symphonask
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Thought it would be interesting to look at some film critics top movies of 2012. Which ones, if any, mirror your own opinion or come closest?
This is only a brief list of critics - so if you feel I need to update the list with any other names, feel free to post them.
Edit: Some more
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
1. Argo
2. Life of Pi
3. Lincoln
4. End of Watch
5. Arbitrage
6. Flight
7. The Sessions
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. Oslo
10. A Simple Life
Richard Roeper
1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Argo
3. The Grey
4. Life of Pi
5. The Dark Knight Rises
6. Django Unchained
7. Flight
8. The Sessions
9. Lincoln
10. Prometheus
A.O. Scott - New York Times
1. Amour
2. Lincoln
3. Beasts of Southern Wild
4. Footnote
5. The Master
6. Zero Dark Thirty
7. Django Unchained
8. Goodbye First Love
9. Neighboring Sounds
10. The Grey
Mark Kermode - BBC
Joint 1st: Berberian Sound Studio + A Royal Affair
3. Skyfall
4. Amour
5. The Dark Knight Rises
6. Even the Rain (2012 UK Release)
7. Life of Pi
8. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2012 UK Release)
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild
10. The Raid
11. Holy Motors
12. You've Been Trumped
Todd McCarthy - The Hollywood Reporter
1. Amour
2. The Gatekeepers
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild
4. Once Upon a Time In Anatolia
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. The Master
7. Skyfall
8. Footnote
9. Django Unchained
10. The Dark Knight Rises
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
1. The Master
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild
4. Lincoln
5. Argo
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Les Miserables
8. Life of Pi
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. The Dark Knight Rises
This is only a brief list of critics - so if you feel I need to update the list with any other names, feel free to post them.
Edit: Some more
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Lincoln
3. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
4. The Master
5. Amour
6. Chico and Rita
7. The Color Wheel
8. Searching for Sugar Man
9. Flight
10. Moonrise Kingdom
Kenneth Turan - LA Times
1. Amour
2. Argo
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Footnote
5. 'The Gatekeepers' and 'The Law In These Parts'
6. Lincoln
7. Rust and Bone
8. Silver Linings Playbook
9. Sundance Dramas ("Middle of Nowhere," "Robot & Frank," and "Safety Not Guaranteed"
10. Zero Dark Thirty
11. The Deep Blue Sea
Glenn Kenny - MSN Movies
1. The Master
2. The Turin Horse
3. Zero Dark Thirty
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. The Kid With a Bike
6. Cosmopolis
7. Lincoln
8. Looper
9. Holy Motors
10. Tabu
Dana Stevens - Slate
(in no order)
-Amour
-How to Survive a Plague
-Lincoln
-The Master
-Once Upon a Time in a Anatolia
-The Queen of Versailles
-Silver Linings Playbook
-Take This Waltz
-The Turin Horse
-Zero Dark Thirty
Drew McWeeny - Hitfix
1. Holy Motors
2. Django Unchained
3. The Act of Killing
4. Cloud Atlas
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
7. Silver Linings Playbook
8. Looper
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. This Is 40
Devin Faraci - Badass Digest
1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Django Unchained
3. Lincoln
4. Cabin in the Woods
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
6. Cloud Atlas
7. The Master
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
9. Holy Motors
10. Moonrise Kingdom