Year-End Lists

Film Comment: 50 Best Films of 2012

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011]

1. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
2. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
4. This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
5. Amour — Michael Haneke
6. The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
7. The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
8. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
9. Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
10. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
11. Tabu — Miguel Gomes
12. The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
13. Bernie — Richard Linklater
14. Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
15. Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
16. Barbara — Christian Petzold
17. The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
18. Silver Linings Playbook — David O. Russell
19. Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
20. Neighboring Sounds — Kleber Mendonça Filho
21. Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino
22. Almayer’s Folly — Chantal Akerman
23. Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh
24. Argo — Ben Affleck
25. Attenberg — Athina Rachel Tsangari
26. The Color Wheel — Alex Ross Perry
27. Rust and Bone — Jacques Audiard
28. Killer Joe — William Friedkin
29. Looper — Rian Johnson
30. Life of Pi — Ang Lee
31. A Man Vanishes — Shohei Imamura
32. Skyfall — Sam Mendes
33. The Gatekeepers — Dror Moreh
34. Elena — Andrey Zvyagintsev
35. Haywire — Steven Soderbergh
36. Damsels in Distress — Whit Stillman
37. Abendland — Nikolaus Geyrhalter
38. Two Years at Sea — Ben Rivers
39. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS — David France
40. Keep the Lights On — Ira Sachs
41. A Burning Hot Summer — Philippe Garrel
42. Miss Bala — Gerardo Naranjo
43. Footnote — Joseph Cedar
44. Compliance — Craig Zobel
45. Alps — Yorgos Lanthimos
46. Kill List — Ben Wheatley
47. Farewell, My Queen — Benoît Jacquot
48. In Another Country — Hong Sang-soo
49. The Dark Knight Rises — Christopher Nolan
50. The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo