2012 Films: Ranked

Submitted by hinterland on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 18:29
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  4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, US) Adventure/Comedy
  5. Life of Pi (Ang Lee, US/Taiwan) Lifeboat Adventure
  6. Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, UK) Meta Crime/Comedy
  7. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, US) Slave Revenge
  8. Argo (Ben Affleck, US) History/Drama/Thriller
  9. Prometheus (Ridley Scott, US) Sci-fi

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  11. The Avengers (Joss Whedon, US) Superheroes
  12. Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (Stacy Peralta, US) Skateboarding Documentary
  13. Chronicle (Josh Trank, US) Super Powers
  14. Kahaani (Sujoy Ghosh, India) Mystery/Drama
  15. Helpless (Young-Joo Byun, S. Korea) Mystery/Drama
  16. A Muse [Eungyo] (Ji-woo Jung, S. Korea) 2 writers 1 girl
  17. This Is 40 (Judd Apatow, US) Comedy
  18. The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, US) Spider-Man
  19. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, US) Batman
  20. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, US) Cult Drama
  21. Lawless (John Hillcoat, US) Prohibition Drama
  22. Amour (Michael Haneke, France) Love/Death
  23. John Carter (Andrew Stanton, US) Mars Adventure

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  25. An Introduction to Architecture (Yong-Joo Lee, S. Korea) Romance/Melodrama
  26. To Rome with Love (Woody Allen, US/Italy) Romance/Rome
  27. Total Recall (Len Wiseman, US) Sci-fi/Action
  28. Deranged (Jeong-woo Park, S. Korea) Killer Worms
  29. Looper (Rian Johnson, US) Time Travel and TKs
  30. Traffickers (Hong-seon Kim, S. Korea) Organ Trafficking
  31. All About My Wife (Kyu-Dong Min, S. Korea) Seduction/Divorce
  32. Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow, US) Time Travel Partners
  33. Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, UK) Period Drama
  34. Dredd (Pete Travis, UK/US) Sci-fi/Action
  35. Skyfall (Sam Mendes, UK/US) James Bond
  36. Flight (Robert Zemeckis, US) Alcoholic Airlines
  37. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman, US/China) Documentary
  38. Perfect Number (Eun-jin Bang, S. Korea) Perfect Crime/Romance
  39. Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (Shakun Batra, India) Romance/Comedy
  40. The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, US) Battle Royale
  41. Ted (Seth MacFarlane, US) Crude Teddy Bear
  42. Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, US) Aliens and Time Travel
  43. The Thieves (Dong-Hoon Choi, S. Korea) Diamond Heist
  44. A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel, Denmark) Period Drama/Politics
  45. The Grand Heist (Joo-ho Kim, S. Korea) Ice Heist
  46. The Bourne Legacy (Tony Gilroy, US) Action
  47. Robot & Frank (Jake Schreier, US) Robot Companion Heist
  48. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Timur Bekmambetov, US) Vampire Biopic
  49. Nameless Gangster (Jong-bin Yun, S. Korea) Gangster Connections

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  51. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, US) Love Cures Mental Illness
  52. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong, S. Korea) Woman on the Beach
  53. Les Misérables (Tom Hooper, US/UK) Musical
  54. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, US) Osama bin Laden dies
  55. The Taste of Money (Sang-soo Im, S. Korea) Rich People Problems
  56. Lockout (James Mather/Stephen St. Leger, Ireland/France) Space Prison
  57. The Concubine (Dae-seung Kim, S. Korea) Joseon Shakespeare
  58. Doomsday Book (Pil-Sung Yim/Jee-woon Kim, S. Korea) 3 Shorts
  59. Hitchcock (Sacha Gervasi, US) Drama/Biopic
  60. Chinese Zodiac (Jackie Chan, China/HK) Action/Adventure/Comedy
  61. Thermae Romae (Hideki Takeuchi, Japan) Bath House Time Travel
  62. 21 Jump Street (Phil Lord/Chris Miller, US) Undercover Cops
  63. Over My Dead Body (Seon-ho Wu, S. Korea) Corpse Heist/Comedy
  64. Love Is All You Need (Susanne Bier, Denmark) Romance
  65. Brave (Mark Andrews/Brenda Chapman/Steve Purcell, US) Independent Ginger
  66. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson, US) Zombie/Sci-fi
  67. Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, France) Action
  68. Gambit (Michael Hoffman, US) Art Forgery Comedy
  69. The Suck Up Project (Seung-koo Jeong, S. Korea) Debt Comedy/Drama
  70. Miss Conspirator (Cheol-kwan Park, S. Korea) Gangster/Comedy
  71. Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola, Finland/Germany) Space Nazis
  72. Pieta (Ki-duk Kim, S. Korea) Debts/Cripples/Pain
  73. Man on a Ledge (Asger Leth, US) Thriller/Crime
  74. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, US) High School drama

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  76. The Scent (Hyeong-Joon Kim, S. Korea) Murder Mystery/Adultery Detective
  77. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, Canada) Tragicomedy
  78. American Reunion (Jon Hurwitz/Hayden Schlossberg, US) Comedy
  79. Premium Rush (David Koepp, US) Bike Messenger Action
  80. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France) Another Cosmopolis
  81. Gabi [Russian Coffee] (Youn-hyun Chang, S. Korea) Country and Coffee
  82. Mirror Mirror (Tarsem Singh, US) Fairy Tale

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  84. Alex Cross (Rob Cohen, US) Action
  85. The Expendables 2 (Simon West, US) Action Heroes
  86. Ghost Sweepers (Jeong-won Shin, S. Korea) Ghosts/Gold/Comedy
  87. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker/Eric Wareheim, US) Random

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Author Comments: 

Another year, another set of movies to be ranked. This follows the same format. The higher up on the list, the better I think it is.

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2011 Films: Ranked