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2012 Movies

Slant: 25 Best Films of 2012

14 December 2012

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2012

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2011]

  1. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
  2. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  3. The Deep Blue Sea
    Terence Davies
  4. The Kid with a Bike
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  5. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  6. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
  7. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier
  8. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
  9. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
  10. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  11. Neighboring Sounds
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  12. The Color Wheel
    Alex Ross Perry
  13. Cosmopolis
    David Cronenberg
  14. The Day He Arrives
    Hong Sang-soo
  15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  16. Lincoln
    Steven Spielberg
  17. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
    David France
  18. Killer Joe
    William Friedkin
  19. Girl Walk // All Day
    Jacob Krupnick
  20. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
  21. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
  22. Almayer’s Folly
    Chantal Akerman
  23. Attenberg
    Athina Rachel Tsangari
  24. Barbara
    Christian Petzold
  25. Magic Mike
    Steven Soderbergh

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