My reviews never include detailed plot summaries, but they nonetheless often assume you’ve seen the film. There might be spoilers.
Although I grade the films with a Bell Curve in mind I make no attempt to produce one. Here the films are listed by grade, and then viewing sequence.
2013 FILMS
- Ginger and Rosa
- Stories We Tell
- 12 Years a Slave
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Fruitvale Station
- Short Term 12
- The Square
- The Conjuring
- The Spectacular Now
- Upstream Color
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Sunlight Jr.
- Philomena
- American Hustle
- 20 Feet From Stardom
- In A World . . .
- We Are What We Are
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
- Big Bad Wolves
- Warm Bodies
- World War Z
- The Heat
- Family Weekend
- The World’s End
- Instructions Not Included
- It’s a Disaster
- Blue Caprice
- Gravity
- Enough Said
- Captain Phillips
- Europa Report
- All Is Lost
- What Maisie Knew
- The Attack
- The Book Thief
- Nebraska
- Gimme the Loot
- Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
- August: Osage County
- The Broken Circle Breakdown
- Omar
- The Wind Rises
- 42
- Admission
- This Is the End
- Blue Jasmine
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- Unfinished Song
- Room 237
- We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
- Blue Is The Warmest Color
- Frances Ha
- Mr. Nobody
- Byzantium
- Drinking Buddies
- 1976: Hunt vs Lauda
- Austenland
- Hotell
- The Animal Project
- Side Effects
- The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
- Monster’s University
- Despicable Me 2
- The Way, Way Back
- Prisoners
- To the Wonder
- Disconnect
- Rush
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Last Vegas
- The Croods
- Thor: The Dark World
- Is The Man Who is Tall Happy?
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- The Great Beauty
- Jack the Giant Slayer
- Quartet
- The Call
- The Numbers Station
- Star Trek: Into Darkness
- Pacific Rim
- The Grandmaster
- Thanks for Sharing
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls 2
- Don Jon
- Frozen Ground
- The Fifth Estate
- The East
- Ender’s Game
- How I Live Now
- Cutie and The Boxer
- Prince Avalanche
- C.O.G.
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Lone Survivor
- A Case of You
- Man of Tai Chi
- Best Man Down
- Iron Man 3
- We’re the Millers
- The Iceman
- The Kings of Summer
- The Lifeguard
- Mama
- Escape From Planet Earth
- Stoker
- Out of the Furnace
- Museum Hours
- Grudge Match
- Dirty Wars
- Olympus has Fallen
- Now You See Me
- White House Down
- The Wolverine
- Kick Ass 2
- Closed Circuit
- The Family
- Machete Kills
- Escape From Tomorrow
- Pain & Gain
- Therese
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Evil Dead
- Paulette
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- The Great Gatsby
- Man of Steel
- Elysium
- The Host
- Parkland
- Killing Season
- Lovelace
- I Used To Be Darker