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It's awards season, so if you live in a densely populated urban area, you probably still have a chance to check out many of the remarkable movies that came out in 2013 and perhaps some notorious clunkers, included, for your reading pleasure in the link above.

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• Check out many reviews of the most talked about movies this year right here.

• If you speak Spanish, you may also enjoy my take on human atrocities on film, a subject dear to my heart.

• And coming soon in I've Had It With Hollywood, my annual list of the best and worst movies of 2013. Stay tuned!

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Two movies about women's throats: Lake Bell's In A World, and Lovelace.
Plus a screecher, The Conjuring.

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Thomas Vinterberg's extraordinary The Hunt, and Woody Allen's better than usual Blue Jasmine.

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A modern adaptation of Henry James' What Maisie Knew.
A muddy Mud, with Matthew McConaughey.
François Ozon best movie, In The House.

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Must See Movie of the Week: Caesar Must Die, by the fabulous Taviani Brothers.

How Am I Doing? Koch: The Movie.

Spooky Mama.

Only for masochists or the deaf and blind: Les Miserables.

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The abomination that is Cloud Atlas.
This Is 40... hours long.

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Battle of the Biopics. Whoever has the best make up, wins.
The surprisingly smart Life Of Pi.

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The suspiciously overpraised Zero Dark Thirty.

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The Sessions; or The Least Sexy Movie About Sex, Ever.

The Impossible. A Tsunami Of Disappointment.

Movies, 2012: Best and Worst and Everything in Between.

Alert The Media: Yours Truly in Out.com

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The slightly bipolar Silver Linings Playbook.

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Back to the future with Lincoln and Anna Karenina.

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Sean Penn goes emo in Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be The Place.
Denzel Washington elevates Flight from its lame movie of the week clichés.
Barry Levinson's environmental scarefest The Bay deserves better.
Christopher Walken and Phillip Seymour Hoffman rule in A Late Quartet.
Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts duke it out in Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone (coming soon).

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Ben Affleck shows off his directorial skills in Argo, his most fun film to date.
Holy Motors, A French je ne sais quoi by Leos Carax.

Coming Attractions

Not showing anywhere near you yet, but you should run to see them as soon as they hit the theatres:

The Gatekeepers, or, Shin Bet leaders spill the beans. Best documentary I've seen this year.

A trifecta of extraordinary movies:
Amour, the latest masterpiece from Michael Haneke, with the immortal Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emanuelle Riva, Cristian Mungiu's masterful Beyond The Hills, and the lovely Like Someone in Love by maestro Abbas Kiarostami.

Also worth watching is the impressive debut of orthodox female film director Rama Burshtein, Fill the Void.

On the other hand, these clunkers are better left unseen.

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The 50th edition of the New York Film Festival is in progress:

Noah Baumbach gets a muse with the delightful Frances Ha.
The Taviani Brothers collaborate with William Shakespeare in the masterful Caesar Must Die!
And the insufferable You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet by Alain Resnais.

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The Robot in Robot & Frank seems more human than some of the actors in Cosmopolis.

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I'm Wes Anderson and this is how I roll: Moonrise Kingdom.

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Take your pick: beefcake soft-porn a la Norma Rae with Magic Mike or the poverty porn of Beasts of The Southern Wild. 

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Magic Mike, or the morality tale of a working stiff.