My Top 50 Movies of 2014
1. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
2. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
3. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
4. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
5. Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre)
6. The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson)
7. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
8. Maps To The Stars (David Cronenberg)
9. John Wick (Chad Stahelski)
10. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
11. What We Do In The Shadows (Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi)
12. They Came Together (David Wain)
13. Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland)
14. Beyond The Lights (Gina
Prince-Bythewood)
15. Dear White People (Justin Simien)
16. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of
Ignorance) (Alejandro Inarritu)
17. Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan)
18. Selma (Ava DuVernay)
19. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
20. Bang Bang Baby (Jeffrey St. Jules)
21. A Million Ways To Die In The West (Seth
MacFarlane)
22. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
23. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
24. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
25. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
26. Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
27. Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)
28. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
29. Black Mountain Side (Nick Szostakiwskyj)
30. Match (Stephen Belber)
31. Big Eyes (Tim Burton)
32. About Last Night (Steve Pink)
33. Top Five (Chris Rock)
34. The Equalizer (Antoine Fuqua)
35. Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
36. Ouija (Stiles White)
37. Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams)
38. A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman)
39. 22 Jump Street (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)
40. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb)
41. Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas)
42. East Side Sushi (Anthony Lucero)
43. Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets (Florian Habicht)
44. Let’s Be Cops (Luke Greenfield)
45. God’s Pocket (John Slattery)
46. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Peter Jackson)
47. Chef (Jon Favreau)
48. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
49. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
50. Wild (Jean-Marc Vallee)
I think this was a really good year for film, maybe the best of the last dozen I've made lists for? Just a lot of good stuff, personal bests by some excellent directors and actors, first installments in franchises, even surprising stuff like by far my favorite thing Seth MacFarlane has made, A Million Ways To Die in the West. I'm cynical about "Saturday Night Live" alumni doing drama or dramedy, but I think Obvious Child and The Skeleton Twins are high watermarks for that microgenre.
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