2013 Films, By Grade Only

A perfection

12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) brief note
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach) Capsule, Michael's Review, on Greta Gerwig 
NO (Pablo Larrain) Review, best foreign film, Nathaniel on CNNi 
Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton) Review, Interview

A- amazingness

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
American Hustle (David O. Russell)

B+ really very good at what they do... not to be missed

All The Light in the Sky (Joe Swanberg) notes 
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh) review
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger) capsule 
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen) review, podcast
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass) 
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener) 
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Iron Man Three (Shane Black) Review, Panel Culture 
Pioneer (Erik Skjoldbaerg)  capsule 
Prisoners (Dennis Villeneuve) 
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine) 
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan)  review  

B recommended 

All is Lost (JC Chandor)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
Great Beauty, The (Paolo Sorrentino)
I Am Divine (Jeffrey Schwartz)
I'm So Excited (Pedro Almodóvar) review
The Heat (Paul Feig) review 
Honeymoon (Jan Hrebejk) capsule
Mud (Jeff Nichols) capsule 
Pit Stop (Yen Tan) 
The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt)  Podcast, Michael's Review
Sma Citroner Gula (Teresa Fabik)
This is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan) notes  
Young and Beautiful (François Ozon) capsule
World War Z (Marc Forster) review 

B- Recommended with Reservations / Toss Up 

3 (Pablo Stoll)
Breakfast with Curtis (Laura Colella) notes
Caesar Must Die (Vitorrio & Paolo Taviani) capsule  
Deep, The (Baltasar Kormakuv) capsule 
The East (Zal Batmanglij) review
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) Review

The Land of Eb (Andrew Williamson) 
Lee Daniels' The Butler (Lee Daniels)
Place Beyond the Pines, The (Derek Cianfrance) Review  
What Maisie Knew (Scott McGehee & David Segal) review 
Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine) makeup 

C+/C strong elements, weak whole OR exceedingly proficient but unexciting

Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) capsule 
The Conjuring (James Wan)
Elysium (Neill Blomkamp) Review, Podcast
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) Review
Il Futuro (Alicia Scherson) 
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann)  Review, Dream I Had 
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) Capsule
Kiss of the Damned (Xan Cassavettes)
Labor Day (Jason Reitman) Review
Lovelace (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) Podcast
Man of Steel (Zach Snyder)  Panel Culture
The Most Fun I've Ever Had With My Pants On (Drew Denny) 
Oz: The Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi) Review 
The Past (Asghar Farhadi)  review 

Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh) Interview, Podcast, Posterized  
Stoker (Park Chan Wook) Review 
Kon-Tiki (Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg) capsule   
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth) 
The Worlds End (Edgar Wright)
Yossi (Eytan Fox) Capsule 

C- Didn't work or offputting in some substantial way

Cold Lands (Tom Gilroy) 
The History of Future Folk (John Mitchell & Jeremy Kipp Walker) 
I Give It A Year (Dan Mazer)
I Used to Be Darker (Matthew Porterfield) 
Jack the Giant Slayer (Bryan Singer) Review 
The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski) Review
Man of Steel (Zach Snyder) Podcast
Monsters University (Dan Scanlon) Review
Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green) 
Simon Killer (Antonio Campos) 
Some Girl(s) (Daisy von Scherler Mayer) notes 
The Sunshine Boys (Kim Tae-gon)  

D+/D Ugh

Bastards (Claire Denis)
Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer)  Michael's Review
Only God Forgives (Nicholas Winding Refn) Michael's Review
A Teacher (Hannah Fidell) 
The Wolverine (James Mangold)  Review

D-/F Run away! Run away!

Beautiful Creatures (Richard LaGravanese)
Good Day To Die Hard, A (John Moore)  Posterized 
Identity Thief (Seth Gordon) capsule