In 2022, I saw 123 new movies through December 31. Here they are, ranked from the best to the worst.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- The Menu
- The Fabelmans
- Women Talking
- Tár
- Glass Onion
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Fire of Love
- Nope
- Catherine Called Birdy
- The Batman
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- The Quiet Girl
- Apollo 10 ½
- A Man Called Otto
- The Woman King
- Descendant
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Navalny
- RRR
- Bardo
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- The Bob’s Burgers Movie
- Bodies Bodies Bodies
- Turning Red
- The Northman
- The Eternal Daughter
- The Inspection
- Bones and All
- Hustle
- Brian and Charles
- The Territory
- Barbarian
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Corsage
- Strange World
- X
- Decision to Leave
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
- Bad Axe
- Vengeance
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
- The Bad Guys
- Harris Goes to Paris
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Aftersun
- The Janes
- Argentina, 1985
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- KIMI
- Terrifier 2
- Thirteen Lives
- Ticket to Paradise
- Babylon
- Scream
- Elvis
- The Good Nurse
- Emily the Criminal
- Good Night Oppy
- Armageddon Time
- Till
- Saint Omer
- She Said
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Crimes of the Future
- Ambulance
- After Yang
- Downton Abbey: A New Era
- Devotion
- See How They Run
- Bullet Train
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- The Outfit
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Beba
- Three Minutes: A Lengthening
- Poser
- Nanny
- Close
- Amsterdam
- Funny Pages
- The Whale
- EO
- Halloween Ends
- Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
- Uncharted
- Death on the Nile
- Jackass Forever
- Watcher
- DC League of Super-Pets
- White Noise
- Don’t Worry Darling
- Ted K
- Pearl
- Triangle of Sadness
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
- Beast
- Master
- Men
- The Torch
- Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
- Bros
- Jurassic World: Dominion
- Lightyear
- The Black Phone
- Stanleyville
- The Long Night
- Marry Me
- Infinite Storm
- The Abandon
- Family Squares
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Morbius
- Escape the Field
- Firestarter
- Minions: The Rise of Gru
- Moonfall
- The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
- Mid-Century
- Measure of Revenge
Cinema or Cine-meh 
i guess they don’t show non-american movies in the usa…
in case you’re interested, here’s the top10 by the Cahiers du Cinéma (most famous cinema review in France) – i see they have “Licorice Pizza”, which was released in january 2022 in France – i’m french and go along with most of these – but if you prefer “Top Gun” to “EO”, you may disapprove such ranking…
Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles d’Albert Serra
Licorice Pizza de Paul Thomas Anderson
Nope de Jordan Peele
EO de Jerzy Skolimowski
Contes du hasard et autres fantaisies de Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Bowling Saturne de Patricia Mazuy
Apollo 10 1/2 de Richard Linklater
Introduction de Hong Sang-soo
Viens je t’emmène d’Alain Guiraudie
Qui à part nous de Jonás Trueba
I saw only a handful of international titles last year, but you’re right…it is typically tougher to find them than it is to find Hollywood movies. I personally wasn’t a fan of “EO,” or movies like it where one main character wanders from place to place encountering minor characters. Even tougher when the main character is non-human! I really like “Apollo 10 1/2,” but it fell just outside of my Top 10.