Wesley Morris: Top 30 Movies of 2014 (as published by Grantland)

1. Norte, the End of History – Lav Diaz
2. Selma – Ava DuVernay
3. Citizenfour – Laura Poitras
4. Land Ho! – Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz
5. Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Edge of Tomorrow – Doug Liman
7. Whiplash – Damien Chazelle
8. The Babadook – Jennifer Kent
9. Nymphomaniac – Lars von Trier
10. Stranger by the Lake – Alain Guiraudie

20 more that easily could be one of the 10

• Actress – Robert Greene
• Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• Bird People – Pascale Ferran
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Dear White People – Justin Simien
• The Double – Richard Ayoade
• Ida – Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Last of the Unjust – Claude Lanzmann
• Love is Strange – Ira Sachs
• MANAKAMANA – Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
• Mr. Turner – Mike Leigh
• National Gallery – Frederick Wiseman
• Non-Stop – Jaume Collet-Serra
• The Overnighters – Jesse Moss
• Pride – Matthew Warchus
• The Raid 2 – Gareth Evans
• Snowpiercer – Bong Joon-ho
• Two Days, One Night – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer
• Wild – Jean-Marc Vallée