film | 2012

(135)

January
(13)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011, Sweden) [6]
The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011, USA) [7]
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011, UK | USA) [6]
The Interrupters (Steve James, 2011, USA) [7]
Dance Town (Jeon Kyu-hwan, 2011, South Korea) [7]
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010, Canada | USA | France | Germany | UK) [7]
The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010, France) [6]
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011, Hungary | France | Germany | Switzerland | USA) [9]
Trespass (Joel Schumacher, 2011, USA) [3]
Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín, 2010, Chile | Germany | Mexico) [7]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011, USA | Sweden | UK | Germany) [6]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011, France | UK | Germany) [8]
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey | Bosnia and Herzegovina) [8]

February
(4)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2011, USA) [7]
The Woman (Lucky McKee, 2011, USA) [5]
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011, USA) [6]
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011, France | Belgium) [7]

March
(23)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011, UK | Germany | Canada | Switzerland) [8]
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010, Poland | Norway | Ireland | Hungary) [6]
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, 2012, USA) [6]
Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 2011, USA) [8]
The Yellow Sea (Na Hong-jin, 2010, South Korea) [9]
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011, USA) [7]
The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, 2010, UK | France) [8]
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011, Australia) [7]
John Carter (Andrew Stanton, 2012, USA) [7]
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011, UK) [9]
I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011, Japan) [8]
Game Change (Jay Roach, 2012, USA) [7]
The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011, USA) [7]
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011, South Korea) [10]
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo, 2011, Mexico) [6]
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011, Finland | France | Germany) [8]
Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam, 2011, Belgium) [6]
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010, France | Germany | Chile) [8]
Rabies (Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, 2010, Israel) [5]
Life Without Principle (Johnnie To, 2011, Hong Kong) [7]
The Grey (Joe Carnahan, 2012, USA) [6]
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012, USA) [7]
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011, France) [9]

April
(5)
This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino, 2011, Italy | France | Ireland) [7]
Battleship (Peter Berg, 2012, USA) [6]
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (Eli Craig, 2010, Canada | USA) [7]
Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011, UK) [5]
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 2011, USA | UAE) [2]

May
(13)
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011, USA) [9]
Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012, UK | USA) [5]
30 Kam-Lung-Jaew (Somching Srisupap, 2011, Thailand) [6]
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler, 2011, Germany | France | Netherlands) [8]
The Avengers (Joss Whedon, 2012, USA) [8]
Play (Ruben Östlund, 2011, Sweden | Denmark | Finland) [7]
From Up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki, 2011, Japan) [7]
Himizu (Shion Sono, 2011, Japan) [8]
56 Up (Michael Apted, 2012, UK) [9]
Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau, 2011, Canada) [7]
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011, France | Germany) [9]
Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, 2011, USA | Ireland) [8]
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011, USA) [6]

June
(15)
Piranha 3DD (John Gulager, 2012, USA) [1]
Men in Black III (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012, USA) [5]
Michael (Markus Schleinzer, 2011, Austria) [6]
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012, USA) [8]
A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, 2010, Uruguay | Spain) [8]
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011, Russia) [7]
Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli, 2011, Argentina | Spain) [9]
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010, Greece) [7]
This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011, Iran) [10]
21 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Chris Miller, 2012, USA) [8]
Four Stations (Boonsong Nakphoo, 2012, Thailand) [6]
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012, USA) [7]
Tatsumi (Eric Khoo, 2011, Singapore) [8]
The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2011, Indonesia | USA) [6]
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011, Norway) [8]

July
(14)
A Simple Life (Ann Hui, 2012, Hong Kong) [8]
The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012, USA) [4]
Dream Home (Pang Ho-cheung, 2010, Hong Kong) [6]
American Reunion (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2012, USA) [7]
Chico & Rita (Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, 2010, Spain | UK)  [7]
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010, Canada) [5]
Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo, 2010, South Korea) [8]
Indie Game: The Movie (Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky, 2012, USA) [7]
Klown (Mikkel Nørgaard, 2010, Denmark) [6]
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012, USA | UK) [7]
The Dictator (Larry Charles, 2012, USA) [7]
P-047 (Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, 2011, Thailand) [8]
To Rome with Love (Woody Allen, 2012, USA | Italy | Spain) [7]
2 Days in New York (Julie Delpy, 2012, Germany | France | Belgium) [7]

August
(3)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, 2011, USA) [7]
The Expendables 2 (Simon West, 2012, USA) [5]
Girl Model (David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, 2011, USA | Russia | Japan | France) [8]

September
(6)
The Pact (Nicholas McCarthy, 2012, USA) [6]
Ted (Seth MacFarlane, 2012, USA) [7]
Sound of Noise (Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, 2010, Sweden | France) [8]
Patience (After Sebald) (Grant Gee, 2012, UK) [9]
We Have A Pope (Nanni Moretti, 2011, Italy | France) [5]
Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger, 2011, Germany | Austria) [8]

October
(3)
Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012, USA | China) [8]
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012, France | Canada | Portugal | Italy) [8]
Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012, USA) [7]

November
(12)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012, UK | USA) [7]
[REC]³ Génesis (Paco Plaza, 2012, Spain) [6]
Turn Me On, Dammit! (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, 2011, Norway) [8]
Alps (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2011, Greece) [6]
Weekend  (Andrew Haigh, 2011, UK) [8]
Gaamer (Oleg Sentsov, 2011, Ukraine) [3]
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012, Mexico | France | Netherlands | Germany) [8]
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012, France | Germany) [8]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012, USA) [7]
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012, USA) [9]
Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen, 2010, China | Hong Kong) [7]
The Campaign (Jay Roach, 2012, USA) [5]

December
(24)
Livid (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, 2011, France) [5]
Premium Rush (David Koepp, 2012, USA) [7]
Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press, 2010, USA | France) [8]
The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012, UK) [8]
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012, Austria | France | Germany) [9]
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Andy & Lana Wachowski, 2012, Germany | USA | Hong Kong | Singapore) [7]
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011, USA) [9]
Late Autumn (Kim Tae-Yong, 2010, USA | South Korea) [5]
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012, USA) [6]
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012, USA) [5]
The Comedy (Rick Alverson, 2012, USA) [5]
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, 2011, USA) [7]
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012, Portugal | Germany | Brazil | France) [9]
Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore, 2012, USA) [5]
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Austria | Germany | France) [8]
Dredd 3D (Pete Travis, 2012, UK | USA | India) [8]
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011, USA) [8]
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, 2011, USA) [8]
Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012, Germany) [6]
Life Of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012, USA | China) [8]
Bernie (Richard Linklater, 2011, USA) [7]
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011, USA | UK) [7]
Sinister (Scott Derrickson, 2012, USA) [7]
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011, Russia) [8]