The State Of The Year: 2013

2013 was the first year I really began to take these lists seriously, and honestly it wasn’t that hard, considering how great a year it was. Every film seemed to push to make its way into my Top Ten, with my #1 changing three times over the course of a month, going into the home stretch with Frozen, a first for this so-so Disney fan, before being unseated by The Wolf of Wall Street. I left that film thinking, “If Wolf is going to be unseated, that film is going to have to be my favorite of all time.” That’s when I saw Her. And saw Her. And saw Her. I think I watched that film about eight times in the course of those first few weeks. It is the perfect testament to not only the 21^st century, but love itself. I also took my first foray into the field of documentaries. A couple of them were good, some were average, and Cutie and the Boxer was bad. But otherwise it was an enjoyable year (even if it gave us The Lone Ranger). If I had any regrets, I probably would move Lone Survivor up a spot or two, Star Trek Into Darkness down a couple, and American Hustle probably would be replaced by All Is Lost, Inside Llewyn Davis or Short Term 12. However, I would recommend many of the films from 2013 at any given time, and I hope you check some of them out in the near future.

1. Her
2. The Wolf Of Wall Street
3. Frozen
4. The Way Way Back
5. Before Midnight
6. Twelve Years A Slave
7. American Hustle
8. Fruitvale Station *
9. Saving Mr. Banks *
10. This Is The End
11. Prisoners
12. Inside Llewyn Davis
13. All Is Lost
14. Short Term 12
15. Nebraska
16. Spring Breakers
17. Dallas Buyers Club
18. Philomena
19. Gravity
20. The Heat
21. Lee Daniels’ The Butler
22. The Croods
23. Captain Phillips
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Side Effects
26. The Conjuring
27. Blue Jasmine
28. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
29. The Hunt
30. Blue Is The Warmest Color
31. August: Osage County
32. The Spectacular Now
33. Star Trek Into Darkness
34. Oblivion
35. Man of Steel
36. Evil Dead
37. The Place Beyond The Pines
38. The Kings of Summer
39. We’re The Millers
40. Lovelace
41. Monsters University
42. Lone Survivor
43. Despicable Me 2
44. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
45. The Bling Ring
46. The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
47. Elysium
48. The Lone Ranger
49. Identity Thief
50. Movie 43

DOCUMENTARIES

1. The Act Of Killing
2. 20 Feet From Stardom
3. The Square
4. Dirty Wars
5. Cutie And The Boxer

* denotes a tie for eighth-place