
2014 was a great year for movies, and rather than struggling to decide on 10 best films this year, we decided to just double it up and each come up with 20 of our favorites.
Be sure to let us know what your favorites of the year were and take a look below for our lists. For a more detailed discussion on myself and Kevin’s picks, click here to check out our year-end podcast.
I want to sincerely thank all of our fantastic writers that make this site all that it is, and to our wonderful community of readers and listeners- you’re all amazing and I can’t wait to begin our 2015 journey through cinema together.
Without further delay, here are our individual top 20 films of 2014:

‘Boyhood’
Adam Patterson
- Boyhood
- The Raid 2
- Birdman
- Blue Ruin
- Nothing Bad Can Happen
- A Most Violent Year
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Whiplash
- Coherence
- The Lego Movie
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- Land Ho!
- Inherent Vice
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Guest
- Borgman
- Under the Skin
- Starred Up
- Snowpiercer
- Wetlands

‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya’
Kevin Rakestraw
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya
- The Raid 2
- Mood Indigo
- Nothing Bad Can Happen
- Listen Up Philip
- National Gallery
- Under the Skin
- The Rover
- Birdman
- Borgman
- The Lego Movie
- Enemy
- The Double
- Coherence
- Joy Kevin
- Inherent Vice
- The Dance of Reality
- 12 O’Clock Boys
- A Most Violent Year
- Starred Up

‘Whiplash’
Ernie Trinidad
- Whiplash
- Birdman
- Nightcrawler
- The Raid 2
- Interstellar
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Selma
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- We Are the Best!
- Enemy
- Under the Skin
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Gone Girl
- The LEGO Movie
- A Most Violent Year
- Two Days, One Night
- The Wind Rises
- The Interview

‘Under the Skin’
Blake Crane
- Under the Skin
- Whiplash
- Boyhood
- Gone Girl
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Snowpiercer
- Two Days, One Night
- The Babadook
- Ida
- Coherence
- Nightcrawler
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Blue Ruin
- Jodorowsky’s Dune
- Calvary
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Locke
- Cheap Thrills
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes