Brian Darr: Top 16 Films of 2013 (limited to commercially-released new films)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014]
- Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
- The Place Beyond The Pines — Derek Cianfrance
- Drug War — Johnnie To
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- The Lone Ranger — Gore Verbinski
- All Is Lost — J.C. Chandor
- Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- Metallica Through the Never — Nimród Antal
- Our Nixon — Penny Lane
- Passion — Brian De Palma
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese