For some reason I spend a lot of free time going to movie theaters. For some stranger reason I have an almost obsessive compulsion to rank all of those movies I see in movie theaters. So every year I make a list of all the movies I saw that were released in 2012 (which because movie release schedules are stupid, is never finished until midway through January), ranked in descending order from best to worst. It’s better than your list because I say so.

1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
2. Looper
3. Amour
4. Zero Dark Thirty
5. Killer Joe
6. The Master
7. Skyfall
8. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
9. The Invisible War
10. Django Unchained
11. Cosmopolis
12. Bernie
13. Girl Walk // All Day
14. Brave
15. The Cabin in the Woods
16. Moonrise Kingdom
17. Sleepwalk With Me
18. Lincoln
19. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
20. Magic Mike
21. The Queen of Versailles
22. Seven Psychopaths
23. Frankenweenie
24. Silver Linings Playbook
25. The Avengers
26. Flight
27. Life of Pi
28. Les Miserables
29. John Carter
30. Prometheus
31. How to Survive a Plague
32. The Dark Knight Rises
33. The Amazing Spider-Man
34. The Raid: Redemption
35. Paranorman
36. The Hunger Games
37. Killing Them Softly
38. Jack Reacher
39. Argo
40. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
41. Ted
42. Rust and Bone
43. Safety Not Guaranteed
44. Lockout (a.k.a. Space Jail)
45. Haywire
46. Lawless
47. The Sessions
48. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
49. Rock of Ages
50. The Grey
51. Indie Game: The Movie
52. Savages
53. Taken 2
54. Battleship
55. Alex Cross
56. Promised Land
57. Wrath of the Titans

Movies I regretfully haven’t seen: Holy Motors, The Impossible, Oslo: August 31st, The Bourne Legacy, Searching for Sugar Man

For frame of reference, I’d probably say everything from The Hunger Games up I liked, and everything from Killing Them Softly on down I didn’t like. Also, to put 2012 as a year in perspective, all of my top 4 films would have ranked higher than my #1 film of 2011 (Shame), and Beasts of the Southern Wild is probably my favorite film released since 2007, when No Country for Old Men topped my list.

Some final food-for-thought: I’d say both The Master and Django Unchained are the fifth best movies Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino have ever done, respectively, but they still made my top 10. They’re probably pretty good at making movies.