Year-End Lists

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2013 Movies

The Dissolve: 20 Best Films of 2013

31 December 2013

Her - Spike Jonze

The Dissolve: 20 Best Films of 2013

[see also 2014]

  1. Her
    Spike Jonze
  2. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
  3. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  4. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
  5. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
  6. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  7. Short Term 12
    Destin Cretton
  8. All Is Lost
    J.C. Chandor
  9. Gravity
    Alfonso Cuaron
  10. Computer Chess
    Andrew Bujalski
  11. The World’s End
    Edgar Wright
  12. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
  13. Nebraska
    Alexander Payne
  14. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
  15. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
  16. Captain Phillips
    Paul Greengrass
  17. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
  18. Blue is the Warmest Color
    Abdellatif Kechiche
  19. The Past
    Asghar Farhadi
  20. In the House
    François Ozon

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