Dana Stevens: 15 Best Movies of 2012, as published by Slate, alphabetically
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS — David France
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Queen of Versailles — Lauren Greenfield
- Take This Waltz — Sarah Polley
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow