Mike's 2013 Movie List

I love making lists. I list out and rank lots of things. Every year Eric and I put together a list of all of the films we watched released in a year. Some we liked, some we loved, and a few that we downright hated. This list isn't just to discern and rank the merits of the films. If you want such a list there are a myriad of year end movie lists found on the web that quantify why a movie is better than another. This list is all about ranking in order of our favorites. 2013 was a strong year for film for me. My top 10 can beat up most top 10s from previous years. A few surprising disappointments were my downright hatred of the new Star Trek flick, Elysium, and A Field in England. I was a fan of the first Star Trek reboot, loved District 9, and Ben Wheatley usually makes great films. It's no surprise to many of my friends that Before Midnight would be at the top of this year's list. It's the third film in a series that I cherish. If you like talky touchy feel-y movies you really should check out the "Before" series. It might just change your life.

1 Before Midnight
2 Her
3 Stories We Tell
4 The Wolf of Wall Street
5 Big Bad Wolves
6 Short Term 12
7 The Big Shootout: The Life and Times of 1969
8 12 Years A Slave
9 Inside Llewyn Davis
10 Jodorowsky's Dune
11 Gravity
12 Pacific Rim
13 Journey To The West: Conquering the Demons
14 Frances Ha
15 The Wind Rises
16 The Congress
17 Mud
18 Stoker
19 R100
20 Blue Ruin
21 Spring Breakers
22 Much Ado About Nothing
23 The Act of Killing
24 Blue Is The Warmest Color
25 Don Jon
26 The World's End
27 You're Next
28 Blue Jasmine
29 American Hustle
30 Pain and Gain
31 Prisoners
32 The Kings of Summer
33 The Dirties
34 Why Don't You Play In Hell?
35 Indie Game: The Movie
36 Grand Piano
37 All Is Lost
38 Our Heroes Died Tonight
39 The Sacrement
40 Zero Charisma
41 This Is The End
42 The Conjuring
43 Detective Downs
44 Dallas Buyer's Club
45 Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
46 Band Called Death
47 Blackfish
48 Side By Side
49 Prince Avalanche
50 August: Osage County
51 Goldberg & Eisenberg
52 Nothing Bad Can Happen
53 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
54 Cutie and The Boxer
55 Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic
56 Witching and Bitching
57 I Am Bruce Lee
58 Digging Up The Marrow
59 Child Of God
60 Oz The Great and Powerful
61 Riddick
62 Tales From The Organ Trade
63 The Last Stand
64 Casting By
65 Machete Kills
66 Spectacular Now
67 Ninja 2: Shadow Of A Tear
68 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
69 The Way Way Back
70 Fruitvale Station
71 Escape From Tomorrow
72 Seduced and Abandoned
73 Dear, Mr. Watterson
74 First Comes Love
75 Iron Man 3
76 Man of Steel
77 Zero Theorem
78 The Afflicted
79 Love, Marilyn
80 Cheating
81 Green Inferno
82 Stand Up Guys
83 Kick Ass 2
84 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
85 Klip
86 Star Trek Into Dumbness
87 3096 Days
88 A Field In England
89 Elysium
90 Nightbreed: Cabal Cut
91 Jack the Giant Slayer

Eric's 2013 Movie List

A pretty impressive crop of flicks this year I thought, but there were only a couple that I can say I really loved. If you agree or disagree with our ranking, tell us about it. It's also fun to know that someone found a movie through this list that might not have ordinarily been on their radar. Additionally I'll mention that a few of these you might have seen on previous years' lists...those are movies I saw at a festival, but they just gained a wide release this year. As usual, the same caveat applies this year: These are just ranked in the order of my enjoyment of the film, not the quality of the film. And again, just because a movie is ranked low doesn't mean I didn't like it (in fact, the only films I didn't like were the bottom 10 or so). I am just selective about what I see...I try only to watch films I know I'm going to enjoy.

1 12 Years a Slave
2 Before Midnight
3 The Wolf of Wall Street
4 American Hustle
5 August: Osage County
6 Dallas Buyers Club
7 Nebraska
8 Mud
9 The Way Way Back
10 Short Term 12
11 Captain Phillips
12 An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
13 Her
14 Jayne Mansfield's Car
15 Philomena
16 Populaire
17 Enough Said
18 Cold Comes the Night
19 Stories We Tell
20 All is Lost
21 Blue Jasmine
22 Good Ol' Freda
23 Circle the Wagen
24 Forever's End
25 Salinger
26 Lovelace
27 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
28 Don Jon
29 The Kings of Summer
30 Big Star: Nothing can Hurt Me
31 Inside Llewyn Davis
32 Saving Mr. Banks
33 In a World…
34 Drinking Buddies
35 At Middleton
36 Free Samples
37 A Hijacking
38 See Girl Run
39 Blackfish
40 Child of God
41 Frances Ha
42 Monsters University
43 Parkland
44 What Maisie Knew
45 If You Build It
46 Spring Breakers
47 The Iceman
48 Scenic Route
49 Game Change
50 The World's End
51 Lee Daniels' The Butler
52 Gravity
53 Upstream Color
54 A Band Called Death
55 Behind the Candlebra
56 Side Effects
57 The Act of Killing
58 Great Chicken Wing Hunt
59 Little Hope Was Arson
60 The Gatekeepers
61 The Lifeguard
62 TWA Flight 800
63 Fruitvale Station
64 20 Feet From Stardom
65 A Place at the Table
66 Peter and Toshi get a Camera
67 The Odd Way Home
68 The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
69 Take Away One
70 Electrick Children
71 This Ain't No Mouse Music!
72 No More Road Trips?
73 This is the End
74 Room 237
75 The Spectacular Now
76 Identity Thief
77 Man of Steel
78 Cutie and the Boxer
79 Prince Avalanche
80 Finding Neighbors
81 Wrong
82 Xmas Without China
83 Coffee, Kill Boss