Year-End Lists

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2012 Movies

Boston Globe: Ty Burr: Top 26 Movies of 2012

11 January 2013

Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin

Ty Burr: Top 26 Movies of 2012, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2014 • 2011]

  1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
  2. Amour
    Michael Haneke
  3. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
  4. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  5. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  6. Lincoln
    Steven Spielberg
  7. Argo
    Ben Affleck
  8. Django Unchained
    Quentin Tarantino
  9. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
  10. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier

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