Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2014 (as voted by 220 critics)

NOTE: Although there appear to be a few ties in the list when you examine the scores, IndieWire presents the films in this order, with no ties.

1. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
2. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
   Wes Anderson
4. Birdman
   Alejandro G. Iñárritu
5. Inherent Vice
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
7. Ida
   Pawel Pawlikowski
8. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
9. Only Lovers Left Alive
   Jim Jarmusch
10. Selma
    Ava DuVernay
11. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
12. Two Days, One Night
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
13. The Immigrant
    James Gray
14. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
15. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
16. Nightcrawler
    Dan Gilroy
17. Listen Up Philip
    Alex Ross Perry
18. Mr. Turner
    Mike Leigh
19. The Babadook
    Jennifer Kent
20. Citizenfour
    Laura Poitras
21. MANAKAMANA
    Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
22. Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie
23. Stray Dogs
    Tsai Ming-liang
24. Calvary
    John Michael McDonagh
25. We Are the Best!
    Lukas Moodysson
26. A Most Violent Year
    J.C. Chandor
27. Closed Curtain
    Kambuzia Partovi and Jafar Panahi
28. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    Isao Takahata
29. Winter Sleep
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
30. Foxcatcher
    Bennett Miller
31. Norte, the End of History
    Lav Diaz
32. Mommy
    Xavier Dolan
33. Blue Ruin
    Jeremy Saulnier
34. Leviathan
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
35. Life Itself
    Steve James
36. The Strange Little Cat
    Ramon Zürcher
37. Love is Strange
    Ira Sachs
38. The Lego Movie
    Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
39. Interstellar
    Christopher Nolan
40. National Gallery
    Frederick Wiseman
41. The Overnighters
    Jesse Moss
42. Guardians of the Galaxy
    James Gunn
43. Locke
    Steven Knight
44. What Now? Remind Me
    Joaquim Pinto
45. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    Ana Lily Amirpour
46. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
    Lars von Trier
47. The Missing Picture
    Rithy Panh
48. The Imitation Game
    Morten Tyldum
49. The Last of the Unjust
    Claude Lanzmann
50. Wild
    Jean-Marc Vallée