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Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.

Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Sam Mendez’s Skyfall, David O. Russell’s Silver Lining Playbook, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.

Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Law in These Parts.

Among the standouts at this year’s NYFF are Christian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills and Dror Moreh’s The Gatekeepers.

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, a drifter meets a rude awakening.

David France’s How to Survive a Plague, Heidi Ewing and Rache Grady’s Detropia, Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage.

A massacre in Aurora and the cinema of social hallucination.