Top 10 Movies for 2012 – 5 Year Revision
Top 10 Movies for 2012 – 5 Year Revision

Top 10 Movies for 2012 – 5 Year Revision

Here’s the top 10 movies from 2012.

Honorable Mentions:

Beasts of the Southern Wild

21 Jump Street

Life of Pi

10Pitch Perfect
Every so often a comedy will come along and define a generation of the young. That movie for this generation is about a capella college singers at a university. Seems aca diculous, but it’s really ac impressive.

9Eega
SS Rajamouli makes the most insane revenge movie ever. After a mob enforcer murders a man who loves the same woman as him, the murdered man gets reincarnated as a fly and takes his revenge out in insane, delirious cacklingly funny ways.

8The Raid: Redemption
A simple, balls to the high rise walls kick ass action movie. The talented martial artists from Indonesia build a simple clever tale about some cops who raid a drug kingpin’s high rise and have to get to the top to capture him. Mayhem and electric action ensue.

7The Cabin in the Woods
One of the great inversions of the horror genre, rivaling Scream. That’s how good this insane, fun, and well constructed movie is, with lots to say about what horror movies do.

6Zero Dark Thirty
Brilliant fictional pursuit of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. The Raid on his compound is the most tense scene of 2012.

5How to Survive a Plague
Powerful documentary on the AIDS crisis and some of the heroes in finding the HIV remedy. Equal parts thriller, comedy, and political drama.

4Looper
Rian Johnson’s sci-fi masterpiece can stand alongside T2 and Back to the Future as the best use of time travel in cinema.

3The House I Live In
Thought-provoking documentary about the cost of the drug war. Touches on key players and historical context alike.

2The Avengers
The first big superhero team up delivers the goods. It’s pure entertainment, filled with amazing dialogue and action sequences that will have you grinning ear to ear.

1Amour
Necessary drama about the evolution of love into old age. Still shots give the film power in its simplicity.

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