Jim Healy is Director of Programming for the UW Cinematheque and a Programmer for the Wisconsin Film Festival.

In 2022, I saw 443 feature films from throughout cinema history that were all new to me. These 10, presented in alphabetical order, were my top favorites:

ARMAGEDDON TIME (2022, James Gray)

BARBARIAN (2022, Zach Cregger)

DRIVE MY CAR (2021, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

THE FABELMANS (2022, Steven Spielberg)

FUNNY PAGES (2022, Owen Kline)

HELLO, SISTER! (WALKING DOWN BROADWAY, 1933, Erich von Stroheim, Edwin Burke, Alfred Werker)

RRR (2022, S.S Rajamouli)

SCHLUSSAKKORD (1936, Detlef Sierck/Douglas Sirk)

SYMPHONIE POUR UN MASSACRE (1963, Jacques Deray)

VENGEANCE IS MINE (1984, Michael Roemer)

...and here are 21 more titles of films that I thought were outstanding:

BABYLON (2022, Damien Chazelle)

BROTHER’S KEEPER/OKUL TIRASI (2021, Ferit Karahan)

UN CONDE/THE COP (1970, Yves Boisset)

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022, David Cronenberg)

DOUBLE DOOR (1933, Charles Vidor)

EMILY THE CRIMINAL (2022, John Patton Ford)

FALCON LAKE (2022, Charlotte Le Bon)

GOLDEN EIGHTIES (1986, Chantal Akerman)

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO (2022, Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson)

THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD (2022, Teona Strugar Mitevska)

J’ACCUSE (2019, Roman Polanski)

MARY STEVENS, M.D. (1933, Lloyd Bacon)

THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH/LA NUIT DU 12 (2022, Dominik Moll)

NOPE (2022, Jordan Peele)

MOONAGE DAYDREAM (2022, Brett Morgen)

PARALLEL MOTHERS/MADRES PARALELAS (2021, Pedro Almodóvar)

PUSS IN BOOTS THE LAST WISH (2022, Joel Crawford)

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (2022, George Miller)

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022, Ruben Ostlund)

SAINT OMER (2022, Alice Diop)

TAKE OUT (2004, Sean Baker, Shih Ching-Tsou)

VORTEX (2021, Gaspar Noe)