For those who prefer art houses for their film viewing, it's been a very good year. From the class system that develops on a train of the future to musician Nick Cave marking his 20,000th day on the planet to a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, independent, documentary and foreign filmmakers have given moviegoers plenty to choose from.
The Up to Date film reviewers have spent the year bringing us their thoughts on many of these movies so we asked each of them to list their favorite films of 2014. While there was some agreement on which films were selected there was no unanimous agreement on rankings (not unlike their monthly on-air reviews!). Here then are their picks for the Top Ten Films of 2014:
Cynthia Haines
- Boyhood
- Nightcrawler
- Birdman
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- 20,000 Days on Earth
- Force Majeure
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Snowpiercer
- Under the Skin
- Particle Fever
Steve Walker
- Boyhood
- Force Majeure
- Nightcrawler
- Night Moves
- Obvious Child
- Two Days, One Night
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Citizenfour
- Under the Skin
- The Skeleton Twins
Bob Butler
- Ida
- Rich Hill
- Boyhood
- Land Ho
- Birdman
- Citizenfour
- Life Itself
- The Homesman
- Nightcrawler
- 20,000 Days on Earth
