I am a huge movie goer and actually at the theater quite often. Whether I am on lunch break at work or on a vacation, I am always trying to make it to the cinema. 2013 was a great year for movies and a ton of movie came out that were definitely worth going and seeing. I saw almost 80 films that came out in 2013 and still have a list of the movies that I haven’t seen yet and will update the list as I do. Below I will list in no particular order of my top 10 movies of the year, my top 5 performances of the year and I will give you a chart with what movies I saw and a little one sentence review of it and how many stars I gave the film.
My Top 10 Movies of 2013 (In no particular order) – This was a lot harder to make a list of 10 than I thought it would be.
Prisoners
This is the End
Olympus has Fallen
The Great Gatsby
Now You See Me
You’re Next
Captain Phillips
The Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
Lone Survivor
My Top 5 Performances in a movie
Hugh Jackman – Prisoners
Christian Bale – American Hustle/Out of the Furnance
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Year a Slave
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Great Gatsby
Now onto the list of movies that I saw in 2013 and a short one-line review and how many stars I gave it. *Updated 01/07/13*
The movie stars are on scale of 0-5 stars. 0 being the lowest and 5 being the highest.
| Movie | Short Review | Stars |
| Gangster Squad | Great cast and awesome movie | *** 1/2 |
| A Haunted House | Just another terrible spoof movie | * |
| Broken City | Tons hated this movie but I really liked it | *** |
| Last Stand | Arnold is back but this movie fell flat | ** |
| Parker | A lot like other Jason Statham movies good not great | ** |
| Warm Bodies | Boring, not funny and just a waste of my time | * |
| Bullet to the Head | Stallone is just kick ass at anything he does. | **1/2 |
| Identity Thief | I liked it the 2nd & 3rd time better than I did the 1st. Pretty Funny | *** |
| A Good Day to Die Hard | Jai Courtney is a future star. Willis & company kept me entertained | *** |
| Beautiful Creatures | Not good, Not terrible just not my cup of tea. | ** |
| Snitch | Jon Bernthal is great in this & the Rock delivers again. | *** |
| 21 and over | Tried way too hard in this to make it funny, mediocre at best. | ** |
| Dead Man Down | Way better than it should’ve ever been. | ** 1/2 |
| Oz the great and powerful | Visually really good, enjoyable movie. | ** 1/2 |
| The Call | High hopes & let down. Terrible movie | * |
| Spring Breakers | FRANCO KILLS IN THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!! Loved this! | **** |
| Incredible Burt Wonderstone | Not good not funny just should’ve never made it to theaters | |
| Olympus Has Fallen | So good. Start to finish a really good movie | ***1/2 |
| Admission | Tina Fey is hot, Tina Fey is hot. That’s about it. | * |
| GI Joe Retaliation | 1st move was good & this one didn’t disappoint. | **1/2 |
| The Place Beyond the Pines | Ryan Gosling kills it. One of the MUST SEE movies of the year | ***** |
| Jurassic Park 3D | The 3D done on this was done perfect. | ***1/2 |
| The Company You Keep | Shia LeBeouf was great. Robert Redford is the man! | **** |
| Trance | Boring, stupid and just not good. | * |
| Evil Dead | Worst movie of the year is an understatement. | |
| 42 | Great movie about one of the best baseball players ever! | *** |
| Scary Movie 5 | Funny at times but like the rest just an average movie. | ** |
| Pain and Gain | Top 5 funniest movies of the year easily. | **** |
| Iron Man 3 | Favorite Iron Man movie, Downey Jr is money as Tony Starks | *** |
| The Great Gatsby | Not enough words to describe how much I enjoyed this film. | ***** |
| Star Trek Into Darkness | A sequel that was much better than the original, suprising. | *** |
| Fast & Furious 6 | Over the top, crazy & a kick ass time at the movies. RIP Paul Walker | **** |
| Hangover part III | Not nearly as bad as II but not on the same level as the 1st. | ** |
| Now You See Me | Top movie of the year for me. The whole cast/movie was money. | **** |
| The East | All over the place and sad because it had some real potential. | * |
| The Purge | Look so forward to this movie and it let me down big time. | * |
| The Internship | One of the most underrated/under apperciated movies of the year. | ***1/2 |
| The Heat | Bullock & McCarthy team up one of funniest movies of the year. | **** |
| Man of Steel | Henry Cavill was good as Superman but the movie lacked something | **1/2 |
| Vehicle 19 | Not bad but felt like it was a movie I have seen before. | ** |
| This Is the End | The funniest movie since the Hangover. | ***** |
| World War Z | Brad Pitt in his best movie of his career. | *** 1/2 |
| Lone Ranger | Johnny Depp always plays weird characters. Meh movie | ** |
| The Way Way Back | One of the feel good movies of the year. Loved it | **** |
| Grown Ups 2 | Was it possible to be worse than the 1st? Please stop makint these. | * |
| Pacific Rim | It was fun to see on the big screen but wasn’t a great movie. | ** 1/2 |
| RIPD | Thought it was possible to be a good movie, boy was I wrong. | * |
| Red 2 | Not as fun as the 1st but not a bad sequel at all. | ** |
| Wolverine | Way better than the 1st and a solid piece to the franchise. | *** |
| 2 Guns | Denzel & Marky Mark, combo made in heaven. Loved it. | *** 1/2 |
| We’re the Millers | 1000% better than I would’ve thought. Aniston is HOTTT in this. | **** |
| Kick Ass 2 | Funny spots but not nearly as good as the 1st. Let down big time. | ** |
| Paranoia | Liam Hemsworth is a star in the making. | *** |
| You’re Next | Underrated movie of the year. Great film that kept you guessing | *** 1/2 |
| The Family | Terrible just terrible. Good acting but the plot holes were huge! | * |
| Prisoners | Arguably the best film of the year. MUST SEE!!!!!!! | ***** |
| Rush | Fantastic Film. Daniel Bruhl was money. | *** |
| Don Jon | JGL 1st direct/star movie and it was a fun little popcorn flick. | *** |
| Gravity | Lots of praise but not be me at all. Mediocre at best. | ** |
| Runner Runner | Very smart movie that won’t get the credit it deserves. | *** |
| Captain Phillips | Loved it! Tom Hanks derserves some award buzz for his role in this. | **** |
| Escape Plan | Very good movie. Loved the concept and the old times killed it. | *** 1/2 |
| Thor – The Dark World | Light years better than the original. Hemsworth is carving his nitch. | **** |
| Hunger Games – Catching Fire | So so good. I am already for the 3rd movie. | **** |
| Homefront | Good, not great but James Franco played a great villian. | ** 1/3 |
| Grudge Match | It wasn’t terrible by any means but wasn’t all that and a bag of chips. | ** 1/2 |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Fun FUN FUN FUN – Don’t listen to the critics go enjoy this movie!!! | **** |
| Lone Survivor | One of/if not the best time I’ve ever had inside a theater. | ***** |
| Jobs | Not as bad as some of sad but left you wanting a lot more. | *** |
| Blue Caprice | If you know the story than you really need to see this movie. | *** |
| The Worlds End | Terrible. | * |
| Mud | Long but McConaughey is becoming one of my favorite actors. | ** 1/2 |
| 12 years a slave | Just brilliant film. Chiwetel Ejiofor is name you should know. | **** |
| Fruitvale Station | Michael B Jordan has arrived in the movie scene. | *** 1/2 |
| Only God Forgives | This gave Evil Dead it’s run of worst movie of 2013. | no stars |
| Out Of the Furnace | Harrelson & Bale give some of the best perf. of 2013. | **** |
| American Hustle | Nothing about this movie was bad. Cast/Story/Score all perfect. | **** 1/2 |
| Dallas Buyers Club | McConaughey/Leto were absolutley amazing in this! | **** |
| Saving Mr. Banks | Tom Hanks is back and better than ever. | *** 1/2 |
| The Butler | Just wasn’t very good. | ** |
| The Kings of Summer | Fun movie with a very cool story and some solid young acting. | *** |
Side note – If there were any films in 2013 that I haven’t listed and you think I should check out or if there is any film on this list that I gave a bad review and think I should give a second chance let me know. Comment below or hit me up on twitter @rickygangster
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