Year-End Lists

Indiewire: Top 50 Films of 2012 (as voted by 204 critics)

1. Holy Motors – Leos Carax – Amazon
2. Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow
3. The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Amour – Michael Haneke
5. Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson
6. This is Not a Film – Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
8. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
9. Lincoln – Stephen Spielberg
10. The Turin Horse – Béla Tarr
11. Tabu – Miguel Gomes
12. Argo – Ben Affleck
13. The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Davies
14. Oslo, August 31st – Joachim Trier
15. Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
16. Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
17. The Kid With a Bike – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
18. Cosmopolis – David Cronenberg
19. Looper – Rian Johnson
20. The Loneliest Planet – Julia Loktev
21. Life of Pi – Ang Lee
22. Killer Joe – William Friedkin
23. Barbara – Christian Petzold
24. Magic Mike – Stephen Soderbergh
25. Bernie – Richard Linklater
26. Killing Them Softly – Andrew Dominik
27. Cloud Atlas – Lana & Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
28. Elena – Andrey Zvyagintsev
29. Compliance – Craig Zobel
30. Wuthering Heights – Andrea Arnold
31. Anna Karenina – Joe Wright
32. The Imposter – Bart Layton
33. The Raid: Redemption – Gareth Evans
34. Almayer’s Folly – Chantal Akerman
35. Neighbouring Sounds – Kleber Mendonça Filho
36. Skyfall – Sam Mendes
37. The Cabin in The Woods – Drew Goddard
38. How to Survive a Plague – David France
39. Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard
40. It’s Such a Beautiful Day – Don Hertzfeldt
41. Footnote – Joseph Cedar
42. Goodbye First Love – Mia Hansen-Løve
43. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
44. Keep the Lights On – Ira Sachs
45. Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley
46. Room 237 – Rodney Ascher
47. Alps – Giorgos Lanthimos
48. Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present – Matthew Akers
49. The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh
50. Miss Bala – Gerardo Naranjo