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Last film added: January 25, 2021. There are currently 1678 films in the database (since 1996).

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2012 Releases


Search returned all films from 2012 out of 1678 total rated films.



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MASTERPIECES

1. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) 10  
   Her father's ill, ice caps are melting and aurochs are invading six-year-old Hushpuppy's bayou. Love.
   
2. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) 10  
   Don Hertzfeldt's feature-film version of his animated philosophical trilogy about Bill and his shattered psyche.
   
3. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 10  
   Wes Anderson's charming story of two 12-year-old lovers who flee their 1960s New England town.
   
4. Perks of Being a Wallflower, The (2012) 10  
   A coming-of-age story about a shy freshman who meets his first love. Surprisingly deep, moving.
   
5. Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 10  
   The incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest 1970s rock icon who never was. Heartwarming.
   

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EXCELLENT

6. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) 9  
   Documentary about the life of celebrated Chinese artist and outspoken dissident Ai Weiwei. Compelling humanity.
   
7. Argo (2012) 9  
   Amazing CIA-Canadian secret operation, via Hollywood, to return six Americans during the Iran hostage crisis.
   
8. Django Unchained (2012) 9  
   Tarantino's story of a freed slave, German bounty hunter and brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Nuts.
   
9. Holy Motors (2012) 9  
   Limousine-traveling man assumes nine diverse identities. Dreamlike metaphor for acting/life, the masks of each genre.
   
10. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) 9  
    Documentary on 85-year-old Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono. Inspiring example of dedication to a craft.
    
11. Kid with a Bike, The (2012) 9  
    The Dardenne Brothers' affecting story of a young boy abandoned to a state-run youth farm.
    
12. Life of Pi (2012) 9  
    A shipwrecked Indian boy survives on a lifeboat, with zoo animals for company. Magical fable.
    
13. Looper (2012) 9  
    In 2042, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a hired assassin who kills people sent from the future.
    
14. Ruby Sparks (2012) 9  
    Ingenious dissection of a man falling in love with his own idea of a woman.
    
15. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) 9  
    A man places a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel. Genuinely touching, sweet.
    
16. Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 9  
    Warm, quirky film about dealing with mental illness (through football, dance). Jennifer Lawrence is wonderful.
    
17. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 9  
    Riveting story of the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Finale balances catharsis with despair.
    

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VERY GOOD

18. 5 Broken Cameras (2012) 8  
    Intimate study of a small West Bank village's protests against Israeli soldiers. Injustice, violence, resolve.
    
19. Avengers, The (2012) 8  
    Nick Fury brings together Marvel superheroes to save the Earth from Loki. Very balanced effort.
    
20. Chicken with Plums (2012) 8  
    Melancholic, humorous fable about a violinist's last days, and passionate love lost in 1950s Iran.
    
21. Chronicle (2012) 8  
    Don't abuse your children or they might grow up to destroy Seattle with powerful telekinesis.
    
22. City Dark, The (2012) 8  
    Documentary about the human and global consequences of modern light pollution and the disappearing stars.
    
23. Cloud Atlas (2012) 8  
    An ambitious, sprawling epic from the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Complex, spectacular, gimmicky and disjointed.
    
24. Dark Knight Rises, The (2012) 8  
    Very emotionally dark film that rises to an impressive, satisfying finale for Nolan's Batman trilogy.
    
25. Everything is a Remix (2012) 8  
    Four-part video series by Kirby Ferguson about the culture of copying, transforming and combining media.
    
26. Indie Game: The Movie (2012) 8  
    Follows the emotional journeys of independent game development, featuring Super Meat Boy, Fez and Braid.
    
27. Invisible War, The (2012) 8  
    Investigation of the rape epidemic in the U.S. military and its profound consequences. Tragic, appalling.
    
28. Lincoln (2012) 8  
    Spielberg's portrait of a deeply conflicted Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Incredibly well-written dialogue.
    
29. Master, The (2012) 8  
    Directionless WWII Navy veteran meets the charismatic leader of The Cause. Draws from Scientology's origins.
    
30. Moon Man (2012) 8  
    Moon Man hitches a ride to Earth on a comet and discovers children need him.
    
31. ParaNorman (2012) 8  
    Norman survives stop-motion ghosts, zombies and grownups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
    
32. Prometheus (2012) 8  
    Waxes philosophical and connects the Aliens franchise with Chariots of the Gods and Jesus Christ.
    
33. Room on the Broom (2012) 8  
    A gentle witch offers rides to a variety of animals on her increasingly crowded broom.
    
34. Wreck-It Ralph (2012) 8  
    Charming pixel-art story of an arcade video game villain who wants to be a hero.
    

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GOOD

35. 2 Days in New York (2012) 7  
    Artist Julie Delpy's neurotic French family visits New York for the weekend. A likable farce.
    
36. Cabin in the Woods, The (2012) 7  
    Turns the horror genre on its head, but crammed with excessive wink-wink cleverness and CGI.
    
37. Cat in Paris, A (2012) 7  
    Charming, attractive animated feature centered on cat burgling. Made with traditional ink and paint cartooning.
    
38. Frankenweenie (2012) 7  
    Tim Burton's stop-motion love story between a boy and his (undead) dog. Classic horror homage.
    
39. Hunger Games, The (2012) 7  
    Jennifer Lawrence's soulfulness carries this televised survival competition in which teenagers fight to the death.
    
40. Jesus Henry Christ (2012) 7  
    Measured quirkiness that evokes Wes Anderson's style about a 10-year-old prodigy. Toni Collette is great.
    
41. Just Like Being There (2012) 7  
    Celebrates gig posters by contemporary artists nearly 50 years after the first iconic concert posters.
    
42. Keyhole (2012) 7  
    Guy Maddin's surreal take on Homer's Odyssey. A mysterious, dreamlike journey of Ulysses and ghosts.
    
43. Lawless (2012) 7  
    The bootlegging Bondurant gang were outlaw heroes during Prohibition. Brutal violence. Tom Hardy is indestructible.
    
44. Loneliest Planet, The (2012) 7  
    A pivotal, instinctive reaction divides a couple's hiking trek in Georgia's Caucasus Mountains. Slow, stunning.
    
45. Monster in Paris, A (2012) 7  
    In 1910 Paris, a monster from an eccentric scientist's greenhouse meets a beautiful cabaret singer.
    
46. Perfect Sense (2012) 7  
    Follows Ewan McGregor and Eva Green as an epidemic robs people of their sensory perceptions.
    
47. Robot & Frank (2012) 7  
    An aging ex-jewel thief bonds with a robot butler programmed to look after him. Predictable.
    
48. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) 7  
    As a deadly asteroid approaches, neighbors Steve Carell and Keira Knightley end up traveling together.
    
49. Starlet (2012) 7  
    The unlikely friendship between a 21-year-old actress and a lonely elderly woman in Los Angeles.
    
50. Third Contact (2012) 7  
    Psychological thriller explores madness, depression, quantum suicide and immortality. It's a dark, puzzling poem.
    

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FAIR

51. Awakening, The (2012) 6  
    In 1921 England, a boarding school reports sightings of a child ghost. Unresolved, muddled plot.
    
52. Beat Hotel, The (2012) 6  
    Collects fragments of 1950s-era Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs and Gysin living in a rundown Paris hotel.
    
53. Casa de mi Padre (2012) 6  
    Anti-comedy Mexican Western, starring Spanish-speaking cowboy Will Ferrell and drug lord Gael García Bernal.
    
54. Giant Mechanical Man, The (2012) 6  
    Jenna Fischer is charming in this offbeat celebration of confused, aimless adults. Annoying supporting characters.
    
55. Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) 6  
    On the eve of WWII, Bill Murray is FDR and Laura Linney is his mistress.
    
56. John Carter (2012) 6  
    Hectic, violent CGI epic about Mars. Sort of fun, but I was never emotionally invested.
    
57. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012) 6  
    Hyperactive disservice to Seuss. Teaches how to blindly consume and toss marshmallows to adorable bears.
    
58. Love (2012) 6  
    Lonely astronaut stranded aboard the ISS develops cabin fever, becomes one with the universe. Posthumanism.
    
59. Man with the Iron Fists, The (2012) 6  
    RZA's martial arts thriller combines kung-fu action and hip-hop style. Saga of a Chinese blacksmith.
    
60. Mirror Mirror (2012) 6  
    Visually stunning like all Tarsem movies, and Julia Roberts was cast appropriately, but jarringly jokey/dopey.
    
61. On the Road (2012) 6  
    I struggled to get into this disappointing yet interesting-enough adaptation of the 1957 Kerouac novel.
    
62. Silent House (2012) 6  
    Thrilling performance from Elizabeth Olsen. Shot to mimic one continuous real-time take. Letdown by ending.
    

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ADEQUATE

63. FDR: American Badass! (2012) 5  
    As expected, the two-minute trailer was funnier than the movie. Crude/dumb humor, with Nazi werewolves.
    

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Statistical ratings distribution of these 63 films (3.8% of total rated films):
With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
(especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
Average rating for these 63 films: 7.7.



10:

7.9%




9:

19%




8:

27%




7:

25.4%




6:

19%




5:

1.6%




CRAP:

0%