Year-End Lists

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2012 Movies

A.V. Club: Scott Tobias: The Best Films of 2012

19 December 2012

The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson

Scott Tobias: The Best Films of 2012, as published by The A.V. Club

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  1. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
  3. The Deep Blue Sea
    Terence Davies
  4. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  5. The Loneliest Planet
    Julia Loktev
  6. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  7. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  8. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
  9. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
  10. Amour
    Michael Haneke
  11. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  12. Miss Bala
    Gerardo Naranjo
  13. Haywire
    Steven Soderbergh
  14. Looper
    Rian Johnson
  15. Lincoln
    Steven Spielberg

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