Year-End Lists

Richard Lawson: The 10 Best Movies of 2014, as published by Vanity Fair

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1. Love is Strange
   Ira Sachs
2. Mommy
   Xavier Dolan
3. Force Majeure
   Ruben Östlund
4. Citizenfour
   Laura Poitras
5. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
6. Selma
   Ava DuVernay
7. Snowpiercer
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Mr. Turner
   Mike Leigh
9. Pride
   Matthew Warchus
10. X-Men: Days of Future Past
    Bryan Singer

Best of the Rest

• Wild
  Jean-Marc Vallée
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• We Are the Best!
  Lukas Moodysson
• Ida
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  Matt Reeves
• Laggies
  Lynn Shelton
• Chef
  Jon Favreau
• Still Alice
  Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
• Under the Skin
  Jonathan Glazer
• The Theory of Everything
  James Marsh

Flood Magazine: Best Albums of 2014

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• The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
  Courtney Barnett
• Morning Phase
  Beck
• Burnt Offering
  The Budos Band
• Our Love
  Caribou
• Eagulls
  Eagulls
• Singles
  Future Islands
• Manipulator
  Ty Segall
• Lese Majesty
  Shabazz Palaces
• Run the Jewels 2
  Run the Jewels
• Lost in the Dream
  The War on Drugs

Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best Albums of 2014

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1. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
2. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
3. Too Bright
   Perfume Genius
4. Ultraviolence
   Lana Del Rey
5. Salad Days
   Mac DeMarco
6. You’re Dead!
   Flying Lotus
7. Manipulator
   Ty Segall
8. Morning Phase
   Beck
9. LP1
   FKA twigs
10. The Outsiders
    Eric Church

Amy Taubin: 10 Best Films of 2014, as published by Artforum

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1. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
2. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
3. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
4. Dreams are Colder than Death
   Arthur Jafa
5. Tales of the Grim Sleeper
   Nick Broomfield
6. Timbuktu
   Abderrahmane Sissako
7. Level Five
   Chris Marker
8. White God
   Kornél Mundruczó
9. Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
   Sam Fleischner
10. The Knick
    Steven Soderbergh

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2014, as published by Artforum

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1. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
2. Amour fou
   Jessica Hausner
3. Horse Money
   Pedro Costa
4. Das Spektrum Europas
   Cristi Puiu
5. Hill of Freedom
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Jauja
   Lisandro Alonso
7. The Tribe
   Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
8. Timbuktu
   Abderrahmane Sissako
9. Above and Below the Minhocão
   Mark Lewis
10. August Winds
    Gabriel Mascaro

J Hoberman: 10 Best Films of 2014, as published by Artforum

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1. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
2. Inherent Vice
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Ida
   Pawel Pawlikowski
4. The Americans
5. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
6. The Marx Brothers TV Collection (DVD)
   various artists
7. Die Farbe
   Sigmar Polke
8. Snowpiercer
   Bong Joon-ho
9. Maps to the Stars
   David Cronenberg
10. The Congress
    Ari Folman

Time Out London: 30 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2015]

1. Trouble in Paradise
   La Roux
2. Everyday Robots
   Damon Albarn
3. It’s Album Time
   Todd Terje
4. Commune
   Goat
5. Nabuma Rubberband
   Little Dragon
6. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
7. LP1
   FKA twigs
8. Ibibio Sound Machine
   Ibibio Sound Machine
9. Our Love
   Caribou
10. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
11. Jungle
    Jungle
12. Warpaint
    Warpaint
13. The Hum
    Hookworms
14. Royal Blood
    Royal Blood
15. 1989
    Taylor Swift
16. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
17. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
18. Everybody Down
    Kate Tempest
19. Under the Skin
    Mica Levi
20. Luminous
    The Horrors
21. Singles
    Future Islands
22. DSU
    (Sandy) Alex G
23. Syro
    Aphex Twin
24. My Favourite Faded Fantasy
    Damien Rice
25. Morning Phase
    Beck
26. Total Strife Forever
    East India Youth
27. Love Letters
    Metronomy
28. Nothing Important
    Richard Dawson
29. Wonder Where We Land
    SBTRKT
30. In the Lonely Hour
    Sam Smith

Jim DeRogatis: Top 40 Albums of 2014, as published by WBEZ and aired on Sound Opinions

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1. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
   Against Me!
2. Rips
   Ex Hex
3. Cry is for the Flies
   Le Butcherettes
4. Syro
   Aphex Twin
5. Dude Incredible
   Shellac
6. Poor People Are Revolting
   The Gotobeds
7. Glass Boys
   Fucked Up
8. Food
   Kelis
9. Sunbathing Animal
   Parquet Courts
10. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
11. Seeds
    TV on the Radio
12. Tweens
    Tweens
13. Just Be Free
    Big Freedia
14. Everyday Robots
    Damon Albarn
15. Brill Bruisers
    The New Pornographers
16. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
    Lucinda Williams
17. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
18. The Breaks
    Martin Carr
19. I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss
    Sinead O’Connor
20. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
21. Nikki Nack
    Tune-Yards
22. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
23. Whoop Dee Doo
    The Muffs
24. Lost In Alphaville
    The Rentals
25. Lazaretto
    Jack White
26. Blue Planet Eyes
    Preatures
27. V for Vaselines
    Vaselines
28. Sound Mirror
    Syd Arthur
29. Someday World
    Eno • Hyde
30. All Under
    Edvard Graham Lewis
31. I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
    Got A Girl
32. Everything Will Be Alright In the End
    Weezer
33. Bathtub Love Killings
    Olivia Jean
34. Beauty & Ruin
    Bob Mould
35. Somewhere Else
    Lydia Loveless
36. After the Disco
    Broken Bells
37. Underneath the Rainbow
    Black Lips
38. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
39. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
40. Popular Problems
    Leonard Cohen

Greg Kot: Top 20 Albums of 2014, as published by The Chicago Tribune and aired on Sound Opinions

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1. Food
   Kelis
2. Under Color of Official Right
   Protomartyr
3. Benjamin Booker
   Benjamin Booker
4. The London Sessions
   Mary J. Blige
5. Attica!
   Wussy
6. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
7. LP1
   FKA twigs
8. Somewhere Else
   Lydia Loveless
9. Blue Planet Eyes
   Preatures
10. Warpaint
    Warpaint
11. Beauty & Ruin
    Bob Mould
12. Commune
    Goat
13. The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
    Courtney Barnett
14. Grass Punks
    Tom Brosseau
15. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts
16. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
17. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
    Lucinda Williams
18. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    Sturgill Simpson
19. Wild Onion
    Twin Peaks
20. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2014

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Fiction

• All the Light We Cannot See
  Anthony Doerr
• Dept. of Speculation
  Jenny Offill
• Euphoria
  Lily King
• Family Life
  Akhil Sharma
• Redeployment
  Phil Klay

Nonfiction

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
  Roz Chast
• On Immunity

  An Inoculation
  Eula Biss
• Penelope Fitzgerald

  A Life
  Hermione Lee
• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Thirteen Days in September

  The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
  Lawrence Wright