The Top 250 Movies of 2012

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The Top 250 Movies of 2012
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186 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino R -
248 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon PG13 -
391 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
434 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson PG13 -
446 The Hunt 2012 Thomas Vinterberg R -
641 The Master 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
644 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes PG13 -
745 The Cabin in the Woods 2012 Drew Goddard R -
856 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck R -
879 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 David O. Russell R -
883 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky PG13 -
886 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson R -
1085 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow R -
1105 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn NR -
1116 Lincoln 2012 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
1183 Frances Ha 2012 Noah Baumbach R -
1198 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke PG13 -
1206 Mud 2012 Jeff Nichols PG13 -
1261 Dredd 2012 Pete Travis R -
1293 Life of Pi 2012 Ang Lee PG13 -
1306 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt NR -
1362 The Place Beyond the Pines 2012 Derek Cianfrance R -
1392 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 Rich Moore PG -
1460 End of Watch 2012 David Ayer R -
1576 21 Jump Street 2012 Phil Lord, Christopher Miller R -
1788 Seven Psychopaths 2012 Martin McDonagh R -
1850 Holy Motors 2012 Leos Carax NR -
1937 Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012 Benh Zeitlin PG13 -
1958 Cloud Atlas 2012 Tom Tykwer, The Wachowskis R -
1973 Wolf Children 2012 Mamoru Hosoda NR -
2047 The Hunger Games 2012 Gary Ross PG13 -
2049 Searching for Sugar Man 2012 Malik Bendjelloul PG13 -
2054 The Impossible 2012 J.A. Bayona PG13 -
2072 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Peter Jackson PG13 -
2202 Chronicle 2012 Josh Trank PG13 -
2231 Prometheus 2012 Ridley Scott R -
2274 Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper PG13 -
2379 Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 Colin Trevorrow R -
2594 Stories We Tell 2012 Sarah Polley PG13 -
2684 ParaNorman 2012 Chris Butler, Sam Fell PG -
2773 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 2012 Jay Oliva PG13 -
2795 The Grey 2012 Joe Carnahan R -
2823 Flight 2012 Robert Zemeckis R -
2867 The Imposter 2012 Bart Layton NR -
2966 Ruby Sparks 2012 Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris R -
3039 Lawless 2012 John Hillcoat R -
3046 The Amazing Spider-Man 2012 Marc Webb PG13 -
3102 Rust and Bone 2012 Jacques Audiard R -
3178 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World 2012 Lorene Scafaria R -
3187 Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall 2012 Toby Haynes NR -
3192 Brave 2012 Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman PG -
3282 Pitch Perfect 2012 Jason Moore PG13 -
3305 Much Ado About Nothing 2012 Joss Whedon NR -
3402 Jack Reacher 2012 Christopher McQuarrie PG13 -
3423 Sinister 2012 Scott Derrickson R -
3486 Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia 2012 Paul McGuigan NR -
3497 A Royal Affair 2012 Nikolaj Arcel NR -
3636 Robot and Frank 2012 Jake Schreier PG13 -
3670 Ted 2012 Seth MacFarlane R -
3702 Killing Them Softly 2012 Andrew Dominik R -
3775 Ernest & Celestine 2012 Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner PG -
4016 The Sessions 2012 Ben Lewin R -
4228 Sleepwalk With Me 2012 Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish NR -
4269 Paperman 2012 John Kahrs NR -
4301 Spring Breakers 2012 Harmony Korine R -
4623 Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville 2012 Paul McGuigan NR -
4634 Frankenweenie 2012 Tim Burton PG -
4798 Sightseers 2012 Ben Wheatley NR -
4807 Indie Game: The Movie 2012 Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky NR -
4829 Compliance 2012 Craig Zobel R -
4973 Rise of the Guardians 2012 Peter Ramsey PG -
5126 Justice League: Doom 2012 Lauren Montgomery PG13 -
5245 Magic Mike 2012 Steven Soderbergh R -
5289 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 2012 Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt G -
5346 Anna Karenina 2012 Joe Wright NR -
5417 The Bourne Legacy 2012 Tony Gilroy PG13 -
5452 Game Change 2012 Jay Roach NR -
5537 John Dies at the End 2012 Don Coscarelli R -
5543 John Carter 2012 Andrew Stanton PG13 -
5640 This Is 40 2012 Judd Apatow R -
5643 West of Memphis 2012 Amy Berg R -
5704 Men in Black III 2012 Barry Sonnenfeld PG13 -
5718 The Broken Circle Breakdown 2012 Felix Van Groeningen NR -
5793 The Queen of Versailles 2012 Lauren Greenfield PG -
5858 Celeste and Jesse Forever 2012 Lee Toland Krieger R -
5892 Wadjda 2012 Haifaa Al-Mansour PG -
5946 Maniac 2012 Franck Khalfoun NR -
6061 The Five-Year Engagement 2012 Nicholas Stoller R -
6063 Premium Rush 2012 David Koepp PG13 -
6098 It's a Disaster 2012 Todd Berger NR -
6330 The Invisible War 2012 Kirby Dick NR -
6373 The Expendables 2 2012 Simon West R -
6556 Safe House 2012 Daniel Espinosa R -
6599 Byzantium 2012 Neil Jordan R -
6623 Berberian Sound Studio 2012 Peter Strickland NR -
6655 Hitchcock 2012 Sacha Gervasi PG13 -
6685 Side by Side 2012 Christopher Kenneally NR -
6718 How to Survive a Plague 2012 David France NR -
6728 To the Wonder 2012 Terrence Malick R -
6760 The Woman in Black 2012 James Watkins PG13 -
6795 The Central Park Five 2012 Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon NR -
6868 Laurence Anyways 2012 Xavier Dolan NR -
6950 Like Someone in Love 2012 Abbas Kiarostami NR -
6996 V/H/S 2012 David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard R -
7040 Liberal Arts 2012 Josh Radnor PG13 -
7521 Trouble with the Curve 2012 Robert Lorenz PG13 -
7557 American Mary 2012 Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska R -
7613 Get the Gringo 2012 Adrian Grunberg R -
7656 No 2012 Pablo Larraín R -
7843 Hotel Transylvania 2012 Genndy Tartakovsky PG -
7854 Room 237 2012 Rodney Ascher NR -
7898 Resolution 2012 Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead NR -
7911 John Mulaney: New in Town 2012 Ryan Polito NR -
7920 Smashed 2012 James Ponsoldt R -
7969 Savages 2012 Oliver Stone R -
7978 American Reunion 2012 Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg R -
8084 What Maisie Knew 2012 Scott McGehee, David Siegel R -
8161 In the House 2012 François Ozon NR -
8305 A Hijacking 2012 Tobias Lindholm R -
8383 The Iceman 2012 Ariel Vromen R -
8456 Stuck in Love 2012 Josh Boone R -
8483 Wanderlust 2012 David Wain R -
8511 Cosmopolis 2012 David Cronenberg R -
8532 Drug War 2012 Johnnie To NR -
8565 Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo 2012 Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki NR -
8636 Lockout 2012 James Mather, Stephen St. Leger PG13 -
8650 Contraband 2012 Baltasar Kormákur R -
8741 Kon-Tiki 2012 Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg PG13 -
8840 Beyond the Hills 2012 Cristian Mungiu NR -
8862 Safe 2012 Boaz Yakin R -
8912 Blancanieves 2012 Pablo Berger PG13 -
8918 Hatfields & McCoys 2012 Kevin Reynolds NR -
8929 Project X 2012 Nima Nourizadeh R -
8980 Grabbers 2012 Jon Wright NR -
8994 The Vow 2012 Michael Sucsy PG13 -
9005 Man on a Ledge 2012 Asger Leth PG13 -
9094 Disconnect 2012 Henry Alex Rubin R -
9175 Doctor Who: The Snowmen 2012 Saul Metzstein NR -
9184 Arbitrage 2012 Nicholas Jarecki R -
9187 The Campaign 2012 Jay Roach R -
9225 Total Recall 2012 Len Wiseman PG13 -
9398 56 Up 2012 Michael Apted, Paul Almond NR -
9465 Promised Land 2012 Gus Van Sant R -
9696 Superman vs. The Elite 2012 Michael Chang PG13 -
9704 The Collection 2012 Marcus Dunstan R -
9717 Underworld: Awakening 2012 Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein R -
9794 The Bay 2012 Barry Levinson R -
9933 Dark Shadows 2012 Tim Burton PG13 -
9942 Marley 2012 Kevin Macdonald NR -
9971 People Like Us 2012 Alex Kurtzman PG13 -
9992 Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 2012 Stevan Riley NR -
10020 Excision 2012 Richard Bates Jr. NR -
10146 A Band Called Death 2012 Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett NR -
10262 The Angels' Share 2012 Ken Loach NR -
10605 The Lords of Salem 2012 Rob Zombie R -
10608 The Dictator 2012 Larry Charles R -
10651 The Sapphires 2012 Wayne Blair NR -
10780 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 2012 Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon PG -
11034 The First Time 2012 Jon Kasdan PG13 -
11045 Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 2012 Louis D'Esposito NR -
11100 Taken 2 2012 Olivier Megaton PG13 -
11109 Dirty Laundry 2012 Phil Joanou NR -
11154 The Giant Mechanical Man 2012 Lee Kirk PG13 -
11246 The Battery 2012 Jeremy Gardner NR -
11277 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning 2012 John Hyams R -
11278 To Rome with Love 2012 Woody Allen R -
11418 Starlet 2012 Sean Baker NR -
11444 You Don't Know Bo 2012 Michael Bonfiglio NR -
11812 Rock of Ages 2012 Adam Shankman PG13 -
11857 Hope Springs 2012 David Frankel PG13 -
11925 Hit and Run 2012 David Palmer, Dax Shepard R -
11945 Resident Evil: Retribution 2012 Paul W.S. Anderson R -
12066 Donald Glover: Weirdo 2012 Shannon Hartman, Michelle Caputo NR -
12073 Snow White and the Huntsman 2012 Rupert Sanders PG13 -
12078 Here Comes the Boom 2012 Frank Coraci PG -
12264 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012 Timur Bekmambetov R -
12336 Cockneys vs Zombies 2012 Matthias Hoene NR -
12344 The Words 2012 Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal PG13 -
12456 A Late Quartet 2012 Yaron Zilberman R -
12613 Partysaurus Rex 2012 Mark A. Walsh G -
12702 Wrong 2012 Quentin Dupieux NR -
12725 This Means War 2012 McG PG13 -
12769 Stand Up Guys 2012 Fisher Stevens R -
12790 For a Good Time, Call... 2012 Jamie Travis R -
12818 Tangled Ever After 2012 Nathan Greno, Byron Howard G -
12834 Tabu 2012 Miguel Gomes NR -
12900 Barbara 2012 Christian Petzold PG13 -
12919 Bill Burr: You People Are All the Same 2012 Jay Karas NR -
13062 Act of Valor 2012 Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh R -
13073 2 Days in New York 2012 Julie Delpy R -
13094 The Watch 2012 Akiva Schaffer R -
13165 Antiviral 2012 Brandon Cronenberg NR -
13260 Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg of the King 2012 Toshiyuki Kubooka NR -
13348 Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 2 - The Battle for Doldrey 2012 Toshiyuki Kubooka, Michael Sinterniklaas NR -
13375 The House I Live In 2012 Eugene Jarecki NR -
13376 Leviathan 2012 Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel NR -
13455 Shut Up and Play the Hits 2012 Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern NR -
13777 Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut 2012 Casey Pugh NR -
13988 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry 2012 Alison Klayman R -
14040 [REC]³ Génesis 2012 Paco Plaza R -
14251 Bullet to the Head 2012 Walter Hill R -
14284 Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 2012 Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim R -
14380 Chasing Mavericks 2012 Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson PG -
14391 Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 2012 Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda PG -
14403 Upside Down 2012 Juan Diego Solanas NR -
14463 On the Road 2012 Walter Salles R -
14551 Lore 2012 Cate Shortland NR -
14658 The Comedy 2012 Rick Alverson NR -
14726 CM Punk Best in the World 2012 Kevin Dunn NR -
14733 Rurouni Kenshin 2012 Keishi Ohtomo NR -
14800 The History of Future Folk 2012 John Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker NR -
15037 Red Lights 2012 Rodrigo Cortés R -
15137 Post Tenebras Lux 2012 Carlos Reygadas NR -
15314 Stitches 2012 Conor McMahon R -
15377 Mirror Mirror 2012 Tarsem Singh PG -
15379 Casa de mi Padre 2012 Matt Piedmont R -
15430 The Hollow Crown: Richard II 2012 Rupert Goold NR -
15448 The Man with the Iron Fists 2012 RZA R -
15540 Quartet 2012 Dustin Hoffman PG13 -
15614 The Gatekeepers 2012 Dror Moreh PG13 -
15661 Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe 2012 Jim Gaffigan NR -
15723 Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present 2012 Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre NR -
15724 No One Lives 2012 Ryûhei Kitamura R -
15823 War Witch 2012 Kim Nguyen NR -
15927 The Brass Teapot 2012 Ramaa Mosley R -
15937 Red Tails 2012 Anthony Hemingway PG13 -
16101 Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous 2012 Jesse Cote NR -
16148 The Odd Life of Timothy Green 2012 Peter Hedges PG -
16381 Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special 2012 Seth Green NR -
16526 Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn 2012 Stewart Hendler NR -
16532 Big Miracle 2012 Ken Kwapis PG -
16539 A Fantastic Fear of Everything 2012 Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell R -
16578 That's My Boy 2012 Sean Anders R -
16667 Battleship 2012 Peter Berg PG13 -
16800 Iron Sky 2012 Timo Vuorensola R -
16808 The Lucky One 2012 Scott Hicks PG13 -
16844 The Announcement 2012 Nelson George NR -
17241 I Declare War 2012 Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson NR -
17735 Would You Rather 2012 David Guy Levy NR -
17803 The Body 2012 Oriol Paulo NR -
17812 The Longest Daycare 2012 David Silverman PG -
17893 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God 2012 Alex Gibney NR -
18054 Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay 2012 Molly Bernstein NR -
18090 Populaire 2012 Régis Roinsard NR -
18107 The Paperboy 2012 Lee Daniels R -
18223 Red Dawn 2012 Dan Bradley PG13 -
18422 The Devil's Carnival 2012 Darren Lynn Bousman NR -
18505 Thanks for Sharing 2012 Stuart Blumberg R -
18537 Wrath of the Titans 2012 Jonathan Liebesman PG13 -
18548 Bachelorette 2012 Leslye Headland R -

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