Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2012

1. This is Not a Film
   Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
2. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
3. The Deep Blue Sea
   Terence Davies
4. The Kid with a Bike
   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
5. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Tabu
   Miguel Gomes
7. Oslo, August 31st
   Joachim Trier
8. Zero Dark Thirty
   Kathryn Bigelow
9. The Turin Horse
   Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
10. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
11. Neighboring Sounds
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
12. The Color Wheel
    Alex Ross Perry
13. Cosmopolis
    David Cronenberg
14. The Day He Arrives
    Hong Sang-soo
15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
16. Lincoln
    Steven Spielberg
17. How to Survive a Plague
    David France
18. Killer Joe
    William Friedkin
19. Girl Walk // All Day
    Jacob Krupnick
20. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
21. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
22. Almayer’s Folly
    Chantal Akerman
23. Attenberg
    Athina Rachel Tsangari
24. Barbara
    Christian Petzold
25. Magic Mike
    Steven Soderbergh