The 10 Best Documentaries of 2022

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The documentary form continued to flex its power in 2022, delivering stories and perspectives of astonishing breadth and sometimes granular artistry.

What stood out were the movies that didn’t take their issues or subjects at face value, but rather sought something more resonant about the workings of the world, or even told us more about ourselves and what’s possible.

Across these brilliant films, the mysterious is interrogated, the accepted is challenged, and the past is reckoned with, but what we’re always left with is the human heart’s resilience to do all that necessary interrogating, challenging and reckoning.The year’s most artful documentary operates on two layers: introducing us to the modest hawk-repairing operation of two Muslim brothers in pollution-choked Delhi, where the birds just fall out of the sky, and showing us how to see the world as they do, with compassion for all creatures, and insight into what a changing environment breeds.

Shaunak Sen’s intellectual gaze creates some of the most stunning images in modern non-fiction film, all part of a tapestry of interspecies care that redefines what a nature film can be.Oscar-winner Laura Poitras’ portrait of acclaimed photographer Nan Goldin is a radical harmonizing of art, activism and recovery.