Year-End Lists

Vadim Rizov: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

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• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Abendland
  Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Nicolas Rapold: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Leviathan
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Silver Linings Playbook
  David O. Russell

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Cameron Bailey: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Camp 14: Total Control Zone
  Marc Wiese
• The Place Beyond The Pines
  Derek Cianfrance
• Ship of Theseus
  Anand Gandhi
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  Mira Nair

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Peter Hames: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• House with a Turret
  Eva Neymann
• Caesar Must Die
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  Alain Resnais
• Imagine
  Andrzej Jakimowski
• I’m Going to Change My Name
  Mariya Saakyan

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Jonathan Romney: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• In the Fog
  Sergei Loznitsa

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Carmen Gray: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Bestiaire
  Denis Côté
• Neighboring Sounds
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Berberian Sound Studio
  Peter Strickland
• The Master
  Paul Thomas Anderson

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Mar Diestro-Dopido: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• House of Pleasures
  Bertrand Bonello
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Diamond Flash
  Carlos Vermut
• Arraianos
  Eloy Enciso
• Blancanieves
  Pablo Berger

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Tim Robey: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Nostalgia for the Light
  Patricio Guzmán
• War Witch
  Kim Nguyen
• Beauty
  Oliver Hermanus

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Geoff Andrew: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• Amour
  Michael Haneke
• Like Someone in Love
  Abbas Kiarostami
• Everybody in Our Family
  Radu Jude
• What Is Love
  Ruth Mader
• Silence
  Pat Collins

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012

Michael Atkinson: Top 5 Films of 2012, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Post Mortem
  Pablo Larraín
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Alps
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 11 Films of 2012