Part 1 of our annual roundup:

Phil Boatwright – Preview Online – The Best, the Worst and the Could-Have-Beens

Robert Butler – Butler’s Cinema Scene – Ten Best of 2013

Robert Butler, Cynthia Haines & Steve Walker – Up to Date – Top 10 Indie, Foreign & Documentary Films of 2013

Jon Niccum – The Kansas City Star – Best & Worst

Jack Poessiger – KC Confidential – Jack’s Best (& Worst) Nights of “Flickering” in the Darkness

Alan Rapp – Razorfine – Top 13 Movies of 2013

Michael D. Smith – KC Metropolis – Top Films of 2013

On December 15th, 2013, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle announced the winners of its 47th annual awards –

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave

Robert Altman Award for Best Director – Tie: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity & Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her

Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

Best Animated Film – Tie: Despicable Me 2 & Frozen

Best Foreign Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)

Best Documentary: The Act of Killing

Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Her

Features and media appearances by some of KCFCC’s members:

Dan Lybarger interviews actor Stuart Greer, who appears in Homefront with Jason Statham, at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Loey Lockerby was quoted in an article on film critics’ organizations at The Dissolve.