My favorites so far:

Argo (Ben Affleck)
The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
The Cabin In The Woods (Drew Goddard)
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
The Grey (Joe Carnahan)
Looper (Rian Johnson)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
ParaNorman (Chris Butler & Sam Fell)
The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans)
Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow)

Honorable mentions:

Bernie (Richard Linklater)
Chronicle (Josh Trank)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)

I would say the Avengers. I would go for Argo for it's high rating, but I haven't yet to see the movie. Like The Town this movie definitely a most watch.

I don't like the Dark Knight Rises. It doesn't click on me. It has more questions than answers and doesn't give Bruce/Batman a much deserving exit. I'm hoping it will match the awesomeness of TLOTR 3, HP Deathly Hollow and POTC At World's End, but it's not. Really disappointed.

The ones I saw this year that I enjoyed would have to be Expendables 2, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, John Carter, Avengers, Hunger Games, Amazing Spider-Man, and Secret World of Arietty. I was very busy with work during the summer so I didn't have much time to watch films that were in theaters then.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

I haven't seen the film. But the title is the greatest movie title of all time!

I liked the avengers, but to be honest almost no movie was good enough this year to be remembered. It was a pretty shitty year for movies to be honest. The Dark Knight was okay but not so special as all those Nolan fanboys claim it to be. Maybe Skyfall will be decent and i haven't seen Cloud Atlas yet. When i saw the trailer of cloud Atlas i thought this will be amazing or really really bad...

I'll tell you when I've watched some movies made this year. Shouldn't probably take more than a few years. I think the only titles I even recognize from your list are Avengers and the yet-another-Batman movie.

Or scratch that, I actually kinda promised yesterday to gf that we go to see that new Bond movie (Skyfall?) in the theater, so that could be my first 2012 movie. I don't care so much, but... (the D. Craig bond-movies seem to be chick movies, at least I see women getting more excited about them than male viewers). I'm not sure if I've seen the previous movie in the series, but I've definitely seen the first of the Daniel Craig Bond-movies, even went to a theater for it, with a lady who very much wished to see it of course.

Yesterday I watched No Country for Old Men. I think it is from 2007, but that's recent enough for me. I had high expectations due to Oscars and being a Coen movie, but I must admit I found the closure a bit of letdown (I had to actually google to make sure whether that and that character really died, or not). But I guess one should always expect Coens to do things the way you are not expecting.

Not my favorite Coen movie, sorry. I presume they are still Fargo (hey, that movie looks like it could have been shot in Finland!) and The Big Lebowski.

Killer Joe. very good, it could have just been set on a stage in a small town amateur theatre, but the story and quality of the acting lifted it above everything else.

Avengers was one of the most enjoyable action romps I've ever seen.

I've seen other movies, but nothing worth committing to a bestf film thread.

Oh yeah, I watched the movie last year with my GF. Worst Coen movie I have ever seen and yeah, I was also confused because of that guy's death. My GF liked the movie because of the violence, though. o_o
But they made up for it with Burn After Reading, IMHO, which is both hilarious and sophisticated satire.

And as for this year's movies... I think I've only watched one new movie which was Iron Sky and frankly it was quite disappointing.

Dredd

I found this movie not only truer to its source material than either of the other comic-based movies I saw this year (Avengers and Dark Knight Rises), but also refreshingly devoid of any Hollywood gloss that plagues far too many films nowadays. It's just unapologetic, balls-out awesomeness that ends in plenty of time before you grow tired of it (run time is like an hour and a half). It's a shame that it bombed, because I would have loved to seen a sequel. Everyone should check it out when it comes to DVD/Blu-Ray (which should be sooner rather than later).

Well that is good news. I think it pulled around $13 mil stateside. Definitely go see it when it comes out, it's an awesome flick.

The Dark Knight Rises for me.

Huge, epic, emotional, visceral - a complete film experience.

Skyfall should be (I find out in few days) cause its Bond
James Bond

I quite enjoyed The Hunger Games, but I'm a big fan of the books. Anyway, I found the movie was a pretty decent adaptation. Only big complaint was some of the camera work.

I guess my 'favorite' would have to be The Avengers. Not because I'm jumping on the hype bandwagon, but because I actually had no desire to see it. The kids wanted to go and I finally said OK, but I really expected very little out of this movie. Turns out I really enjoyed it. It was far better than i expected it to be.

I'm really looking forward to Skyfall though, as I'm a huge fan of the Daniel Craig bond movies (so here's one male that likes them, timppu!)

But I'm quite confident that my favorite move of 2012 is going to be The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Pretty psyched about this one.

Argo
Avengers
Dark Knight Rises
Dredd
Expendables 2
Hotel Transylvania
Men in Black 3
Seven Psychopaths

I still want to see eventually: Amazing Spider-man, Brave, Cabin in the Woods, Frakenweenie, Looper, Moonrise Kingdom, Paranorman, Raid, Sinister, Skyfall, Taken 2 (and probably more that I can't think of right now)

Saw but wasn't impressed with: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Bourne Legacy, Campaign, Hunger Games, Lorax, Snow White, Total Recall

The only movies I'm really looking forward to now are Chinese Zodiac, Skyfall, and The Hobbit. I think one of those will be my MOTY.