2013 in Films
Format adapted from Charles François, who I still hope will one day rediscover his cinephilia and start hanging out with myself and the Skandies crew again. It’s been ten years since he last used it and I hereby declare it in the public domain.
Combine the first two columns for a list of films released in 2013, and the last two columns for films seen in 2013. Ordering is preferential when ratings are identical.
Seen Previously
Movies I saw in 2012 {or before} that were released in the U.S. in 2013. Films not yet released but currently scheduled for this year are indicated by a (→). |
Seen in 2013
Movies I saw shortly before, during or after their 2013 U.S. run. Asterisks (*) indicate films seen prior to their actual release. TV-only "runs" (arbitrarily deemed eligible) get a (†). |
To Be Released
Movies I saw in 2013 which are still awaiting a U.S. release. Those known to have lined up distribution are indicated by a (→). Production {year} is listed if film is more than 2 years old. |
A For All Time
A- Event
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Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
(Fedorchenko) 83 |
B+/A- Near Great
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The Minister (Schoeller) 81 |
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First Cousin Once Removed
(Berliner) 80 |
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→ Under the Skin (Glazer)
79 |
B+ Must See
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*Computer Chess (Bujalski)
78 |
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→ Only Lovers Left Alive
(Jarmusch) 77 |
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*Upstream Color (Carruth) 75 |
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*All Is Lost (Chandor)
74 |
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| You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (Resnais) 73 |
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| Leviathan (Castaing-Taylor, Paravel) 73 |
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→ The Missing Picture (Panh)
73 |
B/B+ Warmly Recommended
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All the Light in the Sky
(Swanberg) 71 |
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The Wolf of Wall Street
(Scorsese) 71 |
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| I Killed My Mother (Dolan) {2009}
71 |
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Club Sandwich (Eimbcke) 70 |
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It's a Disaster (Berger) 70 |
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The Strange Little Cat
(Zürcher) 70 |
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Let the Fire Burn (Osder) 70 |
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B Recommended
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*Blue Is the Warmest Color
(Kechiche) 69 |
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*The Selfish Giant
(Barnard) 68 |
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Tim's Vermeer (Teller)
67 |
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The World's End (Wright)
67 |
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*Before Midnight (Linklater)
67 |
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→ Young & Beautiful (Ozon)
66 |
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*Paradise: Hope
(Seidl) 65 |
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Oz the Great and Powerful
(Raimi) 65 |
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The Unspeakable Act
(Sallitt) 65 |
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*Dead Man's Burden
(Moshé) 64 |
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Shield of Straw
(Miike) 64 |
| Jayne Mansfield's Car
(Thornton) 64 |
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→ We Are the Best!
(Moodysson)
64 |
B-/B Recommended with Mild Reservations
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Love Is the Perfect Crime
(Larrieus) 63 |
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→ When Evening Falls on Bucharest, or:
Metabolism (Porumboiu) 62 |
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12 Years a Slave (McQueen) 62 |
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Star Trek Into Darkness
(Abrams) 62 |
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*Go for Sisters (Sayles)
61 |
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Abuse of Weakness (Breillat)
61 |
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Enough Said (Holofcener)
61 |
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→ Venus in Fur (Polanski)
61 |
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Twenty Feet From Stardom
(Neville) 61 |
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B- Recommended with Strong Reservations
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Stories We Tell
(Polley)
60 |
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American Hustle
(Russell) 60 |
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*More Than Honey (Imhoof) 60 |
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Closed Curtain (Panahi, Partovi)
60 |
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Captain Phillips (Greengrass)
59 |
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| To the Wonder (Malick) 59 |
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| Beyond the Hills (Mungiu) 59 |
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The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears
(Cattet, Forzani) 58 |
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*The Great Beauty
(Sorrentino) 58 |
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*Welcome to the Punch (Creevy)
58 |
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→ Dom Hemingway
(Shepard) 58 |
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*Inside Llewyn Davis
(Coens) 57 |
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*Short Term 12
(Cretton) 57 |
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Blind Dates
(Koguashvili) 57 |
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Much Ado About Nothing
(Whedon) 57 |
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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
(Gondry) 57 |
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| The Angels' Share (Loach) 56 |
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October November
(Spielmann) 56 |
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→ The Immigrant (Gray) 56 |
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*I Give It a Year (Mazer)
56 |
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| Night Across the Street (Ruiz)
56 |
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*At Berkeley
(Wiseman) 55 |
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| Berberian Sound Studio
(Strickland) 55 |
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*A Band Called Death
(Howlett, Covino) 55 |
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Behind the Candelabra
(Soderbergh) 55 |
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The Place Beyond the Pines
(Cianfrance) 55 |
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C+/B- On the Fence, Leaning Forward
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Would You Rather (Levy)
54 |
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→ The Unknown Known
(Morris) 54 |
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*White Reindeer (Clark)
54 |
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*Hell Baby (Garant, Lennon)
54 |
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→ Michael Kohlhaas (Des
Pallières) 54 |
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*American Promise (Brewster,
Stephenson) 53 |
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*The Motel Life (Polskys) 53 |
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*Venus and Serena
(Baird, Major) 53 |
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*Supporting Characters
(Schechter) 53 |
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*How to Make Money Selling Drugs
(Cooke) 53 |
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| Laurence Anyways (Dolan) 53 |
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*A Case of You (Coiro) 52 |
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Mr. Nobody (Van
Dormael) {2009} 52 |
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→ Borgman (Van
Warmerdam) 52 |
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*Pacific Rim (Del Toro) 52 |
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*My Brother the Devil (El
Hosaini) 52 |
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| The We and the I (Gondry) 52 |
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*Seduced and Abandoned (Toback)
52 |
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C+ Take It or Leave It
| The Last Time I Saw Macao (Rodrigues,
Guerra da Mata) 51 |
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Kilimanjaro (Strafford) 51 |
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Machete Kills (Rodriguez) 51 |
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*Some Velvet Morning (LaBute)
51 |
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*Lee Daniels' The Butler
(Daniels) 51 |
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*Touchy Feely (Shelton)
51 |
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| Something in the Air (Assayas)
51 |
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Capital (Costa-Gavras)
51 |
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Beautiful Creatures
(LaGravenese) 50 |
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon
(Hong) 50 |
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→ Stranger by the Lake
(Guiraudie) 50 |
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*Great Expectations (Newell)
50 |
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→ The Last of the Unjust
(Lanzmann) 50 |
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*The Artist and the Model (Trueba)
50 |
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Best Man Down
(Koland) 49 |
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*Future Weather (Deller) 49 |
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→ Night Moves
(Reichardt) 49 |
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*The Grandmaster
(Wong) 49 |
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*Enzo Avitabile Music Life
(Demme) 49 |
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Dallas Buyers Club
(Vallée) 48 |
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Monsters University (Scanlon)
48 |
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| Post tenebras lux (Reygadas)
48 |
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*The Wind Rises
(Miyazaki) 48 |
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Story of My Death
(Serra) 48 |
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*Paradise: Faith (Seidl)
48 |
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The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer)
47 |
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Bettie Page Reveals All (Mori)
47 |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
(Lawrence) 47 |
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*Blackfish (Cowperthwaite)
47 |
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Runner Runner (Furman)
47 |
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*Some Girl(s) (Von Scherler
Mayer) 47 |
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| Paradise: Love (Seidl) 47 |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
(Jackson)46 |
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*All Is Bright (Morrison)46 |
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Spring Breakers (Korine)46 |
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C/C+ On the Fence, Leaning Backward
| The Student (Mitre)
{2011} 45 |
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*Escape From Tomorrow
(Moore) 45 |
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*Our Children (Lafosse) 45 |
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*Call Me Kuchu (Fairfax Wright,
Zouhali-Worrall) 45 |
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The Fifth Estate (Condon) 45 |
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*After Tiller
(Shane, Wilson) 45 |
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*Inch'Allah (Barbeau-Lavalette)
45 |
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| Caesar Must Die (Tavianis) 45 |
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| Ginger and Rosa (Potter) 44 |
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| Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami)
44 |
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*Sunlight Jr. (Collyer) 44 |
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*The Lifeguard (Garcia)
44 |
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| Outside Satan (Dumont) 44 |
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The Lords of Salem (Zombie)
44 |
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*The Invisible Woman
(Fiennes) 43 |
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*Side Effects (Soderbergh)
43 |
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*Scenic Route (Goetzes)
43 |
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*Last Love (Nettelbeck)
43 |
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Tom at the Farm
(Dolan) 43 |
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The Kings of Summer
(Vogt-Roberts)
43 |
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C Pass
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→ Like Father, Like Son
(Kore-eda) 42 |
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*All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
(Levine) 42 |
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| Old Cats (Silva, Peirano)
{2010} 42 |
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*The Condemned (Busó García) 42 |
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→ The Truth About Emanuel
(Gregorini) 41 |
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*The Look of Love (Winterbottom)
41 |
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| Fill the Void
(Burshtein) 41 |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(Stiller) 40 |
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Fruitvale Station (Coogler)
40 |
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*You Will Be My Son (Legrand)
40 |
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| The ABCs of Death ([Various])
40 |
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The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann)
39 |
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| The Taste of Money (Im) 39 |
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*Afternoon Delight (Soloway)
38 |
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*A Girl & a Gun (Czubek) 38 |
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*In the Name Of (Szumowska)
37 |
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Girl Most Likely (Berman,
Pulcini)
37 |
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C- Ugh
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*Twice Born
(Castellitto) 36 |
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→ Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains
Indian
(Desplechin) 35 |
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*Everybody Has a Plan
(Piterbarg) 35 |
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White House Down
(Emmerich) 34 |
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*Everyday
(Winterbottom) 33 |
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→ Norte, the End of History
(Diaz) 32 |
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*The Bling Ring
(Coppola) 32 |
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*And Now a Word From Our Sponsor
(Bernbaum) 31 |
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*The Hot Flashes
(Seidelman) 30 |
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*The Last Days on Mars
(Robinson) 29 |
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*The Secret Lives of Dorks
(Breziner) 28 |
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*Breaking the Girls
(Babbit) 28 |
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D+ Double-Ugh
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*The Patience Stone (Rahimi)
27 |
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*Stuck in Love.
(Boone) 26 |
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I'm So Excited!
(Almodóvar) 25 |
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*Breakup at a Wedding
(Quinaz) 25 |
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*Ass Backwards
(Nelson) 24 |
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A Castle in Italy
(Bruni Tedeschi) 24 |
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*Forgetting the Girl
(Taylor)
23 |
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Open Grave
(López-Gallego) 22 |
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At Any Price
(Bahrani) 22 |
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Tomorrow You're Gone (Jacobson) 20 |
D Bomb
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*Ghost Team One
(Rutherford, Peyser) 18 |
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*Only God Forgives
(Winding Refn) 17 |
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*Somebody Up There Likes Me
(Byington) 15 |
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*The Time Being
(Cicin-Sain) 13 |
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F Burn the Negative
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*Off Label
(Palmieri, Mosher) 7 |
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Walk-outs Channel Surfing
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*Ain't Them Bodies Saints
(Lowery) |
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Cristo Rey (Tonos Paniagua) |
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Crulic: The Path to Beyond
(Damian) |
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Cutie and the Boxer
(Heinzerling) |
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Grand Central (Zlotowski) |
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The Immoral (Krutzkoff
Jacobsen) |
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Kill Your Darlings
(Krokidas) |
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Mother of George
(Dosunmu) |
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→ Nothing Bad Can Happen
(Gebbe) |
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Sarah Prefers to Run
(Robichaud) |
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The Spectacular Now
(Ponsoldt) | |
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Stop the Pounding Heart
(Minervini) |
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A Story About Children and Film
(Cousins) |
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Sun Don't Shine (Seimetz) |
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Twilight Portrait (Nikonova) |
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We Gotta Get out of This Place
(Hawkinses) |
Incomplete Mishap/Bad Timing
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3X3D (Greenaway, Godard,
Pêra) |
