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Best Movies of 2013, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
93 films from 2013 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Wolf of Wall Street ('2013), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Best Offer, 7.7 on IMDb against 49 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wolf of Wall Street '2013 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | 79% | 75 | 8.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2 | Prisoners '2013 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.2 | 81% | 70 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 3 | 12 Years a Slave '2013 | Drama | 8.1 | 95% | 96 | 7.9 | Steve McQueen |
| 4 | Rush '2013 | Drama / Action | 8.1 | 88% | 74 | 7.7 | Ron Howard |
| 5 | Her '2013 | Romance / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.9 | 95% | 91 | 7.8 | Spike Jonze |
| 6 | Dallas Buyers Club '2013 | Drama | 7.9 | 92% | 77 | 7.9 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 7 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug '2013 | Fantasy / Action | 7.8 | 74% | 66 | 7.6 | Peter Jackson |
| 8 | Gravity '2013 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 96 | 7.2 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 9 | Captain Phillips '2013 | Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 93% | 82 | 7.5 | Paul Greengrass |
| 10 | About Time '2013 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.8 | 70% | 55 | 7.9 | Richard Curtis |
| 11 | Star Trek Into Darkness '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 84% | 72 | 7.3 | J.J. Abrams |
| 12 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 90% | 76 | 7.4 | Francis Lawrence |
| 13 | The Conjuring '2013 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | 68 | 7.5 | James Wan |
| 14 | Frozen '2013 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.4 | 89% | 75 | 7.2 | Chris Buck |
| 15 | Lone Survivor '2013 | War / Action / Drama | 7.5 | 75% | 60 | 7.4 | Peter Berg |
| 16 | Despicable Me 2 '2013 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 75% | 62 | 7.0 | Pierre Coffin |
| 17 | Blue Is the Warmest Color '2013 | Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 88% | 90 | 7.1 | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 18 | The Best Offer '2013 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.7 | 56% | 49 | 7.8 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| 19 | Now You See Me '2013 | Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 51% | 50 | 7.3 | Louis Leterrier |
| 20 | The Wind Rises '2013 | Animation / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 88% | 83 | 7.8 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 21 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty '2013 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.3 | 52% | 54 | 7.2 | Ben Stiller |
| 22 | The Great Gatsby '2013 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 49% | 55 | 7.3 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 23 | Saving Mr. Banks '2013 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 79% | 65 | 7.3 | John Lee Hancock |
| 24 | The Place Beyond the Pines '2013 | Drama / Crime | 7.3 | 79% | 68 | 7.0 | Derek Cianfrance |
| 25 | American Hustle '2013 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 92% | 90 | 6.9 | David O. Russell |
| 26 | The Great Beauty '2013 | Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 86 | 7.5 | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 27 | Monsters University '2013 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | 80% | 65 | 7.1 | Dan Scanlon |
| 28 | The Book Thief '2013 | Drama | 7.5 | 50% | 53 | 7.5 | Brian Percival |
| 29 | Iron Man 3 '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 79% | 62 | 6.9 | Shane Black |
| 30 | Man of Steel '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 57% | 55 | 6.7 | Zack Snyder |
| 31 | Blue Jasmine '2013 | Drama | 7.3 | 90% | 78 | 7.0 | Woody Allen |
| 32 | Mud '2013 | Drama | 7.3 | 97% | 76 | 7.1 | Jeff Nichols |
| 33 | Snowpiercer '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.1 | 94% | 84 | 6.9 | Bong Joon Ho |
| 34 | World War Z '2013 | Action / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 67% | 63 | 6.9 | Marc Forster |
| 35 | The Croods '2013 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 71% | 55 | 7.0 | Chris Sanders |
| 36 | Oblivion '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.0 | 53% | 54 | 6.7 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 37 | We're the Millers '2013 | Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 48% | 44 | 6.8 | Rawson Marshall Thurber |
| 38 | Fast & Furious 6 '2013 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 71% | 61 | 6.8 | Justin Lin |
| 39 | The Butler '2013 | Drama | 7.2 | 72% | 65 | 7.3 | Lee Daniels |
| 40 | Side Effects '2013 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 82% | 75 | 6.6 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 41 | Pacific Rim '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 72% | 65 | 7.0 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 42 | The Spectacular Now '2013 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 92% | 82 | 6.7 | James Ponsoldt |
| 43 | The World's End '2013 | Comedy / Action / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 89% | 81 | 6.8 | Edgar Wright |
| 44 | Nymphomaniac: Vol. I '2013 | Drama | 6.9 | 77% | 64 | 6.8 | Lars von Trier |
| 45 | Warm Bodies '2013 | Horror / Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 81% | 60 | 6.5 | Jonathan Levine |
| 46 | The Call '2013 | Crime / Thriller | 6.7 | 43% | 51 | 6.8 | Brad Anderson |
| 47 | Gangster Squad '2013 | Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 30% | 40 | 6.4 | Ruben Fleischer |
| 48 | 2 Guns '2013 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 64% | 55 | 6.5 | Baltasar Kormákur |
| 49 | Escape Plan '2013 | Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 50% | 49 | 6.7 | Mikael Håfström |
| 50 | The Wolverine '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 70% | 61 | 6.4 | James Mangold |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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