My Favorite Movies of 2013

While we're well past the half-way point of 2014, I just realized I never came up with my favorite movies of 2013. "Favorite Movie" lists are, by their nature, controversial, because so many people use different criteria for what "Favorite" means. For this list, the biggest factors were how much I enjoyed it while I was watching and how much I would like to see it again. These take precedence over the actual quality of the filmmaking as well as the art of the film itself (which is why this isn't called the "Best Movies"). All in all, it comes down to my own personal tastes and what I respond to most in a movie:

1. Upstream Color

2. Coherence

3. Thor: The Dark World

4. Captain Phillips

5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

6. Philomena

7. The Wolf of Wall Street

8. The Wolverine

9. Her

10. Gravity

11. Twelve Years A Slave

12. Saving Mr. Banks

13. The Conjuring

14. Man of Steel

15. Iron Man 3

16. Star Trek Into Darkness

17. Nebraska

18. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

19. The Bling Ring

20. Pacific Rim

21. This Is the End

22. Under the Skin

23. Dallas Buyers Club

24. All Is Lost

25. Bad Grandpa

26. The World's End
27. The Uknown Known

28. American Hustle

29. Despicable Me 2

30. Free Birds

Movies From 2013 That I Will Probably Be Seeing Very Soon:

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Frozen
Monsters University

Now You See Me

42

Oblivion

Ender's Game

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

47 Ronin

You're Next

Before Midnight

Much Ado About Nothing

Blackfish

Kon Tiki

Short Term 12

The Act of Killing

Ain't Them Bodies Saint