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The Best Films Of 2012: 21 Runner-Ups (#30-#11)

Today, I aim to rectify that by expanding my Top 10 picks out to 30 (or 31, given that I cheated and included a tie), counting down the best runners-up from the number 30 slot all the way down to number 11. Even with so many more films represented here, there were still plenty of tough omissions, good and great films like Argo, Holy Motors, The Hunger Games, Arbitrage, Celeste and Jesse Forever, and even animated fare like Frankenweenie and Rise of the Guardians. If this countdown continued forever, those and other excellent films would be represented, but the festivities had to end somewhere, and I am more than happy with these 30 films representing my favorite cinematic memories of 2012.
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Published: Dec 17, 2012 03:00 pm

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20. Wreck-It Ralph

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The best American animated film of 2012, Wreck-It Ralph is nothing short of a glorious, full-blown rebirth for Disney Animation Studios. This is the most creative, energetic, intelligent, and powerfully heartfelt film to come out of the animation department in decades, one of the very best in the entire Disney canon, and one of the year’s most pleasant surprises.

Wreck-It Ralph is currently playing in theatres nationwide.

19. Hope Springs

Speaking of surprises, David Frankel’s Hope Springs was so mismarketed and undervalued before it arrived that even after earning heaps of critical praise, the film still failed to find quite the audience or awards traction it deserved. But this is a staggeringly powerful little film nevertheless, one of the most achingly authentic looks at trust, intimacy, and partnership I have ever seen.

Hope Springs is currently available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

18. Flight 

Robert Zemeckis’ Flight may hook us with one of the most expertly staged plane crashes in cinematic history, but the film actually rises to greatness as an intense and intimate portrait of alcoholism, beautifully executed on the exact same creative strengths that propel that amazing plane crash: Attention to detail and an absolutely stellar performance from the incomparable Denzel Washington. As smart and mature commercial drama goes, Flight stands among the best of 2012, and makes me very happy to finally have Zemeckis return to the land of the living.

Flight is currently playing in theatres nationwide.

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Jonathan R. Lack
With ten years of experience writing about movies and television, including an ongoing weekly column in The Denver Post's YourHub section, Jonathan R. Lack is a passionate voice in the field of film criticism. Writing is his favorite hobby, closely followed by watching movies and TV (which makes this his ideal gig), and is working on his first film-focused book.
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