inri222

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/fe...ms-of-2012/342

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
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 Bigle 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 – Yorgos Lanthimos
24. Barbara – Christian Petzold
25. Magic Mike – Steven Soderbergh

OldBoy

was nice to see The Deep Blue Sea is available for streaming on Netflix. want to see it now.

Supermallet

Seems like the top movie should be invalidated by its own admission.

PopcornTreeCt

Interesting list. I've only seen 5 of them.

IIG

I've seen five also. Nice to see Cosmopolis get a little love for once.

Tarantino

Why? It was awful.

Ash Ketchum

I haven't seen any of them and have only heard of less than half of them. Slanted list, indeed.

Sondheim

I've only seen five of them, and I haven't heard of four of them - but most of the rest are on my "must watch" list.

It includes my number one film of the year, The Kid with a Bike, so I'm happy with it. Even though I usually hate Slant.

RichC2

I like Slant, they generally go for movies that haven't been done a million times over and I can appreciate that.

Are they pretentious as hell? Absolutely, but if you know that going in, it's no big deal.

IIG

While that seems to be the consensus, I actually enjoyed it. Until this list, I thought I was alone.

Sondheim

Oh, I'm definitely all for supporting movies that don't get a lot of coverage and that are different than the traditional Hollywood/indie fare.

There's just something about the "attitude" of a lot of their writers (not just for movies) that I find really off-putting.

resinrats

Seems more like a Best 25 Art House films of the year. Other then Lincoln & Magic Mike, I've never heard of them. Never seen any of them. Lincoln is the only one I'd consider going to see.

DonnachaOne

You're not alone. I've seen it twice, and had it not been for all the other 2012 releases to catch up on I'd make it three.

bluetoast

Not even Zero Dark Thirty?

But I still don't understand all this praise for Beasts of the Southern Wild. It was okay.

Dr Mabuse

Nice to see 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' on the list. Man that's an excellent film. It should have been considerably higher up on the list.

A lot of docs, most of which I'm planning to see, but not sure the list should be so padded with docs.

whoopdido

I take it that all of the writers are hipster doofuses

inri222

Yeah it's good to see a list once in a while that is not from Rolling Stone or Entertainment Weekly.

Coral

Many on this list I've been meaning to see.

There are so many great films every year that are outside the Hollywood system and aren't English language films.

wendersfan

I've seen a bunch of them, and mostly agree with the list - I would put The Kid With a Bike and The Turin Horse higher up.

The Color Wheel was terrible.