Year-End Lists

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2012 Movies

IndieWire: Matt Singer: 20 Best Films of 2012

12 January 2013

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

Matt Singer: 20 Best Films of 2012, as published by IndieWire

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  1. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  2. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  3. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
  4. The Cabin in the Woods
    Drew Goddard
  5. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
  6. Klown
    Mikkel Nørgaard
  7. Compliance
    Craig Zobel
  8. Argo
    Ben Affleck
  9. Looper
    Rian Johnson
  10. Girl Walk // All Day
    Jacob Krupnick
  11. Cloud Atlas
    Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
  12. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
    Jay and Mark Duplass
  13. Not Fade Away
    David Chase
  14. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier
  15. ParaNorman
    Chris Butler & Sam Fell
  16. Sleepless Night
    Frédéric Jardin
  17. Life of Pi
    Ang Lee
  18. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  19. Magic Mike
    Steven Soderbergh
  20. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    John Hyams

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