Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2014 (as voted by 220 critics)

NOTE: Although there appear to be a few ties in the list when you examine the scores, IndieWire presents the films in this order, with no ties.

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
2. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
4. Birdman — Alejandro G. Iñárritu
5. Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Goodbye to Language 3D — Jean-Luc Godard
7. Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
8. Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
9. Only Lovers Left Alive — Jim Jarmusch
10. Selma — Ava DuVernay
11. Gone Girl — David Fincher
12. Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
13. The Immigrant — James Gray
14. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
15. Snowpiercer — Bong Joon-ho
16. Nightcrawler — Dan Gilroy
17. Listen Up Philip — Alex Ross Perry
18. Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
19. The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
20. Citizenfour — Laura Poitras
21. MANAKAMANA — Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
22. Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
23. Stray Dogs — Tsai Ming-liang
24. Calvary — John Michael McDonagh
25. We Are the Best! — Lukas Moodysson
26. A Most Violent Year — J.C. Chandor
27. Closed Curtain — Kambuzia Partovi and Jafar Panahi
28. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — Isao Takahata
29. Winter Sleep — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
30. Foxcatcher — Bennett Miller
31. Norte, the End of History — Lav Diaz
32. Mommy — Xavier Dolan
33. Blue Ruin — Jeremy Saulnier
34. Leviathan — Andrey Zvyagintsev
35. Life Itself — Steve James
36. The Strange Little Cat — Ramon Zürcher
37. Love is Strange — Ira Sachs
38. The Lego Movie — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
39. Interstellar — Christopher Nolan
40. National Gallery — Frederick Wiseman
41. The Overnighters — Jesse Moss
42. Guardians of the Galaxy — James Gunn
43. Locke — Steven Knight
44. What Now? Remind Me — Joaquim Pinto
45. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — Ana Lily Amirpour
46. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 — Lars von Trier
47. The Missing Picture — Rithy Panh
48. The Imitation Game — Morten Tyldum
49. The Last of the Unjust — Claude Lanzmann
50. Wild — Jean-Marc Vallée