Here is my list of notable films for 2012:
- 21 Jump Street
- 5 Broken Cameras
- Act of Killing, The
- After Lucia
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- Almayer’s Folly
- Alps
- Amazing Spider-Man, The
- Amour
- Anna Karenina
- Araf-Somewhere in Between
- Arbitrage
- Argo
- Attenberg
- Avengers, The (Marvel’s)
- Barbara
- Beauty is Embarrassing
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Berberian Sound Studio
- Bernie
- Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
- Bestiaire
- Beyond the Hills
- Blancanieves
- Blood of My Blood
- Boy
- Brave
- Bully
- Burning Hot Summer, The
- Cabin in the Woods, The
- Central Park Five, The
- Chasing Ice
- Chico & Rita
- China Heavyweight
- Chronicle
- Cloud Atlas
- Color Wheel, The
- Comedy, The
- Compliance
- Consuming Spirits
- Cosmopolis
- Damsels in Distress
- Dark Horse
- Dark Knight Rises, The
- Day He Arrives, The
- Deep Blue Sea, The
- Detropia
- Django Unchained
- Domaine
- Dragon
- Dust Bowl, The
- Elena
- End of Watch
- Expendables 2
- Fake It So Real
- Fill The Void
- Flight
- Footnote
- Frankenweenie
- Friends With Kids
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Gatekeepers, The
- Gayby
- Girl Walk/All Day
- God Bless America
- Goodbye, My Love
- Grey, The
- Haywire
- Headhunters
- Hello I Must Be Going
- Hitchcock
- Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The
- Holy Motors
- Hope Springs
- Hotel Transylvania
- House I Live In, The
- How to Survive a Plague
- Hunger Games, The
- Hypnotist, The
- I Wish
- Ice Age: Continental Drift
- Impossible, The
- Imposter, The
- In The Family
- Intouchables, The
- Invisible War, The
- Island President, The
- It So Real
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Keep the Lights On
- Kid with a Bike, The
- Kill List
- Killer Joe
- Killing Them Softly
- Law in These Parts, The
- Le Grand Amour
- Les Miserables
- Let the Bullets Fly
- Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, A
- Life of Pi
- Life Without Principle
- Like Someone in Love
- Lincoln
- Loneliest Planet, The
- Looper
- Lorax, The
- Lore
- Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
- Magic Mike
- Margaret
- Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
- Master, The
- Memories Look at Me
- Men in Black 3
- Middle of Nowhere
- Miss Bala
- Mobile Homestead trilogy
- Monsieur Lazhar
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Neighboring Sounds
- No
- Not Fade Away
- Oki’s Movie
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Only the Young
- Oslo, August 31st
- Our Children
- Painting, The
- Paperboy, The
- ParaNorman
- Perks of Being a Wallflower, The
- Photographic Memory
- Pirates: Band of Misfits, The
- Pitch Perfect
- Possession
- Premium Rush
- Prometheus
- Promised Land
- Queen of Versailles, The
- Rabbi’s Cat, The
- Raid: Redemption, The
- Rebelle (War Witch)
- Red Hook Summer
- Return
- Rise of the Guardians
- Robot and Frank
- Room 237
- Royal Affair, A
- Ruby Sparks
- Rust and Bone
- Sack Barrow
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Samsara
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Secret World of Arrietty, The
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
- Sessions, The
- Seven Psychopaths
- Shut Up and Play the Hits
- Side By Side
- Sightseers
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Simple Life, A
- Sinister
- Sister
- Skyfall
- Smashed
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- Snowtown Murders, The
- Something in the Air
- Sound of My Voice, The
- Starlet
- Stories We Tell
- Tabu
- Take This Waltz
- Tchoupitoulas
- Ted
- Teddy Bear
- This Is 40
- This Is Not a Film
- This Must Be the Place
- To Rome with Love
- Turin Horse, The
- Two Years At Sea
- Under African Skies
- Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
- Unspeakable Act, The
- Waiting Room, The
- We Have a Pope
- West of Memphis
- Where Do We Go Now?
- Whore’s Glory
- Woman in Black, The
- Wreck-It-Ralph
- Wuthering Heights
- Your Sister’s Sister
- Zarafa
- Zero Dark Thirty
“Footnote” Israel
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