It was an amazing year at the movies in 2012.  So winnowing a
list down to a mere 10 best films seems downright wrong. The
task produced a lot of angst and overthinking, but after much
shuffling, reshuffling, deleting and adding, I've settled on
these picks.  1. "Zero Dark Thirty": Director Kathryn Bigelow
and screenwriter Mark Boal set out to make a focused and
unbiased film showing, not telling, about the hunt for Osama bin
Laden. And they did just that with this intense, bold and
riveting film. It's a fairly true-to-life account of how the
intelligence community collected breadcrumbs and then killed the
world's most hunted terrorist. Jessica Chastain is dynamite as
an obsessed agent, but it's the Oscar-winning Bigelow who's the
true star. The opening sequence is cinematic genius; evoking the
chaotic nightmare of 9/11 through sound and no visuals, just a
black screen. An incredible feat from first scene to last.  2.
"Argo": Truth is indeed stranger than anything Robert Ludlum
could have envisioned, no matte