2014 in Films
Format adapted from Charles François, who I still hope will one day rediscover his cinephilia and start hanging out with myself and the Skandies crew again. It’s been ten years since he last used it and I hereby declare it in the public domain.
Combine the first two columns for a list of films
released in 2014, and the last two columns for films seen in 2014.
Ordering is preferential when ratings are identical.
Seen Previously
Movies I saw in 2013 {or before} that were released in the U.S. in 2014.
Films not yet released but currently scheduled for this year are indicated by a (→). |
Seen in 2014
Movies I saw shortly before, during or after their 2014 U.S. run.
Asterisks (*) indicate films seen prior to their actual release. TV-only
"runs" (arbitrarily deemed eligible) get a (†). |
To Be Released
Movies I saw in 2014 which are still awaiting a U.S. release. Those known
to have lined up distribution are indicated by a (→). Production {year} is listed if film is more than 2 years old. |
A For All Time
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→ The Duke of Burgundy
(Strickland) 91 |
A- Event
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*Two Days, One Night
(Dardennes) 84 |
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B+/A- Near Great
| Under the Skin (Glazer)
79 |
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B+ Must See
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Anderson) 76 |
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*Last Days in Vietnam
(Kennedy) 75 |
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→ It Follows
(Mitchell) 74 |
| The Missing Picture (Panh)
73 |
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B/B+ Warmly Recommended
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Tu dors Nicole
(Lafleur) 71 |
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*Lucky Them
(Griffiths) 71 |
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| The Strange Little Cat
(Zürcher) 70 |
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Edge of Tomorrow
(Liman) 70 |
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→ Heaven Knows What
(Safdies) 70 |
B Recommended
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*Nymph()maniac Vol. I
(Von Trier) 69 |
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Finding Vivian Maier
(Maloof, Siskel) 69 |
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| Only Lovers Left Alive
(Jarmusch) 69 |
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*Zero Motivation
(Lavie) 68 |
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Journey to the West
(Tsai) 68 |
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→ Clouds of Sils Maria
(Assayas) 67 |
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*In Bloom
(Ekvtimishvili, Gross) 67 |
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*A Most Violent Year
(Chandor) 67 |
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| Ernest & Celestine (Renner,
Aubier, Patar) 67 |
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| Young & Beautiful (Ozon)
66 |
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*National Gallery
(Wiseman) 66 |
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Song of the Sea
(Moore) 66 |
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Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of
Ignorance) (G. Iñárritu) 66 |
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Hill of Freedom
(Hong) 65 |
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The Lego Movie
(Lord, Miller) 65 |
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
(Jackson) 65 |
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The Dog
(Berg, Keraudren) 65 |
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→ The Salvation
(Levring) 65 |
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*Leviathan
(Zvyagintsev) 64 |
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Tanta agua
(Guevara, Jorge) 64 |
| We Are the Best!
(Moodysson) 64 |
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball
(Ways) 64 |
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Far From Men
(Oelhoffen) 64 |
B-/B Recommended with Mild Reservations
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→ In the Name of My Daughter
(Téchiné) 63 |
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*God's Pocket (Slattery)
63 |
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Angels of Revolution
(Fedorchenko) 63 |
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*Nightcrawler
(Gilroy) 63 |
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*Force Majeure
(Östlund) 63 |
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The Wonders
(Rohrwacher) 62 |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
(Lawrence) 62 |
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The Skeleton Twins (Johnson)
62 |
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→ Wild Tales
(Szifrón) 62 |
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*If You Don't, I Will
(Fillières) 62 |
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*The Salt of the Earth
(Wenders, Rebeiro Salgado) 62 |
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Starred Up (Mackenzie)
61 |
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| Abuse of Weakness
(Breillat) 61 |
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| Venus in Fur (Polanski)
61 |
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B- Recommended with Strong Reservations
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The Heart Machine
(Wigon) 60 |
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*Citizenfour
(Poitras) 60 |
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| Closed Curtain (Panahi,
Partovi) 60 |
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*The Internet's Own Boy
(Knappenberger) 60 |
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The Blue Room
(Amalric) 59 |
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*Le Week-end
(Michell) 59 |
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Black Coal, Thin Ice
(Diao) 59 |
| The Strange Color of Your Body's
Tears (Cattet, Forzani) 58 |
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| Dom Hemingway
(Shepard) 58 |
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*The Longest Week
(Glanz) 58 |
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*The Imitation Game
(Tyldum) 58 |
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Particle Fever (Levinson) 57 |
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*The Two Faces of January
(Amini) 57 |
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The Interview (Rogen, Goldberg)
57 |
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Goodnight Mommy
(Franz, Fiala) 57 |
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*Watermark (Baichwal,
Burtynsky) 57 |
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*Hide Your Smiling Faces
(Carbone) 57 |
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*2 Autumns, 3 Winters
(Betbeder) 57 |
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Private Violence
(Hill) 57 |
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Over Your Dead Body
(Miike) 56 |
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Love at First Fight
(Cailley) 56 |
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*Journey to the West: Conquering
the Demons (Chow) 56 |
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Soldate Jeannette
(Hoesl) 56 |
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Alan Partridge
(Lowney) 56 |
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*Burning Bush (Holland) 56 |
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Maleficent (Stromberg) 55 |
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*Winter Sleep
(Ceylan) 55 |
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Dear White People
(Simien) 55 |
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→ P'tit Quinquin
(Dumont) 55 |
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Guardians of the Galaxy
(Gunn) 55 |
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*Veronica Mars
(Thomas) 55 |
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
(Branagh) 55 |
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*12 O'Clock Boys
(Nathan) 55 |
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C+/B- On the Fence, Leaning Forward
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*Goodbye to Language
(Godard) 54 |
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*Dead Snow: Red vs Dead
(Wirkola) 54 |
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*Into the Woods
(Marshall) 54 |
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*Obvious Child
(Robespierre) 54 |
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→ A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting
on Existence (Andersson) 54 |
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*The Trip to Italy
(Winterbottom) 54 |
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| The Unknown Known
(Morris) 54 |
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| Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael
Kohlhaas (Des Pallières) 54 |
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*Afflicted (Prowse, Lee)
53 |
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*A Master Builder (Demme)
53 |
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Still Alice (Glatzer,
Westmoreland) 53 |
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
(MacFarlane) 53 |
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The New Girlfriend
(Ozon) 53 |
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The Best Offer (Tornatore)
53 |
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Housebound (Johnstone)
53 |
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→ The Look of Silence
(Oppenheimer)
52 |
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Magic in the Moonlight
(Allen) 52 |
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*Kelly & Cal
(McGowan) 52 |
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
(Reeves) 52 |
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*Cold in July (Mickle)
52 |
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*WHITEY: United States of America vs.
James J. Bulger (Berlinger)
52 |
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| Borgman (Van
Warmerdam) 52 |
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*Extraterrestrial (Minihan)
52 |
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| Me and You (Bertolucci) 52 |
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C+ Take It or Leave It
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*The Galápagos Affair: Satan Came
to Eden (Geller, Goldfine) 51 |
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Spring
(Benson, Moorhead) 51 |
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The Vanished Elephant
(Fuentes-León) 51 |
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*Tales of the Grim Sleeper
(Broomfield) 51 |
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*Magical Universe (Workman)
51 |
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*Horses of God (Ayouch) 51 |
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*Child's Pose
(Netzer) 51 |
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| Stranger by the Lake
(Guiraudie) 50 |
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*Two Night Stand
(Nichols) 50 |
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*It Felt Like Love
(Hittman) 50 |
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*May in the Summer
(Dabis) 50 |
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*Beloved Sisters
(Graf) 50 |
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*Little Feet
(Rockwell) 50 |
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| The Last of the Unjust
(Lanzmann) 50 |
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*The French Minister
(Tavernier) 50 |
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*The Last of Robin Hood
(Glatzer, Westmoreland) 50 |
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The 50 Year Argument
(Scorsese, Tedeschi) 50 |
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*The One I Love
(McDowell) 49 |
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Two Shots Fired
(Rejtman) 49 |
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*Before I Disappear
(Christensen) 49 |
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My Old Lady
(Horovitz) 49 |
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*The Green Prince
(Schirman) 49 |
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| Night Moves
(Reichardt) 49 |
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And So It Goes
(Reiner) 49 |
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*A Fantastic Fear of Everything
(Mills) 49 |
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→ Saint Laurent
(Bonello) 49 |
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Devil's Due (Bettinelli-Olpin,
Gillett)
48 |
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Love Is Strange (Sachs)
48 |
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*Chinese Puzzle (Klapisch)
48 |
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*White Bird in a Blizzard
(Araki) 48 |
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| Story of My Death
(Serra) 48 |
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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
(Takahata) 47 |
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*This Is Where I Leave You
(Levy) 47 |
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Jersey Boys (Eastwood)
47 |
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*The Pretty One (LaMarque)
47 |
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*Gabrielle (Archambault)
47 |
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*Beneath the Harvest Sky
(Gaudet, Pullapilly) 47 |
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Listen Up Philip
(Perry) 46 |
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*The Art of the Steal (Sobol)
46 |
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Whitewash (Hoss-Desmarais)
46 |
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*Fading Gigolo (Turturro)
46 |
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*Web Junkie (Shlam, Medalia)
46 |
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C/C+ On the Fence, Leaning Backward
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*The Better Angels
(Edwards) 45 |
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*Bicycling With Molière
(Le Guay) 45 |
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*The Great Invisible (Brown)
44 |
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*Half of a Yellow Sun (Bandele)
44 |
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*Happy Valley (Bar-Lev)
44 |
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*Fishing Without Nets (Hodierne)
44 |
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Still the Water
(Kawase) 44 |
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The Summer of Flying Fish
(Said) 44 |
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*24 Exposures (Swanberg)
44 |
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*The Face of Love
(Posin) 43 |
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*The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier)
(Szász) 43 |
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*Revenge of the Green Dragons
(Lau, Loo) 43 |
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*NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
(Whelehan) 43 |
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That Lovely Girl
(Yedaya) 43 |
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*Life of Riley
(Resnais) 43 |
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C Pass
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*Salvo
(Grassadonia, Piazza) 42 |
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→ While We're Young
(Baumbach) 42 |
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*Bad Turn Worse
(Hawkinses) 42 |
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*A Fragile Trust
(Grant) 42 |
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| Like Father, Like Son
(Kore-eda) 42 |
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*The German Doctor
(Puenzo) 42 |
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| The Truth About Emanuel
(Gregorini) 41 |
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*American Sniper
(Eastwood) 41 |
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→ Jimmy's Hall
(Loach) 41 |
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*Alive Inside
(Rossato-Bennett) 41 |
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*Cuban Fury
(Griffiths) 41 |
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*Somewhere Slow
(O'Keefe) 41 |
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*Pioneer
(Skjoldbjærg) 40 |
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*A Long Way Down
(Chaumeil) 40 |
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*21 Years: Richard Linklater
(Dunaway) 40 |
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Return to Ithaca
(Cantet) 40 |
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→ The Princess of France
(Piñeiro) 39 |
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The Railway Man
(Teplitzky) 39 |
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*Inherent Vice
(Anderson) 39 |
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*Girl on a Bicycle
(Leven) 39 |
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The Kill Team
(Krauss) 38 |
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*Starry Eyes
(Kölsch, Widmyer) 38 |
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*Moms' Night Out
(Erwin Brothers) 38 |
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→ White God
(Mundruzcó) 38 |
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*Hateship Loveship
(Johnson) 38 |
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*The Liberator
(Arvelo) 37 |
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*Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
(Fleischner) 37 |
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C- Ugh
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Wish I Was Here
(Braff) 36 |
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The Dance of Reality
(Jodorowsky) 36 |
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*A Field in England (Wheatley)
36 |
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*Nymph()maniac Part II (Von
Trier) 35 |
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*Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
(To) 35 |
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→ Maps to the Stars
(Cronenberg) 35 |
| Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains
Indian (Desplechin) 35 |
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Before I Go to Sleep (Joffé)
34 |
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*Life After Beth (Baena) 34 |
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*The Zero Theorem (Gilliam)
34 |
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| Beyond Outrage (Kitano) 34 |
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The Theory of Everything (Marsh)
33 |
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→ Grace of Monaco (Dahan)
33 |
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→ Time out of Mind
(Moverman) 33 |
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*Brightest Star (Kiley) 33 |
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| Norte, the End of History
(Diaz) 32 |
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*Cold Comes the Night
(Chun) 31 |
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*The Congress
(Folman) 30 |
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D+ Double-Ugh
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*Hit by Lightning
(Blitt) 27 |
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*Very Good Girls
(Foner) 27 |
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*Happy Christmas
(Swanberg) 26 |
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
(Chelsom) 26 |
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→ The Search
(Hazanavicius) 25 |
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*Affluenza
(Asch) 24 |
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Manakamana
(Spray, Velez) 23 |
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*Men, Women & Children
(Reitman) 22 |
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D Bomb
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*Miss Meadows
(Hopkins) 14 |
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→ Panic 5 Bravo
(Becker) 13 |
F Burn the Negative
Walk-outs Channel Surfing
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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
(Karasawa) |
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The Empty Hours (Fernández) |
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Episode of the Sea
(Van Brummelen, De Haan, inhabitants of Urk) |
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour) |
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Jodorowsky's Dune
(Pavich) |
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Kids for Cash (May) |
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Land Ho! (Stephens, Katz) |
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Les coquillettes
(Letourneur) |
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→ The Lesson
(Grozeva, Valchanov) |
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Locke (Knight) |
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Meet Me in Montenegro
(Holdridge, Saasen) |
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Men Who Save the World
(Liew) |
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Mistaken for Strangers
(Berninger) |
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Party Girl
(Amachoukeli, Burger, Theis) |
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People's Park
(Cohn, Sniadecki) |
| 7 Boxes (Maneglia, Schembori)
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Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
(Mohammed, Bedirxan) |
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Songs From the North
(Yoo) |
| Stop the Pounding Heart
(Minervini) |
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They Have Escaped
(Valkeapää) |
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Top Five
(Rock) |
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→ The Tribe
(Slaboshpytskiy) |
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20,000 Days on Earth
(Forsyth, Pollard) |
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Wetlands (Wnendt) |
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What Now? Remind Me
(Pinto) |
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Incomplete Mishap/Bad Timing
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→ Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
(Elkabetzes) |
