Year-End Lists

Dana Stevens: 15 Best Movies of 2012, as published by Slate, alphabetically

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• How to Survive a Plague
  David France
• Lincoln
  Steven Spielberg
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• The Queen of Versailles
  Lauren Greenfield
• Take This Waltz
  Sarah Polley
• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Zero Dark Thirty
  Kathryn Bigelow

Runners-Up

• The Central Park Five
  Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
• The Grey
  Joe Carnahan
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Rust and Bone
  Jacques Audiard
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb