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01 Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
02 Her (Spike Jonze)
03 Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
04 the Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
05 Phil Spector (David Mamet)
06 Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola)
07 No (Pablo Larrain)
08 Le passé (Asghar Farhadi)
09 La vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 (Abdellatif Kechiche)
10 Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)

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UPDATED 09/06/2018

1. Her
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Before Midnight
4. Nebraska
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Captain Phillips
7. The Wind Rises
8. American Hustle
9. The Grandmaster
10. The Wolf of Wall Street


Not ranked (in alphabetical order):

Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Behind the Candelabra, The Bling Ring, Blue is the Warmest Color, Blue Jasmine, Computer Chess, The Conjuring, Frances Ha, From Up on Poppy Hill, Gravity, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?, Like Father, Like Son, Mud, Prince Avalanche, Saving Mr. Banks, Side Effects, The Spectacular Now, Spring Breakers, Star Trek: Into Darkness, To the Wonder, Upstream Color, The Way Way Back

Top Ten:

1. Blue Jasmine
2. Passion
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. In the House
5. Blue is the Warmest Color
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
7. The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
8. Stories We Tell
9. To the Wonder
10. The Host

Page 2. Aw nuts! I mean ...
... aw, nuts.

1. Her (Jonze, 2013)
2. Frances Ha (Baumbach, 2012)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013)
4. The Spectacular Now (Ponsoldt, 2013)
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese, 2013)
6. American Hustle (Russell, 2013)
7. Side Effects (Soderbergh, 2013)
8. The Bling Ring (S. Coppola, 2013)
9. Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013)
10. Behind the Candelabra (Soderbergh, 2013)

Nebraska (Payne, 2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Abrams, 2013)
12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)
Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon, 2012)
Iron Man 3 (Black, 2013)

... as you can tell I haven't been watching many movies this year.

1. Upstream Color
2. Post Tenebras Lux
3. Spring Breakers
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. The Act of Killing
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. Only God Forgives
8. Drug War
9. Leviathan
10. The Grandmaster



Also seen: Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra, Stoker, The World's End, Man of Steel, Place Beyond the Pines, Mud, The Hobbit 2, To The Wonder, In The Fog, Leones, Before Midnight, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Blue Jasmine, American Hustle, Gravity, Her, Lore, Philomena, Dallas Buyers Club, Nebraska

As per release in the U.S., unless I get to see it sooner. Fantastic year.

1. Post Tenebras Lux - 10/10
2. Upstream Color - 10/10
3. Blue is the Warmest Color - 9.5/10
4. To The Wonder - 9.5/10
5. Paradise: Love - 9.5/10
6. Bastards - 9.5/10
7. Tabu - 9/10
8. Magic Magic - 9/10
9. Reality - 9/10
10. Leviathan - 9/10

In Contention/Just Missing Out:

11. Spring Breakers - 9/10
12. Something in the Air - 9/10
13. Paradise: Hope - 9/10
14. Paradise: Faith - 9/10
15. Out of the Furnace - 9/10
16. Before Midnight - 9/10
17. Computer Chess - 9/10
18. The Hunt - 9/10
19. A Field in England - 9/10
20. Hors Satan - 8.5/10
21. Magic Valley - 8.5/10
22. All Is Lost - 8.5/10
23. Fruitvale Station - 8.5/10
24. Her - 8.5/10
25. Dallas Buyers Club - 8.5/10
26. Mud - 8.5/10
27. Prince Avalanche - 8.5/10
28. Crystal Fairy - 8.5/10
29. Beyond the Hills - 8.5/10
30. Simon Killer - 8.5/10
31. Sightseers - 8.5/10

Also Quite Liked (in rough order):

Vivan las Antipodas!, Nebraska, Inside Llewyn Davis, Short Term 12, The Great Beauty, Blue Jasmine, Frances Ha, Drinking Buddies, Stories We Tell, The Spectacular Now, Maniac, The Angel's Share, Behind the Candelabra, Europa Report, Like Someone In Love, The Dirties, Trance, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Place Beyond the Pines, Sleep Tight, Oxyana, Twixt

Biggest Disappointments (in order):

12 Years a Slave, Only God Forgives ........ Elysium, The East, Oldboy, Capital, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Stoker, Prisoners, The World's End, The Counselor

Also seen (roughly by preference):

The Iceman, Berberian Sound Studio, I Am Not a Hipster, Top of the Lake, Byzantium, The Last Stand, The Grandmaster, Warm Bodies, Black Rock, No, Camille Claudel, 1915; The Wolf of Wall Street, Gravity, Rush, Mr. Nobody, Disconnect, We Are What We Are, Side Effects, American Hustle, Don Jon, It's a Disaster, A Hijacking, Captain Phillips, Blue Caprice, Closed Circuit, The Way Way Back, The Bling Ring, Man of Steel, Promised Land, The Conspiracy, Mama, Evil Dead, Shadow Dancer, Lore, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, Valentine Road, Starbuck, Informant, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, We're the Millers, Welcome to the Punch, Redemption, Blackfish, Pain and Gain, A Single Shot, The Great Gatsby, The Conjuring, Sparrows Dance, The Croods, The Best Offer, Now You See Me, This is the End, Pacific Rim, Barbara, Charlie Countryman, Enough Said, Narco Cultura, About Time, World War Z, Oblivion, Passion, The Kings of Summer, I Declare War, Identity Thief, Ginger and Rosa, How I Live Now, You're Next, Room 237, +1, John Dies at the End, The Sapphires, The Company You Keep, Bad Milo, The Canyons, Escape From Tomorrow, Arcadia, Touchy Feely, What Maisie Knew, Upside Down, The Last Days, Ender's Game, A Teacher, V/H/S 2, The Purge, Assault on Wall Street, Admission, Escape Plan

1. Like Father Like Son
2. The Grandmaster
3. Upstream Color
4. Her
5. Only God Forgives
6. Leviathan
7. Drug War
8. Pacific Rim
9. Spring Breakers
10. Stoker

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I'll reserve a spot, I guess.

Also, I know there are no set in stone rules, but if I voted for stuff I saw in 2012 that is being counted for 2013, is it better to move that stuff over here?

You should be setting your own rules for how films are assigned to years (e.g. year you saw the film, year of release in your country, year of release in the film's country of origin, some complicated algorithm that only makes sense to you, etc.) and stick to those. You can basically ignore the years to which I assign films in the consensus thread, unless your personal rule happens to also be first non-festival theatrical release in the country of origin per IMDb.

• 1. Fruitvale Station
  2. Blue is the Warmest Color
  3. Rush
  4. All Is Lost
  5. Captain Phillips
  6. Gravity
  7. Saving Mr. Banks
  8. Side Effects
  9. Night Train to Lisbon
  10. Behind the Candelabra

Also seen and liked:
American Hustle, Philomenia, The Spectacular Now, Frances Ha, Only God Forgives, We Steal Secrets, Star Trek Into Darkness, Enough Said, The Conjuring, ...In a World, Love is All You Need, Prisoners, Bling Ring, Don Jon

Indifferent:
Oblivion, Elysium, World War Z, The Way, Way Back, The Family, 2 Guns

Disliked:
Place Beyond the Pines, Spring Breakers, Stoker, Blue Jasmine, Pain and Gain, The Counselor, 12 Years a Slave, Olympus Has Fallen

The Host [most important]
Nobody's Daughter Haewon [best]
Crystal Fairy [favorite]
The Bling Ring
Her
Bastards
Computer Chess
Enough Said
Magic Magic
Dark Skies

as of 12/31/13

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

honorable mentions:
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Before Midnight
Behind the Candelabra
Blue Jasmine
Bnsf
Getaway
Gloria
Los amantes pasajeros
Morrissey 25 Live
Pain & Gain
Prince Avalanche
The Lifeguard
The Wolf of Wall Street
Touchy Feely
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

favorites
The Act of Killing
All Is Lost
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
The Grandmaster
Hors Satan
Leviathan
Prisoners
Shadow Dancer
Upstream Color

liked
12 Years A Slave
A Field in England
A Touch of Sin
Bad Grandpa
Behind the Candleabra
Berberian Sound Studio
The Bling Ring
Camille Claudel 1915
The Conjuring
Deceptive Practice
Drug War
Elysium
The Gatekeepers
Gravity
Manhunt
Mud
Only God Forgives
The Place Beyond The Pines
Post Tenebras Lux
Something In The Air
Spring Breakers
Stoker
To The Wonder
The Wall

guilty pleasures
The East
The Last Stand
Oblivion

disliked
Bastards
Blue Caprice
The Counselor
Escape From Tomorrow
In The Fog
World War Z

hated
Like Someone In Love
Passion
Simon Killer
Trance

1) The Act of Killing
2) Her
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Stories We Tell
5) Mud
6) Frances Ha
7) Before Midnight
8) Berberian Sound Studio
9) Computer Chess
10) Spring Breakers

Others I've Seen: Iron Man 3; Oblivion; The Croods; The Heat; Fast & Furious 6; The Heat; The End; Room 237; Lovelace; Gravity; This is the End; others I can't remember...

To See Before Finalizing List: Inside Llewyn Davis; Upstream Color; Side Effects; 12 Years a Slave; Short Term 12; Nebraska; Blue is the Warmest Color; No; At Berkeley; Leviathan; Post Tenebras Lux; Prince Avalanche

Edited 02/13/2014

1. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
2. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer)
4. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
5. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
6. Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda)
7. At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
9. Drug War (Johnnie To)
10. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)

1. Inside Llewyn Davis - 10/10
2. The World's End - 10/10
3. Gravity - 10/10
4. 12 Years a Slave - 10/10
5. Her - 10/10
6. Man of Steel - 10/10
7. Monsters University - 9/10
8. Rush - 9/10
9. Captain Phillips - 9/10
10. Iron Man 3 - 9/10


Other 2013 films seen:

All Is Lost - 8/10
American Hustle - 7/10
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - 8/10
Before Midnight - 9/10
Blue Jasmine - 8/10
The Butler - 6/10
Charlie Victor Romeo - 7/10
The Congress - 5/10
The Conjuring - 7/10
The Croods - 7/10
Dear Mr. Watterson - 4/10
Downloaded - 8/10
Elysium - 5/10
Ender's Game - 8/10
Escape from Tomorrow - 4/10
Europa Report - 5/10
42 - 7/10
Frozen - 8/10
Fruitvale Station - 8/10
A Good Day to Die Hard - 3/10
The Grandmaster - 7/10 (NOTE: US cut)
The Great Gatsby - 8/10
Harlock: Space Pirate - 4/10
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 8/10 (Extended Edition and Theatrical)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 8/10
In a World... - 6/10
Inequality for All - 8/10
Jack the Giant Slayer - 5/10
Jodorowsky's Dune - 8/10
The Lone Ranger - 2/10
Milius - 9/10
Nebraska - 6/10
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics - 6/10
Now You See Me - 5/10
Oblivion - 6/10
Olympus Has Fallen - 4/10
Oz the Great and Powerful - 3/10
Pacific Rim - 5/10
Parkland - 6/10
Philomena - 8/10
Saving Mr. Banks - 9/10
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 5/10
Side Effects - 7/10
Snowpiercer - 7/10
The Square - 8/10
Star Trek Into Darkness - 8/10
This Is the End - 7/10
Thor: The Dark World - 6/10
White House Down - 5/10
The Wolf of Wall Street - 8/10
The Wolverine - 7/10
World War Z - 6/10

Last updated 4/20/17

1. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
2. Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
3. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
4. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
5. Wavemakers (Caroline Martel)
6. Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
7. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
8. The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (Tinatin Gurchiani)
9. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
10. The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
11. Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
12. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
13. You Aint' Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
14. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai)
15. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)

Also watched:
Winter in the Blood (Alex and Andrew Smith)
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
Her (Spike Jonze)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
Maidentrip (Jillian Schlesinger & Laura Dekker)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Modest Reception (Mani Haghighi)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
The Last Sentence (Jan Troell)
Paradise: Faith (Ulrich Seidl)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
Una Noche (Lucy Mulloy)
Letter to Momo (Hiroyuki Okiura)
In the Shadow (David Ondříček)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Crystal Fairy & The Magic Cactus and 2012 (Sebastián Silva)
Ginger & Rosa (Sally Potter)

Partial viewing:
Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta)
Mud (Jeff Nichols)

The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Man of Steel (Zach Snyder)
The Double (Richard Ayoade)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)

1. Gravity
2. All is Lost
3. American Hustle
4. Wolf of Wall Street
5. Mud
6. Nebraska
7. Spring Breakers
8. Rush
9. Prisoners
10. Upstream Color

Note: List is based on when the films became available for viewing in my area, not the world premiere date, so there may be some "technically" 2012 films showing up here:

1. Hyde Park on Hudson
2. Lore
3. Spring Breakers
4. NO
5. Ginger and Rosa
6. The Place Beyond the Pines
7. Gangster Squad
8. Mama
9. Mud
10. Not Fade Away

Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche)
I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Lore (Cate Shortland)
Compliance (Craig Zobel)
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)

1- The Master
2- The place beyond the Pines
3- Reality (Matteo Garrone)
4- Django Unchained
5- Behind Candelabra
6- Before Midnight
7- The Hunt
8- A Royal affair
9- No (Chile)
10 -

Not seen: a lot.

Good but not enough for top 10:
Amour, 12 years a slave, The big beauty, Blue Jasmine, You and Me, Bertolucci: The best offer, Tornatore; 7 cajas (a surprising movie from Paraguay film !!! )
...


The worst: Almodóvar's I'm so excited. Lincoln.

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Spring Breakers
3. American Hustle
4. Before Midnight
5. Only God Forgives
6. Wolf of Wall Street
7. Frances Ha
8. 12 Years a Slave
9. Her
10. In a World...

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. American Hustle
4. Spring Breakers
5. Her
6. Gravity (IMAX 3D)
7. Captain Phillips
8. Upstream Color
9. Pacific Rim
10. Fruitvale Station

Still need to see Blue is the Warmest Color and The Wolf of Wall Street

The Girl From Nowhere
Viola
The Strange Little Cat
Post Tenebras Lux
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Leones
In Here
It Felt Like Love

1. Pain and Gain
2. Spring Breakers
3. Stoker
4. The Lords of Salem
5. The Spectacular Now
6. The Place Beyond the Pines
7.
8.
9.
10.

Need to see:
Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Antiviral, The Bling Ring, Byzantium, Frances Ha, Hors Satan, Much Ado About Nothing, Only God Forgives, Redemption (Hummingbird), Sightseers, To the Wonder, Violet & Daisy

Worst: Here Comes the Devil
Most Disappointing: The Great Gatsby