You Missed It: The 12 Most Unfairly Overlooked Movies Of 2012. Nobody can see all of the movies that come out in a year; there's not even enough time to catch up with all the good ones.
We've all had the experience of reading a critic's year-end Top 10 less and slapping our heads, remembering that we heard great things about that one movie but never caught it. Or if you live in a small town, you're constantly frustrated that the movies critics are going crazy for never play anywhere near you, and take months to come out on DVD. But even with theaters crowded with year-end Ocsar hopefuls, there are a ton of great movies out there you may have missed-- and you're not alone.
We've picked a crop of 12 movies that, for one reason or another, were totally overlooked by most audiences, but deserve a second glance and a lot of love. The 19 Best Movies That You Didn't See in 2012 - Indie Gems to Watch. The 25 Best Movies of 2012. Director: Sam Mendes Stars: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Berenice Marlohe, Albert Finney It's not that James Bond fell off with 2008's Quantum of Solace—007 merely stumbled, albeit in a mostly boring and ridiculous fashion.
In both that film and its predecessor, the far superior Casino Royale, Daniel Craig's phase with the iconic super-agent continued its pushing back against the franchise's trademarks and vintage spirit, trying for a darker, grittier tone that was only half successful. With the rousing Skyfall, though, director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) and screenwriter John Logan brought the character back to his lively, somewhat playful but always thrilling roots, and the result was an action-charged knockout.
To say that James Bond got his swag back would be a serious understatement. Best Movies of 2012. These are the years of radical cinema in all directions—extremely idiosyncratic efforts both in the lower-budget realms of independent filmmaking and in the mercantile reaches of franchise films—and 2012 has been a wild ride, even as, in “awards season,” much of the wildest work around gets pushed to the sidelines and surprisingly unsurprising films of mild invention but ostensibly important content rush to the forefront of critical appreciation.
Most of the best Hollywood films came out early—long before the gate was lifted on the quasi-officially titled batch of Oscarizables that will slug it out between now and February, pumped like Rock’em Sock’em Robots by the pushes and tugs and twitches and exhortations of the studios and publicists that send them to do battle. A few of the late-year entries, however, are notable, even excellent.
The 10 best movies of 2012. Best movies of 2012.