The A.V. Club: 20 Best Films of 2013
[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Room 237 — Rodney Ascher
- No — Pablo Larraín
- Blue is the Warmest Color — Abdellatif Kechiche
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
- At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
- The Past — Asghar Farhadi
- The World’s End — Edgar Wright
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Beyond the Hills — Cristian Mungiu
- A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke
- The Counselor — Ridley Scott
- First Cousin Once Removed — Alan Berliner