Atlantic Wire: 10 Best Movies of 2012 (alphabetical)
- The Amazing Spider-Man — Marc Webb
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Argo — Ben Affleck
- Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
- The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS — David France
- Looper — Rian Johnson
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Your Sister’s Sister — Lynn Shelton
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow