Year-End Lists

Dan Callahan: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2016]

• Francine
  Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
• Bernie
  Richard Linklater
• Lincoln
  Steven Spielberg
• Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Christoph Huber and Olaf Möller: Top Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Hotel Blu Kaien
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• The Millennial Rapture
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• Dredd 3D
  Pete Travis
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
  Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
• Dracula 3D
  Dario Argento
• Paradise: Love
  Ulrich Seidl
• Paradise: Faith
  Ulrich Seidl
• Paradise: Hope
  Ulrich Seidl
• Consequence
  Thomas Heise
• 48 Heads From The Merkurov Museum
  Anna Artaker
• A Moment of Silence at the Grave of Ed Gein
  Jörg Buttgereit
• La Madre
  Jean-Marie Straub

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Charles Gant: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Rust and Bone
  Jacques Audiard
• Argo
  Ben Affleck
• The Comedian
  Tom Shkolnik
• Cloud Atlas
  Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
• Chronicle
  Josh Trank

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Catherine Wheatley: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Sean Durkin
• Two Years at Sea
  Ben Rivers
• Take This Waltz
  Sarah Polley

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Carmen Gray: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Bestiaire
  Denis Côté
• Neighboring Sounds
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Cameron Bailey: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Camp 14: Total Control Zone
  Marc Wiese
• The Place Beyond The Pines
  Derek Cianfrance
• Ship of Theseus
  Anand Gandhi
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  Mira Nair

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Armond White: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Unforgivable
  André Téchiné
• The Deep Blue Sea
  Terence Davies
• Sacrifice
  Chen Kaige
• Damsels in Distress
  Whit Stillman
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Anton Bitel: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• American Mary
  Jen and Sylvia Soska
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• Detachment
  Tony Kaye
• Excision
  Richard Bates, Jr.
• A Night of Nightmares
  Buddy Giovinazzo

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Andrea Picard: Top Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Differently, Molussia
  Nicolas Rey
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Viola
  Matías Piñeiro
• Night Across the Street
  Raoul Ruiz
• Student
  Darezhan Omirbayev

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• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Alexander Horwath: Top Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Anton's Right Here
  Lyubov Arkus
• All Divided Selves
  Luke Fowler
• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Paradise: Love
  Ulrich Seidl
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Something in the Air
  Olivier Assayas
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• Neighboring Sounds
  Kleber Mendonça Filho

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012