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Essential Films of 2012

Favorites

Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises

Frances Ha
Looper
Mud
Premium Rush
Silver Linings Playbook
Skyfall (007)
Zero Dark Thirty

Honorable mention

Django Unchained
The Grey
The Impossible
Iron Man 3
Pitch Perfect

All ages

Brave

Guilty pleasures

Now You See Me

The Raid: Redemption

Holiday

this

Want to see

A Coffee in Berlin
Amour
The Awakening (Brit thriller)
Compliance
Hello I Must Be Going (Melanie Lynskey)
Life of Pi
The Man Inside
The Master
Savages (kidnapping, crime, Blake Lively)
Shadow Dancer (MI5 informant, IRA)
Tower Block
Wadjda (Saudi)
Wild Bill

Not worth the time

Total Recall

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Essential music of 2012

Albums

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Lost Songs
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
CHAPPO - Moonwater
David Crowder Band - Give Us Rest; or, A Requiem Mass in C (the Happiest of All Keys)
First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar
Jason Lytle - Department of Disappearance
Men Without Hats - Love In The Age Of War
Muse - The 2nd Law
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
The Vaccines - Come Of Age
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball

Honorable mention

Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
Andre Bird - Break It Yourself
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
Joseph Arthur - Redemption City
Cheap Trick - Standing On The Edge
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
I Break Horses - Hearts
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire
the Killers - Battle Born
Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is an Animal
The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
The Raveonettes - Into the Night / Observator
Rihanna - Unapologetic
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Sea of Bees - Orangefarben
Yukon Blonde - Tiger Talk
The Walkmen - Heaven