By Marlow Stern
2012 was a record-breaking year at the movie box office, with cash-cow blockbusters (The Avengers and The Hunger Games) and critics’ darlings (Zero Dark Thirty and Beasts of the Southern Wild) alike. And by the looks of things, 2013 is poised to be a helluva year, too. From superhero epics like Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 to period films The Great Gatsby and Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, here are The Daily Beast’s picks for the most anticipated films of the year.

