Year-End Lists

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

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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