‘Music that will be forever in my heart’: readers’ best albums of 2022
From Ezra Collective’s joyous jazz to Little Simz’s old-school rap and King Gizzard’s madcap psychedelia – these were your favourites albums of the year
The year’s most cutting-edge sounds included ambient Americana, Ethiopia’s ‘honky-tonk nun’ Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Alice Coltrane disciple Surya Botofasina and field recordings of goats eating mangos
A Chris Killip retrospective, Vivian Maier’s hidden archive and the artist who tried to rename a Swiss mountain – here are the standout photographic exhibitions of the year
And the 2022 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year
While the Guardian’s Top 50 countdown, as voted for by the whole film team, announces its No 1 today, here are our chief critic’s personal choices, in no particular order
The 50 best movies of 2022 in the US
The No 1 film is a stunning directorial debut, one of the finest cinematic moments of any year – see which other movies you may have missed
