Dana Stevens: Top 20 Movies of 2014, as published by Slate
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
- Gone Girl — David Fincher
- Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
- The Lego Movie — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
- Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
- The Missing Picture — Rithy Panh
- Selma — Ava DuVernay
- We Are the Best! — Lukas Moodysson
Top Ten, in alphabetical order
- Blue Ruin — Jeremy Saulnier
- Child’s Pose — Cãlin Peter Netzer
- The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
- Happy Valley — Amir Bar-Lev
- Life Itself — Steve James
- Locke — Steven Knight
- Night Moves — Kelly Reichardt
- Obvious Child — Gillian Robespierre
- Only Lovers Left Alive — Jim Jarmusch
- Snowpiercer — Bong Joon-ho