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Critics Top Ten List 2014: Peter Keough
Peter Keough 1. Manakamana 2. Under the Skin 3. The Grand Budapest Hotel 4. American Sniper 5. Boyhood 6. Only Lovers Left Alive 7. Norte, or the End of History 8 Winter Sleep 9. The Overnighters 10. National Gallery
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Stephanie Zacharek
VOICE 1. Under the Skin 2. Boyhood 3. Only Lovers Left Alive 4. Mr. Turner 5. The Immigrant 6. Revenge of the Mekons, Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, and 20,000 Days on Earth 7. Love Is Strange 8. The Missing Picture 9. John Wick 10. Top Five
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Nick Schager
AV Club 1. Mr. Turner 2. National Gallery 3. Winter Sleep 4. Gone Girl 5. A Field In England 6. Two Days, One Night 7. Under The Skin 8. Only Lovers Left Alive 9. Force Majeure 10. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jesse Hassenger
AV Club 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. God Help The Girl 3. Muppets Most Wanted 4. We Are The Best! 5. Under The Skin 6. Boyhood 7. Whiplash 8. Edge Of Tomorrow 9. Interstellar 10. Joe
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
AV Club 1. The Immigrant 2. Listen Up Philip 3. The Grand Budapest Hotel 4. Whiplash 5. Beloved Sisters 6. Starred Up 7. Goodbye To Language 8. Stranger By The Lake 9. Gone Girl 10. Boyhood
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Ben Kenigsberg
AV Club Ben Kenigsberg 1. Inherent Vice 2. Boyhood 3. Two Days, One Night 4. Gone Girl 5. The Strange Little Cat 6. Goodbye To Language 7. The Last Of The Unjust 8. Whiplash 9. The Immigrant 10. Interstellar
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: A. A. Dowd
AV Club 1. Boyhood 2. Whiplash 3. The Strange Little Cat 4. Two Days, One Night 5. Stray Dogs 6. Under The Skin 7. Force Majeure 8. Blue Ruin 9. Gone Girl 10. The Missing Picture
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair 1. Love Is Strange 2. Mommy 3. Force Majeure 4. Citizenfour 5. Boyhood 6. Selma 7. Snowpiercer 8. Mr. Turner 9. Pride 10. X-Men: Days of Future Past
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: David Edelstein
New York Magazine 1. Boyhood 2. Selma 3. The Babadook 4. Whiplash 5. Tales of the Grim Sleeper 6. Only Lovers Left Alive 7. Citizenfour 8. Mr. Turner 9. Two Days, One Night 10. The Immigrant
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014: Jeremy Kirk
First Showing 1. Snowpiercer 2. Inherent Vice 3. Only Lovers Left Alive 4. Foxcatcher 5. The LEGO Movie 6. Jodorowsky’s Dune 7. The Babadook 8. Whiplash 9. Why Don’t You Play in Hell? 10. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014: David Sexton
Any film released in a UK cinema this year is eligible, which means that 2014 Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club are under consideration alongside future Oscar hopefuls The Imitation Game and Boyhood.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014: Anne Thompson
2014 was a remarkable year for movies big and small.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014: Marc Rivers
Combing through this year’s crop of films to find those that affected me most felt particularly futile when I took my eyes off the movie screen to view the world around me. What I saw convinced me that the most powerful and resonant film of the moment came out 25 years ago
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014: Trey Taylor
Anyone who says 2014 wasn’t a good year for cinema deserves a duct-taped mouth, stat. Even the sequel and comic-book fare has stepped up its game this year. Who didn’t like Guardians of the Galaxy or 22 Jump Street? Stick all of this year’s films released in the UK* – both blockbuster and backroom indie – in a sieve, and what comes out are the films that have shaped the past 12 months
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014: Drew McWeeny
It feels like the films that are important to me this year are movies that celebrate or capture or dissect the wonderful, wild contradictions that drive us all, that make us human, that push us together or pull us apart.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014 Marshall Fine
H’wd & Fine (alphabetical) Bad Words Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Edge of Tomorrow The Equalizer Foxcatcher The Homesman John Wick The Lunchbox Obvious Child The Raid 2 Whiplash
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014 David Denby
The New Yorker 1. Ida (alphabetical) “American Sniper” “A Most Violent Year” “Birdman” “Boyhood” “Get On Up” “Mr. Turner” “National Gallery” “Selma” “Snowpiercer”
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014 Jesse Hassinger
L Magazine 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. God Help the Girl 3. We Are the Best! 4. Muppets Most Wanted 5. Under the Skin 6. Boyhood 7. Whiplash 8. Edge of Tomorrow 9. Interstellar 10. Joe
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014 Nicolas Rapold
L Magazine (Alphabetical) Boyhood Citizenfour Goodbye to Language The Grand Budapest Hotel Inherent Vice Listen Up Philip Mr. Turner National Gallery Stranger by the Lake
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten 2014 Craig Keller
Craig Keller 1. Farewell To Language 2. Farewell To Language 3. Farewell To Language 4. Farewell To Language 5. Farewell To Language 6. Farewell To Language 7. Farewell To Language 8. Farewell To Language 9. Farewell To Language 10. Farewell To Language
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