Year-End Lists

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2014 Movies

The Dissolve: 20 Best Films of 2014

19 December 2014

Boyhood - Richard Linklater

The Dissolve: 20 Best Films of 2014

[see also 2013]

  1. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
  3. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
  4. Whiplash
    Damien Chazelle
  5. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
  6. Life Itself
    Steve James
  7. Two Days, One Night
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  8. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
  9. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
  10. Selma
    Ava DuVernay
  11. Nightcrawler
    Dan Gilroy
  12. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
  13. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  14. Obvious Child
    Gillian Robespierre
  15. The Lego Movie
    Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
  16. Bird People
    Pascale Ferran
  17. Guardians of the Galaxy
    James Gunn
  18. The Missing Picture
    Rithy Panh
  19. Blue Ruin
    Jeremy Saulnier
  20. Listen Up Philip
    Alex Ross Perry

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