REVIEWS BY YEAR OF RELEASE: 2012

Festival debuts noted in parentheses

6 January
-The Devil Inside

13 January
-Contraband
-Joyful Noise

19 January
-Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

20 January
-Beasts of the Southern Wild (Sundance)
-Underworld: Awakening

21 January
-An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Sundance)

22 January
-How to Survive a Plague (Sundance)
-V/H/S (Sundance)

23 January
-The Imposter (Sundance)
-Room 237 (Sundance)
-The Sessions (Sundance)

1 February
-Chronicle

3 February
-The Woman in Black

7 February
-Act of Valor
-Safe House

9 February
-Romancing in Thin Air [aka 高海拔之戀 II]

10 February
-Tey [aka Aujourd'hui] (Berlin)
-The Vow

11 February
-Sharqiya [aka لشرقية] (Berlin)

14 February
-Tabu (Berlin)

16 February
-A Royal Affair [aka En kongelig affære] (Berlin)

17 February
-Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
-War Witch [aka Rebelle] (Berlin)

21 February
-Gone

24 February
-Good Deeds
-Wanderlust

2 March
-The Lorax

9 March
-John Carter

11 March
-Citadel (SXSW)
-Sinister (SXSW)

12 March
-21 Jump Street (SXSW)
-The Hunger Games

15 March
-Mirror Mirror

28 March
-The Pirates! Band of Misfits

30 March
-Wrath of the Titans

3 April
-Battleship

6 April
-American Reunion

11 April
-The Avengers

16 April
-Safe

20 April
-The Lucky One
-Think Like a Man
-To Rome with Love

21 April
-In Their Skin (Tribeca)

23 April
-Consuming Spirits (Tribeca)

27 April
-The Five-Year Engagement

1 May
-The Final Member (Hot Docs)

3 May
-Foodfight!

11 May
-Dark Shadows

14 May
-Men in Black 3

16 May
-The Dictator
-Moonrise Kingdom (Cannes)

17 May
-Rust and Bone [aka De rouille et d'os] (Cannes)

18 May
-Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Cannes)
-Mekong Hotel (Cannes)
-No (Cannes)
-Paradise: Love [aka Paradies: Liebe] (Cannes)

19 May
-Antiviral (Cannes)
-Beyond the Hills [aka După dealuri] (Cannes)
-Dracula 3D (Cannes)
-Lawless (Cannes)

20 May
-Amour (Cannes)
-The Hunt [aka Jagten] (Cannes)

22 May
-Killing Them Softly (Cannes)

23 May
-Holy Motors (Cannes)
-On the Road (Cannes)

24 May
-The Central Park Five (Cannes)
-Chernobyl Diaries
-The Paperboy (Cannes)
-Post Tenebras Lux (Cannes)

25 May
-Cosmopolis (Cannes)

26 May
-Maniac (Cannes)
-Mud (Cannes)

30 May
-Snow White and the Huntsman

31 May
-Prometheus

4 June
-Paperman (Annency Animated Film Festival)

10 June
-Brave (Seattle)

13 June
-The Amazing Spider-Man

14 June
-The World Is Funny [aka העולם מצחיק]

15 June
-Rock of Ages

18 June
-Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Los Angeles)

25 June
-Savages

27 June
-Ice Age: Continental Drift

28 June
-Berberian Sound Studio (Edinburgh)

29 June
-The Detective's Lover
-Madea's Witness Protection
-Magic Mike
-Ted

2 July
-El Bella Vista (Karlovy Vary)

10 July
-The Gatekeepers (Jerusalem)

11 July
-Dredd (Comic-Con)

13 July
-2016: Obama's America

20 July
-The Dark Knight Rises

27 July
-Step Up Revolution

30 July
-The Bourne Legacy

2 August
-Hit & Run

3 August
-Total Recall

4 August
-The Campaign (Traverse City)

8 August
-The Expendables 2

9 August
-Leviathan (Locarno)

16 August
-Secret of the Wings

17 August
-ParaNorman

23 August
-Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest)

24 August
-It's Such a Beautiful Day

27 August
-American Mary (Film4 FrightFest)

29 August
-Stories We Tell (Venice)

30 August
-Paradise: Faith [aka Paradies: Glaube] (Venice)

31 August
-The Act of Killing (Telluride)
-Argo (Telluride)
-Hyde Park on Hudson (Telluride)
-The Possession

1 September
-Frances Ha (Telluride)
-The Master (Venice)
-Winter of Discontent [aka فيلم الشتا اللي فات] (Venice)

2 September
-To the Wonder (Venice)

3 September
-A Hijacking [aka Kapringen] (Venice)
-Resident Evil: Retribution
-Something in the Air [aka Après mai] (Venice)

4 September
-Pieta [aka 피에타] (Venice)

5 September
-Spring Breakers (Venice)
-Yema (Venice)

6 September
-Looper (Toronto)

7 September
-Anna Karenina (Toronto)
-The Land of Hope [aka 希望の国] (Toronto)
-Out in the Dark [aka Alata] (Toronto)
-The Place Beyond the Pines (Toronto)
-Seven Psychopaths (Toronto)

8 September
-Blancanieves (Toronto)
-Cloud Atlas (Toronto)
-End of Watch (Toronto)
-Hotel Transylvania (Toronto)
-Much Ado About Nothing (Toronto)
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Toronto)
-Silver Linings Playbook (Toronto)
-Taken 2

9 September
-The Impossible (Toronto)

10 September
-The Lords of Salem (Toronto)

11 September
-Burn It Up Djassa [aka Le djassa a pris feu] (Toronto)
-Infiltrators [aka متسّللون] (Dubai)

20 September
-Frankenweenie (Austin Fantastic Fest)

21 September
-Head Games

23 September
-The Cleaner [aka El limpiador] (San Sebastian)

26 September
-Rhino Season [aka فصل کرگدن] (San Sebastian)

28 September
-Life of Pi (New York)
-Pitch Perfect

29 September
-Mothers [aka Ma ma di quan zhuang] (CNEX Documentary Festival)

1 October
-The Day of the Crows [aka Le jour des corneilles] (Festival du Film Francophone de Namur)

6 October
-The Girl (Hamptons)

8 October
-Lincoln (New York)

10 October
-The Broken Circle Breakdown
-Rise of the Guardians (Mill Valley)

12 October
-Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike

13 October

14 October
-Flight (New York)

16 October
-Meeting Leila [aka Ashnaee ba Leila] (Chicago)

18 October
-Fuckload of Scotchtape (Chicago)

19 October
-Paranormal Activity 4

20 October
-Undocumented Executive

23 October
-Skyfall

1 November
-Hitchcock (AFI)

2 November
-Wreck-It Ralph

14 November
-The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

17 November
-Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo [aka ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q]

28 November
-The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

5 December
-Les Misérables

19 December
-Zero Dark Thirty

21 December
-This Is 40

25 December
-Django Unchained

28 December
-Promised Land