I'm not doing that, but I did make a list of the 51 best movies I saw for the first time in 2022 (51, and not 50, because I technically saw one of them before as a kid but it was so long ago that it was practically a first viewing - look for the *** asterisks).
As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Fugitive From the Past (Tomu Uchida, 1965)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar Leung, 1978)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)
Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (The Daniels, 2022)
Execution in Autumn (Lee Hsing, 1972)
Boat People (Ann Hui, 1982)
Merry Go Round (Zoltan Fabri, 1956)
L'Ange (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri, 2013)
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1991)
Reminisces of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972)
Vive l'amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)
Wolfwalkers (Tom Moore, Ross Stewart, 2020)
Los Tallos Amargos (Fernando Ayala, 1956)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
Annette (Leos Carax, 2021)
Smile (Michael Ritchie, 1975)
Boxer's Omen (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1983)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976)
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
Broken Lullabye (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
Kalpana (Uday Shankar, 1948)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)***
The Funeral (Juzo Itami, 1984)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)
Nobody Waved Goodbye (Don Owen, 1964)
The Woman Who Powders Herself (Patrick Bokanowski, 1972)
Current (Istvan Gaal, 1964)
Jeremy (Arthur Barron, 1973)
On The Run (Alfred Cheung, 1988)
The Boxer From Shantung (Cheh Chang, Hsueh-Li Pao, 1972)
Nope (Jordan Peele, 2022)
Kenny (Claude Gagnon, 1987)
Running Out of Time (Johnnie To, 1999)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, 1990)
Don't Let The Angels Fall (George Kaczender, 1969)
To Sleep So As To Dream (Kaizo Hayashi, 1986)
Zerograd (Karen Shakhnazarov, 1988)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNoughton, 1986)
Dreadnaught (Yuen Woo Ping, 1981)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
The Merry World of Leopold Z (Gilles Carle, 1965)
The year was dominated by Asian art films and genre movies, it was pretty sweet.