Ben Sachs: 30 Favorite Films of 2014, as published by The Chicago Reader
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
- Rambleras — Daniela Speranza
- Mood Indigo — Michel Gondry
- Starred Up — David Mackenzie
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- What Now? Remind Me — Joaquim Pinto
- Breakfast with Curtis — Laura Colella
- Jimmy P. — Arnaud Desplechin
- Thy Womb — Brillante Mendoza
- Gone Girl — David Fincher
- Only Lovers Left Alive — Jim Jarmusch
- The Golden Era — Ann Hui
- Level Five — Chris Marker
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- Camille Claudel 1915 — Bruno Dumont
- The President — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- The Amazing Catfish — Claudia Sainte-Luce
- The Stuart Hall Project — John Akomfrah
- The Homesman — Tommy Lee Jones
- Listen Up Philip — Alex Ross Perry
- Beyond the Lights — Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
- Non-Stop — Jaume Collet-Serra
- Words and Pictures — Fred Schepisi
- Exhibition — Joanna Hogg
- The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
- Gloria — Sebastián Lelio
- Corner Stores — Amina Waheed
- Nymphomaniac — Lars von Trier
- National Gallery — Frederick Wiseman