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    Top 10 Best Movies 2013By Richard Corliss

    10. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

    Warner Bros.

    Who could guess, after the meandering first feature in a seemingly unnecessary eight-hourtrilogy of films based on a novel of less than 300 pages, that Peter ac!son had such avigorous and thrilling middle episode in store" With Bilbo #$artin %reeman&, 'andalf #(an$c)ellen& and the d*arves finally done *ith introductory da*dling, they dive into a nonstopadventure among the noble +lves, the rough-he*n humans of a!eto*n and the ferociousdragon maug #voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch &. his time, /ndy er!is has not lent his

    presence to 'ollum, but his *or! as second-unit director is spectacular. +ach comple

    encounter, especially a flume-ride escape of the d*arves, boasts a teeming ingenuity ofaction and character. / bonus1 the budding romance of the *arrior +lf auriel #+vangeline

    illy& and the d*arf hun! )ili #/idan urner&. (n all, this is a splendid achievement, close tothe grandeur of ac!son2s ord of the Rings films.

    9. 12 Years a Slave

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    %rancois uhamel 4 %o earchlight

    outhern *hites of the pre-Civil War plantation aristocracy believed themselves 'od2schosen, and their slaves inhuman. /s sho*n in this searing film document 5 an anti- GoneWith the Wind 5 the masters *ere the madmen, inferior but in charge. he first t*o feature

    films of /nglo-/frican director teve $c6ueen, *hose first t*o features, 7unger andhame, proved him a picture poet of physical degradation. 7ere, *or!ing from ohn Ridley2s

    script based on the 89:3 memoir of olomon ;orthup, a free blac! ;e*

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    (n 8 :, the thug /n*ar Congo *as hired by the (ndonesian government to stamp out thethreat of Communism@ he and his fello* gangsters formed paramilitary sDuads that torturedand !illed thousands of innocents. ;early a half-century later, /n*ar and many of his

    colleagues are still around, still protected by the politicians in charge, and ready to reenacttheir atrocities. oshua Eppenheimer2s amaAing documentary gives that opportunity to men*ho gre* up idoliAing Brando and Pacino and are pleased to star in their o*n crude biopics.

    o more closely resemble his young self, /n*ar dyes his hair and gets ne* teeth. 7erehearses garroting a man *ith a *ire, to the laughter and applause of the *omen *atching.$a!ing the movies, *hich vault from film noir to biAarre musical, eventually gets under/n*ar2s s!in and into his dreams@ the pearly !iller is finally afflicted *ith nightmares. %orany vie*er, the effect is no less haunting.

    7. Frozen

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    isney

    Princess +lsa has po*ers of sorcery beyond her control1 she can and does cast a nuclear*inter on her northern !ingdom. 7er sister /nna is the normal one, falling in love at the firstsight of any eligible male, yet bound to confront her sister and save their realm. he first

    animated feature in the Walt isney studio2s glorious history to offer t*o princess heroines,%roAen transforms 7ans Christian /ndersen2s > he no* 6ueen? into a fable of modern,timeless sisterhood. %or this full-musical enchantment, Writer ennifer ee and co-directorChris Buc! tapped some of the Broad*ay musical2s brightest lights 5 composers Robert

    opeA and )risten /nderson- opeA and actor-singers (dina $enAel #+lsa&, )risten Bell#/nna& and onathan 'roff #as the gruff mountain man )ristoff& 5 and poured all comicinspiration into the sno*man character Elaf #voiced *ith irrepressible enthusi-*ooAy-asm by

    he Boo! of $ormon2s osh 'ad&. 7is sho*-stopping set piece >(n ummer? provides thefinest t*o minutes of cinema you2ll seer this year.

    6. Furious 6

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    'iles )eyte 4 Fniversal Pictures

    Planes, trains and automobiles collide spectacularly in the fourth %ast G %urious movie to bedirected by ustin in and *ritten by Chris $organ. (n a reunion of Hin iesel, the late PaulWal!er, their gang and girlfriends and +/ agent *ayne ohnson, %urious vrooms from

    enerife to $osco* to ondon, *ith astounding stunts in each location, and hitches a ride ona military cargo plane for the final bra*l. Where %ast %ive heralded the ;e* 7olly*ood2se altation of sensational action over subtle character, Furious 6 revs everything up, purifiesand improves it to a level even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its

    predecessor, if such a thing is even mathematically possible. his adrenaline-sto!ing series isaddictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes 5 and for its poetic limning of the closestcamaraderie many men can ever !no*1 *ith their cars. E*ning one, some auto-holic says, isli!e a marriage. >but *hen you brea! up they don2t ta!e halfyour shit.?

    5. The ran!master

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    he Weinstein Company

    Running at I hours and 80 minutes in its *orld premiere at the Berlin %ilm %estival, Wong)a*-*ai2s dreamy biopic of martial arts master (p $an *as cut by II minutes 5 one-fifth ofits running time 5 by F. . distributor he Weinstein Company. hat2s a crime a!in to

    cutting random holes in a Bosch or Breughel painting@ but *hat2s left is choice. he 7ong)ong director ma!es superb movies # Chungking Express , In the Mood for Love , 2046 & thatignore narrative drive for tales of romance and regret in a rapturous visual style of slo-moimagery and haAy closeups of *istful stars. ony eung Chiu-*ai, *ho loo!s li!e a more

    beautiful Ebama, plays (p $an as a poet of gestural precision, in combat sceneschoreographed by the great

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    Warner Bros.

    (n a future os /ngeles so near-Ftopian that no scene ta!es place in a car, heodore*ombly # oaDuin Phoeni & has a =ob composing love letters for other people. Profligately

    romantic, bruised by the failure of his marriage to Catherine #Rooney $ara&, he has enough

    sentiment left over to fall truly, madly, deeply in love *ith a computer operating system *hocalls herself amantha # carlett ohansson&. heir virtual affair might be the springboard tosatire, but *riter-director pi!e onAe instead creates a splendid anachronism1 a modern rom-com that is laugh-and-cry and *arm all over, totally s*eet and utterly serious. Er, if you *ill,utterly iri. Phoeni corrals the dulcet melancholy of a man *hose emotional pain findsrefuge in amantha2s embrace, in a love that, to misDuote Phillip ). ic!, is >more humanthan human.? Phoeni and onAe sho* *hat it2s li!e *hen a mourning heart comes alive 5

    because he, heodore, loves 7er. /nd (, Richard, loved her.

    3. American Hustle

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    %rancois uhamel 4 /nnapurna Productions 4 Columbia Pictures

    7istory remade as spar!ling farce1 the %B(2s late-K02s /bscam investigation of politicalcorruption, *hich led to the conviction of a F. . enator and seven Congressmen, becomesthis headlong tale of romance and rec!lessness. (n director avid E. Russell2s third

    consecutive movie about mismatched couples and their craAy families, after The Fighter and'i!ver Linings (!a)*ook , / ;e* ome of this actually happened,? reads the movie2s opening te t@ butRussell and co*riter +ric Warren inger aren2t going for verisimilitude. his portrait of the2K0s revels in the decade2s gaudiness 5 its disco dancing and casino dreams, its uglycoiffures and facial hair 5 and in the eternal abrasion of se y *omen and covetous men. hefive stars form a fabulous ensemble cast, in the year2s most !no*ing e plosion of flat-outfun.

    2. The reat "eaut# $ %a gran!e bellezza

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    'ianni %iorito 4 anus %ilms

    >What2s the matter *ith nostalgia"? as!s an aging poet in this masterpiece of divinedecadence. >(t2s the only thing left for those of us *ho have no faith in the future.? Writer-director Paolo orrentino, *hose I! &ivo blended political bio-pic and Evidian satire, vie*s

    modern Rome in all its e cess through the =aded eyes of >the !ing of the socialites,? =ournalistep 'ambardella # I! &ivo 2s oni ervillo& 5 and, further bac!, more than a half-century, to

    the +ternal City as seen by %ederico %ellini in La &o!#e +ita . his profligately cinematicachievement sho*s an affection for nearly all of its outsiAe characters, and a melancholy thatthe flaming creatures of ep2s acDuaintance *ill soon burn out. 'iving even the cynics a faithin the vibrancy of movies, The Great "eaut) is the year2s grandest, most e hilarating filmthat ta!es place on +arth.

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    Warner Bros.

    When ;/ / travellers andra Bulloc! and 'eorge Clooney get lost in space, all a*e brea!sloose. osing contact *ith $ission Control, as *ell as access to their o ygen supply, they arealone together, *ith time and options running out. /n epic of desperate peril and profound

    *onder, /lfonso CuarLn2s thrilling 3- drama is a testament to human grit andgroundbrea!ing technical ingenuity. (t deserves to be seen once for the *o* factor and asecond time to try to figure out ho* CuarLn and his digital savants managed to ma!e theimpossible seem so cinematically plausible. ;o one had dared even to imagine this stuff 5li!e the astounding 83-minute ta!e that opens the movie 5 yet here it all is, vividly andsumptuously realiAed. (n depicting the fearful, beautiful reality of the space *orld above our*orld, Gravit) reveals the glory of cinema2s future@ it thrills on so many levels. /nd becauseCuarLn is a movie visionary of the highest order, you truly can2t beat the vie*.

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