Dana Stevens: 15 Best Movies of 2012 (as published by Slate, alphabetically)

• Amour – Michael Haneke
• How to Survive a Plague – David France
• Lincoln – Stephen Spielberg
• The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• The Queen of Versailles – Lauren Greenfield [pictured]
• Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley
• The Turin Horse – Béla Tarr
• Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow

Runners-Up

• The Central Park Five – Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
• The Grey – Joe Carnahan
• Holy Motors – Leos Carax
• Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard
• This is Not a Film – Jafar Panaji & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb