2013 - The Year in Cinema

Here’s my year in review.

My favorite film of the year was The East, which I thought was terribly overlooked.  The Wolf of Wall Street was a close second.  I saw so many great documentaries this year I decided to make a separate category, and to be honest, in total, they were way better than the fiction.   I found Stories We Tell to be astounding, and ranked it as the top doc.  I’ve now watched it and The East again to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating, and I stand by my original impression.  I even upped my score on “Stories” from 9 to 10.  Enjoy.

The East – 10

The Wolf of Wall Street -10

World War Z - 9

Oblivion – 9

Gravity – 9

Captain Phillips – 9

12 Years a Slave – 9

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) – 9

The Call – 9

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) – 9

American Hustle - 8

Star Trek:  Into Darkness – 8

Elysium – 8

Saving Mr. Banks - 8

Mud – 8

White House Down – 8

Hunger Games:  Catching Fire - 8

Olympus Has Fallen – 8

Chasing Mavericks – 8

Dallas Buyer’s Club - 8

Side Effects – 8

Broken City – 8

Hitchcock (2012) - 8

In a World – 7

Fruitvale Station - 7

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) – 7

42 – 7

Lee Daniels’ The Butler - 7

Two Guns - 7

The Impossible – 7

Phil Spector (HBO) - 7

Dead Man Down - 7

Parker – 7

The Place Beyond the Pines – 7

The Girl (2012) - 7

Inside Llewyn Davis - 6

Out of the Furnace - 6

Blue Jasmine – 6

Killing Them Softly (2012) - 6

The Great Gatsby - 6

Man of Steel - 5

Now You See Me – 5

The Family - 4

This is the End - 2

A Good Day to Die Hard – 1

Documentaries

Stories We Tell - 10

Mea Maxima Culpa – Silence in the House of God - 10

Searching for Sugar Man - 10

A Football Life – Steve Gleason (NFL Network) - 9

Manhunt:  The Search for Bin Laden (HBO)- 9

Legendary Nights:  the tale of Gatti-Ward (HBO) - 9

Casting By (HBO) – 9

The World According to Dick Cheney (Showtime Doc) – 8

Muscle Shoals – 8

Sound City – 8

Sport in America – Our Defining Stories (HBO) 8

20 Feet From Stardom - 7

Seduced and Abandoned (HBO) - 7

The Ozzies

Best Picture – The East

Best Actor – Leonardo DeCaprio, the Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actress – Amy Adams, American Hustle

Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer’s Club

Best Supporting Actress – Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Best Director – Martin Scorcese, The Wolf of Wall Streep

Best Screenplay – Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij