Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Top 39 Movies of 2013, as published by The New York Times

Top 16, Alphabetically

• 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

Honor Roll, 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