Film Comment's 2013 Critics Poll - the Top 50 films of the year!

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Film Comment's 14th annual poll. A note on the poll’s workings: over 100 North American colleagues ranked their favorites. For each ballot, a first-place choice was allotted 20 points, 19 for second, and so on.
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/50-best-films-of-2013

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

What do you make of this list?

And how many have you seen?

 

[childeroland]

Most of these on the top 40 (missed 40-45 on the poll). Also saw Much Ado, Drug War, Passion, Berberian and Captain Philips. Really, really good year for movies.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

1. Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen (U.S./English)
2. 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen (U.S./English)
3. Before Midnight - Richard Linklater (U.S./English)
7. Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón (U.S./English)
17. Her - Spike Jonze (U.S./English)
18. Nebraska - Alexander Payne (U.S./English)
19. American Hustle - David O. Russell (U.S./English)
20. The Grandmaster - Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong/Cantonese, Mandarin)
30. Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler (U.S./English)
37. The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese (U.S./English
48. Dallas Buyers Club - Jean-Marc Vallée (U.S./English)
50. Captain Phillips - Paul Greengrass (U.S./English)

I haven't seen any of the movies but here's the ones I plan on watching.

 

[slumcat]

Most of these on the top 40 (missed 40-45 on the poll). Also saw Much Ado, Drug War, Passion, Berberian and Captain Philips. Really, really good year for movies.

I actually think it is an okay year. The most shocking thing about the poll is certainly the paucity of foreign language titles. They usually make up more than half of this list.

 

[Steyin]

Zilch for me.

 

[slumcat]

Not even Gravity? Hasn't basically everyone in existence seen Gravity?

 

[TheNextNolan22]

The Wolf of Wall Street is now my favorite film of 2013 so I'm obliged to pick that one.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

...room 237? Really?

 

[bullets]

Hopefully there's another film called Spring Breakers that doesn't star James Franco .