Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2013 (as voted by 240 critics)

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]

1. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
2. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
3. Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
4. Her — Spike Jonze
5. Gravity — Alfonso Cuaron
6. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
7. Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
8. Blue is the Warmest Color — Abdellatif Kechiche
9. Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
10. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
11. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
12. Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
13. A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke
14. The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
15. American Hustle — David O. Russell
16. Short Term 12 — Destin Cretton
17. Nebraska — Alexander Payne
18. Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
19. All Is Lost — J.C. Chandor
20. Museum Hours — Jem Cohen
21. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
22. Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
23. To The Wonder — Terrence Malick
24. The World’s End — Edgar Wright
25. Beyond the Hills — Cristian Mungiu
26. Drug War — Johnnie To
27. Blue Jasmine — Woody Allen
28. Bastards — Claire Denis
29. The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
30. The Past — Asghar Farhadi
31. At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
32. Post Tenebras Lux — Carlos Reygadas
33. The Grandmaster — Wong Kar-Wai
34. Fruitvale Station — Ryan Coogler
35. No — Pablo Larraín
36. Mud — Jeff Nichols
37. The Hunt — Thomas Vinterberg
38. Viola — Matías Piñeiro
39. The Unspeakable Act — Dan Sallitt
40. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet — Alain Resnais
41. Captain Phillips — Paul Greengrass
42. The Spectacular Now — James Ponsoldt
43. Something in the Air — Olivier Assayas
44. Stoker — Park Chan-wook
45. Dallas Buyers Club — Jean-Marc Vallée
46. Wadjda — Haifaa al-Mansour
47. Enough Said — Nicole Holofcener
48. Laurence Anyways — Xavier Dolan
49. Only God Forgives — Nicolas Winding Refn
50. Side Effects — Steven Soderbergh