Year-End Lists

Film Comment: 50 Best Movies of 2013, a poll of "over 100 North American colleagues"

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1. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
2. 12 Years a Slave
   Steve McQueen
3. Before Midnight
   Richard Linklater
4. The Act of Killing
   Joshua Oppenheimer
5. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
6. Leviathan
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
7. Gravity
   Alfonso Cuaron
8. Computer Chess
   Andrew Bujalski
9. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
10. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
11. Museum Hours
    Jem Cohen
12. Blue is the Warmest Color
    Abdellatif Kechiche
13. Bastards
    Claire Denis
14. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
15. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
16. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
17. Her
    Spike Jonze
18. Nebraska
    Alexander Payne
19. American Hustle
    David O. Russell
20. The Grandmaster
    Wong Kar-Wai
21. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
22. Beyond the Hills
    Cristian Mungiu
23. No
    Pablo Larraín
24. The Great Beauty
    Paolo Sorrentino
25. Blue Jasmine
    Woody Allen
26. All Is Lost
    J.C. Chandor
27. Post Tenebras Lux
    Carlos Reygadas
28. Something in the Air
    Olivier Assayas
29. Viola
    Matías Piñeiro
30. Fruitvale Station
    Ryan Coogler
31. To The Wonder
    Terrence Malick
32. Night Across the Street
    Raoul Ruiz
33. Room 237
    Rodney Ascher
34. Faust
    Aleksandr Sokurov
35. Let the Fire Burn
    Jason Osder
36. Le Pont du Nord
    Jacques Rivette
37. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
38. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
    Alain Resnais
39. The Last Time I Saw Macao
    João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
40. The Past
    Asghar Farhadi
41. The Square
    Jehane Noujaim
42. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
43. Drug War
    Johnnie To
44. Cousin Jules
    Dominique Benicheti
45. Much Ado About Nothing
    Joss Whedon
46. Passion
    Brian De Palma
47. Short Term 12
    Destin Cretton
48. Dallas Buyers Club
    Jean-Marc Vallée
49. Berberian Sound Studio
    Peter Strickland
50. Captain Phillips
    Paul Greengrass