2013 Film Comment TOP 50

1. Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen (U.S./English) 9/10
2. 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen (U.S./English) 9/10
3. Before Midnight - Richard Linklater (U.S./English) 9/10
4. The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark Norway U.K./Indonesian) 8/10
5. A Touch of Sin - Jia Zhang-ke (China/Mandarin)
6. Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel (France U.K. U.S./English) 5/10
7. Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón (U.S./English) 9/10
8. Computer Chess - Andrew Bujalski (U.S./English)
9. Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach (U.S./English) 8/10
10. Upstream Color - Shane Carruth (U.S./English) 5/10
11. Museum Hours - Jem Cohen (U.S./English)
12. Blue Is the Warmest Color - Abdellatif Kechiche (France U.K. U.S./French) 9/10
13. Bastards - Claire Denis (France/French) 7/10
14. Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine (U.S./English) 5/10
15. Like Someone in Love - Abbas Kiarostami (Japan/Japanese) 8/10
16. Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley (Canada/English) 8/10
17. Her - Spike Jonze (U.S./English) 9/10
18. Nebraska - Alexander Payne (U.S./English) 9/10
19. American Hustle - David O. Russell (U.S./English) 9/10
20. The Grandmaster - Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong/Cantonese, Mandarin) 8/10
21. At Berkeley - Frederick Wiseman (U.S./English)
22. Beyond the Hills - Cristian Mungiu (Romania/Romanian) 8/10
23. No - Pablo Larraín (Chile/Chilean) 8/10
24. The Great Beauty - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy/Italian) 8/10
25. Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen (U.S./English) 8/10
26. All Is Lost - J.C. Chandor (U.S./English) 8/10
27. Post Tenebras Lux - Carlos Reygadas (Mexico/Spanish) 8/10
28. Something in the Air - Olivier Assayas (France/French)
29. Viola - Matías Piñeiro (Argentina/Spanish) 5/10
30. Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler (U.S./English) 8/10
31. To the Wonder - Terrence Malick (U.S./English) 5/10
32. Night Across the Street - Raúl Ruiz (Chile/Spanish)
33. Room 237 - Rodney Ascher (U.S./English) 7/10
34. Faust - Aleksandr Sokurov (Russia/German)
35. Let the Fire Burn - Jason Osder (U.S./English) 7/10
36. Le Pont du Nord - Jacques Rivette (France/French)
37. The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese (U.S./English) 9/10
38. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet - Alain Resnais (France/French)
39. The Last Time I Saw Macao - João Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal/Portuguese) 5/10
40. The Past - Asghar Farhadi (Iran/French) 9/10
41. The Square - Jehane Noujaim (Egypt/Arabic) 7/10
42. The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki (Japan/Japanese) 8/10
43. Drug War - Johnnie To (Hong Kong/Mandarin) 7/10
44. Cousin Jules - Dominique Benicheti (France/French)
45. Much Ado About Nothing - Joss Whedon (U.S./English) 5/10
46. Passion - Brian De Palma (France/English)
47. Short Term 12 - Destin Daniel Cretton (U.S./English) 8/10
48. Dallas Buyers Club - Jean-Marc Vallée (U.S./English) 8/10
49. Berberian Sound Studio - Peter Strickland (U.S./English)
50. Captain Phillips - Paul Greengrass (U.S./English) 9/10