Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2012 Movies

Sean Burns: Top 10 Films of 2012

26 December 2012

Sean Burns: Top 10 Films of 2012, as published by Philadelphia Weekly

[see also 2018, 2017, 2011]

  1. Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
  2. Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
  3. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
  4. Killer Joe — William Friedkin
  5. Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
  6. Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
  7. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
  8. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
  9. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  10. This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

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