Best of 2013

Finally decided to put my first short list here. Not the best of year to start with, even finding difficulty making a top 10. The first three on the list however are remarkable films and I believe we are yet to properly value Gravity’s achievement. I omitted some films usually attributed to 2013, which are really great, like Beyond the Hills and Like Someone in Love – for me they belong to 2012. I really can’t understand why 12 Years a Slave topped some respectable critics polls like Indiewire’s (the Oscars long ago stopped being a criteria for me) – as much as I like Steve McQueen’s previous work,...