These are the best films of the last calendar year, 2012, and it’s a baker’s dozen (not the ten that is customary), in alphabetical order nonetheless; so call me lazy—or call it genius…

The Cabin in the Woods—Drew Godard and Joss Whedon took the best things we’ve ever known about horror, and they used it only for their own devilish devises. More of this please—less remakes.

Cosmopolis—As stated previously in my review, this film is a word-for-word adaptation of a book I loved reading, so I’m biased. But everyone should check it out for David Cronenberg is such a phenomenal director: A fact only proved, yet again, but never enough, by watching Robert Pattinson in this film.