Ed Gonzalez: Top 20 Films of 2012, as published by Slant Magazine
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- Las Acacias — Pablo Giorgelli
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi — David Gelb
- Girl Walk // All Day — Jacob Krupnick
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- 5 Broken Cameras — Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
- Sleepless Night — Frédéric Jardin
- The Comedy — Rick Alverson
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- Killer Joe — William Friedkin
- Keep the Lights On — Ira Sachs
- Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
- The Color Wheel — Alex Ross Perry
- The Five-Year Engagement — Nicholas Stoller
- The Queen of Versailles — Lauren Greenfield
- Sister — Ursula Meier
- This Must Be the Place — Paolo Sorrentino