12 best films of 2012

December 21, 2012 3:54 PM

Filmmakers worked darned hard to hold our attention in 2012. It was a year of big ambitions and new ideas. Many directors challenged themselves, and us, by filming books that seemed unfilmable, and many tended to go epic. Here are the top 12 movies of the year. -- RAFER GUZMAN, rafer.guzman@newsday.com