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2014

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2014, ranked.

This decade

  • Whiplash

    1

  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    2

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    3

  • 10,000 Km

    4

  • The Dog

    5

  • The Double

    6

  • Nightcrawler

    7

  • Gone Girl

    8

  • Wild Tales

    9

  • Foxcatcher

    10

  • Winter Sleep

    11

  • Blue Ruin

    12

  • Life Itself

    13

  • Stations of the Cross

    14

  • Force Majeure

    15

  • Finding Vivian Maier

    16

  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

    17

  • The Salt of the Earth

    18

  • Boyhood

    19

  • The New Girlfriend

    20

  • Journey to the West

    21

  • A Most Violent Year

    22

  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

    23

  • Frank

    24

  • The Imitation Game

    25

  • Enemy

    26

  • Magical Girl

    27

  • Harmontown

    28

  • The Rover

    29

  • What We Do in the Shadows

    30

  • Inherent Vice

    31

  • Leviathan

    32

  • The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

    33

  • The Overnighters

    34

  • Belle

    35

  • Dear White People

    36

  • The Way He Looks

    37

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    38

  • Dinosaur 13

    39

  • Mr. Turner

    40

  • Selma

    41

  • Locke

    42

  • Free to Play

    43

  • Citizenfour

    44

  • Phoenix

    45

  • The Look of Silence

    46

  • Mr. Kaplan

    47

  • Court

    48

  • Greenery Will Bloom Again

    49

  • Corn Island

    50

  • Mommy

    51

  • PK

    52

  • Austin to Boston

    53

  • Clouds of Sils Maria

    54

  • Obvious Child

    55

  • Tim's Vermeer

    56

  • John Wick

    57

  • The Lego Movie

    58

  • Cold in July

    59

  • Pride

    60

  • The Skeleton Twins

    61

  • The Normal Heart

    62

  • Predestination

    63

  • Girlhood

    64

  • Song of the Sea

    65

  • Edge of Tomorrow

    66

  • Guardians of the Galaxy

    67

  • Excuse My French

    68

  • The Tribe

    69

  • Wild

    70

  • Closed Curtain

    71

  • Magic in the Moonlight

    72

  • '71

    73

  • Interstellar

    74

  • Fair Play

    75

  • Last Days in Vietnam

    76

  • Night Moves

    77

  • The Duke of Burgundy

    78

  • Chef

    79

  • Coherence

    80

  • The Theory of Everything

    81

  • The Trip to Italy

    82

  • The Drop

    83

  • Tracks

    84

  • Silvered Water

    85

  • Lilting

    86

  • A Blast

    87

  • Under the Skin

    88

  • Stray Dogs

    89

  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

    90

  • 20,000 Days on Earth

    91

  • A Most Wanted Man

    92

  • And the Oscar Goes To...

    93

  • The One I Love

    94

  • They Came Together

    95

  • Begin Again

    96

  • Jodorowsky's Dune

    97

  • Fort Bliss

    98

  • Love Is Strange

    99

  • Calvary

    100