Wesley Morris: Top 27 Movies of 2013, as published by Grantland
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Terrafirma — Emanuele Crialese
- Post Tenebras Lux — Carlos Reygadas
- A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke
- The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
- Gravity — Alfonso Cuaron
- This Is the End — Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
- Let the Fire Burn — Jason Osder
- All Is Lost — J.C. Chandor
- American Hustle — David O. Russell
- At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
- Bastards — Claire Denis
- Blancanieves — Pablo Berger
- Captain Phillips — Paul Greengrass
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- The Counselor — Ridley Scott
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler — Lee Daniels
- Monsters University — Dan Scanlon
- Museum Hours — Jem Cohen
- Nebraska — Alexander Payne
- Pacific Rim — Guillermo del Toro
- Reality — Matteo Garrone
- The Square — Jehane Noujaim
- The World’s End — Edgar Wright