Year-End Lists

Tony Rayns: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Emperor Visits the Hell
  Li Luo
• Morning of Saint Anthony’s Day
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Noodle Fish
  Kim Jinman
• Walker
  Tsai Ming-liang
• White Night
  Lee-Song Hee-il

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Gabe Klinger: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Arnulf Rainer (1960) + Antiphon + Monument Film installation
  Peter Kubelka
• The War
  James Benning
• Differently, Molussia
  Nicolas Rey
• American Falls
  Phil Solomon
• To The Wonder
  Terrence Malick

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Tim Robey: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Nostalgia for the Light
  Patricio Guzmán
• War Witch
  Kim Nguyen
• Beauty
  Oliver Hermanus

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Vadim Rizov: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Abendland
  Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nicolas Rapold: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Silver Linings Playbook
  David O. Russell

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Philip Kemp: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• About Elly
  Asghar Farhadi
• Killer Joe
  William Friedkin
• Looper
  Rian Johnson
• The Kid with a Bike
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• Sightseers
  Ben Wheatley

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

David Jenkins: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• Museum Hours
  Jem Cohen
• The Last Time I Saw Macao
  João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
• Life of Pi
  Ang Lee

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nick James: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Beyond the Hills
  Cristian Mungiu
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Something in the Air
  Olivier Assayas
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Michael Atkinson: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Post Mortem
  Pablo Larraín
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Alps
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Dylan Cave: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Dreams of a Life
  Carol Morley
• The Nine Muses
  John Akomfrah
• Young Adult
  Jason Reitman
• The Curse
  Fyzal Boulifa
• Gimme the Loot
  Adam Leon

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012