Year-End Lists

Ben Sachs: 20 Favorite Films of 2012, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. Life Without Principle
   Johnnie To
2. Possession (1981)
   Andrzej Zulawski
3. A Simple Life
   Ann Hui
4. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Sack Barrow
   Ben Rivers
6. We Have a Pope
   Nanni Moretti
7. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
8. The Paperboy
   Lee Daniels
9. This is Not a Film
   Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
10. Cosmopolis
    David Cronenberg
11. Outside Satan
    Bruno Dumont
12. Silver Linings Playbook
    David O. Russell
13. Magic Mike
    Steven Soderbergh
14. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
15. Unforgivable
    André Téchiné
16. Paradise: Love
    Ulrich Seidl
17. The Grey
    Joe Carnahan
18. A Burning Hot Summer
    Philippe Garrel
19. The Secret World of Arrietty
    Hiromasa Yonebayashi
20. Bernie
    Richard Linklater