Michael Phillips: 30 Best Movies of 2014, as published by The Chicago Tribune
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
- Winter Sleep — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
- The Lego Movie — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
- Listen Up Philip — Alex Ross Perry
- Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
- Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
- Dear White People — Justin Simien
- Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- 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