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2012 Movies

New York Times: Stephen Holden: Top 11 Films of 2012

16 December 2012

Stephen Holden: Top 11 Films of 2012, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2011]

  1. Lincoln
    Steven Spielberg
  2. Amour
    Michael Haneke
  3. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
  4. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
  5. Argo
    Ben Affleck
  6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  7. Elena
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
  8. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
    David France
  9. The Invisible War
    Kirby Dick
  10. The Sessions
    Ben Lewin
  11. Rust and Bone
    Jacques Audiard

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