Year-End Lists

Peter Bradshaw: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 10 Best Films of 2012 • Best Films of 2011]

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Stories We Tell
  Sarah Polley
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nicole Brenez: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

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• Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits
  Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
• Three Sisters
  Wang Bing
• Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You
  Eric Hurtado and Marc Hurtado
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Our Body Is a Weapon – Prisons
  Clarisse Hahn

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nicolas Rapold: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Silver Linings Playbook
  David O. Russell

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick Roddick: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• After Lucia
  Michel Franco
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• Barbara
  Christian Petzold
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Everybody in Our Family
  Radu Jude

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick James: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Something in the Air
  Olivier Assayas
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick Hasted: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Lawless
  John Hillcoat
• A Royal Affair
  Nikolaj Arcel
• Rust and Bone
  Jacques Audiard
• London: The Modern Babylon
  Julien Temple

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick Bradshaw: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Act of Killing
  Joshua Oppenheimer
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• August and After
  Nathaniel Dorsky
• 5 Broken Cameras
  Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
• The House I Live In
  Eugene Jarecki

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Naman Ramachandran: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Blancanieves
  Pablo Berger
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes
• Miss Lovely
  Ashim Ahluwalia
• Seven Psychopaths
  Martin McDonagh
• My Brother the Devil
  Sally El Hosaini

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Michel Ciment: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Dormant Beauty
  Marco Bellocchio
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Mud
  Jeff Nichols
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  Alain Resnais

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Michael Brooke: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Caesar Must Die
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• Rose
  Wojciech Smarzowski
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012