2014 Top Ten List
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Bird People (Pascale Ferran)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Last Days in Vietnam (Rory Kennedy)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Rose Wilder)
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent)
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur)
Additional 2014 Films By Rating
Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
Heaven Knows What (Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie)
Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski)
The Mend (John Magary)
Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming Liang)
Court (Chaitanya Tamhane)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
The Drop (Michaël R. Roskam)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor)
'71 (Yann Demange)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Life Itself (Steve James)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson)
The Salvation (Kristian Levring)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Get On Up (Tate Taylor)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
The Battered Bastards of Baseball (Chapman Way & Maclain Way)
Selma (Ava DuVernay)
Far From Men (David Oelhoffen)
In the Name of My Daughter (André Téchiné)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
God's Pocket (John Slattery)
Angels of Revolution (Alexey Fedorchenko)
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
Gabriel (Lou Howe)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón)
If You Don't, I Will (Sophie Fillières)
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)
The Fool (Yuriy Bykov)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
The Humbling (Barry Levinson)
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
Honeymoon (Leigh Janiak)
They Came Together (David Wain)
The Heart Machine (Zachary Wigon)
What We Did on Our Holiday (Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin)
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
Actress (Robert Greene)
Predestination (The Spierig Brothers)
The Internet's Own Boy (Brian Knappenberger)
H. (Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia)
The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan)
The Little Death (Josh Lawson)
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Pride (Matthew Warchus)
The Longest Week (Peter Glanz)
5 Flights Up (Richard Loncraine)
She's Lost Control (Anja Marquardt)
Hercules (Brett Ratner)
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou)
The Two Faces of January (Hossein Amimi)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
The Interview (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg)
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)
Private Violence (Cynthia Hill)
The Yes Men Are Revolting (Laura Nix & The Yes Men)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Paddington (Paul King)
Over Your Dead Body (Takashi Miike)
Love at First Fight (Thomas Cailley)
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Maleficent (Robert Stromberg)
Lucy (Luc Besson)
Dear White People (Justin Simien)
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
Faults (Riley Stearns)
Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Kenneth Branagh)
Man From Reno (Dave Boyle)
Break Point (Jay Karas)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Dead Snow: Red vs Dead (Tommy Wirkola)
Into the Woods (Rob Marshall)
Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Jackie & Ryan (Ami Canaan Mann)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
The Trip to Italy (Michael Winterbottom)
The Mule (Tony Mahony)
Big Eyes (Tim Burton)
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (Seth MacFarlane)
La Sapienza (Eugène Green)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)
Match (Stephen Belber)
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony & Joe Russo)
Housebound (Gerard Johnstone)
Unfriended (Leo Gabriadze)
Félix & Meira (Maxime Giroux)
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner)
Queen & Country (John Boorman)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen)
Kelly & Cal (Jen McGowan)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
Cold in July (Jim Mickle)
Alléluia (Fabrice Du Welz)
WHITEY: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger (Joe Berlinger)
Extraterrestrial (Colin Minihan)
Laggies (Lynn Shelton)
Spring (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
Lost River (Ryan Gosling)
Hyena (Gerard Johnson)
The Vanished Elephant (2014, Javier Fuentes-León)
5 to 7 (Victor Levin)
Camp X-Ray (Peter Sattler)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield)
My America (Hal Hartley)
Luna (Dave McKean)
Paradise Lost (Andrea di Stefano)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
Two Night Stand (Max Nichols)
Digging Up the Marrow (Adam Green)
The Connection (Cédric Jimenez)
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
The 50 Year Argument (Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi)
The One I Love (Charlie McDowell)
Dig Two Graves (Hunter Adams)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven)
Before I Disappear (Shawn Christensen)
My Old Lady (Israel Horovitz)
Little Accidents (Sara Colangelo)
St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)
The Green Prince (Nadav Schirman)
And So It Goes (Rob Reiner)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
Devil's Due (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
Creep (Patrick Brice)
Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs)
10,000 KM (Carlos Marquet-Marcet)
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
Cymbeline (Michael Almereyda)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki)
Rage (Paco Cabezas)
Futuro Beach (Karim Aïnouz)
Fury (David Ayer)
This Is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy)
Testament of Youth (James Kent)
Son of a Gun (Julius Avery)
Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood)
24 Days (Alexandre Arcady)
Fed Up (Stephanie Soechtig)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Captive (Atom Egoyan)
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
About Alex (Jesse Zwick)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)
The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans)
Misunderstood (Asia Argento)
The Better Angels (A.J. Edwards)
The Great Invisible (Margaret Brown)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb)
Happy Valley (Amir Bar-Lev)
Fishing Without Nets (Cutter Hodierne)
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase)
Lilting (Hong Khaou)
The 11th Hour (Anders Morgenthaler)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Revenge of the Green Dragons (Andrew Lau & Andrew Loo)
Alex of Venice (Chris Messina)
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (Jeremy Whelehan)
Marie's Story (Jean-Pierre Améris)
That Lovely Girl (Keren Yedaya)
Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes)
Life of Riley (Alain Resnais)
Low Down (Jeff Preiss)
Jamesy Boy (Trevor White)
While We're Young (Noah Baumbach)
Black Souls (Francesco Munzi)
X/Y (Ryan Piers Williams)
Effie Gray (Richard Laxton)
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood)
Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach)
Alive Inside (Michael Rossato-Bennett)
Cuban Fury (James Griffiths)
October Gale (Ruba Nadda)
Growing Up and Other Lies (Darren Grodsky & Danny Jacobs)
A Long Way Down (Pascal Chaumeil)
Five Star (Keith Miller)
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Kiah Roache-Turner)
Song One (Kate Barker-Froyland)
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
21 Years: Richard Linklater (Michael Dunaway)
The Rover (David Michôd)
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet)
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
3 Hearts (Benoît Jacquot)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Starry Eyes (Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer)
Moms' Night Out (The Erwin Brothers)
White God (Kornél Mundruzcó)
Shelter (Paul Bettany)
Boulevard (Dito Montiel)
Sex Tape (Jake Kasdan)
Kill Me Three Times (Kriv Stenders)
Barefoot (Andrew Fleming)
Wish I Was Here (Zach Braff)
The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig)
Good People (Henrik Ruben Genz)
All the Wilderness (Michael Johnson)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
Before I Go to Sleep (Rowan Joffé)
Life After Beth (Jeff Baena)
Love, Rosie (Christian Ditter)
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)
An Open Secret (Amy Berg)
Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan)
Time out of Mind (Oren Moverman)
Automata (Gabe Ibáñez)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
The Forger (Philip Martin)
Young Ones (Jake Paltrow)
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand)
Tusk (Kevin Smith)
Glassland (Gerard Barrett)
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol)
Hit by Lightning (Ricky Blitt)
Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Peter Chelsom)
Breastmilk (Dana Ben-Ari)
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius)
Freezer (Mikael Salomon)
Affluenza (Kevin Asch)
Men, Women & Children (Jason Reitman)
War Story (Mark Jackson)
Blackbird (Patrik-Ian Polk)
Premature (Dan Beers)
Dark House (Victor Salva)
Persecuted (Daniel Lusko)
For the Plasma (Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan)
The Bag Man (David Grovic)
Miss Meadows (Karen Leigh Hopkins)
Panic 5 Bravo (Kuno Becker)

if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check