We must be at the end, because Harlan Jacobson could only come up with eight. Here's his and Brett Michel's.

Harlan Jacobson's Eight Best Films of 2012

1. Lincoln

D: Steven Spielberg, W: Tony Kushner based on DK Goodwin's Team of Rivals

With: Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Fields, David Strathairn (Secretary of State Seward), TL Jones (Thaddeus Stevens, R of PA, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee)

Though I was lukewarm about the film, you've got to be impressed with the way Spielberg's "Lincoln" uncannily mirrors the political situation today.Two warring parties, a lame duck congress, incendiary issues - the Constitutional amendment franchising the former slaves versus a compromise to avoid a fiscal cliff - and presidents who have presided over four years of national calamity.