MNPP's 15 Favorite Movies of 2013

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A blessed few of you noticed this and nagged at me last year about the great big bottomless pit that MNPP's annual awards The Golden Trousers (aka The Pantys) fell down - they actually literally fell down, since I fell on some ice and broke my arm in the spring right around the time I'd usually do them making extensive blogging next to impossible for about a month, and then time marched on and yadda yadda I never posted my awards for The Movies of 2013 at all. What a disaster.

Well now we're already behind on doing The Movies of 2014 and I'm afraid this problem's going to exacerbate itself into a gigantic weight on my face, and not the good kind, not the "Chris Evans sitting on me" kind. Just the smothering kind. So I'm just going to post my Top 12 Movies of 2013 right now and finally put 2013 behind me... just in time for mid-2015. I'm so timely! Okay let's do this. I'll even give you three runners-up, bringing us up to my Top 15: Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said, Adam Wingard's You're Next, and Asghar Farhadi's The Past.

And now our Top 12!

12. STOKER 

(Park Chan-wook)

11. CRYSTAL FAIRY AND THE MAGICAL CACTUS 

(Sebastián Silva)

10. STORIES WE TELL 

(Sarah Polley)

9. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR 

(Abdellatif Kechiche) original review

8. THE BLING RING 

(Sofia Coppola) original review

7. THE ACT OF KILLING 

(Joshua Oppenheimer)

6. THE GREAT BEAUTY 

(Paolo Sorrentino) original review

5. HER 

(Spike Jonze) original review

4. 12 YEARS A SLAVE 

(Steve McQueen) original review

3. SHORT TERM 12 

(Destin Daniel Cretton) original review

2. STRANGER BY THE LAKE 

(Alain Guiraudie) original review

1. FRANCES HA 

(Noah Baumbach) original review

I haven't changed this list at all since I first wrote it up last year; I opened up the document today, scanned through it, and said to myself Yup, that looks right. It was a pretty much a given the moment I saw Frances way way way back the the New York Film Festival in the fall of 2012 that it would be my favorite movie of the year, so head-over-fucking-heels was I from first sight, and honestly my affection for it has probably quadrupled since then. A couple of these movies I should revisit (I would sit down and re-watch The Great Beauty right this second if I could)  but I stand by all of them. Anyway... that's done! Now let's try to get our 2014 Pantys done before 2017 then.

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