2013 in Film

[bcholmes]

2013 was a bit of a strange year for film, from my perspective. Whenever I think back on films I saw in a particular year, I’m always struggling with the knowledge that my movie-watching habits are skewed by the fact that I don’t tend to see much of anything in cinemas any more. So, for me, “films I saw this year” usually includes a handful of films that many people saw the year prior. And this year, a number of my top 5 come from the last quarter of 2012. Oh well.

Here are my top five favourite films:

Number 5: Looper (Rian Johnson). Yup, it suffered from wibbly-wobbly time stuff that makes no sense when you think about it. But it was surprisingly strong. I really enjoyed the vision of the future it created (clearly devastated by economic depression) — it felt like a fresher future and more interesting worldbuilding than I’d seen in a long time. The ending of the film came as a surprise (so many time travel tales are bogged down with the weight of oppressive inevitability), and the scene where Emily Blunt gets in the safe was such a wonderfully constructed scene.

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Comments

[egret]

I agree with you that Flight was not the movie I wanted to see. I didn't want to see Denzel hit rockbottom. Who would have thought a 12-steps preachy cautionary tale would be a contemporary movie? I was disappointed. Kind of glad it wasn't just me.

[bcholmes]

To his credit, I thought Denzel was great. But, yeah, so not the film I wanted to see.