Year-End Lists

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2014 Movies

Sight & Sound Poll: Top 20 Films of 2014

01 December 2014

Boyhood - Richard Linklater

Sight & Sound Poll: Top 20 Films of 2014 (a poll of 112 critics, published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

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  1. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
  2. Goodbye to Language
    Jean-Luc Godard
  3. Leviathan
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
  4. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
  5. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
  6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
  7. Winter Sleep
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  8. The Tribe
    Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
  9. Ida
    Pawel Pawlikowski
  10. Jauja
    Lisandro Alonso
  11. Mr. Turner
    Mike Leigh
  12. National Gallery
    Frederick Wiseman
  13. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
  14. Whiplash
    Damien Chazelle
  15. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
  16. Birdman
    Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  17. Two Days, One Night
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  18. Citizenfour
    Laura Poitras
  19. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  20. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki

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