IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2013 (as voted by 240 critics)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Gravity — Alfonso Cuaron
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
- Blue is the Warmest Color — Abdellatif Kechiche
- Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
- Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
- A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke
- The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
- American Hustle — David O. Russell
- Short Term 12 — Destin Cretton
- Nebraska — Alexander Payne
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- All Is Lost — J.C. Chandor
- Museum Hours — Jem Cohen
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
- Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
- To The Wonder — Terrence Malick
- The World’s End — Edgar Wright
- Beyond the Hills — Cristian Mungiu
- Drug War — Johnnie To
- Blue Jasmine — Woody Allen
- Bastards — Claire Denis
- The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
- The Past — Asghar Farhadi
- At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
- Post Tenebras Lux — Carlos Reygadas
- The Grandmaster — Wong Kar-Wai
- Fruitvale Station — Ryan Coogler
- No — Pablo Larraín
- Mud — Jeff Nichols
- The Hunt — Thomas Vinterberg
- Viola — Matías Piñeiro
- The Unspeakable Act — Dan Sallitt
- You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet — Alain Resnais
- Captain Phillips — Paul Greengrass
- The Spectacular Now — James Ponsoldt
- Something in the Air — Olivier Assayas
- Stoker — Park Chan-wook
- Dallas Buyers Club — Jean-Marc Vallée
- Wadjda — Haifaa al-Mansour
- Enough Said — Nicole Holofcener
- Laurence Anyways — Xavier Dolan
- Only God Forgives — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Side Effects — Steven Soderbergh