Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2012 Movies

Les Inrocks: 20 Best Films of 2012

13 January 2013

Les Inrockuptibles: 20 Best Films of 2012

[see also 2017, 2013, 2011]

  1. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
  2. Tabu — Miguel Gomes
  3. In Another Country — Hong Sang-soo
  4. Twixt — Francis Ford Coppola
  5. Damsels in Distress — Whit Stillman
  6. 4:44 Last Day on Earth — Abel Ferrara
  7. Camille Rewinds — Noémie Lvovsky
  8. Looper — Rian Johnson
  9. A World Without Women — Guillaume Brac
  10. Atomic Age — Héléna Klotz
  11. Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
  12. Giacomo’s Summer — Alessandro Comodin
  13. The Day He Arrives — Hong Sang-soo
  14. Barbara — Christian Petzold
  15. Fengming: A Chinese Memoir — Wang Bing
  16. Laurence Anyways — Xavier Dolan
  17. Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
  18. Go Go Tales — Abel Ferrara
  19. Amour — Michael Haneke
  20. Smugglers’ Songs — Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

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