Wesley Morris: Top 30 Movies of 2014, as published by Grantland
- Norte, the End of History — Lav Diaz
- Selma — Ava DuVernay
- Citizenfour — Laura Poitras
- Land Ho! — Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz
- Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Edge of Tomorrow — Doug Liman
- Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
- The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
- Nymphomaniac — Lars von Trier
- Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
- Actress — Robert Greene
- Birdman — Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Bird People — Pascale Ferran
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- Dear White People — Justin Simien
- The Double — Richard Ayoade
- Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
- The Last of the Unjust — Claude Lanzmann
- Love is Strange — Ira Sachs
- MANAKAMANA — Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
- Mr. Turner — Mike Leigh
- National Gallery — Frederick Wiseman
- Non-Stop — Jaume Collet-Serra
- The Overnighters — Jesse Moss
- Pride — Matthew Warchus
- The Raid 2 — Gareth Evans
- Snowpiercer — Bong Joon-ho
- Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
- Wild — Jean-Marc Vallée