The Dissolve's The Best Films of 2013
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Finding consensus among nine writers can be a struggle, but when a year is as strong as 2013, the abundance of riches makes it especially hard to figure out which great films to line up behind—and which great films are relegated to “any other year” status. For The Dissolve’s inaugural year-end best-of list, only one film appeared on all Top 15 ballots: Spike Jonze’s Her, a forward-thinking science-fiction/romance that takes place in the near future, but captured the tenor of the times like no other film this year. From there, the list opens up to a full spectrum of cinematic visions, from the IMAX spectacle of Gravity to the piercing intimacy of films like Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12, or The Past, Asghar Farhadi’s worthy follow-up to A Separation. And the 20 films below are just the beginning: Many others connected with one—or a few—of us, but couldn’t quite wrangle up the votes.
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Her
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
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12 Years a Slave
2013, in 22 top lists Check -
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Inside Llewyn Davis
2013, in 8 top lists Check -
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Frances Ha
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
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Upstream Color
2013, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
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Short Term 12
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
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All Is Lost
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gravity
2013, in 12 top lists Check -
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Computer Chess
2013, in 3 top lists Check -
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The World's End
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
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Stories We Tell
2012, in 7 top lists Check -
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Nebraska
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
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Kaze tachinu
2013 — a.k.a. The Wind Rises, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013, in 13 top lists Check -
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Captain Phillips
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
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Before Midnight
2013, in 6 top lists Check -
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La vie d'Adèle
2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check -
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Le passé
2013 — a.k.a. The Past, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dans la maison
2012 — a.k.a. In the House, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 20, 2013; source