Andrew O’Hehir: 21 Best Movies of 2014, as published by Salon
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- Leviathan — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Winter Sleep — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Homesman — Tommy Lee Jones
- Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
- Snowpiercer — Bong Joon-ho
- The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
- The Immigrant — James Gray
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — Ana Lily Amirpour
- 20,000 Days On Earth — Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
- Birdman — Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Citizenfour — Laura Poitras
- Concerning Violence — Göran Olsson
- Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
- Goodbye to Language 3D — Jean-Luc Godard
- Love is Strange — Ira Sachs
- Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
- The Overnighters — Jesse Moss
- Selma — Ava DuVernay
- Whiplash — Damien Chazelle