Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2012
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
- The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- The Color Wheel — Alex Ross Perry
- Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
- The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS — David France
- Killer Joe — William Friedkin
- Girl Walk // All Day — Jacob Krupnick
- Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
- The Comedy — Rick Alverson
- Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman
- Attenberg — Athina Rachel Tsangari
- Barbara — Christian Petzold
- Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh