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This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2022 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.
- The Plains (David Easteal)
- Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
- The Dream and the Radio (Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk)
- Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater)
- The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
- Afterwater (Dane Komljen)
- Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
- The Middle Ages (Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña)
- Dry Ground Burning (Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta)
Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)
- The Tsugua Diaries (2021, Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)
- Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva)
- The Last City (2020, Heinz Emigholz)
- Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021, Maria Speth)
- Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022, Richard Linklater)
- The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
- Vortex (2021, Gaspar Noé)
- The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon Zürcher)
- The Lobby (2020, Heinz Emigholz)
- Introduction (2021, Hong Sang-soo)
My Top 10 Discoveries During 2022 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2010)
- Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964, Howard Hawks)
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Other 2022 films I’ve seen
- The African Desperate (Martine Syms) – 6.6
- The United States of America (James Benning) – 6.5
- Met Mes (Sam de Jong) – 6.5
- That Kind of Summer (Denis Côté) – 6.4
- The Civil Dead (Clay Tatum) – 6.3
- Third Grade (Jacques Doillon) – 6.1
- I Didn’t See You There (Reid Davenport) – 6.1
- Dos Estaciones (Juan Pablo González) – 6.0
- Striking Land (Raul Domingues) – 6.0
- Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie) – 5.9
- Kimi (Steven Soderbergh) – 5.9
- A Little Love Package (Gastón Solnicki) – 5.7
- Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) – 5.7
- Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis) – 5.6
- Answering the Sun (Rainer Kohlberger) – 5.6
- See You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani) – 5.6
- Footnote (Zhengfan Yang) – 5.5
- Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina) – 5.5
- Camouflage (Jonathan Perel) – 5.5
- Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff) – 5.5
- Riotsville, USA (Sierra Pettengill) – 5.5
- Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann) – 5.5
- The Passengers of the Night (Mikhaël Hers) – 5.4
- Resurrection (Andrew Semans) – 5.4
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde) – 5.4
- A Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire) – 5.3
- Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine) – 5.3
- This House (Miryam Charles) – 5.2
- Small, Slow but Steady (Shô Miyake) – 5.2
- 2nd Chance (Ramin Bahrani) – 5.2
- The Kegelstatt Trio (Rita Azevedo Gomes) – 5.1
- Navalny (Daniel Roher) – 5.1
- Summering (James Ponsoldt) – 5.1
- blood (Bradley Rust Gray) – 5.0
- Geographies of Solitude (Jacqueline Mills) – 5.0
- Unrest (Cyril Schäublin) – 4.9
- Deep Water (Adrian Lyne) – 4.9
- Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland) – 4.8
- Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy) – 4.8
- Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) – 4.8
- EAMI (Paz Encina) – 4.7
- Brother in Every Inch (Alexander Zolotukhin) – 4.7
- The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin & Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois) – 4.6
- Rimini (Ulrich Seidl) – 4.4
- The Line (Ursula Meier) – 4.4
- Robe of Gems (Natalia López Gallardo) – 4.3
- Jet Lag (Zheng Lu Xinyuan) – 3.9
- Super Natural (Jorge Jácome) – 3.8
- My Two Voices (Lina Rodriguez) – 3.8
- The Veteran (Jerónimo Rodríguez) – 3.6
- The Name of Things (Diego Escobar) – 3.3