BEST MOVIE SCENES of 2012

For these things I am grateful:—  

—Jennifer's Lawrence's show-down with de Niro in Silver Linings Playbook
— The Euclidean geometry in Lincoln
— The first death scene in The Grey, where Liam Neeson tells the guy "you're dying"
— Stepping onto the boat /  the boat's departure in The Master
— The crash in Flight, in particular the last, soundless 10 seconds
— Chasing the pigeon in Amour
— Rachel Weisz in the London underground in The Deep Blue Sea
— FDR's post-prandial chat with the King in Hyde Park on Hudson
— The introduction of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
— The whorehouse in Beasts of the Southern Wild
— The first flight in Chronicle
— Michael Stuhlbarg's Mets soliloquy in Men in Black 3
— Feeding / taming the tiger in Life of Pi
— The lab shootout in The Bourne Legacy