The 100 key films of 2013: Nos 1-10

42: Jackie Robinson was a second basemen who gatecrashed the major leagues to become baseball’s first black superstar. Brian Helgeland’s biopic turns back the clock to a segregated 1940s. Chadwick Boseman stars as Robinson while Harrison Ford lends grizzled support as the devout, progressive sports executive Branch Rickey Photograph: PR

After Earth: Few mainstream directors have suffered quite so vertiginous a fall as M Night Shyamalan: a hero with The Sixth Sense, a goat with Lady in the Water, a joke with The Happening and an embarrassment with The Last Airbender. Happily a new dawn is about to break courtesy of After Earth, in which Will and Jaden Smith play father-son visitors from the future, picking their way through a post-apocalyptic planet
Photograph: Will Smith

The Alan Partridge Movie: He has been a sports commentator and a chat-show host, weathered a mental breakdown and published his autobiography. Now it seems that the host of 'the third-biggest slot on Radio Norwich' (embodied, as ever, by the comic Steve Coogan) is poised to make his big-screen debut. Past rumours have variously had Partridge battling al-Qaida or rebooting his career in the US. In fact, it now appears that The Alan Partridge Movie will spotlight a corporate takeover of our hero’s Norfolk employer and will play out entirely in his old Norwich stomping ground
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Anchorman: The Legend Continues: What better Christmas-week news could there be than confirmation that, less than a year from now, audiences in the US at least will have been granted a repeat audience with Ron Burgundy? With a release date of 20 December 2013 now locked down (and original cast Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd all back on board), it's just a case of staying classy until San Diego's grooviest newsreader can address us once again
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About Time: Richard Curtis fans who were left becalmed by The Boat That Rocked will be hoping About Time heralds more bright and blustery weather. Billed as a time travel romcom, Curtis’s comedy reputedly sends Domhnall Gleeson darting between the eras until he runs across the woman of his dreams (Rachel McAdams). Bill Nighy and Tom Hollander bulk out the supporting cast
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August: Osage County: Harvey Weinstein has thrown his muscle behind the eagerly awaited film version of August: Osange County, adapted from the Pultizer prize-winning play by Tracy Letts. It’s a barbed family drama from the heart of Oklahoma, starring Sam Shepard as a drunken former poet, Meryl Streep as his ailing wife and Julia Roberts as the daughter who comes home in the wake of a tragedy. All of them, surely, will be gunning for awards Photograph: Mark Davis/WireImage

Before Midnight: In 1995 they were footloose interrailers, skipping through the streets of Vienna. In 2004 they were careworn thirtysomethings, strolling the banks of the Seine. Now, nine years after their last excursion, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke (aka Celine and Jessie) are back, like the star-crossed Halley’s comet of romantic cinema, again collaborating with writer-director Richard Linklater for a third and possibly final visit. Following on from the glorious Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Linklater’s latest reportedly finds the lovers in Greece. But the rest remains a beautiful mystery Photograph: PR

Bling Ring: The Bling Ring was a band of teenaged burglars that targeted the homes of Hollywood celebrities (including Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom and Paris Hilton) for a brief, heady spell between autumn 2008 and summer 2009. Three years on, their antics receive the silver-screen treatment courtesy of a film by Sofia Coppola, herself no stranger to the millionaire mansions of Beverly Hills. Stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga and Leslie Mann add the glitter Photograph: Antonio De Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage

Bridget Jones's Baby: Happy news for all those who assumed that Helen Fielding’s harassed singleton was just a late 90s/early noughties affair. She’s coming back, with a pint-sized sidekick, for a third instalment of the franchise starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Bridget Jones’s Menopause is presumably just a short hoppity-skip from here
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The Butler: Director Lee Daniels (Precious, The Paperboy) has arranged an all-star banquet for his fact-based account of the White House butler who ministered to the needs of eight successive US presidents. Forest Whitaker takes the title role but you may well struggle to locate him amid a well-upholstered supporting cast that includes the likes of Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Alan Rickman and Oprah Winfrey
Photograph: Oprah Winfrey