This year Filmmaker Magazine is hosting my Best of the Year list, complete with annotations, so head over there for my full write-up.

Here are my ten favourite films of the year, as well as some other mentions…

Top Ten Films of 2012—

1. Three Sisters, Dir. Wang Bing, France/Hong Kong

2. Romancing in Thin Air, Dir. Johnnie To, Hong Kong

3. Holy Motors, Dir. Leos Carax, France/Germany

4. The Deep Blue Sea, Dir. Terence Davies, UK/USA

5. Bernie, Dir. Richard Linklater, USA

6. 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Dir. Abel Ferrara, USA/Italy/France

7. Tabu, Dir. Miguel Gomes, Portugal/Germany/Brazil/France

8. Leviathan, Dir. Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, UK/USA/France

9. Moonrise Kingdom, Dir. Wes Anderson, USA

10. Resident Evil: Retribution, Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, Germany/Canada

Special Mention—

Late Show (Episodes 10-12 of Louie Season 3), Dir. Louis C.K., USA

Honourable Mentions—

Lincoln, Dir. Steven Spielberg, USA

Magic Mike, Dir. Steven Soderbergh, USA

Flight, Dir. Robert Zemeckis, USA

Ace Attorney, Dir. Takashi Miike, Japan

Into the Abyss & On Death Row, Dir. Werner Herzog, USA/UK/Germany

Performances—

Denis Levant, Holy Motors

Jack Black, Bernie

Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil: Retribution

Isabelle Huppert & Junsang Yu, In Another Country

Matthew McConaughey, Killer Joe, Magic Mike & Bernie

Juno Temple, Killer Joe

Rachel Weisz & Tom Hiddleston, The Deep Blue Sea

Jean-Claude Van Damme & Dolph Lundgren, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Lee Kang-sheng, Walker

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master