Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: 30 Best Movies of 2014, as published by The Chicago Tribune

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]

1. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
3. Winter Sleep — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
4. Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
5. The Lego Movie — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
6. Listen Up Philip — Alex Ross Perry
7. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
8. Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
9. Dear White People — Justin Simien
10. Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie

Nos. 11-30 (in alphabetical order)

• The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
• Black Box — Stephen Cone
• Finding Vivian Maier — John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
• Frank — Lenny Abrahamson
• Get on Up — Tate Taylor
• Goodbye to Language 3D — Jean-Luc Godard
• Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
• Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Le Week-End — Roger Michell
• Life Itself — Steve James
• Love is Strange — Ira Sachs
• Low Down — Jeff Preiss
• The Missing Picture — Rithy Panh
• National Gallery — Frederick Wiseman
• Obvious Child — Gillian Robespierre
• The Overnighters — Jesse Moss
• Selma — Ava DuVernay
• Snowpiercer — Bong Joon-ho
• The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
• Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer