Year-End Lists

Wesley Morris: Top 25 Movies of 2012, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2014 • 2013 • 2011]

1. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
   David France
3. The Paperboy
   Lee Daniels
4. Amour
   Michael Haneke
5. Django Unchained
   Quentin Tarantino
6. Moonrise Kingdom
   Wes Anderson
7. Polisse
   Maïwenn
8. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
9. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
10. 21 Jump Street
    Phil Lord and Chris Miller

15 More Excellent Moves in No Particular Order

• Elena
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Barbara
  Christian Petzold
• Miss Bala
  Gerardo Naranjo
• The Gatekeepers
  Dror Moreh
• Magic Mike
  Steven Soderbergh
• Where Do We Go Now?
  Nadine Labaki
• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Zero Dark Thirty
  Kathryn Bigelow
• The Loneliest Planet
  Julia Loktev
• Gayby
  Jonathan Lisecki
• Sister
  Ursula Meier
• The Color Wheel
  Alex Ross Perry
• Silver Linings Playbook
  David O. Russell
• Lincoln
  Steven Spielberg
• Argo
  Ben Affleck