The best movies we saw in 2013

The Week.com's writers and editors adored Mud, Before Midnight, and yes, Fast & Furious 6

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12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave — an unsentimental, unsparing look at slavery — is easily the best movie of 2013. The poignant drama tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the mid-1800s.

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