Confession: I don’t like The Lord of the Rings films. All of them.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2012, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
The latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne left me speechless.
Even when the strain to invest genre material with epic-scale profundity sometimes shows, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia still manages to weave a hypnotic spell, longueurs and all.
Santiago Mitre Mitre infuses The Student with a fleet political-thriller pace that can be said to reflect the main character’s mindset.
With his latest, Nuri Bilge Ceylan is purely interested in slowly unveiling a thematic can of worms that will tear people apart one long take at a time.