TOP TEN FILMS OF 2013

Feb. 16th -- It has never taken me this long to announce a Top Ten Movie List. I can only blame the glut of quality movies that were released last year (especially in December). My only regrets are the ones I missed (Act of Killing, Frozen, Fruitvale Station, Her), and a few I didn't (Elysium, To the Wonder, World War Z).

The first three films stand apart from the pack:

1. 12 YEARS A SLAVE

2. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

3. GRAVITY

4. La Grande Bellezza ("The Great Beauty") - ITALY * the only foreign film on the foreignfilmguy's list!

5. Blue Jasmine

6. Nebraska

7. American Hustle

8. The Wolf of Wall Street

9. All Is Lost

10 (tie). Mud and Dallas Buyer's Club 

Honorable Mention

The East

The Invisible Woman

Much Ado About Nothing

Philomena

Rush

Stoker

Saw & Enjoyed

Captain Phillips

The Great Gatsby

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

In A World . . . 

MAMA ** Preserving the streak of a Jessica Chastain movie on every list since 2011

Saving Mr. Banks

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In case you are unfamiliar with some of my choices: