My Top 20 Films of 2022

20. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

19. Hit the Road

18. The Innocents

17. Flux Gourmet

16. The Souvenir: Part II

15. Playground

14. Happening

13. Licorice Pizza

12. Armageddon Time

11. Everything Everywhere All at Once

10. The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin

9. Top Gun: Maverick

8. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

7. This Much I Know to be True

6. The Banshees of Inisherin

5. Gangubai Kathiawadi

4. Ponniyin Selvan: Part I

3. The Worst Person in the World

2. Decision to Leave

1. Memoria [above]

You couldn't pitch it: Tilda Swinton chases sounds around Colombia. You could only float it, as you would a spell or a wavelength, in the hope it would eventually reach open and receptive ears. Once in, it recalibrates the senses, and your understanding of what great cinema can do, in a way nothing else released this year (no, not even the much-trumpeted Avatar 2) managed. And after a while, after it's pinballed around inside your head for the better part of a year, you realise what it's really getting at. The mystery isn't that this one woman hears this one sound every now and again. The real mystery is why everybody isn't hearing all of the sounds all of the time.

My Top 50 TV shows of 2022 will be published here tomorrow.