Year-End Lists

Steven D. Greydanus: Top 30 Films of 2012, as published by The National Catholic Register

[see also 2019 • 2018]

10 Films that Stood Out

1. The Kid with a Bike
   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
2. Barbara
   Christian Petzold
3. Argo
   Ben Affleck
4. The Avengers
   Joss Whedon
5. The Secret World of Arrietty
   Hiromasa Yonebayashi
6. Lincoln
   Steven Spielberg
7. Damsels in Distress
   Whit Stillman
8. Planet of Snail
   Yi Seung-jun
9. I Wish
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
10. Anna Karenina
    Joe Wright

10 Runners-Up (in alphabetical order)

• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Brave
  Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
• The Dark Knight Rises
  Christopher Nolan
• Elena
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  David Gelb
• Les Misérables
  Tom Hooper
• Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• The Queen of Versailles
  Lauren Greenfield
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes
• Zero Dark Thirty
  Kathryn Bigelow

Honorable Mention

• Arbitrage
  Nicholas Jarecki
• A Cat in Paris
  Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol
• First Position
  Bess Kargman
• For Greater Glory
  Dean Wright
• Frankenweenie
  Tim Burton
• The Impossible
  Juan Antonio Bayona
• Monsieur Lazhar
  Philippe Falardeua
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
  Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt
• Ruby Sparks
  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky