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2012

this is my favorites of 2012

33-37 are honorable mentions and guilty pleasures.
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  • Mads Mikkelsen in The Hunt (2012)

    1. The Hunt

    20121h 55m18A77Metascore
    8.3 (401K)
    A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
    DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMads MikkelsenThomas Bo LarsenAnnika Wedderkopp
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Amy Adams in The Master (2012)

    2. The Master

    20122h 18m14A86Metascore
    7.1 (198K)
    A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by a cult and its charismatic leader.
    DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsJoaquin PhoenixPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmy Adams
  • Daily Lives of High School Boys (2012)

    3. Daily Lives of High School Boys

    201218 epsTV-14TV Series
    7.7 (3.4K)
    Join Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake as they undergo the trials and tribulations of life in high school!.
    StarsTomokazu SugitaKen'ichi SuzumuraDaisuke Namikawa
  • Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

    4. Moonrise Kingdom

    20121h 34mPG84Metascore
    7.8 (380K)
    Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.
    DirectorWes AndersonStarsJared GilmanKara HaywardBruce Willis
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour (2012)

    5. Amour

    20122h 7mPG95Metascore
    7.9 (110K)
    Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
    DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle Huppert
  • Samsara (2011)

    6. Samsara

    20111h 42mPG65Metascore
    8.4 (40K)
    Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
    DirectorRon FrickeStarsBalinese Tari Legong DancersNi Made Megahadi PratiwiPuti Sri Candra Dewi
  • Nadezhda Markina in Elena (2011)

    7. Elena

    20111h 49mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.3 (16K)
    When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
    DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey Rozin
  • Reality (2012)

    8. Reality

    20121h 56mR76Metascore
    6.8 (6K)
    Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.
    DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsAniello ArenaPaola MinaccioniLoredana Simioli
  • Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts in Rust and Bone (2012)

    9. Rust and Bone

    20122h18A73Metascore
    7.4 (73K)
    Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
    DirectorJacques AudiardStarsMarion CotillardMatthias SchoenaertsArmand Verdure
  • The Imposter (2012)

    10. The Imposter

    20121h 39m14A77Metascore
    7.4 (52K)
    A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
    DirectorBart LaytonStarsAdam O'BrianNicholas BarclayCarey Gibson
  • The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

    11. The Cabin in the Woods

    20111h 35m18A72Metascore
    7.0 (484K)
    Five teens visit a remote cabin and explore its cellar, finding strange items. When Dana reads from a book there, she unleashes zombie killers. But the situation is more complex than it appears.
    DirectorDrew GoddardStarsKristen ConnollyChris HemsworthAnna Hutchison
  • Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street (2012)

    12. 21 Jump Street

    20121h 49m14A69Metascore
    7.2 (636K)
    A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.
    DirectorsPhil LordChristopher MillerStarsJonah HillChanning TatumIce Cube
  • Choi Min-sik, Ha Jung-woo, and Cho Jin-woong in Nameless Gangster (2012)

    13. Nameless Gangster

    20122h 14m14A
    7.0 (7.8K)
    On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
    DirectorYoon Jong-binStarsChoi Min-sikHa Jung-wooCho Jin-woong
  • Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

    14. Indie Game: The Movie

    20121h 34m14A73Metascore
    7.6 (22K)
    A documentary that follows the journeys of indie game developers as they create games and release those works, and themselves, to the world.
    DirectorsLisanne PajotJames SwirskyStarsRenaud BédardJonathan BlowBrandon Boyer
  • The Sessions (2012)

    15. The Sessions

    20121h 35m18A79Metascore
    7.2 (45K)
    A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
    DirectorBen LewinStarsJohn HawkesHelen HuntWilliam H. Macy
  • Rin Takanashi in Like Someone in Love (2012)

    16. Like Someone in Love

    20121h 49mNot Rated76Metascore
    7.0 (14K)
    In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.
    DirectorsAbbas KiarostamiBanafsheh ModaressiStarsRin TakanashiTadashi OkunoRyô Kase
  • Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly (2012)

    17. Killing Them Softly

    20121h 37m14A64Metascore
    6.2 (159K)
    Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
    DirectorAndrew DominikStarsBrad PittRay LiottaRichard Jenkins
  • The Ambassador (2011)

    18. The Ambassador

    20111h 37mNot Rated67Metascore
    7.2 (4.4K)
    Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.
    DirectorMads BrüggerStarsMads BrüggerHeather Schmid
  • Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

    19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    20121h 43m14A67Metascore
    7.9 (584K)
    Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends two seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.
    DirectorStephen ChboskyStarsLogan LermanEmma WatsonEzra Miller
  • Kids on the Slope (2012)

    20. Kids on the Slope

    201212 eps14ATV Mini Series
    8.1 (3.8K)
    Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.
    StarsRyohei KimuraYuka NanriZenki Kitajima
  • Karl Urban in Dredd (2012)

    21. Dredd

    20121h 35m18A60Metascore
    7.1 (309K)
    In a violent, futuristic metropolis, a law enforcement and his rookie trainee become caught up in a high-stakes drug war.
    DirectorPete TravisStarsKarl UrbanOlivia ThirlbyLena Headey
  • Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

    22. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

    20121h 46m14A74Metascore
    7.8 (6.7K)
    A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
    DirectorsMatthew AkersJeff DupreStarsMarina AbramovicUlayKlaus Biesenbach
  • Barbara (2012)

    23. Barbara

    20121h 45mPG86Metascore
    7.2 (17K)
    A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
    DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsNina HossRonald ZehrfeldRainer Bock
  • Inferno Cop (2012)

    24. Inferno Cop

    2012–201313 epsTV-MATV Series
    6.6 (694)
    A cop with a skeleton head towards evil around the world
    StarsJunichi GotoYuya HayashiRen Shimorenjaku
  • Nisemonogatari (2012)

    25. Nisemonogatari

    201211 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    7.6 (3.6K)
    Set after the events of Bakemonogatari, one of the men who deceived Hitagi, Kaiki Deishu, returns to town to spread the incantation which cursed Nadeko before. Koyomi's sisters Karen and Tsukihi try to stop him.
    CreatorNisio IsinStarsHiroshi KamiyaYuka IguchiEri Kitamura

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