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2012 Movies

Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs: 20 Favorite Films of 2012

09 January 2013

Ben Sachs: 20 Favorite Films of 2012, as published by The Chicago Reader

[see also 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2011]

  1. Life Without Principle
    Johnnie To
  2. Possession (1981)
    Andrzej Zulawski
  3. A Simple Life
    Ann Hui
  4. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  5. Sack Barrow
    Ben Rivers
  6. We Have a Pope
    Nanni Moretti
  7. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  8. The Paperboy
    Lee Daniels
  9. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
  10. Cosmopolis
    David Cronenberg
  11. Outside Satan
    Bruno Dumont
  12. Silver Linings Playbook
    David O. Russell
  13. Magic Mike
    Steven Soderbergh
  14. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  15. Unforgivable
    André Téchiné
  16. Paradise: Love
    Ulrich Seidl
  17. The Grey
    Joe Carnahan
  18. A Burning Hot Summer
    Philippe Garrel
  19. The Secret World of Arrietty
    Hiromasa Yonebayashi
  20. Bernie
    Richard Linklater

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