First of all, I stole this format wholesale 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.Listed here are new (made within the past 10 years) movies that I saw or that were released in 2013. Combine the first two columns for the list of films released in 2013, and the last two columns for films seen in 2013. Ordering is preferential within grade groups, as indicated by ratings on the retarded 100-point scale (and also preferential when said ratings are identical).
| 2013 in Films | ||
|---|---|---|
| The first column contains movies I saw in 2012 or before that were released here in 2013. I've added the {year} in those cases where the screening actually took place prior to 2012. Films not yet released but currently scheduled for this year are indicated by a (°). | The middle column lists movies I saw shortly before, during or after their 2013 commercial run. Asterisks (*) indicate those seen prior to their actual release. TV-only "runs" arbitrarily deemed eligible get a (†). | The right column consists of movies I saw in 2013 which are still awaiting a possible local release. Those known to have lined up U.S. distribution are indicated by a (°). Production {year} is listed if film is more than 2 years old. |
| A: For All Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| A-: Event | ||
|---|---|---|
| Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Fedorchenko) 83 | ||
| °The Past (Farhadi) 82 | ||
| B+/A-: Near Great | ||
|---|---|---|
| The Minister (Schoeller) 81 | ||
| First Cousin Once Removed (Berliner) 80 | ||
| °Under the Skin (Glazer) 79 | ||
| B+: Must See | ||
|---|---|---|
| *Computer Chess (Bujalski) 78 | ||
| °Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch) 77 | ||
| Frances Ha (Baumbach) 76 | ||
| The Counselor (Scott) 75 | ||
| *Upstream Color (Carruth) 75 | ||
| *All Is Lost (Chandor) 74 | ||
| °The Past (Farhadi) 74 | ||
| °You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (Resnais) 73 | ||
| Leviathan (Castaing-Taylor, Paravel) 73 | ||
| °The Missing Picture (Panh) 73 | ||
| B/B+: Warmly Recommended | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hemel (Polak) 72 | ||
| Drug War (To) 72 | ||
| Phil Spector (Mamet) 72 | ||
| °Joe (Green) 72 | ||
| I Killed My Mother (Dolan) {2009} 71 | ||
| °Nebraska (Payne) 71 | ||
| Club Sandwich (Eimbcke) 70 | ||
| It's a Disaster (Berger) 70 | ||
| The Strange Little Cat (Zürcher) 70 | ||
| B: Recommended | ||
|---|---|---|
| *Blue Is the Warmest Color (Kechiche) 69 | ||
| Stray Dogs (Tsai) 69 | ||
| Moebius (Kim) 68 | ||
| NO (Larraín) 68 | ||
| °The Selfish Giant (Barnard) 68 | ||
| The World's End (Wright) 67 | ||
| *Before Midnight (Linklater) 67 | ||
| Reality (Garrone) 66 | ||
| °Young & Beautiful (Ozon) 66 | ||
| °Gloria (Lelio) 66 | ||
| Oz the Great and Powerful (Raimi) 65 | ||
| *Dead Man's Burden (Moshé) 64 | ||
| Shield of Straw (Miike) 64 | ||
| °Jayne Mansfield's Car (Thornton) 64 | ||
| We Are the Best! (Moodysson) 64 | ||
| B-/B: Recommended with Mild Reservations | ||
|---|---|---|
| *Broken (Norris) 63 | ||
| *Gravity (Cuarón) 63 | ||
| *Bastards (Denis) 63 | ||
| °Byzantium (Jordan) 63 | ||
| Love Is the Perfect Crime (Larrieus) 63 | ||
| When Evening Falls on Bucharest, or: Metabolism (Porumboiu) 62 | ||
| Mud (Nichols) 62 | ||
| World War Z (Forster) 62 | ||
| 12 Years a Slave (McQueen) 62 | ||
| Star Trek Into Darkness (Abrams) 62 | ||
| Go for Sisters (Sayles) 61 | ||
| Abuse of Weakness (Breillat) 61 | ||
| Enough Said (Holofcener) 61 | ||
| Venus in Fur (Polanski) 61 | ||
| B-: Recommended with Strong Reservations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Porfirio (Landes) 60 | ||
| Stories We Tell (Polley) 60 | ||
| The Last Stand (Kim) 60 | ||
| *More Than Honey (Imhoof) 60 | ||
| Closed Curtain (Panahi, Partovi) 60 | ||
| *A Touch of Sin (Jia) 59 | ||
| The Major (Bykov) 59 | ||
| Black Rock (Aselton) 59 | ||
| Captain Phillips (Greengrass) 59 | ||
| To the Wonder (Malick) 59 | ||
| Beyond the Hills (Mungiu) 59 | ||
| The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (Cattet, Forzani) 58 | ||
| The Great Beauty (Sorrentino) 58 | ||
| *Welcome to the Punch (Creevy) 58 | ||
| The Conjuring (Wan) 58 | ||
| °Dom Hemingway (Shepard) 58 | ||
| Blue Jasmine (Allen) 58 | ||
| Yossi (Fox) 57 | ||
| °Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens) 57 | ||
| °The F Word (Dowse) 57 | ||
| *Short Term 12 (Cretton) 57 | ||
| Blind Dates (Koguashvili) 57 | ||
| Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon) 57 | ||
| *Eddie (Rodriguez) 57 | ||
| The Angels' Share (Loach) 56 | ||
| October November (Spielmann) 56 | ||
| °The Immigrant (Gray) 56 | ||
| *The Square (Noujaim) 56 | ||
| *Still Mine (McGowan) 56 | ||
| *I Give It a Year (Mazer) 56 | ||
| 2 Guns (Kormákur) 56 | ||
| Night Across the Street (Ruiz) 56 | ||
| Wadjda (Al Mansour) 55 | ||
| °At Berkeley (Wiseman) 55 | ||
| °Berberian Sound Studio (Strickland) 55 | ||
| Amity (Adams) 55 | ||
| *A Band Called Death (Howlett, Covino) 55 | ||
| Our Sunhi (Hong) 55 | ||
| Behind the Candelabra (Soderbergh) 55 | ||
| The Place Beyond the Pines (Cianfrance) 55 | ||
| C+/B-: On the Fence, Leaning Forward | ||
|---|---|---|
| Would You Rather (Levy) 54 | ||
| *Concussion (Passon) 54 | ||
| °The Unknown Known (Morris) 54 | ||
| °The Hunt (Vinterberg) 54 | ||
| *Stoker (Park) 54 | ||
| *Hell Baby (Garant, Lennon) 54 | ||
| Michael Kohlhaas (Des Pallières) 54 | ||
| *American Promise (Brewster, Stephenson) 53 | ||
| *The Motel Life (Polskys) 53 | ||
| *Venus and Serena (Baird, Major) 53 | ||
| *Supporting Characters (Schechter) 53 | ||
| *How to Make Money Selling Drugs (Cooke) 53 | ||
| In the House (Ozon) 53 | ||
| Laurence Anyways (Dolan) 53 | ||
| *Parkland (Landesman) 53 | ||
| *A Case of You (Coiro) 52 | ||
| *Mr. Nobody (Van Dormael) 52 | ||
| Borgman (Van Warmerdam) 52 | ||
| *Pacific Rim (Del Toro) 52 | ||
| *My Brother the Devil (El Hosaini) 52 | ||
| The We and the I (Gondry) 52 | ||
| Seduced and Abandoned (Toback) 52 | ||
| C+: Take It or Leave It | ||
|---|---|---|
| °The Last Time I Saw Macao (Rodrigues, Guerra da Mata) 51 | ||
| Machete Kills (Rodriguez) 51 | ||
| *In a World... (Bell) 51 | ||
| *Lee Daniels' The Butler (Daniels) 51 | ||
| *Touchy Feely (Shelton) 51 | ||
| Something in the Air (Assayas) 51 | ||
| *Capital (Costa-Gavras) 51 | ||
| Beautiful Creatures (LaGravenese) 50 | ||
| Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong) 50 | ||
| *A Teacher (Fidell) 50 | ||
| °Stranger by the Lake (Guiraudie) 50 | ||
| *Great Expectations (Newell) 50 | ||
| °In the Fog (Loznitsa) 50 | ||
| °The Last of the Unjust (Lanzmann) 50 | ||
| *The Artist and the Model (Trueba) 50 | ||
| *Best Man Down (Koland) 49 | ||
| *Future Weather (Deller) 49 | ||
| Night Moves (Reichardt) 49 | ||
| Pieta (Kim) 49 | ||
| *The Grandmaster (Wong) 49 | ||
| *Thérèse (Miller) 49 | ||
| *Enzo Avitabile Music Life (Demme) 49 | ||
| Blind Detective (To) 49 | ||
| Monsters University (Scanlon) 48 | ||
| Post tenebras lux (Reygadas) 48 | ||
| °The Wind Rises (Miyazaki) 48 | ||
| Grigris (Haroun) 48 | ||
| Story of My Death (Serra) 48 | ||
| *Paradise: Faith (Seidl) 48 | ||
| Simon Killer (Campos) 47 | ||
| *Paradise (Cody) 47 | ||
| *Blackfish (Cowperthwaite) 47 | ||
| Runner Runner (Furman) 47 | ||
| *Some Girl(s) (Von Scherler Mayer) 47 | ||
| Paradise: Love (Seidl) 47 | ||
| *Devil's Pass (Harlin) 46 | ||
| Viola (Piñeiro) 46 | ||
| *All Is Bright (Morrison) 46 | ||
| The Wall (Pölsler) 46 | ||
| Spring Breakers (Korine) 46 | ||
| C/C+: On the Fence, Leaning Backward | ||
|---|---|---|
| Omar (Abu-Assad) 45 | ||
| *Escape From Tomorrow (Moore) 45 | ||
| *Our Children (Lafosse) 45 | ||
| *Call Me Kuchu (Fairfax Wright, Zouhali-Worrall) 45 | ||
| The Fifth Estate (Condon) 45 | ||
| *Inch'Allah (Barbeau-Lavalette) 45 | ||
| Caesar Must Die (Tavianis) 45 | ||
| Ginger and Rosa (Potter) 44 | ||
| Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami) 44 | ||
| *The Lifeguard (Garcia) 44 | ||
| Outside Satan (Dumont) 44 | ||
| Heli (Escalante) 44 | ||
| The Lords of Salem (Zombie) 44 | ||
| Real (Kurosawa) 44 | ||
| °The Invisible Woman (Fiennes) 43 | ||
| *Side Effects (Soderbergh) 43 | ||
| *Scenic Route (Goetzes) 43 | ||
| *Last Love (Nettelbeck) 43 | ||
| Tom at the Farm (Dolan) 43 | ||
| The Kings of Summer (Vogt-Roberts) 43 | ||
| *Renoir (Bourdos) 43 | ||
| C: Pass | ||
|---|---|---|
| °Like Father, Like Son (Kore-eda) 42 | ||
| *All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (Levine) 42 | ||
| Emperor (Webber) 42 | ||
| *The Condemned (Busó García) 42 | ||
| *Elysium (Blomkamp) 42 | ||
| *Admission (Weitz) 41 | ||
| *The Look of Love (Winterbottom) 41 | ||
| Fill the Void (Burshtein) 41 | ||
| *The Attack (Doueiri) 41 | ||
| °Mekong Hotel (Weerasethakul) 41 | ||
| Fruitvale Station (Coogler) 40 | ||
| *Mama (Muschietti) 40 | ||
| *You Will Be My Son (Legrand) 40 | ||
| The ABCs of Death ([Various]) 40 | ||
| Southcliffe (Durkin) 39 | ||
| The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann) 39 | ||
| The Taste of Money (Im) 39 | ||
| *Afternoon Delight (Soloway) 38 | ||
| °A Girl & a Gun (Czubek) 38 | ||
| °Passion (De Palma) 38 | ||
| *In the Name Of (Szumowska) 37 | ||
| *Jobs (Stern) 37 | ||
| *State 194 (Setton) 37 | ||
| C-: Ugh | ||
|---|---|---|
| *Adore (Fontaine) 36 | ||
| *33 Postcards (Chan) 36 | ||
| *Big Sur (Polish) 35 | ||
| Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Desplechin) 35 | ||
| *Everybody Has a Plan (Piterbarg) 35 | ||
| *CBGB (Miller) 34 | ||
| White House Down (Emmerich) 34 | ||
| Norte, the End of History (Diaz) 32 | ||
| *The Bling Ring (Coppola) 32 | ||
| *And Now a Word From Our Sponsor (Bernbaum) 31 | ||
| Salinger (Salerno) 30 | ||
| *The Hot Flashes (Seidelman) 30 | ||
| Child of God (Franco) 29 | ||
| *The Secret Lives of Dorks (Breziner) 28 | ||
| *Breaking the Girls (Babbit) 28 | ||
| D+: Double-Ugh | ||
|---|---|---|
| *The Patience Stone (Rahimi) 27 | ||
| The Sapphires (Blair) 27 | ||
| *Stuck in Love. (Boone) 26 | ||
| *Underdogs (Dearth) 26 | ||
| I'm So Excited! (Almodóvar) 25 | ||
| *Breakup at a Wedding (Quinaz) 25 | ||
| *Ass Backwards (Nelson) 24 | ||
| A Castle in Italy (Bruni Tedeschi) 24 | ||
| *Forgetting the Girl (Taylor) 23 | ||
| At Any Price (Bahrani) 22 | ||
| *Stranded (Christian) 21 | ||
| Tomorrow You're Gone (Jacobson) 20 | ||
| D: Bomb | ||
|---|---|---|
| *Ghost Team One (Rutherford, Peyser) 18 | ||
| *Only God Forgives (Winding Refn) 17 | ||
| *Somebody Up There Likes Me (Byington) 15 | ||
| *The Time Being (Cicin-Sain) 13 | ||
| F: Burn the negative | ||
|---|---|---|
| *Off Label (Palmieri, Mosher) 7 | ||
| °The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, Cynn, [Anonymous]) | ||
| *Ain't Them Bodies Saints (Lowery) | ||
| Antiviral (Cronenberg) | ||
| *As I Lay Dying (Franco) | ||
| Bends (Lau) | ||
| Blancanieves (Berger) | ||
| Cristo Rey (Tonos Paniagua) | ||
| Crulic: The Path to Beyond (Damian) | ||
| Gimme the Loot (Leon) | ||
| Graceland (Morales) | ||
| Grand Central (Zlotowski) | ||
| °A Hijacking (Lindholm) | ||
| The Immoral (Krutzkoff Jacobsen) | ||
| Norte, the End of History (Diaz) | ||
| *Prisoners (Villeneuve) | ||
| Rising (Gebbe) | ||
| Sarah Prefers to Run (Robichaud) | ||
| Soul (Chung) | ||
| Stop-Over (Bakhtiari) | ||
| Stop the Pounding Heart (Minervini) | ||
| A Story About Children and Film (Cousins) | ||
| Trap Street (Qu) | ||
| Twilight Portrait (Nikonova) | ||
| War Witch (Nguyen) | ||
| We Gotta Get out of This Place (Hawkinses) | ||
| *Wrong (Dupieux) | ||
| Zulu (Salle) | ||
| Incomplete: Bad Timing | ||
|---|---|---|
| 3X3D (Greenaway, Godard, Pêra) | ||