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2012 Top Ten List

1. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
2. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
4. Looper (Rian Johnson)
5. Amour (Michael Haneke)
6. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. All the Light in the Sky (Joe Swanberg)
8. The Imposter (Bart Layton)
9. It’s a Disaster (Todd Berger)
10. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)

Other 2012 Films I Enjoyed

• Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
• Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
• Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
• Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
• Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
• The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
• Mud (Jeff Nichols)
• A Month in Thailand (Paul Negoescu)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
• Drug War (Johnnie To)
• Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
• Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)
• Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
• Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)
• Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
• Gangs of Wasseypur (Anurag Kashyap)
• Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
• 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)
• Barbara (Christian Petzold)
• The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais)
• Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
• Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore)
• Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
• Starlet (Sean Baker)
• Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
• To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)