DENNIS HARVEY’S TOP 25 NARRATIVE FILMS OF 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, US)
Bernie (Richard Linklater, US, 2011)
The Eye of the Storm (Fred Schepisi, Australia)
Fat Kid Rules the World (Matthew Lillard, US)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar, Israel, 2011)
Girl Walk//All Day (Jacob Krupnick, US)
Hermano (Marcel Rasquin, Venezuela, 2010)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France/Germany)
The Hunter (David Nettheim, Australia, 2011)
In Darkness (Agnieszka Holland, Poland/Germany/Canada, 2011)
Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs, US)
Klown (Mikkel Norgaard, Denmark, 2010)
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, US/China)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, US/India)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, US)
Michael (Markus Schleinzer, Austria, 2011)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, US)
Natural Selection (Robbie Pickering, US, 2011)
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, Norway, 2011)
Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow, US)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, US)
Sister (Ursula Meier, France/Switzerland)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, UK/US)
21 Jump Street (Phil Lord and Chris Miller, US)
Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore, US)
DENNIS HARVEY’S TOP 10 DOCUMENTARIES OF 2012
Gypsy Davy (Rachel Leah Jones, Israel/US/Spain, 2011)
The House I Live In (Eugene Jarecki, various)
How to Survive a Plague (David France, US)
Informant (Jamie Meltzer, US)
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, US)
The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, US/Netherlands/UK/Denmark)
Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Léa Pool, Canada, 2011)
Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, US)
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, Sweden/U.K.)
Surviving Progress (Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, Canada, 2011)
The Waiting Room (Peter Nicks, US)