While I am already planning on catching up on The Sessions, The Master, Amour, Frankenweenie and The Pirates! Band of Misfits for my Oscar Completionist goal, there are quite a few smaller films from 2012 that I very much would have liked to have seen but didn’t quite get the chance too.
Below I’m listing the top 15 films I’m sad to have missed. I’m accompanying that list with a poll to let you vote on which ones you think I should make the most of a point to see whenever I get the chance. You have 5 chances to vote, and I will take the 5 top choices and Watch/Review them over the course of the next several months.
- Coriolanus
- The Grey
- Rampart
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Jeff Who Lives at Home
- Headhunters
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- Ruby Sparks
- Your Sister’s Sister
- Killer Joe
- Celeste and Jesse Forever
- For a Good Time Call…
- Robot & Frank
- Arbitrage
Let me know what you think I should see, what I should avoid, and what I’ve left off the list. Check back later this week for my Top 10 Movies of the Year and my reviews of Haunted House and Broken City.
The only one of those I’ve actually seen is Rampart, which is alright but I wouldn’t go out of my way to see it. Worth a watch if you happen to catch it though. I’ve got a huge list of films I missed out on from last year. Too many movies!
I know, right? Stupid day jobs… oh well, little by little I’ll get them off the list
I loved Ruby Sparks and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, must see those
My personal votes were for those two, The Grey, Headhunters and Safety not Guaranteed, we’ll see which ones end up getting into the top 5
Every blogger raved about Ruby Sparks, and I really want to see it. Definitely check out Killer Joe–great acting with a super twisted plot.
I really hope Ruby Sparks ends up in the top 5, I’d like any reason to see that one
Definitely The Grey. It’s not a two-hour wolf fight, and it’s all the better for it.
I really enjoyed Jeff Who Lives at Home, and Arbitrage has some solid performances even if its story isn’t nearly as twisty as it seems to think it is. Safety Not Guaranteed is charming but slight. And Killer Joe is an interesting bit of Southern Gothic grotesequery, but it veers off into Insaneville in the last half hour or so in a way that kind of turned me off the film as a whole.
Good to know, some of these are getting such different reactions that I almost want to see them more to find out which camp I fall into
Ya wish I’d seen the grey too, and I did really want to see For A good time call…..
However, you missed nothing by not watching Headhunters – I was so excited about that film too and it just didn’t do anything for me.
I’ve heard very different things about Headhunters, If anything I think I’m just curious to see what I think of it
Headhunters is very good – one of the best. The Grey is quite good as well – haven’t seem the others yet.
Those are tops on my list as well
I like this idea, although I’m afraid for you to have to see The Grey. It is not as good as many lead to believe.
Make sure that, regardless, you watch Ruby Sparks and Safety Not Guaranteed! I also voted for Headhunters, Robot and Frank, and Coriolanus!
Wow. Five choices seemed extravagant seeing as I had seen several on there. LOL.
But I went with Killer Joe first and foremost, as that’s the one that people have been singing the virtues of the most. 
I’ve missed a few and wish I’d missed My Sister’s sister and Safety Not Guaranteed. Ruby Sparks is nice and Best Exotic is a close #2 for best 2012 film pic.
I voted for Ruby & Exotic, and I’m curious about Safety Not Guaranteed but idk if it’ll end up making the list.
I have a lot to also to see from 2012, good list
Ruby Sparks, Arbitrage and Killer Joe are among my favorite 2012 films so I voted for those. Also went with Headhunters and The Grey which I haven’t seen yet but I’ve heard great things about.
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