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