Film Comment: 50 Best Movies of 2013, a poll of "over 100 North American colleagues"
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke
- Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
- Gravity — Alfonso Cuaron
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
- Museum Hours — Jem Cohen
- Blue is the Warmest Color — Abdellatif Kechiche
- Bastards — Claire Denis
- Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
- Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
- Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Nebraska — Alexander Payne
- American Hustle — David O. Russell
- The Grandmaster — Wong Kar-Wai
- At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
- Beyond the Hills — Cristian Mungiu
- No — Pablo Larraín
- The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
- Blue Jasmine — Woody Allen
- All Is Lost — J.C. Chandor
- Post Tenebras Lux — Carlos Reygadas
- Something in the Air — Olivier Assayas
- Viola — Matías Piñeiro
- Fruitvale Station — Ryan Coogler
- To The Wonder — Terrence Malick
- Night Across the Street — Raoul Ruiz
- Room 237 — Rodney Ascher
- Faust — Aleksandr Sokurov
- Let the Fire Burn — Jason Osder
- Le Pont du Nord — Jacques Rivette
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
- You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet — Alain Resnais
- The Last Time I Saw Macao — João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
- The Past — Asghar Farhadi
- The Square — Jehane Noujaim
- The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
- Drug War — Johnnie To
- Cousin Jules — Dominique Benicheti
- Much Ado About Nothing — Joss Whedon
- Passion — Brian De Palma
- Short Term 12 — Destin Cretton
- Dallas Buyers Club — Jean-Marc Vallée
- Berberian Sound Studio — Peter Strickland
- Captain Phillips — Paul Greengrass