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The 25 best films of 2012: 25 through 21

By December 17, 2012No Comments

10-1Prometheus

I’m going to do my best of the year a little dif­fer­ently this year. This week, Monday through Friday, I’ll be put­ting up five, and they’re ranked by pref­er­ence (I guess) and of course in reverse order so it’s the SUSPENSE that gets you. 

25: Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, reviewed here. 

24: Prometheus, Ridley Scott, reviewed here.

23: Goodbye, First Love, Mia Hansen-Løve, com­mend­a­tion and inter­view with the dir­ect­or here. 

22: Damsels In Distress, Whit Stillman, con­sidered here. 

21: The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan, reviewed here.

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  • I.B. says:
    December 17, 2012 at 10:57 am

    1. Holy motors (Carax)
    2. Moonrise king­dom (Anderson, W.)
    3. Faust (Sokurov)
    The only oth­er two films of 2012 (or that opened in Spanish cinemas/teh inner­nets dur­ing the course of 2012) that I’ve seen were McQueen’s ‘Shame’ and Miike’s ‘Ace attor­ney’. I liked ‘Ace attor­ney’ better.

  • Peter Labuza says:
    December 17, 2012 at 11:00 am

    So glad to see you recog­nize RED HOOK SUMMER. A messy film for sure but brim­ming with emo­tion at every level, and really built in a struc­ture that threw some people and fas­cin­ated me. And giv­en how the area was affected dur­ing Sandy, I think it really takes on some new mean­ing about this neigh­bor­hood as both a place of pain and para­dise. Hope more people check it out.

  • Tony Dayoub says:
    December 17, 2012 at 11:21 am

    What Labuza said, and kudos for stick­ing with PROMETHEUS. As for TDKR, a second view­ing made it feel even more … than before.

  • David Ehrenstein says:
    December 17, 2012 at 11:21 am

    21.Leviathan
    22.Brooklyn Castle
    23.Ginger and Rosa
    24.Keyhole
    25.Damsels in Distress

  • Jose says:
    December 17, 2012 at 11:52 am

    Glad to see you stuck with Prometheus too. Of this year’s big tent­pole flicks, this was my favor­ite after Skyfall. TDKR was a big dis­ap­point­ment for me though.
    But I really haven’t seen enough movies in 2012, so I’m look­ing for­ward to the rest of your list, and from oth­ers, to see what I can try to catch dur­ing the hol­i­day break.

  • Kevyn Knox says:
    December 17, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    It has already been said, but here it is again. Glad to see the Prometheus love…or at least the Prometheus like.
    Also nice to see Damsels in there. It has not got­ten very much men­tion in these year end list-making days.
    As for me (note: I have not seen either Zero Dark Thirty or The Loneliest Planet):
    25. Deep Blue Sea
    24. Savages
    23. Miss Bala
    22. Argo
    21. 21 Jump Street (yeah, you read that correctly)

  • That Fuzzy Bastard says:
    December 17, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    Thirding Labuzza—I’m glad to see your affec­tion for Spike Lee’s messy, imper­fect, strik­ing movie is undimmed.