2013 ended up being one of the best years for cinema in quite some time. Usually, when I pick the 10 best films of any given year, two or three are actually the best, and the remainder of films are the best of the rest. For 2013, nearly all of my top 10 are worthy of being the absolute best of the year. In no particular order: my picks for the best films of 2013:
Hong Sangsoo's Our Sunhi
Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha
David O. Russell’s American Hustler
Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster
Johnnie To’s Drug War
Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
James Wan’s The Conjuring
Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight
Hong Sangsoo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Spike Jonze’s her