Top 10 movies of 1972:

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather
John Boorman's Deliverance
Sidney Pollack's Jeremiah Johnson
Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris
Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running
Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris
Michael Ritchies's The Candidate
Robert Benton's Bad Company
John Waters' Pink Flamingos


Runners up:

Frederico Fellini's Roma
Bob Fosse's Cabaret
Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth