2012 NY TIMES - Manohla Dargis Top 10: Against the Odds, Smart Films Thrive at the Box Office

Moonrise Kingdom is one of Manohla Dargis top film in 2012

Manohla Dargis Top 10 Film in Alphabetical Order
Amour
The Deep Blue Sea
The Gate Keepers
Holy Motors
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
Searching for Sugarman
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

The rest of the best, alphabetically: “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” (Alison Klayman); “Argo” (Ben Affleck); “August and After” (Nathaniel Dorsky); “Auto Collider XV (Ernie Gehr); “Barbara” (Christian Petzold); “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (Benh Zeitlin); “Bernie” (Richard Linklater); “Brooklyn Castle” (Katie Dellamaggiore); “The Dark Knight Rises” (Christopher Nolan); “Departure” (Mr. Gehr); “Footnote” (Joseph Cedar); “The House I Live In” (Eugene Jarecki); “The Kid With a Bike” (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne); “Life of Pi” — only at sea (Ang Lee); “Magic Mike” (Steven Soderbergh); “A Man Vanishes” (Shohei Imamura); “Middle of Nowhere” (Ava DuVernay); “Miss Bala” (Gerardo Naranjo); “Napoleon” (Abel Gance, restored by Kevin Brownlow); “Oslo, August 31st” (Joachim Trier); “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” (Peter Lord); “Rust and Bone” (Jacques Audiard); “Skyfall” (Sam Mendes); “Starlet” (Sean Baker); “This Is Not a Film” (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb); “The Turin Horse” (Bela Tarr); “View From the Acropolis”