Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2012

1. This is Not a Film – Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
2. Holy Motors – Leos Carax
3. The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Davies
4. The Kid with a Bike – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
5. The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Tabu – Miguel Gomes
7. Oslo, August 31st – Joachim Trier
8. Zero Dark Thirty – Kathryn Bigelow
9. The Turin Horse – Béla Tarr
10. Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson
11. Neighboring Sounds – Kleber Mendonça Filho
12. The Color Wheel – Alex Ross Perry
13. Cosmopolis – David Cronenberg
14. The Day He Arrives – Hong Sang-soo
15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Nuri Bigle Ceylan
16. Lincoln – Steven Spielberg
17. How to Survive a Plague – David France
18. Killer Joe – William Friedkin
19. Girl Walk // All Day – Jacob Krupnick
20. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
21. The Comedy – Rick Alverson
22. Almayer’s Folly – Chantal Akerman
23. Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari
24. Barbara – Christian Petzold
25. Magic Mike – Steven Soderbergh