Year-End Lists

J.R. Jones: 22 Favorite Movies of 2012, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
2. Lincoln
   Steven Spielberg
3. In the Family
   Patrick Wang
4. God Bless America
   Bobcat Goldthwait
5. Le Grand Amour (1969)
   Pierre Etaix
6. The House I Live In
   Eugene Jarecki
7. Beyond the Hills
   Cristian Mungiu
8. Rust and Bone
   Jacques Audiard
9. Compliance
   Craig Zobel
10. The Color Wheel
    Alex Ross Perry

Runners Up (alphabetical)

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Bernie
  Richard Linklater
• The Deep Blue Sea
  Terence Davies
• Detropia
  Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
• Elena
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• End of Watch
  David Ayer
• The Invisible War
  Kirby Dick
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Take This Waltz
  Sarah Polley
• Ted
  Seth MacFarlane
• This is Not a Film
  Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
• Your Sister’s Sister
  Lynn Shelton