Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: 30 Best Movies of 2014, as published by The Chicago Tribune

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1. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
   Wes Anderson
3. Winter Sleep
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
4. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
5. The Lego Movie
   Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
6. Listen Up Philip
   Alex Ross Perry
7. Force Majeure
   Ruben Östlund
8. Mr. Turner
   Mike Leigh
9. Dear White People
   Justin Simien
10. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie

Nos. 11-30 (in alphabetical order)

• 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
  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

Dana Stevens: Top 20 Movies of 2014, as published by Slate

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Top Ten, in alphabetical order

• The Babadook
  Jennifer Kent
• Boyhood
  Richard Linklater
• Force Majeure
  Ruben Östlund
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Ida
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Lego Movie
  Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
• Mr. Turner
  Mike Leigh
• The Missing Picture
  Rithy Panh
• Selma
  Ava DuVernay
• We Are the Best!
  Lukas Moodysson

10 Runners-Up (alphabetically)

• Blue Ruin
  Jeremy Saulnier
• Child’s Pose
  Cãlin Peter Netzer
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
  Wes Anderson
• Happy Valley
  Amir Bar-Lev
• Life Itself
  Steve James
• Locke
  Steven Knight
• Night Moves
  Kelly Reichardt
• Obvious Child
  Gillian Robespierre
• Only Lovers Left Alive
  Jim Jarmusch
• Snowpiercer
  Bong Joon-ho

Ben Sachs: 30 Favorite Films of 2014, as published by The Chicago Reader

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1. The Wind Rises
   Hayao Miyazaki
2. Rambleras
   Daniela Speranza
3. Mood Indigo
   Michel Gondry
4. Starred Up
   David Mackenzie
5. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
6. What Now? Remind Me
   Joaquim Pinto
7. Breakfast with Curtis
   Laura Colella
8. Jimmy P.
   Arnaud Desplechin
9. Thy Womb
   Brillante Mendoza
10. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
11. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
12. The Golden Era
    Ann Hui
13. Level Five
    Chris Marker
14. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
15. Camille Claudel 1915
    Bruno Dumont
16. The President
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
17. The Amazing Catfish
    Claudia Sainte-Luce
18. The Stuart Hall Project
    John Akomfrah
19. The Homesman
    Tommy Lee Jones
20. Listen Up Philip
    Alex Ross Perry
21. Beyond the Lights
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
22. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
23. Non-Stop
    Jaume Collet-Serra
24. Words and Pictures
    Fred Schepisi
25. Exhibition
    Joanna Hogg
26. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
27. Gloria
    Sebastián Lelio
28. Corner Stores
    Amina Waheed
29. Nymphomaniac
    Lars von Trier
30. National Gallery
    Frederick Wiseman

Andrew O’Hehir: 21 Best Movies of 2014, as published by Salon

[see also 2012 • 2011]

1. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
2. Leviathan
   Andrey Zvyagintsev
3. Inherent Vice
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Winter Sleep
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
5. The Homesman
   Tommy Lee Jones
6. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
7. Snowpiercer
   Bong Joon-ho
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
   Wes Anderson
9. The Immigrant
   James Gray
10. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    Ana Lily Amirpour
11. 20,000 Days On Earth
    Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order)

• Birdman
  Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• Citizenfour
  Laura Poitras
• Concerning Violence
  Göran Olsson
• Force Majeure
  Ruben Östlund
• Goodbye to Language
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Love is Strange
  Ira Sachs
• Mr. Turner
  Mike Leigh
• The Overnighters
  Jesse Moss
• Selma
  Ava DuVernay
• Whiplash
  Damien Chazelle

Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014

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1. Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
   The Twilight Sad
2. Are We There
   Sharon Van Etten
3. 1989
   Taylor Swift
4. July
   Marissa Nadler
5. Crosses
   ††† (Crosses)
6. Alvvays
   Alvvays
7. Eagulls
   Eagulls
8. More Than Any Other Day
   Ought
9. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
10. To Be Kind
    Swans
11. Here and Nowhere Else
    Cloud Nothings
12. Rave tapes
    Mogwai
13. El Pintor
    Interpol
14. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
15. LP1
    FKA twigs
16. Romantic Works
    Keaton Henson
17. Atomos
    A Winged Victory For The Sullen
18. The Hum
    Hookworms
19. Total Strife Forever
    East India Youth
20. The Future’s Void
    EMA
21. Singles
    Future Islands
22. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
23. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
24. Ruins
    Grouper
25. Punish, Honey
    Vessel
26. Blood Red Shoes
    Blood Red Shoes
27. Art Official Age
    Prince
27. PLECTRUMELECTRUM
    Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL
28. Chiaroscuro
    I Break Horses
29. The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
    Eels
30. Blood
    Pulled Apart By Horses
31. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
32. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
33. Kiasmos
    Kiasmos
34. Futurology
    Manic Street Preachers
35. A U R O R A
    Ben Frost
36. Mess
    Liars
37. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
38. Familiars
    The Antlers
39. Strange Friend
    The Phantom Band
40. Inventions
    Invensions
41. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
42. Dead
    Young Fathers
43. Pe’ahi
    The Raveonettes
44. Angels & Devils
    The Bug
45. Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
46. IX
    …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
47. Never Hungover Again
    Joyce Manor
48. Syro
    Aphex Twin
49. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
    Thom Yorke
50. Two
    Owls

J.R. Jones: 20 Favorite Movies of 2014, as published by The Chicago Reader

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1. Ida
   Pawel Pawlikowski
2. Calvary
   John Michael McDonagh
3. Norte, the End of History
   Lav Diaz
4. Two Days, One Night
   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
5. Night Moves
   Kelly Reichardt
6. Last Days in Vietnam
   Rory Kennedy
7. Joe
   David Gordon Green
8. The Kill Team
   Dan Krauss
9. Everyday
   Michael Winterbottom
10. Cheap Thrills
    E.L. Katz
11. Foxcatcher
    Bennett Miller
12. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    Ned Benson
13. A Girl at My Door
    July Jung
14. Citizenfour
    Laura Poitras
15. Nymphomaniac
    Lars von Trier
16. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
17. The Overnighters
    Jesse Moss
18. In Secret
    Charlie Stratton
19. Gloria
    Sebastián Lelio
20. Tim’s Vermeer
    Teller

Inkoo Kang: The Ten Best TV Shows of 2014, as published by The Village Voice

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1. Transparent
2. Game of Thrones
3. Orange is the New Black
4. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
5. Mad Men
6. Inside Amy Schumer
7. Olive Kitteridge
8. Veep
9. Bob’s Burgers
10. 30 for 30, "The Price of Gold"

Jane Ciabattari: The 10 Best Books of 2014 as published by BBC Culture

[see also 2016 • 2015 • 2013]

1. Euphoria
   Lily King
2. Lila
   Marilynne Robinson
3. An Untamed State
   Roxane Gay
4. Some Luck
   Jane Smiley
5. Wonderland
   Stacey D'Erasmo
6. The Kills

   Sutler, The Massive, The Kill, and The Hit
   Richard House
7. Penelope Fitzgerald

   A Life
   Hermione Lee
8. The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
   Rebecca Solnit
9. Nora Webster
   Colm Tóibín
10. A Brief History of Seven Killings
    Marlon James

Mark Kermode: Top Ten Films of 2014, as aired on BBC’s Kermode Uncut

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1. The Babadook
   Jennifer Kent
2. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
3. Frank
   Lenny Abrahamson
4. Belle
   Amma Asante
5. The Golden Dream
   Diego Quemada-Díez
6. Pride
   Matthew Warchus
7. Maps to the Stars
   David Cronenberg
8. The Past
   Asghar Farhadi
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel
   Wes Anderson
10. Interstellar
    Christopher Nolan
10. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer

Mara Reinstein: Top 10 Movies of 2014, as published by Us Weekly

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1. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
2. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
3. Gone Girl
   David Fincher
4. Foxcatcher
   Bennett Miller
5. The Theory of Everything
   James Marsh
6. Nightcrawler
   Dan Gilroy
7. Wild
   Jean-Marc Vallée
8. American Sniper
   Clint Eastwood
9. The Fault in Our Stars
   Josh Boone
10. Edge of Tomorrow
    Doug Liman