31. The Place Beyond the Pines
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: A daredevil motorcyclist quits his carnival job when he learns a former lover has a son - and he now has a family. In order to provide for them, he takes on a series of bank robberies, putting all his riding skills to good use. But this puts him on a crash course with an ambitious police officer looking for a quick way to rise through the ranks of his corrupt precinct. Over the course of 15 years, the story unfolds, leaving a legacy for their children - who will have to face the consequences of these actions.
32. Coherence
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Actors: Hugo Armstrong, Emily Baldoni, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen, Lauren Maher, Maury Sterling
Plot: A group of eight friends at a dinner party must deal with the aftermath of a cosmic anomaly when a comet passes overhead.
33. American Hustle
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David O. Russell
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams, Robert De Niro
Plot: A con artist and his partner are forced into an alliance with a federal agent where they work against people just like them - all in a bid to bring down the corrupt, volatile mayor of Camden, New Jersey.
34. Iron Man 3
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Shane Black
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Ashley Hamilton
Plot: Tony Stark has just helped save the world from an intergalactic threat, but he faces a new, deadly enemy - one who brings low all he has built and seeks to destroy all he holds dear. With his back against the wall, he will have to rely on his own instinct and ingenuity to save the ones he cares about the most.
35. Disconnect
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Actors: Jason Bateman, Max Thieriot, Andrea Riseborough, Paula Patton, Alexander Skarsgård, Frank Grillo
Plot: As the world becomes more connected digitally - do we lose human connection in the process? This series of interconnected stories concerns a lawyer who is more attached to his cell phone than his own family, a couple dealing with their secrets being exposed online, an ex-cop with a cyber-bullying son and a journalist looking for scoop found in a teen working on an adult internet site.
36. The Book Thief
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian Percival
Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nélisse, Hildegard Schroedter, Nico Liersch, Ben Schnetzer
Plot: As Germany is plunged into the horrors of WWII, a young girl, Liesel, finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Meanwhile, her adoptive parents are sheltering a Jewish refuge under their stairs.
37. Nebraska
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: Will Forte, Bruce Dern, Bob Odenkirk, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Kevin Kunkel
Plot: When a booze-addled father receives a sweepstakes megaprize notice in the mail, his dreams of riches send him on a trip to Nebraska with his none-too-eager estranged son.
38. Saving Mr. Banks
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Lee Hancock
Actors: Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Emma Thompson, Ruth Wilson, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman
Plot: Author P.L. Travers leaves London for the bright lights of Hollywood as Walt Disney adapts her novel, Mary Poppins, to the big screen... despite her misgivings.
39. Prince Avalanche
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne, Gina Grande, Lynn Shelton
Plot: Set in 1988, two men leave behind their city lives one summer and take their highway road work to a more isolated area. Yet this opens up opportunities for misadventures as the two men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
40. 42
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian Helgeland
Actors: Harrison Ford, Jon Bernthal, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Meloni, T.R. Knight, Nicole Beharie
Plot: The story behind Jackie Robinson's historical turn at breaking the color barrier in baseball, with guidance from Brooklyn Dodger's executive director Ricky Branch.
