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Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jay Kuehner
1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 2. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Russell and Ben Rivers) 3. Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) 4. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) 5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 6. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 7. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) 8. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 9….
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jonathan Kiefer
[in alphabetical order] 1. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) 2. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 3. Calvary (John Michael McDonagh) 4. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 6. Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg) 7. Land Ho! (Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens) 8. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) 9. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) 10….
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Tarah Judah
1. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour) 2. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 3. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 4. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) 5. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 6. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent) 7. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) 8. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) 9. John Wick (Chad…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Eugene Hernandez
1. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras) 2. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 3. Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) 4. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 6. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 7. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho) 8. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour) 9. Manakamana…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Dennis Harvey
[in no order of preference] Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Boyhood (Richard Linklater) The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda) Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) Via Fandor.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Brandon Harris
[in no order of preference other than top film] Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Heli (Amat Escalante) The Immigrant (James Gray) Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) Land Ho! (Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz) Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) Goodbye to All That (Angus…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Tomas Hachard
1. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 2. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 3. Two Days, One Night (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne) 4. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 6. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) 7. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) 8. We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) 9. Ida…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Pam Grady
1. Locke (Steven Knight) 2. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 3. Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 4. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 5. Frank (Lenny Abrahamson) 6. The Way He Looks (Daniel Ribeiro) 7. Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) 8. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 9. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) 10. Cold in July (Jim Mickle) Via Fandor.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jaime Grijalba
1. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) 2. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan) 3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 4. Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono) 5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 6. Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono) 7. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) 8. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 9. Gone Girl (David Fincher) 10. The Grand…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: David Ehrenstein
1. Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) 2. The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) 3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 4. Finding Vivian Maier (Charles Siskel, John Maloof) 5. Dear White People (Justin Simien) 6. Still Alice (Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer) 7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 8. The David Whiting Story or The Cesar Romero…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Brian Darr
1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 2. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras) 3. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan) 4. Vic + Flo Saw A Bear (Denis Côté) 5. The Immigrant (James Gray) 6. Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) 7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 8. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) 9. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez)…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jordan Cronk
1. Story of My Death (Albert Serra) 2. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 3. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) 4. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) 5. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) 6. Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi) 7. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto) 8. Life of Riley (Alain Resnais) 9. The Last of…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Adam Cook
1. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) 2. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) 3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 5. Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) 6. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 7. Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson) 8. Don t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) 9. Jersey Boys (Clint…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Chuck Bowen
Via Fandor. 1. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) 2. The Immigrant (James Gray) 3. Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz) 4. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 5. Life of Riley (Alain Resnais) 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 7. Low Down (Jeff Preiss) 8. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) 9. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) 10. Under…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Miriam Bale
Miriam Bale 1. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 2. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) 3. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) 4. Gone Girl (David Fincher) 5. Belle (Amma Asante) 6. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 7. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) 8. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 9. Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Robert Greene
The Talkhouse, Sight & Sound Top 10 nonfiction films released in the US in 2014: 1. National Gallery (Wiseman) 2. Manakamana (Spray/Velez) 3. The Overnighters (Moss) 4. Tales Of The Grim Sleeper (Broomfield) 5. Stop The Pounding Heart (Minervini) 6. Big Men (Boynton) 7. 20,000 Days On Earth (Forsyth/Pollard) 8. CITIZENFOUR (Poitras) 9. Maidan (Loznitsa)…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Bret Easton Ellis
The Talkhouse 1. Boyhood 2. Leviathan 3. Force Majeure 4. Birdman 5. The Last of the Unjust 6. Nymphomaniac 7. Listen Up Phillip 8. Stranger By the Lake 9. Omar 10. Gone Girl
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Carrie Rickey
CarrieRickey.com Alphabetically: Belle Beyond the Lights Birdman Citizenfour Ida Kids For Cash Laggies Selma Top Five Whiplash
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Michael Atkinson
Via Fandor 1. Maidan 2. Manakamana 3. Goodbye to Language 4. Closed Curtain 5. Heli 6. Winter Sleep 7. Manuscripts Don’t Burn 8. Birdman 9. Citizenfour 10. Under the Skin
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Sean Axmaker
Via Fandor 1. Boyhood 2. Gone Girl 3. The Grand Budapest Hotel 4. The Immigrant 5. Only Lovers Left Alive 6. Ida 7. The Babadook 8. Under the Skin 9. Night Moves 10. Snowpiercer
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