Glenn Kenny: 25 Best Films of 2012
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013]
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Cosmopolis — David Cronenberg
- Lincoln — Steven Spielberg
- Looper — Rian Johnson
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- ParaNorman — Chris Butler & Sam Fell
- Hello, I Must Be Going — Todd Louisa
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Flight — Robert Zemeckis
- Bernie — Richard Linklater
- Not Fade Away — David Chase
- Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
- Skyfall — Sam Mendes
- The Dark Knight Rises — Christopher Nolan
- Damsels in Distress — Whit Stillman
- Goodbye First Love — Mia Hansen-Løve
- Prometheus — Ridley Scott
- Red Hook Summer — Spike Lee