12 Years a Slave(2013)

Combined Rating:
97
Combined Critics Rating: 96

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.



Gravity(2013)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 95

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident which leaves them alone in space.



Her(2013)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.



American Hustle(2013)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.



Inside Llewyn Davis(2013)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 92

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.



Dallas Buyers Club(2013)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.



Before Midnight(2013)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 90

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.



Snowpiercer(2013)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.



Captain Phillips(2013)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.



Nebraska(2013)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 88

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.



Blue Is the Warmest Colour(2013)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.



Prisoners(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.



Under the Skin(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.



Rush(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.



Locke(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence.



Blue Jasmine(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...



Fruitvale Station(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 86

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.



The Spectacular Now(2013)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."



Ida(2013)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.



Side Effects(2013)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.




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