Best Movies of 2012

I am writing and posting this much later than I usually do. But since Oscar nominations came out over a week ago, I was reminded that I haven't given you my Top 10 Movies for 2012. Upon reviewing the full list of movies that came out last year (there were 246!) , I found that I only saw a small fraction of the movies released in 2012 - 53 to be exact - averaging one movie each week - but only 21.5% of all the movies released. You don't have to take my list seriously since I saw so few films last year. I really feel I will have to do better during 2013.

So without further or do here is my Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2012...

10. Silver Linings Playbook
9. The Avengers
8. Moonrise Kingdom
7. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
4. People like Us
3. Argo
2. Lincoln
1. Les Miserables

We will have to see what happens at the Oscars next month to see if my list lines up with any of the big winners. I haven't gotten around to seeing some of the movies that are in contention for the big prize (Life of Pi, for example),  but I will have to try to remedy that before the Academy Awards on February 24th. That gives me 5 weekends to squeeze in a few more movies...