Year-End Lists

A.V. Club: 20 Best Films of 2012

1. The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow
3. Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson
4. Holy Motors – Leos Carax
5. The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Davies
6. The Loneliest Planet – Julia Loktev
7. Amour – Michael Haneke
8. It’s Such a Beautiful Day – Don Hertzfeldt
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
10. Wuthering Heights – Andrea Arnold
11. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard
12. Looper – Rian Johnson
13. Life of Pi – Ang Lee
14. Lincoln – Stephen Spielberg
15. Only the Young – Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
16. The Queen Of Versailles – Lauren Greenfield
17. Killer Joe – William Friedkin
18. Miss Bala – Gerardo Naranjo
19. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
20. I Wish – Hirozaku Kore-eda