By Marlow Stern
As with most years at the cinema, things got off to a pretty dreadful start with forgettable films like One for the Money, John Carter, and That’s My Boy, and yet, following an awards-season onslaught of impressive fare, 2012 has morphed into one of the best years at the movies in quite some time. From the magical realism of Beasts of the Southern Wild to Kathryn Bigelow’s film about the CIA’s exhaustive hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, here are The Daily Beast’s best movies of the year.