Year-End Lists

David Edelstein: Top Ten Movies of 2012, as published by New York Magazine

1. Zero Dark Thirty
   Kathryn Bigelow
2. Lincoln
   Steven Spielberg
3. Amour
   Michael Haneke
4. The Gatekeepers
   Dror Moreh
5. The Deep Blue Sea
   Terence Davies
6. Life of Pi
   Ang Lee
7. How to Survive a Plague
   David France
7. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
   Alison Klayman
8. Pitch Perfect
   Jason Moore
9. Oslo, August 31st
   Joachim Trier
10. Friends With Kids
    Jennifer Westfeldt

Best Film of 2005 (First Viewed in 2012)

• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan

I Love You, Too, Damn It

• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Flight
  Robert Zemeckis
• Starlet
  Sean Baker
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  Stephen Chbosky
• Detropia
  Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
• Monsieur Lazhar
  Philippe Falardeua
• Killer Joe
  William Friedkin
• Skyfall
  Sam Mendes
• Silver Linings Playbook
  David O. Russell
• Take This Waltz
  Sarah Polley
• Return
  Liza Johnson
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin