... says Quentin Tarantino, whose top ten best movies of 2013 (so far) is up at The Quentin Tarantino Archives:

1. Afternoon Delight (Jill Soloway)
2. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
3. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
4. The Conjuring (James Wan)
5. Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg)
6. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
7. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
8. Kick Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow)
9. The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski)
10. This Is The End (Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg)

Having The Lone Ranger and Kick Ass 2 on there aren't that surprising—not because they're good films, but because Tarantino is predictably unpredictable when it comes to these sort of lists (2010's top films included Tangled and Knight and Day, while 2011's had The Three Musketeers and Red State). What does surprise me is that his buddy Edgar Wright's film The World's End isn't on there, and neither is Michael Bay's Pain & Gain, which seems like a movie that was made with the explicit purpose of ending up on Tarantino's list.

(I'm sure the fact that Pain & Gain will likely end up being one of my favorite films of 2013 will help Michael Bay sleep tonight.)

For those interested in digging a little deeper, we've got reviews of just about all of those movies in our archives—I think the only one we didn't review was Afternoon Delight, which Portland critics were neither told about nor allowed to see before it opened in town and then promptly left. (For the record, Ned called The Lone Ranger a "fiasco.")