Comments on: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’ Tops Sight & Sound’s Best Of 2012

By: DG

DG — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

The Master is great. It sounds like a cheap excuse but you really have to see it more than once to fully appreciate it. I hope we won't have to wait as long for Inherent Vice though.

By: yer

yer — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

America cinema reigns again.

By: jt

jt — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

This group didn't screen the The Hobbit, Django Unchained, etc… I can't take this list seriously.

By: MovieFan

MovieFan — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

Had to just roll my eyes at The Master being selected as Number 1, as if there were any doubt. Critics love meandering, non-linear storytelling,unique acting and flashly cinematography to be easily pleased these days. No doubt this overrated film will continue to sweep the critics awards as the weeks pass.

By: mikeR

mikeR — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

Those are the top 10 most pretentious movies of the year, right?

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

ALL HAIL THE MASTER!!! In my mind it is the best of the year. Huge P.T. Anderson fan.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

The salt from these responses is delicious, please keep it up

By: Remy

Remy — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

Very intellectual.

By: Scootm

Scootm — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

Beasts of the Southern Wild? Really?! Cheesy movie.
How is Tabu number 2 and Amour 3? Blood of My Blood(portuguese as well) is so much better than Tabu anyways.
And Cosmopolis? wow – now that's crazy

By: Kevin Dean

Kevin Dean — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

The Master is kinda slow and boring.

By: Daniel Delago

Daniel Delago — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

This film will be on my Top Ten List too. American audiences didn't get it but it is doing well overseas. Paul Thomas Anderson is an auteur and his films are masterworks.

By: just me

just me — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

in my list The Master and Cosmopolis are the best, simply because sometimes you need to see the Acting rather than special effects which is a rare thing nowadays. whoever says Cosmopolis is full of himself should try to see past all the sophisticated bs written by critics.

By: nader

nader — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

Rob pattinson Oscar for the film cosmopolis

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:57 +0000

Can I get a +1 from anyone that S&S shouldn't be seen as a credible authority on movies? "Mulholland Dr." being in the top 30 movies of all-time? lulztown

By: Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

Argo is a good movie but best picture of the year i don't think so. Beast of the southern wild, The Masters, are better than it. But today everything about anti Islam wins the Oscar. In 2010 Hurt Locker won best picture because it support the American Propaganda of war against Iraq as they show three man Explosive Ordnance Disposal team a hero and Iraq civilians an antagonist who are responsible for terror and anarchy in country .Argo is another western supportive movie which is based on the Canadian Caper that took place during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980. Mass destructive weapons were just an excuse to cover their greediness everybody knows that the U.S invaded Iraq in order to conquer oil and natural gas there. Now a dayâs Academy and BAFTA are doing the same thing, covering their dirt by rewarding such kind of movies .

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

For me The Master had the makings of a "masterpiece" but never quite got there, it was all so nebulous and remote. However, I give PTA credit because he at least tries to make something exciting. There are so few American, and especially Hollywood, directors who try to make daring masterpieces anymore. Beasts gets too "obvious" on repeated viewings and becomes preachy. I enjoyed Holy Motors, but sometimes it just went too far down the rabbit hole and lost structural coherence. I didn't get Cosmopolis at all. Moonrise is enjoyable, but not a great film. The only film I thought was really great here is Amour, but even that film isn't especially daring in the way I've come to expect from Haneke. Anatolia and This Is Not a Film are excellent, but I saw both in 2011. Honestly, 2012 seemed like a weak year for cinema.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

That's because The Master is the best film of the year and deserves to be number 1 and deserves to win Best Picture and most of the other awards, espicially acting. But It won't because some self celebratory conventional explain everything to the audience crap like Lincoln or sing-along Les Miserables. Ugh. Cinema is going to die people.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

Big joke

By: lenij

lenij — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

As long as the Master is on the top spot. It's all good.

By: Huffy

Huffy — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

Nice list: plenty of interesting choices without the pretensions bias to established-auteurs that Cahiers' list was full of.

By: gerard kennelly

gerard kennelly — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

The Master ..gonna buy it on region 1 dvd
Amour …too depressing
Holy Motors… too weird
Beasts of the Southern Wild …gonna watch it this week
Berberian Sound Studio …the kind of film depalma used to make
Moonrise Kingdom …saw it weeks ago loved it
Beyond the Hills …too boring
Cosmopolis …saw it last week loved it
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia… gonna buy it on dvd next week
This is Not A Film …too dull

By: Fadays

Fadays — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:56 +0000

Argo should be on this list