2012 Best and Worst And Everything In Between

This was a good year for movies. These are films I saw during 2012. As I recall them, some of them have made an indelible impression while others, even as I loved them coming out of the theater, fizzle out in memory. Some gain in estimation, while the hatred I have for the ones at the bottom of the barrel has not abated.
Some of the following films have not been released yet. I am missing several major ones, opening this week and next, which will be added in the coming days.

Extraordinary

Amour. Michael Haneke

Rust And Bone. Jacques Audiard

Caesar Must Die. Vittorio and Paolo Taviani

Beyond The Hills. Cristi Mungiu

Like Someone In Love. Abbas Kiarostami 

The Gatekeepers. Dror Moreh

Very Good

Django Unchained. Quentin Tarantino
Bernie. Richard Linklater

Life Of Pi. Ang Lee
Alps. Giorgos Lanthimos
Argo. Ben Affleck

Robot And Frank. Jake Schreier

Celeste And Jesse Forever. Lee Toland Krieger

The Queen Of Versailles. Lauren Greenfield 

Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry. Alison Klayman

Polisse. Maïwenn

Headhunters. Morten Tyldum

Monsieur Lazhar. Phillipe Falardeau

Tabu. Miguel Gomes

Good

Lincoln. Steven Spielberg

No. Pablo Larraín

Hitchcock. Sacha Gervasi
Silver Linings Playbook. David O. Russell 

Moonrise Kingdom. Wes Anderson

Frances Ha. Noah Baumbach

The Bay. Barry Levinson. 

The Cabin In The Woods. Drew Goddard 

Fill The Void. Rama Burshtein

A Late Quartet. Yaron Zilberman

The Dictator. Sacha Baron Cohen
Wanderlust. David Wain
The Woman In Black. James Watkins
Skyfall. Sam Mendes
Barbara. Christian Petzold
Our Children. Joachim Lafosse

Good but Flawed

The Master. Paul Thomas Anderson

Sound Of My Voice. Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij
The Sessions. Ben Lewin 
Footnote. Joseph Cedar 

The Deep Blue Sea. Terence Davies 

Bachelorette. Leslye Headland
How To Survive A Plague. David France

More Flawed Than Good
Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow
This is 40. Judd Apatow 
This Must Be The Place. Paolo Sorrentino

Annoying

Flight. Robert Zemeckis
Anna Karenina. Joe Wright

We Have A Pope. Gianni Moretti

Magic Mike. Steven Soderbergh

Dark Horse. Todd Solondz

Cosmopolis. David Cronenberg 

Something in The Air. Olivier Assayas
The Impossible. J.A. Bayona
Cloud Atlas. The Wachowskis, Tom Twyker
Goodbye, First Love. Mia Hansen Love

Arbitrage. Nicholas Jarecki

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. John Madden 
Take This Waltz. Sarah Polley

Killing Them Softly. Andrew Dominik

The Pits

Beasts of The Southern Wild. Benh Zeitlin

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Alain Resnais 

Les Miserables. Tom Hooper
Holy Motors. Leos Carax

Ginger And Rosa. Sally Potter