Free Chol Soo Lee
The Inspection
Leonor Will Never Die
Mija
Nanny
Neptune Frost
Nope
Petite maman
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Sirens
We’re All Going To The World’s Fair
You Resemble Me

 

Molly Haskell (critic)

  1. TÁR 
  2. The Eternal Daughter
  3. EO
  4. Saint Omer
  5. The Metamorphosis of Birds
  6. One Fine Morning
  7. The Fabelmans
  8. Aftersun
  9. Decision to Leave
  10. No Bears
  11. In Front of Your Face
  12. Broker
  13. The Novelist’s Film
  14. Hold Me Tight
  15. Corsage
  16. Kimi
  17. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  18. Petite maman

 

Eugene Hernandez (Sundance Film Festival)

  1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  2. The Inspection
  3. A Love Song
  4. Moonage Daydream
  5. All That Breathes
  6. Aftersun
  7. Descendant
  8. Dos Estaciones
  9. The Eternal Daughter
  10. EO
  11. Nope
  12. TÁR
  13. A Chiara
  14. Il buco
  15. Nanny
  16. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  17. Neptune Frost
  18. Riotsville, U.S.A.
  19. Fire Island
  20. Till

 

A.E. Hunt (critic)

Fire Island
Saint Omer
Stonewalling
What’s Up Connection

 

Azadeh Jafari (critic)

  1. Decision to Leave
  2. Stars at Noon
  3. Armageddon Time
  4. Benediction
  5. Happening
  6. Hit the Road
  7. Alcarràs
  8. Pearl
  9. The Novelist’s Film
  10. Nope

 

Daniel Kasman (critic, MUBI Notebook)

  1. RRR
  2. Atlanta, Seasons 3 & 4
  3. The Rehearsal
  4. Babi Yar. Context
  5. Showing Up
  6. Belle
  7. Crimes of the Future
  8. Kimi
  9. Hunt
  10. EO
  11. Benediction
  12. Petite maman
  13. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  14. Decision to Leave
  15. Vortex
  16. Deep Water
  17. The Girl and the Spider
  18. Hit the Road
  19. Lost Illusions
  20. Prey

 

Jonathan Kiefer (critic)

Aftersun
Anatolian Leopard
Apples
The Banshees of Inisherin
Benediction
The Eternal Daughter
Friends and Strangers
The Girl and the Spider
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Hit the Road
In Front of Your Face
Living
The Novelist’s Film
One Fine Morning
One Man Dies a Million Times
Prey
Le Pupille
There There
Thing from the Factory by the Field
Vortex

 

John Klacsmann (archivist, Anthology Film Archives)

Answering The Sun (Rainer Kohlberger)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Both Sides of the Blade
Crimes of the Future
Earth II (Anti-Banality Union)
Funny Pages
Jackass Forever
Outside Noise
Riotsville, U.S.A.
Triangle of Sadness

“I saw TÁR last night and, while watching it, was certain I would include it here… then the last 10 minutes of the film…”

 

Clinton Krute (critic, Film Comment)

  1. One Fine Morning
  2. The Novelist’s Film
  3. Saint Omer
  4. We
  5. The Eternal Daughter
  6. The Fabelmans
  7. In Front of Your Face
  8. Both Sides of the Blade
  9. Decision to Leave
  10. White Noise
  11. Los conductos
  12. The Girl and the Spider
  13. Wood and Water
  14. Nope
  15. Petite maman
  16. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  17. Crimes of the Future
  18. No Bears
  19. EO
  20. Elvis

Late-Breaking Contender: Harvest Time (“There’s great power in simplicity”–Neil Young)

Best New-Old Pick: A Confucian Confusion

 

Beatrice Loayza (critic)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. Hold Me Tight
  3. We
  4. Kimi
  5. A Couple
  6. One Fine Morning
  7. Wood and Water
  8. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  9. Lux Æterna
  10. El gran movimiento
  11. Both Sides of the Blade
  12. TÁR
  13. EO
  14. The Banshees of Inisherin
  15. Barbarian
  16. Saint Omer
  17. Pleasure
  18. The African Desperate
  19. Armageddon Time
  20. Deep Water

 

Kevin B. Lee (critic, scholar, Locarno Film Festival)

Aftersun
Belle
The Cathedral
EO
Neptune’s Frost
No Bears
Nope
TÁR
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
The Worst Person in the World

 

Nathan Lee (critic, scholar)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. EO
  3. Benediction
  4. Kimi
  5. The Kingdom Exodus
  6. Barbarian
  7. Bodies Bodies Bodies
  8. Ambulance
  9. Terrifier 2
  10. Moonfall

 

Dennis Lim (critic, programmer, New York Film Festival)

  1. The Novelist’s Film
  2. In Front of Your Face
  3. Aftersun
  4. Los Conductos
  5. Crimes of the Future
  6. Introduction
  7. The Eternal Daughter
  8. El Gran Movimiento 
  9. Il buco
  10. Saint Omer 
  11. One Fine Morning
  12. The Tsugua Diaries 
  13. Return to Seoul
  14. Nope
  15. TÁR 
  16. A Night of Knowing Nothing 
  17. Întregalde 
  18. Expedition Content 
  19. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  20. The African Desperate

 

Chloe Lizotte (critic, MUBI Notebook)

  1. The Rehearsal
  2. The Girl and the Spider
  3. Friends and Strangers
  4. Saint Omer
  5. Crimes of the Future
  6. The African Desperate
  7. Petite maman
  8. The Tsugua Diaries
  9. Zero Fucks Given
  10. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  11. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

 

Violet Lucca (critic, Harper’s Magazine)

Corsage
Crimes of the Future
The Eternal Daughter
Gentle
Leonor Will Never Die
One Fine Morning
Saint Omer
Stars at Noon
Triangle of Sadness
You Are Not My Mother

 

Mackenzie Lukenbill (archivist)

  1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  2. Riotsville, U.S.A.
  3. Terra Femme
  4. Irma Vep
  5. Crimes of the Future
  6. The African Desperate
  7. The Eternal Daughter 
  8. Happening
  9. Ahed’s Knee
  10. Stop-Zemlia
  11. Sharp Stick
  12. Medusa
  13. Stars at Noon

 

Jonathan Mackris (critic)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. The Novelist’s Film
  3. Natchathiram Nagargiradhu

 

Willow Catelyn Maclay (critic)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  3. Casa Susanna
  4. Ambulance
  5. Inu-oh
  6. The Munsters
  7. Dead for a Dollar
  8. The Novelist’s Film
  9. Shin Ultraman
  10. Nope

 

Steven Mears (critic, copyeditor, Film Comment)

  1. Benediction
  2. Aftersun
  3. The Fabelmans
  4. EO
  5. Saint Omer
  6. The Banshees of Inisherin
  7. TÁR
  8. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  9. Happening
  10. Three Minutes: A Lengthening
  11. Lost Illusions
  12. Vortex
  13. God’s Country
  14. Decision to Leave
  15. One Fine Morning
  16. Fire of Love
  17. Hit the Road
  18. Hold Me Tight
  19. The Cathedral
  20. Moonage Daydream

 

Olaf Möller (critic, programmer)

Benediction
Candy Land
A Couple
Crimes of the Future
Dark Glasses
Elesin Oba: The King’s Horseman
EO
The Eternal Daughter
Fire Island
Flux Gourmet
Forbannelsen
K.G.F: Chapter 2
Inu-oh
Jackass Forever
Kira & El Jinn
The Legend of Maula Jatt
Please Baby Please
Ponniyin Selvan: Part I
RRR
The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez

Vikram Murthi (critic)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Anaïs in Love
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
The Banshees of Inisherin
Confess, Fletch
Crimes of the Future
Dos Estaciones
EO
The Fabelmans
Funny Pages
Întregalde
Kimi
Nope
Paris, 13th District
Resurrection
TÁR
There There
Top Gun: Maverick
The Tsugua Diaries
Wood and Water

 

Adam Nayman (critic)

  1. The Kingdom Exodus
  2. Aftersun
  3. EO
  4. Nope
  5. Hit the Road
  6. Benediction
  7. Earwig
  8. Crimes of the Future
  9. Saint Omer
  10. Decision to Leave
  11. Fire of Love
  12. The Fabelmans
  13. The Girl and the Spider
  14. RRR
  15. Top Gun: Maverick
  16. Happening
  17. Both Sides of the Blade
  18. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  19. Jackass Forever
  20. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

 

Christina Newland (critic)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Armageddon Time
Clara sola
Decision to Leave
Elvis
EO
The Fabelmans
Nope
Pleasure
RRR
Triangle of Sadness
Vortex

 

Cristina Nord (programmer, Berlinale Forum)

Il buco
A Chiara
Los conductos
Corsage
Cow
Crimes of the Future
The Eternal Daughter
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Futura
Introduction
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
Neptune Frost
No Bears
The Novelist’s Film
One Fine Morning
Petite Maman 
Saint Omer
The Super 8 Years
The Tsugua Diaries
We

Savina Petkova (critic)

  1. Aftersun
  2. All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
  3. Murina
  4. TÁR
  5. Women Talking
  6. Stars at Noon
  7. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  8. Cow
  9. The Worst Person in the World
  10. Petite maman
  11. Corsage
  12. The Eternal Daughter
  13. After Yang
  14. You Won’t Be Alone
  15. Triangle of Sadness
  16. Pearl
  17. Sundown
  18. El gran movimiento
  19. Fire of Love

 

Andréa Picard (programmer, Toronto International Film Festival)

  1. In Front of Your Face
  2. Crimes of the Future
  3. The Eternal Daughter
  4. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  5. The Novelist’s Film
  6. Întregalde
  7. Vortex
  8. Aftersun
  9. Ahed’s Knee
  10. Return to Seoul
  11. The Tsugua Diaries
  12. One Fine Morning
  13. Stars at Noon
  14. Los conductos
  15. Neptune Frost

 

Matías Piñeiro (filmmaker)

  1. The Novelist’s Film
  2. Introduction
  3. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
  4. In Front of Your Face
  5. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  6. Outside Noise
  7. The Cathedral
  8. Los conductos
  9. Neptune Frost
  10. Keane

 

Inney Prakash (programmer, Maysles Documentary Center, Prismatic Ground)

  1. Babi Yar. Context
  2. Saint Omer
  3. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  4. No Bears
  5. IWOW: I Walk on Water
  6. Benediction
  7. Neptune Frost
  8. Vortex
  9. The African Desperate
  10. EO
  11. Ali & Ava
  12. The Fabelmans
  13. We
  14. Stars at Noon
  15. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  16. Kimi
  17. Shakedown
  18. Petite maman
  19. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
  20. All that Breathes

 

Jordan Raup (critic, The Film Stage)

  1. Aftersun
  2. The Girl and the Spider
  3. One Fine Morning
  4. Both Sides of the Blade
  5. EO
  6. After Yang
  7. RRR
  8. TÁR
  9. The Fabelmans
  10. All That Breathes
  11. Il buco
  12. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  13. Saint Omer
  14. Kimi
  15. Mad God
  16. Crimes of the Future
  17. Jackass Forever
  18. Descendant
  19. Benediction
  20. Murina

 

Vadim Rizov (critic, Filmmaker Magazine)

  1. Kimi
  2. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  3. El gran movimiento
  4. Friends and Strangers
  5. Wood and Water
  6. Crimes of the Future
  7. The Tsegua Diaries
  8. Lux Æterna
  9. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
  10. Armageddon Time
  11. Dos Estaciones
  12. The Novelist’s Film
  13. Rock Bottom Riser
  14. There There
  15. For Lucio
  16. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  17. Anaïs in Love
  18. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  19. TÁR
  20. Confess, Fletch

 

Jonathan Romney (critic)

  1. Il buco
  2. EO
  3. Reflection
  4. Playground
  5. Aftersun
  6. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  7. The Pink Cloud
  8. Saint Omer
  9. TÁR
  10. The Super 8 Years
  11. No Bears
  12. Hit the Road
  13. Vortex
  14. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  15. Moonage Daydream
  16. The Banshees of Inisherin
  17. After Yang
  18. Jane by Charlotte
  19. Bones and All
  20. Memoria

 

Julian Ross (critic, programmer)

  1. Los conductos
  2. El gran movimiento
  3. Expedition Content
  4. The African Desperate
  5. Friends and Strangers
  6. Crimes of the Future
  7. The Girl and the Spider
  8. In Front of Your Face
  9. Rock Bottom Riser
  10. Blue Island

 

Jessica Dunn Rovinelli (filmmaker)

  1. TÁR
  2. Jackass Forever
  3. Nope
  4. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  5. The Girl and the Spider
  6. Aftersun
  7. Both Sides of the Blade
  8. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  9. Stars at Noon
  10. Sharp Stick

 

Nicholas Russell (critic)

  1. Nope
  2. Armageddon Time
  3. Resurrection
  4. Decision to Leave
  5. Crimes of the Future
  6. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  7. Jackass Forever
  8. Top Gun: Maverick
  9. Ambulance
  10. Emily the Criminal
  11. Mad God
  12. TÁR
  13. Prey
  14. Kimi

 

Isabel Sandoval (filmmaker)

  1. Decision To Leave
  2. Saint Omer
  3. Crimes of The Future
  4. Top Gun: Maverick
  5. All The Beauty and The Bloodshed
  6. Happening
  7. Tar
  8. The Banshees of Inisherin
  9. Return to Seoul
  10. Aftersun

 

Dash Shaw (filmmaker)

  1. Crimes of the Future
  2. The Novelist’s Film
  3. Claydream
  4. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  5. Evangelion 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
  6. Flux Gourmet
  7. Neptune Frost
  8. The Cathedral
  9. Stars at Noon
  10. Vortex

 

Chris Shields (critic)

  1. In Front of Your Face
  2. The Afterlight
  3. A Hero
  4. Întregalde
  5. Leonora addio
  6. Crimes of the Future
  7. Official Competition
  8. The Eternal Daughter
  9. Decision to Leave
  10. Nope
  11. RRR
  12. The Northman
  13. Mad God
  14. The Code of Silence
  15. The Balcony Movie

 

Gavin Smith (critic)

  1. Return to Seoul
  2. Funny Pages
  3. Emily the Criminal
  4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  5. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  6. Sundown
  7. Alienoid
  8. Fire in the Mountains
  9. Playground
  10. The Batman
  11. A Man of Integrity
  12. Great Freedom
  13. Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
  14. The Worst Person in the World
  15. Petite maman
  16. The Super 8 Years
  17. Happening
  18. Decision to Leave
  19. Crimes of the Future
  20. EO

 

Imogen Sara Smith (critic)

  1. EO
  2. Saint Omer
  3. Petite maman
  4. Decision to Leave
  5. Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
  6. Hit the Road
  7. Aftersun
  8. The Eternal Daughter
  9. Terra Femme
  10. Compartment No. 6

 

Srikanth Srinivasan (critic)

  1. War and Peace
  2. Crimes of the Future
  3. Babi Yar. Context
  4. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  5. A Man of Integrity
  6. From Where They Stood
  7. No Bears
  8. Terra Femme
  9. Taming the Garden
  10. Friends and Strangers
  11. Petite maman
  12. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
  13. RRR
  14. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  15. Gehraiyaan
  16. The Girl and the Spider
  17. Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu
  18. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
  19. Întregalde
  20. Aftersun

 

Brett Story (filmmaker)

  1. Aftersun
  2. Saint Omer
  3. A Night Of Knowing Nothing
  4. The Eternal Daughter
  5. Dos Estaciones
  6. Taming the Garden
  7. EO
  8. Donbass
  9. Triangle of Sadness

 

R. Emmet Sweeney (critic, producer, Kino Lorber)

  1. RRR
  2. Belle
  3. The Girl and the Spider
  4. A Day Is a Day
  5. Ponniyin Selvan: Part I
  6. Sycorax
  7. Jackass Forever
  8. Kimi
  9. Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday
  10. Stars at Noon
  11. Detective vs. Sleuths
  12. Father Stu
  13. Mahaan
  14. Nope
  15. Crimes of the Future

 

Ryan Swen (critic)

  1. The Novelist’s Film
  2. EO
  3. Il buco
  4. The Fabelmans
  5. A New Old Play
  6. One Fine Morning
  7. RRR
  8. Decision to Leave
  9. The Girl and the Spider
  10. Crimes of the Future
  11. In Front of Your Face
  12. TÁR
  13. Introduction
  14. White Noise
  15. El Gran Movimiento
  16. Avatar: The Way of Water
  17. The Cathedral
  18. Nope
  19. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  20. Benediction

 

Amy Taubin (critic)

  1. EO
  2. All That Breathes
  3. Crimes of the Future
  4. Petite maman
  5. Saint Omer
  6. Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
  7. Kimi
  8. Nanny
  9. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  10. Funny Pages
  11. The Cathedral
  12. No Bears
  13. The Corridors of Power
  14. Mr. Bachmann and his Class
  15. Corsage
  16. Happening
  17. Nope
  18. The Territory
  19. Emily the Criminal
  20. Navalny

 

Gina Telaroli (critic, programmer, filmmaker)

  1. Jackass Forever
  2. Regrouping
  3. Three Thousand Years of Longing
  4. Fabian: Going to the Dogs
  5. Ambulance
  6. Aftersun
  7. After Yang
  8. Expedition Content
  9. Outside Noise
  10. Top Gun: Maverick

“10 Films + 10 blank spots for all the films, so many, I haven’t seen.”

 

Antoine Thirion (critic, programmer)

  1. The Novelist’s Film
  2. Saint Omer
  3. Crimes of the Future
  4. In Front of Your Face
  5. The Tsugua Diaries
  6. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  7. Rock Bottom Riser
  8. Întregalde
  9. Il buco
  10. Los conductos
  11. Ahed’s Knee
  12. Taming the Garden
  13. Armageddon Time
  14. Aftersun
  15. The Eternal Daughter
  16. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  17. A Couple
  18. Flux Gourmet
  19. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
  20. Outside Noise

 

Kelli Weston (critic, scholar)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Aftersun
Corsage
Decision to Leave
Dos Estaciones
The Eternal Daughter
Everything Everywhere All at Once
I Didn’t See You There
Neptune Frost
Saint Omer

 

Madeline Whittle (programmer, Film at Lincoln Center)

  1. Saint Omer
  2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  3. One Fine Morning
  4. The Cathedral
  5. EO
  6. Aftersun
  7. Mad God
  8. Ahed’s Knee
  9. Both Sides of the Blade
  10. Crimes of the Future
  11. Pleasure
  12. Elvis
  13. Corsage
  14. The Eternal Daughter
  15. The Super 8 Years
  16. Decision to Leave
  17. Stars at Noon
  18. Hit the Road
  19. Armageddon Time
  20. The Fabelmans

 

Alissa Wilkinson (critic, Vox)

  1. TÁR
  2. Aftersun
  3. No Bears
  4. Return to Seoul
  5. Riotsville, U.S.A.
  6. We Met in Virtual Reality
  7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  8. Emily the Criminal
  9. The Cathedral
  10. Top Gun: Maverick
  11. Nope
  12. Armageddon Time
  13. After Yang
  14. Descendant
  15. All That Breathes
  16. She Said
  17. Murina
  18. Speak No Evil
  19. A Love Song
  20. Donbass

 

Tyler Wilson (programmer, Film at Lincoln Center)

The African Desperate
Aftersun
The Cathedral
Crimes of the Future
Dark Glasses
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
EO
Funny Pages
The Girl and the Spider
El gran movimiento
A Hero
Jackass Forever
Los conductos
Nope
Outside Noise
Stop-Zemlia
The Tsugua Diaries
Vortex
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

 

Manu Yáñez-Murillo (critic)

  1. Benediction
  2. Armageddon Time
  3. The Eternal Daughter
  4. Il buco
  5. EO
  6. In Front of Your Face
  7. A Night of Knowing Nothing
  8. Crimes of the Future
  9. Great Freedom
  10. Ahed’s Knee
  11. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  12. Rock Bottom Riser
  13. El gran movimiento
  14. Introduction
  15. Three Thousand Years of Longing
  16. Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
  17. La mami
  18. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  19. Taming the Garden
  20. Nope

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