An unscientific, biased and sometimes mean-spirited tally of cinematic observations from 2012
- Worst film of the year: Wrath Of The Titans
- If you didn't like this film, you can't be my friend: Life Of Pi
- So sue me, I liked this film(s): Mirror Mirror, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
- Worst film with monkey: The Hangover II
- Best film with monkey: Chimpanzee
- Best film awaiting distribution : Its A Disaster, 7 Boxes
- Most self-important film: The Dark Knight Rises
- Film I liked that everyone else hated: Cloud Atlas
- Film I hated that everyone else liked: The Master
- Most unhinged film (that is still oddly compelling): Holy Motors
Most underrated film: Celeste and Jesse Forever, Friends With Kids, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, People Like Us- Best film that should have received a better deal at the box-office: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
- Most unexpectedly disappointing film: Trouble With The Curve, This is 40
Most unexpectedly great film: End Of Watch- Most unexpectedly somber film: Skyfall
- Most unsettling film: Bestaire
- Most offensive film: Crazy and Thief
- Most unjustly deplored film: John Carter
- Most inventively structured adaptation of a classic: Anna Karenina
- Most uninventively structured adaptation of a classic: Les Miserables
- Most ambitious film: Prometheus, Cloud Atlas, Looper
- Best film you haven't heard of (but is available on DVD): Sleepwalk With Me
- Most depraved (in a brilliant way) film: Killer Joe
Best reason to watch documentaries: Searching For Sugar Man, Queen of Versailles, How To Survive A Plague- Most redundant evidence that Ben Affleck is a considerable director: Argo
- Better of two (!) films this year featuring, how should I say this, an actor's sexual tension being manually relieved by his female costar: Hyde Park On Hudson (the other being The Master)
- Funniest use of nudity: Gina Gershon in Killer Joe
- Most healthy inclusion of nudity: The Sessions
- Most unhealthy lack of nudity: Skyfall
- Most queasy sexual tension: Juno Temple and Matthew McConnaughey in Killer Joe
- Best film with gratuitious violence: Hit and Run
- Worst film with gratuitous violence: Django Unchained
- Most unrecognizable actor: Hugh Grant in Cloud Atlas
- Most unexpected acting revelation: Channing Tatum's comic timing in 21 Jump Street
- Most tense seven minutes in cinema this year: Noomi Rapace's self-induced gestational termination in Prometheus
- Most unappreciated actor: Rashida Jones in Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Most overlooked actor: Kristin Scott Thomas and Rachael Stirling in Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
- Most unforgivably underused seasoned actor: Debra Winger in Lola Versus...
- Best use of a seasoned actor (female edition): Susan Sarandon in Jeff Who Lives At Home, Salma Hayek in Savages
- Best use of a seasoned actor (male edition): Christopher Walken in A Late Quartet and Seven Psychopaths
- Best actor deserving a better career (female edition): Melanie Lynskey (Hello I Must Be Going)
- Best actor deserving a better career (male edition): Sam Rockwell (Seven Psychopaths)
- Best film poster: Promotheus
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