Year-End Lists

Wesley Morris: Top 30 Movies of 2014, as published by Grantland

[see also 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Norte, the End of History — Lav Diaz
2. Selma — Ava DuVernay
3. Citizenfour — Laura Poitras
4. Land Ho! — Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz
5. Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Edge of Tomorrow — Doug Liman
7. Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
8. The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
9. Nymphomaniac — Lars von Trier
10. Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie

20 more that easily could be one of the 10

• 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