Film Comment: 50 Best Films of 2012
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011]
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
- Bernie — Richard Linklater
- Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
- Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
- Barbara — Christian Petzold
- The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
- Silver Linings Playbook — David O. Russell
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino
- Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman
- Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh
- Argo — Ben Affleck
- Attenberg — Athina Rachel Tsangari
- The Color Wheel — Alex Ross Perry
- Rust and Bone — Jacques Audiard
- Killer Joe — William Friedkin
- Looper — Rian Johnson
- Life of Pi — Ang Lee
- A Man Vanishes — Shohei Imamura
- Skyfall — Sam Mendes
- The Gatekeepers — Dror Moreh
- Elena — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Haywire — Steven Soderbergh
- Damsels in Distress — Whit Stillman
- Abendland — Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Two Years at Sea — Ben Rivers
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS — David France
- Keep the Lights On — Ira Sachs
- A Burning Hot Summer — Philippe Garrel
- Miss Bala — Gerardo Naranjo
- Footnote — Joseph Cedar
- Compliance — Craig Zobel
- Alps — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Kill List — Ben Wheatley
- Farewell, My Queen — Benoît Jacquot
- In Another Country — Hong Sang-soo
- The Dark Knight Rises — Christopher Nolan
- The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo