Best of 2013...

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

Best of 2012

I had a difficult time picking ten films that I felt were the absolute best in 2012, which was probably because the top pick was so damn good, and the rest of the top five really knocked it out of the park. Anyway, my picks for the best films of 2012:

David O. Russell’s Silver Lining’s Playbook

Ben Affleck’s Argo

Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty

Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell

Hong Sangsoo’s In Another Country

Pang Ho Cheung’s Love in the Buff

James Wan’s Sinister

Judd Apatow’s This is 40

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

Rian Johnson’s Looper