Year-End Lists

Dana Stevens: Top 20 Movies of 2014, as published by Slate

Top Ten, in alphabetical order

• The Babadook
  Jennifer Kent
• Boyhood
  Richard Linklater
• Force Majeure
  Ruben Östlund
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Ida
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Lego Movie
  Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
• Mr. Turner
  Mike Leigh
• The Missing Picture
  Rithy Panh
• Selma
  Ava DuVernay
• We Are the Best!
  Lukas Moodysson

10 Runners-Up (alphabetically)

• Blue Ruin
  Jeremy Saulnier
• Child’s Pose
  Cãlin Peter Netzer
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
  Wes Anderson
• Happy Valley
  Amir Bar-Lev
• Life Itself
  Steve James
• Locke
  Steven Knight
• Night Moves
  Kelly Reichardt
• Obvious Child
  Gillian Robespierre
• Only Lovers Left Alive
  Jim Jarmusch
• Snowpiercer
  Bong Joon-ho