Winter movie guide: All the films you should see in January and February

From a particularly unpromising crop of movies, we pick your best bets for the months ahead

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As 2013 drew to a close, most critics and film fans were salivating over the impressive movies that have hit theaters in the past few weeks: The Wolf of Wall Street, Her, American Hustle, Inside Llewyn Davis, and even holdovers like Philomena and Nebraska. How can you possibly choose from such an embarrassment of riches?

Unfortunately, that's as good as it's going to get for a while. With their big, star-studded awards show contenders in theaters just in time for Christmas, Hollywood is spending January and February releasing all the garbage that didn't fit into the rest of their schedule for the year. It's an annual tradition, but 2014's lineup is looking particularly ugly.

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.