2012 Movie Rundown

This year was a fantastic year for movies. However, for the first time, I can't really anoint any of the movies I saw as "Perfection." I feel passionately about all the movies under "Excellent," but not to the degree that I could make an argument for any of them being perfect. So you only get "excellent" movies this year.

Note: I was running behind last year's total until my flight got cancelled and I had three extra days in New York before coming home for Christmas. Those three days allowed me top last year's total of 42 by two, with 44, which includes a viewing of Titanic in 3D that is not ranked below because I think everyone knows my feelings on that movie by now. I also decided to mark which movies I saw more than once in the theater and to include movies I watched on the plane to Paris since they were fairly current in theaters. What did I miss? Where did I go wrong? Speak up . . .

Excellent
Argo
The Avengers (2)
The Dark Knight Rises (2)
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Ruby Sparks
Silver Linings Playbook (2)
Skyfall (3)
Zero Dark Thirty

Solid 
The Amazing Spiderman
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Flight
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hunger Games (3)
Lincoln (2)
Looper
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Pitch Perfect
21 Jump Street
The Sessions

Fine
Anna Karenina
Celeste and Jesse Forever
The Five-Year Engagement
Friends with Kids
For a Good Time Call…
Life of Pi
Lola Versus
Prometheus
Safety Not Guaranteed
This is 40
The Woman in Black
Wreck-It Ralph

Eh
The Campaign
To Rome with Love
Wanderlust

Just Silly
Magic Mike
Ted
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2

Just Bad
Hitchcock
John Carter
What to Expect When You’re Expecting