David Ehrlich: 25 Best Films of 2012 (presented visually at Movies.com)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Something in the Air — Olivier Assayas
- The Comedy — Rick Alverson
- Anna Karenina — Joe Wright
- Girl Walk // All Day — Jacob Krupnick
- Alps — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Wuthering Heights — Andrea Arnold
- Goodbye First Love — Mia Hansen-Løve
- The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard
- Cloud Atlas — Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
- Skyfall — Sam Mendes
- The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Shut Up and Play the Hits — Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace
- The Avengers — Joss Whedon
- Policeman — Nadav Lapid
- Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
- Sound of Noise — Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson