LabuzaMovies.Com: Interlude: TwitCrix Poll

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Interlude: TwitCrix Poll

Update: A few more people posted lists. I've updated it to reflect those.

Yesterday on Twitter, a number of the film critics I follow/follow me got around to posting their favorite films of 2012 so far. Curious to see what was the favorite, I aggregated the 25 30 lists I found. I ranked them the usual way (#1 picks got 5 points, #2 got 4 points, and so on—if the lists were unranked I each pick one point). This of course isn't the end all list, but for those wondering what to fill your Netflix queues with for the rest of the year, all these films are great, or at least worth checking out.

1. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, USA) - 73 points/23 mentions

2. Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey) - 29 points/7 mentions

3. The Deep Blue Sea (Terrence Davies, UK) - 26 points/11 mentions

4. Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, USA) - 26 points/10 mentions

5. The Kid With A Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium) - 24 points/8 mentions

6. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, Hungary) - 20 points/8 mentions

7. Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, USA) - 16 points/5 mentions

8. This Is Not A Film (Jafar Panahi, Iran) - 14 points/5 mentions

9. Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, USA) - 13 points/5 mentions

10. The Color Wheel (Alex Perry Ross, USA) - 13 points/3 mentions

11. Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico) - 10 points/3 mentions

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Peter Labuza is the host of The Cinephiliacs and the author of Approaching The End: Imagining Apocalypse in American Film. He has contributed to Variety, Reverse Shot, Little White Lies, Indiewire, The Playlist, In Review Online, and Press Play. He serves as an editor for To Be (Cont'd), a columnist for The Film Stage, and a booklet editor for the UK Blu-Ray distributor Masters of Cinema. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California in the Critical Studies department where he is focusing on the late studio period of Hollywood between 1959-1966. Previously, Peter earned both a BA and an MA in Film Studies from Columbia University in New York City.

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