Michael Phillips: 20 Best Movies of 2012, as published by The Chicago Tribune
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011]
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Chico & Rita — Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
- The Color Wheel — Alex Ross Perry
- Searching for Sugar Man — Malik Bendjelloul
- Flight — Robert Zemeckis
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Argo — Ben Affleck
- The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
- The Five-Year Engagement — Nicholas Stoller
- Footnote — Joseph Cedar
- Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- The Queen of Versailles — Lauren Greenfield
- The Sessions — Ben Lewin
- Silver Linings Playbook — David O. Russell