# The best movies of 2012

The Master, Tabu, Amour and Holy Motors at the top: the films of 2012 chosen by more than 90 critics in Sight & Sound's year-end poll.

- 75 votes · 11 items
- Jul 16, 2020 · N. Clark
- https://even.best/en/l/4370/the-best-movies-of-2012

## Top 11

1. **The Master** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Paul Thomas Anderson. Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
2. **Beyond the Hills** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Cristian Mungiu. Two friends and a Romanian monastery.
3. **Holy Motors** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Leos Carax. Denis Lavant and a day of strange appointments in a limousine.
4. **Berberian Sound Studio** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Peter Strickland. A British sound engineer in a giallo studio.
5. **Tabu** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Miguel Gomes. Present-day Lisbon and a love story in colonial Africa.
6. **Beasts of the Southern Wild** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Benh Zeitlin. A little girl in a Louisiana bayou community.
7. **Cosmopolis** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — David Cronenberg. A billionaire crosses Manhattan in a limousine.
8. **This Is Not a Film** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Jafar Panahi. Under house arrest, he shows what his banned film would have been.
9. **Once Upon a Time in Anatolia** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A night searching for a body on the steppe.
10. **Moonrise Kingdom** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Wes Anderson. Two twelve-year-olds run away together.
11. **Amour** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Michael Haneke. An elderly couple facing the end; Palme d'Or.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.