2014
Intro
The following films appeared on year-end lists in Cinema Scope, Film Comment, The New York Times, and Sight & Sound. Selection for the Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, New York, Rotterdam, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice film festivals is noted.
Films
American Sniper
USA
Clint Eastwood
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Amour Fou
Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Jessica Hausner
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2014)
Approaching the Elephant
USA
Amanda Wilder
Lists: Film Comment (7 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2015)
August Winds
Ventos de Agosto
Brazil
Gabriel Mascaro
Lists: Film Comment (18 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2015)
The Babadook
Australia, Canada
Jennifer Kent
Lists: New York Times (10 - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Sundance (Park City at Midnight, 2014)
Beyond the Lights
USA
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)
Bird People
France
Pascale Ferran
Lists: New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2014)
Birdman
USA
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Lists: Film Comment (8, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014) | Sight & Sound (16, 2014)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Closing Night, 2014) | Telluride (2014) | Venice (In Competition - Opening Film, 2014)
Boyhood
USA
Richard Linklater
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2014) | Film Comment (1, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / 1 - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (1, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2014) | Sundance (Premieres, 2014)
Citizenfour
USA
Laura Poitras
Lists: Film Comment (7, 2014) | New York Times (3 - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (18, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (LOLA at Berlinale, 2015) | New York (Main Slate, 2014)
The Dance of Reality
La danza de la realidad
France, Chile
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Lists: New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2013)
Dear White People
USA
Justin Simien
Lists: New York Times (9 - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Sundance (US Dramatic Competition, 2014)
The Dog
USA
Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2014) | New York (Motion Portraits [Documentary], 2013) | Toronto (Docs, 2013)
The Duke of Burgundy
UK
Peter Strickland
Lists: Sight & Sound (15, 2014)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Toronto (Vanguard, 2014)
Edge of Tomorrow
USA
Doug Liman
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Episode of the Sea
Netherlands
Lonnie van Brummelen; Siebren de Haan; the inhabitants of Urk, Netherlands
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2014)
Festivals: Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)
For the Plasma
USA
Bingham Bryant, Kyle Molzan
Lists: Film Comment (17 - Undistributed, 2014)
Force Majeure
Turist
Sweden
Ruben Östlund
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2014) | Film Comment (14, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)
Fort Buchanan
France, Tunisia
Benjamin Crotty
Lists: Film Comment (20 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Locarno (Signs of Life, 2014) | Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2015)
From What Is Before
Mula sa kung ano ang noon
Philippines
Lav Diaz
Lists: Cinema Scope (10, 2014) | Film Comment (5 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2014) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2015) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)
A Girl at My Door
Dohee-ya
South Korea
July Jung
Lists: Film Comment (19 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2014) | Toronto (City to City, 2014)
Gloria
Chile, Spain
Sebastián Lelio
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2013) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2013) | New York (Main Slate, 2013) | Telluride (2013) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2013)
Goodbye to Language
Adieu au langage
France
Jean-Luc Godard
Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2014) | Film Comment (2, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014) | Sight & Sound (2, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | Locarno (Out of Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Toronto (Masters, 2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
USA, Germany, UK
Wes Anderson
Lists: Film Comment (3, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / Runner Up - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (6, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2014)
The Harvest
USA
John McNaughton
Lists: Film Comment (11 - Undistributed, 2014)
Hill of Freedom
Jayuui eondeok
South Korea
Hong Sang-soo
Lists: Film Comment (2 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Toronto (Masters, 2014) | Venice (Horizons, 2014)
History of Fear
Historia del miedo
Argentina
Benjamín Naishtat
Lists: Film Comment (16 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2014)
Ida
Poland
Pawel Pawlikowski
Lists: Film Comment (4, 2014) | New York Times (2 - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (9, 2014)
Festivals: Rotterdam (The State of Europe, 2014) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2014) | Telluride (2013) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2013)
The Immigrant
USA
James Gray
Lists: Film Comment (10, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2013) | New York (Main Slate, 2013)
Inherent Vice
USA
Paul Thomas Anderson
Lists: Cinema Scope (6, 2014) | Film Comment (9, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014) | Sight & Sound (9, 2015)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate - Centerpiece, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015)
Interstellar
USA, UK
Christopher Nolan
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
The Iron Ministry
USA, China
J.P. Sniadecki
Lists: Film Comment (4 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2014) | New York (Spotlight on Documentary, 2014) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2015)
The Japanese Dog
Câinele Japonez
Romania
Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Lists: Film Comment (15 - Undistributed, 2014)
Journey to the West
Xi You
France, Taiwan
Tsai Ming-liang
Lists: Cinema Scope (9, 2014) | Film Comment (12 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2014) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)
The Kindergarten Teacher
Haganenet
Israel, France
Nadav Lapid
Lists: Cinema Scope (7, 2014) | Film Comment (8 - Undistributed, 2014) | New York Times (7 - Dargis, 2015)
Festivals: Cannes (Critics' Week, 2014)
Leviathan
Leviafan
Russia
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Lists: New York Times (4 - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (3, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | Telluride (2014) | Toronto (Masters, 2014)
Li'l Quinquin
P'tit Quinquin
France
Bruno Dumont
Lists: Cinema Scope (3, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2014) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2014)
Listen Up Philip
USA
Alex Ross Perry
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Festivals: Locarno (International Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Sundance (Next, 2014)
Love Is Strange
USA
Ira Sachs
Lists: New York Times (6 - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2014) | Sundance (Premieres, 2014)
Maidan
Ukraine
Sergei Loznitsa
Lists: Cinema Scope (8, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings, 2014) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2014)
Manakamana
USA, Nepal
Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2013) | Film Comment (19, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2013 / 2014)
Festivals: Locarno (Filmmakers of the Present, 2013) | New York (Motion Portraits [Documentary], 2013) | Rotterdam (Bright Future, 2014) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2013)
The Missing Picture
L'image manquante
Cambodia, France
Rithy Panh
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2013) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2013) | New York (Main Slate, 2013) | Telluride (2013) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2013)
A Most Violent Year
USA
J.C. Chandor
Lists: New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015)
Mr. Turner
UK
Mike Leigh
Lists: Film Comment (13, 2014) | New York Times (8 - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (11, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Telluride (2014) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)
National Gallery
USA, France
Frederick Wiseman
Lists: Film Comment (18, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014) | Sight & Sound (11, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2014) | New York (Spotlight on Documentary, 2014) | Toronto (Docs, 2014)
Norte, the End of History
Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan
Philippines
Lav Diaz
Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2013) | Film Comment (15, 2014) | Sight & Sound (9, 2013)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2013) | Locarno (Jury Films, 2013) | New York (Main Slate, 2013) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2014) | Toronto (Masters, 2013)
Only Lovers Left Alive
UK, Germany
Jim Jarmusch
Lists: Film Comment (12, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2013) | New York (Main Slate, 2013) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2014) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2014) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2013)
Particle Fever
USA
Mark Levinson
Lists: New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: New York (Applied Science [Documentary], 2013) | Telluride (Backlot, 2013)
Pasolini
USA
Abel Ferrara
Lists: Film Comment (3 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014) | Venice (In Competition, 2014)
Selma
USA, UK
Ava DuVernay
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / 5 - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Berlinale Special, 2015)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
Eau argentée, Syrie autoportrait
Syria, France
Wiam Bedirxan, Ossama Mohammed
Lists: Film Comment (6 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings, 2014) | Locarno (Jury Films, 2014) | New York (Spotlight on Documentary, 2014) | Toronto (Docs, 2014)
Snowpiercer
Seolgungnyeolcha
South Korea, Czech Republic, USA, France
Bong Joon-ho
Lists: Film Comment (20, 2014) | New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Forum, 2014)
Socialism
Sosialismi
Finland
Peter von Bagh
Lists: Film Comment (10 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Locarno (Histoire(s) du Cinema, 2014) | Telluride (Backlot, 2014)
Stranger by the Lake
L'inconnu du lac
France
Alain Guiraudie
Lists: Cinema Scope (1, 2013) | Film Comment (6, 2014) | Sight & Sound (9, 2013)
Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2013) | New York (Main Slate, 2013) | Rotterdam (Spectrum, 2014) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2014) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2013)
Stray Dog
USA
Debra Granik
Lists: Film Comment (9 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: New York (Spotlight on Documentary, 2014)
Stray Dogs
Jiao you
Taiwan
Tsai Ming-liang
Lists: Cinema Scope (6, 2013) | Film Comment (17, 2014 / 2 - Undistributed, 2013)
Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2013) | Toronto (Wavelengths, 2013) | Venice (In Competition, 2013)
Top Five
USA
Chris Rock
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014 / Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)
The Tribe
Plemya
Ukraine, Netherlands
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Lists: Sight & Sound (8, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Critics' Week, 2014) | Locarno (Jury Films, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2015) | Toronto (Discovery, 2014)
Two Days, One Night
Deux jours, une nuit
Belgium, France, Italy
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2014) | Film Comment (11, 2014) | New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014) | Sight & Sound (16, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Telluride (2014) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)
Under the Skin
UK, USA
Jonathan Glazer
Lists: Film Comment (5, 2014) | Sight & Sound (5, 2014)
Festivals: Telluride (2013) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2013) | Venice (In Competition, 2013)
Violette
France, Belgium
Martin Provost
Lists: New York Times (Dargis, 2014)
Festivals: Toronto (Special Presentations, 2013)
We Are the Best!
Vi är bäst!
Sweden, Denmark
Lukas Moodysson
Lists: New York Times (7 - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Toronto (Special Presentations, 2013) | Venice (Horizons, 2013)
We Come as Friends
Austria, France
Huber Sauper
Lists: Film Comment (14 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Berlin (Berlinale Special, 2014) | Sundance (World Cinema Documentary Competition, 2014)
Whiplash
USA
Damien Chazelle
Lists: Film Comment (16, 2014) | Sight & Sound (11, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Sundance (US Dramatic Competition, 2014) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2014)
Wild
USA
Jean-Marc Vallée
Lists: New York Times (Runner Up - Scott, 2014)
Festivals: Telluride (2014) | Toronto (Gala Presentations, 2014)
Winter Sleep
Kış Uykusu
Turkey, Germany, France
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Lists: Sight & Sound (7, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | Toronto (Masters, 2014)
The Wonders
Le meraviglie
Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Alice Rohrwacher
Lists: Film Comment (1 - Undistributed, 2014)
Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2014) | New York (Main Slate, 2014) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2015)
Young Bodies Heal Quickly
USA
Andrew T. Betzer
Lists: Film Comment (13 - Undistributed, 2014)