1. 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen + Best American Movie of the Year
2. Like Father, Like Son/そして父になる (Soshite Chichi ni Naru) - Hirokazu Kore-eda + Best Drama of the Year + Best Japanese Movie of the Year
3. Only God Forgives - Nicolas Winding Refn + Best Danish Movie of the Year
4. Philomena - Stephen Frears + Best True-Story Movie of the Year + Best English Movie of the Year
5. Finding Vivian Maier, documentary - Charlie Siskel & John Maloof
6. Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel and Ethan Coen + Best Music Film of the Year
7. Let the Fire Burn, documentary - Jason Osder + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Best Philadelphia Movie of the Year
8. Blue Is the Warmest Colour/La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 & 2 - Abdellatif Kechiche + Best French Movie of the Year
9. The Great Beauty/La Grande Bellezza - Paolo Sorrentino + Best Rome Movie of the Year + Best Italian Movie of the Year
10. The Past/Le Passé - Asghar Farhadi + Most Under-Appreciated Movie of the Year
Other masterpiece of 2013:
Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen + Best San Francisco Movie of the Year
Other great movies of 2013 (in alphabetical order)
20 Feet from Stardom, documentary - Morgan Neville
All Is Lost - J. C. Chandor + Best Survival Movie of the Year
August: Osage County - John Wells + Best Ensemble of the Year
Bad Hair/Pelo Malo - Mariana Rondón + Best Venezuelan Movie of the Year + Best LGBT Movie of the Year
Begin Again/Can a Song Save Your Life? - John Carney + Best New York Movie of the Year
Behind the Candelabra - Steven Soderbergh
The Butler/Lee Daniels' The Butler - Lee Daniels + Best Political Movie of the Year
Despicable Me 2 - Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud
Don Jon - Joseph Gordon-Levitt + Best Debut Movie of the Year
Enough Said - Nicole Holofcener + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared/Hundraåringen Som Klev Ut Genom Fönstret och Försvann - Felix Herngren + Best Swedish Movie of the Year
Ida - Pawel Pawlikowski + Best Polish Movie of the Year
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - Don Scardino + Best Las Vegas Movie of the Year
Nebraska - Alexander Payne
Saving Mr. Banks - John Lee Hancock + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Dramedy of the Year
We're the Millers - Rawson Marshall Thurber + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Road Movie of the Year
Recommendable, good movies of 2013 (in alphabetical order)
Anchorman: The Legend Continues - Adam McKay
Dallas Buyers Club - Jean-Marc Vallée
Evil Dead - Fede Alvarez
Fading Gigolo - John Turturro
Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón + Best Science Fiction Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
The Last Stand - Kim Jee-Woon + Best Comeback of the Year (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Lone Survivor - Peter Berg + Best War Movie of the Year
Mama - Andrés Muschietti
Northwest/Nordvest - Michael Noer
Nymphomaniac - Lars Von Trier + Wildest Movie of the Year
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Ben Stiller
Sorrow and Joy/Sorg og Glæde - Nils Malmros
Stranger by the Lake/L'Inconnu du Lac - Alain Guiraudie
This Is the End - Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen
Tom at the Farm/Tom à la Ferme - Xavier Dolan + Best Canadian Movie of the Year
The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese
Bottom 10: The Worst Movies of 2013
1. Black Nativity - Kasi Lemmons + Most Deserved Mega-flop of the Year
2. Elysium - Neill Blomkamp
3. A Good Day to Die Hard - John Moore + Worst Poster of the Year + Stupidest Movie of the Year
4. World War Z - Marc Forster
5. Stoker - Chan-wook Park
6. The Last Exorcism Part 2 - Ed Gass-Donnelly
7. Keeper of Lost Causes/Kvinden i Buret - Mikkel Nørgaard
9. A Field in England - Ben Wheatley
10. Odd Thomas - Stephen Sommers
Other failed, poor or mediocre 2013 movies (in alphabetic order):
Admission - Paul Weitz
The Bling Ring - Sofia Coppola
Blue Ruin - Jeremy Saulnier
Escape from Tomorrow - Randy Moore + Best Low-Budget Movie of the Year
Gangster Squad - Ruben Fleischer + Most Expensive Flop of the Year
The Heat
The Kings of Summer/Toy's House
The Lunchbox - Ritesh Batra + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
Omar
Star Trek Into Darkness - J.J. Abrams
Under the Skin + Strangest Movie of the Year
Warm Bodies
The Wind Rises/風立ちぬ [Kaze Tachinu]
The Wolverine - James Mangold + Best Superhero Movie of the Year
[74 titles in total]
Notes
The 5th edition of updated 2013 lists adds 3 titles to the mix.
The 5th edition of updated 2013 lists adds 3 titles to the mix.
2013 has given a generous 10 masterpieces (so far). The Top 10 is reigned supreme by Steve McQueen's amazing, multi-Oscar-winning 12 Year a Slave, followed by family-themed drama Like Father, Like Son by Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, Nicolas Winding Refn's singular, Bangkok-set neo-western Only God Forgives, Stephen Frears' fantastic drama Philomena, Charlie Siskel and John Maloof's slightly overlooked, incredible documentary Finding Vivian Maier, Joel and Ethan Coen's music drama pearl, Inside Llewyn Davis, new entry debuting Jason Osder's devastating race documentary Let the Fire Burn, Abdellatif Kechiche's incredible French love story Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Paolo Sorrentino's colorful ode to Rome, The Great Beauty and finally Asghar Farhadi's stern, brilliant drama The Past. Woody Allen's priceless Blue Jasmine gets evicted from the Top 10 in this edition. The addition of Let the Fire Burn marks the first time that an annual Top 10 list has 2 documentaries on it.
Other great movies this year include J. C. Chandor's amazing lost-at-sea drama All Is Lost, James Wan's phenomenal horror The Conjuring, Lee Daniels' terrific political drama The Butler and Mariana Rondón's lustrous Bad Hair.
Other great movies this year include J. C. Chandor's amazing lost-at-sea drama All Is Lost, James Wan's phenomenal horror The Conjuring, Lee Daniels' terrific political drama The Butler and Mariana Rondón's lustrous Bad Hair.
2013 had many other great and wonderful films, as well as some painstaking duds, most prominently on the Bottom 10 list is Kasi Lemmons' truly horrendous musical Black Nativity. It is followed by new entry Neill Blomkamp's preposterous sci-fi bore Elysium, John Moore's awful Die Hard 5, A Good Day to Die Hard, great filmmaker Marc Forster's zombie nonsense World War Z, Chan-wook Park's pretentious, boring and unpleasant Stoker, the dubious, befittingly titled The Last Exorcism Part 2, Danish crime adaptation The Keeper of Lost Causes by great filmmaker Mikkel Nørgaard, Anthony C. Ferrante's TV movie sensation Sharknado, great British filmmaker Ben Wheatley's psych-out, gross, borderline pretentious A Field in England and Stephen Sommers' jumbled Odd Thomas adaptation. Master filmmaker Sofia Coppola's disappointing The Bling Ring gets pushed out of the list in this edition.
2013
was characterized by a jump towards almost ruthless realism in some of
the year's most interesting films, from the biggest winner (12 Years a Slave) to the more arthouse-bound European films like Nymphomaniac, Stranger by the Lake and Blue Is the Warmest Colour, all of which feature explicit sex scenes galore. Film Excess warmly
welcomes this new trend, which only heightens already good films, (but
will hardly save films that are already shabby.)
Of great filmmakers that put out somewhat disappointing films in the year can be mentioned Paul Weitz with Admission, J.J. Abrams with Star Trek Into Darkness, James Mangold with The Wolverine and Hayao Miyazaki with The Wind Rises.
The third new entry of this edition is Ritesh Batra's overrated Indian favorite The Lunchbox.
On the 2014 Oscars:
The academy favored 12 Years a Slave and Gravity, and, to a lesser extent, Dallas Buyers Club:
12 Years a Slave won 3 awards, for Best Film, Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o in her startling break-out performance) and Best Adapted Screenplay (John Ridley). Dallas Buyers Club won 3 awards, for Best Actor (Matthew McConaughey), Best Supporting Actor (Jared Leto), and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The night's biggest winner was Gravity with 7 awards, for Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón), Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Visual Effects and Score (Stephen Prince).
Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for Blue Jasmine; Spike Jonze won Best Original Screenplay for Her; Disney's Frozen won Best Song (Let It Go) and Best Animated Feature; Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby won Best Costumes and Best Production Design.
Mr Hublot won Best Animated Short; The Lady in No. 6: Music Saved My Life won Best Documentary Short, Helium won Best Live-Action Short. Twenty Feet From Stardom won Best Documentary, and Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won Best Foreign Film, ahead of The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Hunt, The Missing Picture and Omar.
Honorary awards went to Piero Tosi, Steve Martin, Angela Lansdale, Charles 'Tad' Marburg and Angelina Jolie.
IMDb's user-generated Top 10 most popular 2013 titles:
1. Frozen
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. The Lone Ranger
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Prisoners
6. We're the Millers
7. Her
8. Now You See Me
9. Fast & Furious 6
10. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival:
Steven Spielberg was the year's jury president, and The Great Gatsby opened the fest. The year's official festival poster featured Paul Newman lying down face to face with wife Joanne Woodward.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or, which also won its main actresses a special honorary Palme d'Or. Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture won the Un Certain Regard section; Anahita Ghazvinizadeh's Needle won the Cinéfondation award; Moon Byoung-gon's Safe won the short film award. Other main prizes went to Bérénice Bejo (best actress, The Past), Bruce Dern (best actor, Nebraska), Like Father, Like Son (jury prize), A Touch of Sin (best screenplay), Amat Escalante (best director, Heli) and Inside Llewyn Davis (Grand Prix).
A full list of the main competition films of the year:
Behind the Candelabra, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Borgman, A Castle in Italy, The Great Beauty, Grigris, Heli, The Immigrant, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, Like Father, Like Son, Michael Kohlhaas, Nebraska, Only God Forgives, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Past, Shield of Straw, A Touch of Sin, Venus in Fur, Young & Beautiful
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. White House Down - 67.88 mil. $ range
2. Odd Thomas - 26.12 mil. $ range
3. Pacific Rim - 25.6 mil. $ range
4. Fading Gigolo - 24.68 mil. $ range
5. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - 19.08 mil. $ range
6. Gangster Squad - 17.92 mil. $ range
7. Oz the Great and Powerful - 17.68 mil. $ range
8. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 14.6 mil. $ range
9. Black Nativity - 14.54 mil. $ range
10. The Last Stand - 10.8 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 238.9 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Despicable Me 2 - 288.72 mil. $ range
2. Gravity - 186.52 mil. $ range
3. Monsters University - 97.04 mil. $ range
4. The Conjuring - 77.56 mil. $ range
5. We're the Millers - 70.96 mil. $ range
6. 12 Years a Slave - 57.08 mil. $ range
7. The Wolf of Wall Street - 55.84 mil. $ range
8. The Heat - 48.72 mil. $ range
9. The Wolverine - 45.92 mil. $ range
10. Mama - 43.56 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 971.92 mil. $
Of great filmmakers that put out somewhat disappointing films in the year can be mentioned Paul Weitz with Admission, J.J. Abrams with Star Trek Into Darkness, James Mangold with The Wolverine and Hayao Miyazaki with The Wind Rises.
The third new entry of this edition is Ritesh Batra's overrated Indian favorite The Lunchbox.
On the 2014 Oscars:
The academy favored 12 Years a Slave and Gravity, and, to a lesser extent, Dallas Buyers Club:
12 Years a Slave won 3 awards, for Best Film, Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o in her startling break-out performance) and Best Adapted Screenplay (John Ridley). Dallas Buyers Club won 3 awards, for Best Actor (Matthew McConaughey), Best Supporting Actor (Jared Leto), and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The night's biggest winner was Gravity with 7 awards, for Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón), Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Visual Effects and Score (Stephen Prince).
Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for Blue Jasmine; Spike Jonze won Best Original Screenplay for Her; Disney's Frozen won Best Song (Let It Go) and Best Animated Feature; Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby won Best Costumes and Best Production Design.
Mr Hublot won Best Animated Short; The Lady in No. 6: Music Saved My Life won Best Documentary Short, Helium won Best Live-Action Short. Twenty Feet From Stardom won Best Documentary, and Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won Best Foreign Film, ahead of The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Hunt, The Missing Picture and Omar.
Honorary awards went to Piero Tosi, Steve Martin, Angela Lansdale, Charles 'Tad' Marburg and Angelina Jolie.
IMDb's user-generated Top 10 most popular 2013 titles:
1. Frozen
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. The Lone Ranger
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Prisoners
6. We're the Millers
7. Her
8. Now You See Me
9. Fast & Furious 6
10. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival:
Steven Spielberg was the year's jury president, and The Great Gatsby opened the fest. The year's official festival poster featured Paul Newman lying down face to face with wife Joanne Woodward.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or, which also won its main actresses a special honorary Palme d'Or. Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture won the Un Certain Regard section; Anahita Ghazvinizadeh's Needle won the Cinéfondation award; Moon Byoung-gon's Safe won the short film award. Other main prizes went to Bérénice Bejo (best actress, The Past), Bruce Dern (best actor, Nebraska), Like Father, Like Son (jury prize), A Touch of Sin (best screenplay), Amat Escalante (best director, Heli) and Inside Llewyn Davis (Grand Prix).
A full list of the main competition films of the year:
Behind the Candelabra, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Borgman, A Castle in Italy, The Great Beauty, Grigris, Heli, The Immigrant, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, Like Father, Like Son, Michael Kohlhaas, Nebraska, Only God Forgives, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Past, Shield of Straw, A Touch of Sin, Venus in Fur, Young & Beautiful
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. White House Down - 67.88 mil. $ range
2. Odd Thomas - 26.12 mil. $ range
3. Pacific Rim - 25.6 mil. $ range
4. Fading Gigolo - 24.68 mil. $ range
5. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - 19.08 mil. $ range
6. Gangster Squad - 17.92 mil. $ range
7. Oz the Great and Powerful - 17.68 mil. $ range
8. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 14.6 mil. $ range
9. Black Nativity - 14.54 mil. $ range
10. The Last Stand - 10.8 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 238.9 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Despicable Me 2 - 288.72 mil. $ range
2. Gravity - 186.52 mil. $ range
3. Monsters University - 97.04 mil. $ range
4. The Conjuring - 77.56 mil. $ range
5. We're the Millers - 70.96 mil. $ range
6. 12 Years a Slave - 57.08 mil. $ range
7. The Wolf of Wall Street - 55.84 mil. $ range
8. The Heat - 48.72 mil. $ range
9. The Wolverine - 45.92 mil. $ range
10. Mama - 43.56 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 971.92 mil. $
2013 movies still on the watch-list:
Grudge Match, 12-12-12, Gimme Shelter, The Last of Robin Hood, Blood Glacier, The Sacrament, Labor Day, Visitors, Jodorowsky's Dune, The Last Match, Adult World, All Is Bright, Mistaken for Strangers, Not Today, American Hustle, Ender's Game, Mom (TV-series), Enemy, Prisoners, Wolf Creek 2, Salomé, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Escape Plan, The World's End, Borgman, Monster Pies, G.B.F., Oblivion, The Croods, Upstream Colour, The Grandmaster, Helium, Iron Man 3, Cutie and the Boxer, Dirty Wars, The Square, The Phone Call, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Living on One Dollar, Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus, Magic Magic, Gerontophilia, Man of Steel, Movie 43, The Hangover Part III, Horns, Tracks, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Free Fall, Venus in Fur, Big Bad Wolves, Boy & the World, Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, Needle, The Missing Picture, Safe, A Touch of Sin, Heli
Previous annual lists:
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess
Grudge Match, 12-12-12, Gimme Shelter, The Last of Robin Hood, Blood Glacier, The Sacrament, Labor Day, Visitors, Jodorowsky's Dune, The Last Match, Adult World, All Is Bright, Mistaken for Strangers, Not Today, American Hustle, Ender's Game, Mom (TV-series), Enemy, Prisoners, Wolf Creek 2, Salomé, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Escape Plan, The World's End, Borgman, Monster Pies, G.B.F., Oblivion, The Croods, Upstream Colour, The Grandmaster, Helium, Iron Man 3, Cutie and the Boxer, Dirty Wars, The Square, The Phone Call, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Living on One Dollar, Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus, Magic Magic, Gerontophilia, Man of Steel, Movie 43, The Hangover Part III, Horns, Tracks, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Free Fall, Venus in Fur, Big Bad Wolves, Boy & the World, Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed, Needle, The Missing Picture, Safe, A Touch of Sin, Heli
Previous annual lists:
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
What do you think of Film Excess' 2013 lists?
What films would comprise your lists?
Anything essential missing on the watch-list in your opinion?
Anything essential missing on the watch-list in your opinion?
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