Year-End Lists

David Ehrlich’s video countdown of the 25 Best Films of 2013 (presented this year by Film.com).

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1. Before Midnight
   Richard Linklater
2. The Wind Rises
   Hayao Miyazaki
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
4. 12 Years a Slave
   Steve McQueen
5. The Grandmaster [Chinese cut]
   Wong Kar-Wai
6. Spring Breakers
   Harmony Korine
7. At Berkeley
   Frederick Wiseman
8. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
9. Leviathan
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
10. Post Tenebras Lux
    Carlos Reygadas
11. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
12. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
13. Laurence Anyways
    Xavier Dolan
14. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
15. Stoker
    Park Chan-wook
16. The Great Gatsby
    Baz Luhrmann
17. Beyond the Hills
    Cristian Mungiu
18. Nebraska
    Alexander Payne
19. Blue Jasmine
    Woody Allen
20. The Great Beauty
    Paolo Sorrentino
21. Pain & Gain
    Michael Bay
22. The Bling Ring
    Sofia Coppola
23. The Broken Circle Breakdown
    Felix van Groeningen
24. The World’s End
    Edgar Wright
25. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach

Amy Taubin: 10 Best Films of 2013, as published by Artforum

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1. Jean-Luc Godard – The Spirit of the Forms [retrospective]
2. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
3. Spring Breakers
   Harmony Korine
4. Computer Chess
   Andrew Bujalski
5. Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
   Jonas Mekas
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
   Jim Jarmusch
7. Top of the Lake
   Jane Campion and Garth Davis
8. The Grandmaster
   Wong Kar-Wai
9. Bastards
   Claire Denis
10. Le Joli Mai
    Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2013, as published by Artforum

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1. Norte, the End of History
   Lav Diaz
2. ‘Til Madness Do Us Part
   Wang Bing
3. Three Exercises of Interpretation
   Cristi Puiu
4. What Now? Remind Me
   Joaquim Pinto
5. The King's Body
   João Pedro Rodrigues
6. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
6. Manuscripts Don't Burn
   Mohammad Rasoulof
7. Ravel Ravel Unravel
   Anri Sala
8. The Last of the Unjust
   Claude Lanzmann
9. Stranger by the Lake
   Alain Guiraudie
10. Salvation Army
    Abdellah Taïa

Les Inrockuptibles: Top 50 Albums of 2013

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1. Reflektor
   Arcade Fire
2. Psycho Tropical Berlin
   La Femme
3. Random Access Memories
   Daft Punk
4. Push the Sky Away
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
5. Howlin’
   Jagwar Ma
6. Parcs
   Bertrand Belin
7. The Electric Lady
   Janelle Monáe
8. Racine carrée
   Stromae
9. Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvée
   Étienne Daho
10. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
11. Settle
    Disclosure
12. If You Wait
    London Grammar
13. Psychic
    Darkside
14. Overgrown
    James Blake
15. Yeezus
    Kanye West
16. 180
    Palma Violets
17. Aventine
    Agnes Obel
18. Images du Futur
    Suuns
19. Body Music
    AlunaGeorge
20. The Golden Age
    Woodkid
21. Bankrupt!
    Phoenix
22. Lanterns
    Son Lux
23. Antiphon
    Midlake
24. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    Foxygen
25. Drone Logic
    Daniel Avery
26. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
27. Archipel
    Peau
28. Aleph
    Gesaffelstein
29. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
30. Comedown Machine
    The Strokes
31. Nobody Knows.
    Willis Earl Beal
32. Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans
33. Glow
    Jackson and His Computerband
34. Sing to the Moon
    Laura Mvula
35. Holy Fire
    Foals
36. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
37. No Deal
    Mélanie De Biasio
38. More Light
    Primal Scream
39. Drenge
    Drenge
40. Dream River
    Bill Callahan
41. Matangi
    M.I.A.
42. Pushin’ Against a Stone
    Valerie June
43. The Child of Lov
    The Child of Lov
44. Seasons of Your Day
    Mazzy Star
45. Long.Live.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
46. Silence Yourself
    Savages
47. Super Forma
    Orval Carlos Sibelius
48. No Ceremony
    No Ceremony
49. Kiss Land
    The Weeknd
50. The Next Day
    David Bowie

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2013

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• Metaphysical Dog
  Frank Bidart
• Rise in the Fall
  Ana Bozicevic
• Transfer of Qualities
  Martha Ronk
• Incarnadine
  Mary Szybist
• The Book of Goodbyes
  Jillian Weise

Publishers Weekly: Top 10 Books of 2013

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• Sea of Hooks
  Lindsay Hill
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright
• Dirty Wars

  The World Is a Battlefield
  Jeremy Scahill
• Men We Reaped
  Jesmyn Ward
• The People in the Trees
  Hanya Yanagihara
• Lost Girls

  An Unsolved American Mystery
  Robert Kolker
• Miss Anne in Harlem

  The White Women of the Black Renaissance
  Carla Kaplan
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• The Silence and the Roar
  Nihad Sîris
• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride