What is the best film of 2022?

By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, TÁR (168), The Banshees of Inisherin, Decision to Leave, and Everything Everywhere All at Once anchor the year's Masterclass tier. Aftersun and The Fabelmans round out the canonical entries.

Was 2022 a strong year for cinema?

2022 was the year post-COVID theatrical recovery began. The simultaneous emergence of TÁR, EEAAO, Banshees, Decision to Leave, and Top Gun: Maverick demonstrated that both auteur prestige and commercial blockbuster theatrical filmmaking remained commercially viable post-pandemic.

Why did EEAAO win 7 Oscars?

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022) won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), and Best Film Editing — a 7-Oscar haul that signaled the Academy was finally willing to recognize genre-blending Asian-American auteur work at top-prize scale.

Cinema · 2022 Ranked

Best Films of 2022, Ranked by IQ Score

The year the post-COVID theatrical recovery began. The films of 2022, ranked by IQ Score.

2022 is the year post-COVID theatrical recovery began in earnest. TÁR (Field), The Banshees of Inisherin (McDonagh), Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 7 Oscars), Decision to Leave (Park), Aftersun (Wells), The Fabelmans (Spielberg) — all released within twelve months.

The structural argument for 2022-as-canonical-year: simultaneous auteur peak (Cate Blanchett's career-defining TÁR, McDonagh's most-disciplined Banshees, Spielberg's most-personal Fabelmans), commercial-blockbuster recovery (Top Gun: Maverick saved theatrical cinema commercially), and the indie-prestige breakthrough year (EEAAO swept the Oscars in March 2023). The recovery year.

18 titles · ranked by IQ Score