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Atlantic Wire: 10 Best Movies of 2012

09 December 2012

Atlantic Wire: 10 Best Movies of 2012 (alphabetical)

The Amazing Spider-Man

Marc Webb
Amour

Michael Haneke
Argo

Ben Affleck
Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin
The Cabin in the Woods

Drew Goddard
How to Survive a Plague

David France
Looper

Rian Johnson
Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson
Your Sister’s Sister

Lynn Shelton
Zero Dark Thirty

Kathryn Bigelow

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