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2012 Movies

David Ehrlich: 25 Best Films of 2012

09 December 2012

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

David Ehrlich: 25 Best Films of 2012 (presented visually at Movies.com)

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  1. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  2. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
  3. Amour
    Michael Haneke
  4. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
  5. Django Unchained
    Quentin Tarantino
  6. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  7. Something in the Air
    Olivier Assayas
  8. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
  9. Anna Karenina
    Joe Wright
  10. Girl Walk // All Day
    Jacob Krupnick
  11. Alps
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  12. Wuthering Heights
    Andrea Arnold
  13. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  14. The Cabin in the Woods
    Drew Goddard
  15. Cloud Atlas
    Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
  16. Skyfall
    Sam Mendes
  17. The Deep Blue Sea
    Terence Davies
  18. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
  19. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier
  20. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  21. Shut Up and Play the Hits
    Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
  22. The Avengers
    Joss Whedon
  23. Policeman
    Nadav Lapid
  24. Cosmopolis
    David Cronenberg
  25. Sound of Noise
    Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

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