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Stacker compiled a list of the best 2012 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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#20. Side by Side

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#20. Side by Side

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Christopher Kenneally
- Actors: Derek Ambrosi, Michael Ballhaus, Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $58,825
#19. Beasts of the Southern Wild

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2 / 20

#19. Beasts of the Southern Wild

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 86,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Benh Zeitlin
- Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $12,795,746
#18. Looper

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3 / 20

#18. Looper

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 621,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $66,486,205
#17. Life of Pi

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4 / 20

#17. Life of Pi

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 689,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Ang Lee
- Actors: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $124,987,023
#16. Silver Linings Playbook

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5 / 20

#16. Silver Linings Playbook

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 763,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: David O. Russell
- Actors: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
- Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $132,092,958

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#15. West of Memphis

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6 / 20

#15. West of Memphis

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Amy Berg
- Actors: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Misskelley
- Runtime: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $310,154
#14. Skyfall

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7 / 20

#14. Skyfall

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 756,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Actors: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris
- Runtime: 2 hours 23 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $304,360,277
#13. Lincoln

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8 / 20

#13. Lincoln

- Stacker score: 92.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 281,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
- Runtime: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $182,207,973
#12. The Hunt

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9 / 20

#12. The Hunt

- Stacker score: 92.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 394,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Thomas Vinterberg
- Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $613,308
#11. Marley

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10 / 20

#11. Marley

- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Kevin Macdonald
- Actors: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Rita Marley
- Runtime: 2 hours 24 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $1,413,480

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#10. Searching for Sugar Man

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11 / 20

#10. Searching for Sugar Man

- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 75,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Malik Bendjelloul
- Actors: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey
- Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $3,696,196
#9. Moonrise Kingdom

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12 / 20

#9. Moonrise Kingdom

- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 377,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Wes Anderson
- Actors: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $45,512,466
#8. The Dark Knight Rises

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13 / 20

#8. The Dark Knight Rises

- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.4 (votes: 1.9 million)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Actors: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway
- Runtime: 2 hours 44 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $448,149,584
#7. Argo

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14 / 20

#7. Argo

- Stacker score: 93.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 656,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Ben Affleck
- Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: R
- Box office: $136,025,503
#6. Ernest & Celestine

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15 / 20

#6. Ernest & Celestine

- Stacker score: 94.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
- Actors: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner, Anne-Marie Loop
- Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $262,075

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#5. Stories We Tell

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16 / 20

#5. Stories We Tell

- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Sarah Polley
- Actors: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $1,600,145
#4. Django Unchained

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17 / 20

#4. Django Unchained

- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.8 million)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Actors: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio
- Runtime: 2 hours 45 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $162,805,434
#3. Zero Dark Thirty

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18 / 20

#3. Zero Dark Thirty

- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 333,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow
- Actors: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
- Runtime: 2 hours 37 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $95,720,716
#2. The Act of Killing

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19 / 20

#2. The Act of Killing

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 43,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
- Actors: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $486,919
#1. Amour

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20 / 20

#1. Amour

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 109,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Michael Haneke
- Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $6,739,492

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