Eyes Wide Open 2012: The Year's 25 Greatest Movies (and 5 Worst‪)‬

Who has time to waste on a bad movie? In this quick and informative guide, noted film critic Chris Barsanti ("Filmology: A Movie-a-Day Guide to the Movies You Need to Know") runs down the best 25 movies from 2012 you should seek out—and the 5 worst you should avoid at all costs!

This guide also includes Best-Of lists, Honorable Mentions, DVD reviews, and short essays about the year in movies.

From international thrillers ("Argo," "Zero Dark Thirty") to heartrending dramas ("The Master," "Amour"), gritty action flicks ("End of Watch"), eye-opening fantasies ("The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," "Looper," "Cloud Atlas"), and soul-stirring documentaries ("How to Survive a Plague," "Searching for Sugar Man"), "Eyes Wide Open: 2012" covers it all!

About the author:
Chris Barsanti is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online, and the Online Film Critics Society. His opinions (negative, positive, indeterminate, indiscriminate, and frequently foolhardy) have been published in The Chicago Tribune, Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, filmcritic.com, PopMatters, Film Journal International, Publishers Weekly, The Barnes & Noble Review, Kirkus Reviews, The Millions, The Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. He is the author of Filmology: A Movie-a-Day Guide to the Movies You Need to Know (Adams Media).