2012 in films - according to Film Excess

The 10 Best Films of 2012:

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

 2. Flight - Robert Zemeckis

3. Love Is All You Need/Den Skaldede Frisør - Susanne Bier + Best Danish Film of the Year

4. Hope Springs - David Frankel

5. The Sessions - Ben Lewin

6. The Impossible/Lo Imposible - J. A. Bayona

7. Mud - Jeff Nichols

8. The Place Beyond the Pines - Derek Cianfrance

9. Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach + Best New York Film of the Year

10. Amour - Michael Haneke

Other great movies of 2012: (in random order)

A Royal Affair/En Kongelig Affære - Nikolaj Arcel

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

Men in Black 3 - Barry Sonnenfeld

Looper - Rian Johnson

A Hijacking/Kapringen - Tobias Lindholm

Argo - Ben Affleck

 Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin

Wadjda - Haifaa Al-Mansour + First Saudi-Arabian Film in History

A World Not Ours - Mahdi Fleifel + Best Documentary of the Year

Hyde Park on Hudson - Roger Michell

Recommendable, good movies of 2012: (in random order)

Prometheus - Ridley Scott

The Paperboy - Lee Daniels + Strangest Film of the Year

Jack Reacher - Christopher McQuarrie

Iron Sky - Timo Vuorensola

Here Comes the Boom - Frank Coraci

Dark Shadows - Tim Burton

Get the Gringo/How I Spent My Summer Vacation - Adrian Grünberg 

The Devil Inside - William Brent Bell + Best Horror Film of the Year

The Avengers/Avengers Assemble - Joss Whedon

The 10 Worst Films of 2012:

1. John Carter - Andrew Stanton + Most Expensive Flop of the Year

2. Aftershock - Nicholás Lopez + Most Tasteless Film of the Year

3. To Rome With Love - Woody Allen

4. Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg

5. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Timur Bekmambetov

6. Battleship - Peter Berg

7. Painless/Insensibles - Juan Carlos Medina

8. Chernobyl Diaries - Bradley Parker

9. Piranha 3DD - John Gulager

10. The Expendables 2 - Simon West

Not favorites of Film Excess/undistinguished/poor/ mediocre movies of 2012: (reviewed 2012 movies that aren't good or bad enough to fit anywhere else)

The Woman in Black
Skyfall 
Silver Linings Playbook
Promised Land
My Brother the Devil
The Possession
The Dark Knight Rises
American Reunion/American Pie: Reunion
Big Miracle
The Amazing Spiderman

Notes:

2012 was a great year in movies. The top 10 includes 5 masterpieces, - good for any year. And the best film of the year, Stephen Chobosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a youth romance dramedy keeper that'll live for decades to come.
Robert Zemeckis' Flight is the resounding character study of the year; Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need a charming, funny, moving romcom, - her (as with Zemeckis) best film to date. Dave Frankel's Hope Springs brought us some favorite actors in an extremely delicate marriage counseling dramedy, and Ben Lewin's The Sessions was a surprise sex dramedy smash. Dramedies of different kinds have been favorites of the year. 
J. A. Bayona's The Impossible is technically stunning, as well as stunning due to actors' performances; the 2004 tsunami couldn't have gotten a 'better' film. Jeff Nichols' Mud is an unusual coming-of-age drama revolving around the Mississippi River. Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines is a magnetic, hard crime epic. Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha is the witty, melancholic portrayal of a young woman's struggles in New York and elsewhere. And finally, Amour is Michael Haneke's uncompromising, unrelenting film of an old, loving couple's disintegration through sickness and death. Whoa, what a year!
In the 'worst of 2012' section, some really expensive, stupid, huge movies made their mark; Andrew Stanton's John Carter above all, a desert walk to get through despite its lavish production, but also Peter Berg's Battleship and Simon West's The Expendables 2 fell through. Filmmaker masters David Cronenberg and Woody Allen both had terrible releases in 2012 with Cosmopolis and To Rome With Love respectively.
In other news, Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy came to a disappointing end, Daniel Craig continued his Bond-travesty with the slightly better Skyfall; Spiderman got an unnecessary reboot, and America went nuts over Silver Linings Playbook and their new best actress friend Jennifer Lawrence, who won an Oscar for her work in the film before four other, way more deserving actresses.
At the 2013 Oscars, the Academy threw most of their love over Ben Affleck's Argo and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, but also admired Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, his biggest hit yet. Both Lincoln and Django haven't been officially reviewed at Film Excess yet, but have been seen, and are both very good films indeed. As are Oscar favorites The Master and Life of Pi, the latter, however, a little less so.
Many big 2012 releases remains to be seen and reviewed by Film Excess, among them such titles as:
21 Jump Street, Pitch Perfect, The Hunger Games, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Magic Mike, Spring Breakers, The Lucky One, Think Like a Man (seen - good), Stuck in Love, Ted, Les Misérables, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Girl Most Likely, Cloud Atlas, The Vow, Moonrise Kingdom, Wreck-It-Ralph, The Cabin in the Woods (seen - bad), This Is 40 (seen - very good), The Hunt, Lawless, Brave and many others.
As always, lots of movies left to see, - yeah!

Do you agree with Film Excess' 2012 lists?
What films would top and bottom your lists of 2012 movies?
What movies are missed here?