Les Inrockuptibles: 20 Best Films of 2012
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- In Another Country — Hong Sang-soo
- Twixt — Francis Ford Coppola
- Damsels in Distress — Whit Stillman
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth — Abel Ferrara
- Camille Rewinds — Noémie Lvovsky
- Looper — Rian Johnson
- A World Without Women — Guillaume Brac
- Atomic Age — Héléna Klotz
- Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
- Giacomo’s Summer — Alessandro Comodin
- The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo
- Barbara — Christian Petzold
- Fengming: A Chinese Memoir — Wang Bing
- Laurence Anyways — Xavier Dolan
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Go Go Tales — Abel Ferrara
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Smugglers’ Songs — Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche