Manohla Dargis: Top 39 Movies of 2013, as published by The New York Times
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- American Hustle — David O. Russell
- Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
- Behind the Candelabra — Steven Soderbergh
- Captain Phillips — Paul Greengrass
- The Counselor — Ridley Scott
- The Grandmaster — Wong Kar-Wai
- The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- MANAKAMANA — Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
- Redemption — Steven Knight
- Rush — Ron Howard
- Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
- The Square — Jehane Noujaim
- A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke
Top 16, Alphabetically
- All Is Lost — J.C. Chandor
- Bastards — Claire Denis
- Blue Caprice — Alexandre Moors
- Blue Jasmine — Woody Allen
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- Crystal Fairy — Sebastián Silva
- Enough Said — Nicole Holofcener
- Faust — Aleksandr Sokurov
- Gimme the Loot — Adam Leon
- In the Fog — Sergei Loznitsa
- The Invisible Woman — Ralph Fiennes
- Kill Your Darlings — John Krokidas
- Mother of George — Andrew Dosunmu
- Nebraska — Alexander Payne
- Our Children — Joachim Lafosse
- Post Tenebras Lux — Carlos Reygadas
- Reality — Matteo Garrone
- Room 237 — Rodney Ascher
- Something in the Air — Olivier Assayas
- Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
- This Is the End — Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
- This Is Martin Bonner — Chad Hartigan
- Viola — Matías Piñeiro