By Letter Grade (2013)

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

A-Plus

1. Wadjda
2. The Act of Killing

A

1. Ginger and Rosa
2. Stories We Tell
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Fruitvale Station
6. Short Term 12
7. The Square

 A-Minus

1. Mud
2. Blackfish
3. Dallas Buyer’s Club
4. Frozen
5. The Hunt
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. her
8. Mystery Road

B-Plus

1. The Conjuring
2. The Spectacular Now
3. Upstream Color
4. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
5. Sunlight Jr.
6. Philomena
7. American Hustle
8. 20 Feet From Stardom
9. In A World . . . 
10. We Are What We Are
11. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
12. Big Bad Wolves

B

1. Warm Bodies
2. World War Z
3. The Heat
4. Family Weekend
5. The World’s End
6. Instructions Not Included
7. It’s a Disaster
8. Blue Caprice
9. Gravity
10. Enough Said
11. Captain Phillips
12. Europa Report
13. All Is Lost
14. What Maisie Knew
15. The Attack
16. The Book Thief
17. Nebraska
18. Gimme the Loot
19. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
20. August: Osage County
21. The Broken Circle Breakdown
22. Omar
23. The Wind Rises

B-Minus

1. 42
2. Admission
3. This Is the End
4. Blue Jasmine
5. Lee Daniels’ The Butler
6. The Place Beyond the Pines
7. Unfinished Song
8. Room 237
9. We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
10. Blue Is The Warmest Color
11. Frances Ha
12. Mr. Nobody
13. Byzantium
14. Drinking Buddies
15. 1976: Hunt vs Lauda
16. Austenland
17. Hotell
18. The Animal Project

C-Plus

1. Side Effects
2. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
3. Monster’s University
4. Despicable Me 2
5. The Way, Way Back
6. Prisoners
7. To the Wonder
8. Disconnect
9. Rush
10. Much Ado About Nothing
11. Last Vegas
12. The Croods
13. Thor: The Dark World
14. Is The Man Who is Tall Happy?
15. Saving Mr. Banks
16. Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom
17. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
18. The Great Beauty

C

1. Jack the Giant Slayer
2. Quartet
3. The Call
4. The Numbers Station
5. Star Trek: Into Darkness
6. Pacific Rim
7. The Grandmaster
8. Thanks for Sharing
9. Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls 2
10. Don Jon
11. Frozen Ground
12. The Fifth Estate
13. The East
14. Ender’s Game
15. How I Live Now
16. Cutie and The Boxer
17. Prince Avalanche
18. C.O.G.
19. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
20. Lone Survivor
21. A Case of You
22. Man of Tai Chi
23. Best Man Down

C-Minus

1. Iron Man 3
2. We’re the Millers
3. The Iceman
4. The Kings of Summer
5. The Lifeguard
6. Mama
7. Escape From Planet Earth
8. Stoker
9. Out of the Furnace
10. Museum Hours
11. Grudge Match
12. Dirty Wars

D-Plus

1. Olympus has Fallen
2. Now You See Me
3. White House Down
4. The Wolverine
5. Kick Ass 2
6. Closed Circuit
7. The Family
8. Machete Kills
9. Escape From Tomorrow
10. Pain & Gain
11. Therese
12. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
13. Evil Dead
14. Paulette

D

1. Oz the Great and Powerful
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Man of Steel
4. Elysium
5. The Host
6. Parkland
7. Killing Season
8. Lovelace
9. I Used To Be Darker

D-Minus

1. Before Midnight
2. You’re Next
3. Oblivion
4. 2 Guns
5. Insidious: Chapter 2
6. Epic
7. Only God Forgives
8. Dead Man Down
9. Charlie Countryman
10. About Time
11. 47 Ronin
12. Snitch
13. The Purge

F-Plus

1. Girl Most Likely
2. R.I.P.D.
3. Safe Haven
4. Runner, Runner
5. After Earth
6. Planes
7. Behind the Candelabra

F

1. Spring Breakers
2. Parker
3. The Counselor
4. Trance

F-Minus

1. Identity Thief
2. The Bling Ring
3. A Dark Truth
4. Getaway
5. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
6. The Big Wedding
7. Carrie
8. Movie 43