Fernando F. Croce: Top 20 Films of 2012, as published by Slant Magazine
[see also 2019]
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
- Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman
- The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Alps — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Bernie — Richard Linklater
- Goodbye First Love — Mia Hansen-Løve
- The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth — Abel Ferrara
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- Killer Joe — William Friedkin