A knockout year for cinema

The year 2013 will be remembered for the spectacular takeoff of China's film market, and it will also go down in history as the year bad movies ruled, or at least shared, the box office and public consciousness as often as, if not more frequently than, good ones. Here is the result of painstaking scavenging for something valuable from a big pile of cinematic fluff and trash.

No Man's Land

After spending four years in censorship limbo, Ning Hao's dark tale of man at his most animal phase finally sees the light of day. The final three-minute scene is so obviously a change for compromise it should be ignored by sharp-eye cinephiles.