Your Top 10 of 2013

[Izzy Black]

1. Bastards (Claire Denis)
2. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
3. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
4. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
5. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
6. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
7. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
8. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
9. Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz)
10. Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) *

November update

[TGM]

1. Iron Man 3
2. Frozen
3. Prisoners
4. Gravity
5. The Counselor
6. The Frozen Ground
7. White House Down
8. Thor: The Dark World
9. Stoker
10. Mud

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11. The World's End
12. Captain Phillips
13. Pain & Gain
14. Carrie
15. Blue is the Warmest Color
16. Warm Bodies
17. Dallas Buyers Club
18. 12 Years A Slave
19. Out of the Furnace
20. All is Lost

21. This is the End
22. The Place Beyond the Pines
23. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
24. The Internship
25. Pacific Rim
26. Riddick
27. Side Effects
28. Jack the Giant Slayer
29. Oldboy
30. Escape Plan

31. Homefront
32. 2 Guns
33. In A World...
34. The Bling Ring
35. Don Jon
36. Delivery Man
37. Ender's Game
38. Rush
39. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
40. Kick-Ass 2

41. Man of Steel
42. Oblivion
43. After Earth
44. Fruitvale Station
45. Sharknado
46. The Way, Way Back
47. The Wolverine
48. Red 2
49. World War Z
50. The Great Gatsby

51. Star Trek Into Darkness
52. Dead Man Down
53. The Conjuring
54. Lee Daniels' The Butler
55. Jobs
56. Elysium
57. Only God Forgives
58. Much Ado About Nothing
59. Runner Runner
60. Olympus Has Fallen

61. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
62. Fast & Furious 6
63. Now You See Me
64. Trance
65. Broken City
66. Gangster Squad
67. Spring Breakers
68. Upstream Color
69. Movie 43
70. A Good Day to Die Hard

71. Oz the Great and Powerful
72. The Hangover: Part III
73. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
74. The Purge
75. To the Wonder
76. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

]

[Bandy Greensacks]

1. A Field in England
2. Before Midnight

3. Gravity
4. Bastards
5. Magic Magic

6. Drinking Buddies
7. White Reindeer
8. Europa Report
9. Petal Dance
10. Man of Tai Chi

[Dead & Messed Up]

Goddamnit, I want to see A Field in England.

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
2. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
3. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
4. Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
5. Monsters University[/b] (Dan Scanlon, 2013)
6. 12 Years a Slave (Steven McQueen, 2013)
7. The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013)
8. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
9. V/H/S 2 (Gareth Evans et al, 2013)
10. Stoker (Park Chan-Wook, 2013)

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• Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
• Frozen (Buck & Lee, 2013)
• Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero, 2013)
• Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, 2013)
• This Is the End (Rogen & Goldberg, 2013)
• American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013)
• The Wolverine (James Mangold, 2013)
• World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
• Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez, 2013)
• John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli, 2013)
• Insidious, Chapter Two (James Wan, 2013)
• Teach (TV) (Davis Guggenheim, 2013)
• Slightly Single in LA (Christie Will, 2013)
• Christmas Bounty (TV) (???, 2013)
• Loss of Life (Damiata & Rossi, 2013)

]

[Rowland]

I still have many that I need to see, but I've been a little burnt out on movie watching this month. Nevertheless, I like all of these a lot:

1. Computer Chess
2. Frances Ha
3. Blue Jasmine
4. Passion
5. Like Someone in Love
6. Stories We Tell
7. Drug War
8. The World's End
9. Room 237
10. Byzantium

HM: Stoker, The Bling Ring, From Up on Poppy Hill, To the Wonder, Evil Dead, A Hijacking, Only God Forgives, The Lords of Salem, Pain & Gain, Lee Daniels' The Butler

Underrated/Overlooked: Europa Report, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Drinking Buddies, Curse of Chucky

Solid but Overrated: This is Martin Bonner, American Hustle, No, Spring Breakers, 12 Years a Slave

[Watashi]

1. Before Midnight
2. Leviathan
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. Blue Jasmine
5. The World's End
6. Spring Breakers
7. Frances Ha
8. Upstream Color
9. Captain Phillips
10. This is the End

This list will look completely different by next week.

Is this the best December for movies in years?

[elixir]

year-end post (cuz always open to change duh)

pure (2013 international premieres)
1. STRAY DOGS tsai ming-liang
2. STRANGER BY THE LAKE alain guiraudie
3. NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY lav diaz
4. SPRING nathaniel dorsky
5. COMPUTER CHESS andrew bujalski
6. MANAKAMANA stephanie spray & pancho velez
7. A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS ben russell & ben rivers
8. AT BERKELEY frederick wiseman
9. BASTARDS claire denis
10. BLIND DETECTIVE johnnie to

practical (recent films i didn’t see until 2013)
1. TRAVELING LIGHT gina telaroli
2. VIOLA matÃ*as piñeiro
3. FRANCHES HA noah baumbach
4. THE GREAT CINEMA PARTY raya martin
5. TO THE WONDER terrence malick
6. THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT dan sallitt
7. VERS MADRID - THE BURNING BRIGHT sylvain george
8. APRÈS MAI olivier assayas
9. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE abbas kiarostami
10. SEEKING THE MONKEY KING ken jacobs

[Boner M]

we get it, you're cool, WE GET IT

[ledfloyd]

As of today (so many potetially great releases I've yet to see):

1. To the Wonder
2. Before Midnight
3. Blue is the Warmest Color
4. Like Someone in Love
5. Frances Ha
6. The World's End
7. Something in the Air
8. Spring Breakers
9. Upstream Color
10. Leviathan

Near Misses: Computer Chess, The Act of Killing, Blue Jasmine, Drug War, NO, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Bastards, Beyond the Hills, The Lone Ranger, Gravity, The Grandmaster

[elixir]

we get it, you're cool, WE GET IT

love u too man

[Mal]

1. Blue Jasmine
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Behind the Candelabra
4. The Bling Ring
5. Upstream Color
6. The Place Beyond the Pines
7. Side Effects
8. Prince Avalanche
9. Prisoners
10. Frozen

[dreamdead]

Latest Update:

1. Upstream Color - 8.5
2. Before Midnight - 8.5
3. Sun Don't Shine - 8
4. Computer Chess - 8
5. 12 Years a Slave - 8
6. To the Wonder - 7.5
7. Stories We Tell - 7.5
8. Inside Llewyn Davis - 7.5
9. Frances Ha - 7.5
10. Museum Hours - 7.5

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Enough Said - 7.5
The Grandmasters - 7.5
The Wolf of Wall Street - 7
Gravity - 7
Blackfish - 7
Blue Jasmine - 7
Byzantium - 6.5
Drug War - 6
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 6
Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon) - 6
Spring Breakers - 6
Stoker - 6
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 5.5
The World's End - 5.5
Only God Forgives - 5.5
The Great Gatsby - 5.5
Passion - 5.5
Prince Avalanche - 5.5
The Counselor - 5
Pacific Rim - 5
Iron Man 3 - 5
Man of Steel - 4.5
Admission - 4

]

[baby doll]

Masterpieces
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)

Must Sees
The Angels' Share (Ken Loach)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
J'ai tué ma mère (Xavier Dolan)
Mud (Jeff Nichols)
No (Pablo LarraÃ*n)
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
What Maisie Knew (Scott McGehee / David Siegel)

Worth Seeing
The Canyons (Paul Schrader)
The Croods (Kirk Di Micco / Chris Sanders)
Drug War (Johnnie To)
From Up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki)
Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)
Inch'Allah (Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette)
Passion (Brian De Palma)
Reality (Matteo Garrone)
Rebelle (Kim Nguyen)
Les Salauds (Claire Denis)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams)

Has Redeeming Facet
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
La grande bellezza (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)
Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
Trance (Danny Boyle)

Worthless
Finding Mr. Right (Xue Xiaolu)

Here's where it stands at the end of December.

[Stay Puft]

1. Upstream Color
2. To the Wonder
3. No
4. The Selfish Giant
5. Bastards
6. The World's End
7. Drug War
8. Leviathan
9. A Touch of Sin

I'm almost at ten.

[TGM]

My Top 10 Movies of 2013

1. Iron Man 3
2. Frozen
3. Prisoners
4. The Counselor
5. Pain & Gain
6. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
7. The Frozen Ground
8. The Wolf of Wall Street
9. Stoker
10. Gravity

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11. White House Down
12. American Hustle
13. Mud
14. The World's End
15. Captain Phillips
16. Blue is the Warmest Color
17. Thor: The Dark World
18. Carrie
19. Warm Bodies
20. Saving Mr. Banks


21. Dallas Buyers Club
22. 12 Years A Slave
23. Out of the Furnace
24. All is Lost
25. This is the End
26. The Place Beyond the Pines
27. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
28. The Internship
29. Pacific Rim
30. Riddick

31. Side Effects
32. Jack the Giant Slayer
33. Hours
34. The Croods
35. Oldboy
36. Escape Plan
37. Homefront
38. 2 Guns
39. In A World...
40. The Bling Ring

41. Don Jon
42. Delivery Man
43. Ender's Game
44. Rush
45. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
46. Kick-Ass 2
47. Man of Steel
48. Oblivion
49. After Earth
50. Fruitvale Station

51. Sharknado
52. The Way, Way Back
53. The Wolverine
54. Red 2
55. World War Z
56. The Great Gatsby
57. Star Trek Into Darkness
58. Dead Man Down
59. The Conjuring
60. Lee Daniels' The Butler

61. Jobs
62. Elysium
63. Only God Forgives
64. Much Ado About Nothing
65. Runner Runner
66. Olympus Has Fallen
67. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
68. Fast & Furious 6
69. Kill Your Darlings
70. Now You See Me

71. Trance
72. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
73. Broken City
74. Gangster Squad
75. Spring Breakers
76. Upstream Color
77. Movie 43
78. A Good Day to Die Hard
79. Oz the Great and Powerful
80. The Hangover: Part III

81. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
82. Escape From Tomorrow
83. The Purge
84. To the Wonder
85. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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[Melville]

I still need to see most of the year's acclaimed movies. Everything I've seen so far:

1. The Act of Killing - 9
2. Blue Jasmine - 8.5
3. The Place Beyond the Pines - 8
4. Spring Breakers - 7.5
5. American Hustle - 7
6. Fast & Furious 6 - 7
7. Frances Ha - 7
8. Captain Phillips - 7
9. This is the End - 6
10. To the Wonder - 6
11. Upstream Color - 6
12. Stories We Tell - 5.5
13. Gravity - 5.5
14. Only God Forgives - 5
15. Computer Chess - 4
16. The Wolverine - 3.5
17. The World's End - 3.5
18. Side Effects - 2.5

[Qrazy]

I still need to see most of the year's acclaimed movies. Everything I've seen so far:

1. The Act of Killing - 9
2. Blue Jasmine - 8.5
3. The Place Beyond the Pines - 8
4. Spring Breakers - 7.5
5. American Hustle - 7
6. Fast & Furious 6 - 7
7. Frances Ha - 7
8. Captain Phillips - 7
9. This is the End - 6
10. To the Wonder - 6
11. Upstream Color - 6
12. Stories We Tell - 5.5
13. Gravity - 5.5
14. Only God Forgives - 5
15. Computer Chess - 4
16. The Wolverine - 3.5
17. The World's End - 3.5
18. Side Effects - 2.5

Kudos on the Computer Chess score.

[Izzy Black]

lol

[Derek]

Kudos on the Computer Chess score.

To be fair, you'd give a 4 or lower to his entire top 10, aside from maybe Act of Killing and To the Wonder.

[Qrazy]

To be fair, you'd give a 4 or lower to his entire top 10, aside from maybe Act of Killing and To the Wonder.

Act of Killing was definitely great, haven't seen To the Wonder. Place beyond the Pines I quite enjoyed but yeah I'd probably give it a 7 or something. This is the End was fine but yeah maybe a 5. Spring Breakers also maybe a 5. I haven't seen the rest. I can't imagine enjoying Fast and Furious 6 much. I'm hoping to like Blue Jasmine.

[dreamdead]

Is there a current top ten from you yet, Qrazy?

[Qrazy]

Is there a current top ten from you yet, Qrazy?

No, I don't really watch enough new movies to put one together.

[Derek]

Act of Killing was definitely great, haven't seen To the Wonder. Place beyond the Pines I quite enjoyed but yeah I'd probably give it a 7 or something. This is the End was fine but yeah maybe a 5. Spring Breakers also maybe a 5. I haven't seen the rest. I can't imagine enjoying Fast and Furious 6 much. I'm hoping to like Blue Jasmine.

Are you much an Allen fan? It's certainly one of his best since the 90s, not that there's much competition.

[Raiders]

This is the first year in probably four or five years where I have actually seen a good amount of the films I wanted to and where my top ten requires very few caveats. Still a few to be seen but I have pretty good plans to see them over the next month or so.

I need to nominate one of you to PM bomb me every day after February 1st that I do not post my year-in-review thread like I had planned to last year and never did. I even have write-ups planned for some of the films. I feel so accomplished.

And no, this post had no real point.

[Qrazy]

Are you much an Allen fan? It's certainly one of his best since the 90s, not that there's much competition.

I like the majority of his early and mid period work. I dislike most of his contemporary work. I hated Match Point, thought Midnight in Paris was passable.