Matt Singer: 20 Best Films of 2012, as published by IndieWire
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2011]
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Klown — Mikkel Nørgaard
- Compliance — Craig Zobel
- Argo — Ben Affleck
- Looper — Rian Johnson
- Girl Walk // All Day — Jacob Krupnick
- Cloud Atlas — Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home — Jay and Mark Duplass
- Not Fade Away — David Chase
- Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
- ParaNorman — Chris Butler & Sam Fell
- Sleepless Night — Frédéric Jardin
- Life of Pi — Ang Lee
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh
- Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning — John Hyams