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Last film added: January 25, 2021. There are currently 1678 films in the database (since 1996).

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2014 Releases


Search returned all films from 2014 out of 1678 total rated films.



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MASTERPIECES

1. Boyhood (2014) 10  
   Richard Linklater's endearing, masterful 12-year epic of the life of a young man. Amazing achievement.
   
2. Dance of Reality, The (2014) 10  
   Jodorowsky bares his soul through a dreamlike, mythical retelling of his childhood in Chile. Provocative.
   
3. Enemy (2014) 10  
   Surreal, spider-infested portrayal of a man's subconscious war over infidelity, control by women. Haunting menace.
   
4. Grand Budapest Hotel, The (2014) 10  
   Wes Anderson crafts a wonderful pre-WWII Europe inspired by the late Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
   
5. Her (2014) 10  
   Spike Jonze's ingenious, surreal meditation on being human, knowing one's self and falling in love.
   
6. Interstellar (2014) 10  
   NASA explorers travel through a wormhole seeking habitable planets. Grand, quantum portrait of human endurance.
   

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EXCELLENT

7. Birdman (2014) 9  
   Washed-up movie star Keaton attempts a comeback via Broadway play while battling his ego. Surreal.
   
8. Black Mirror - Seasons 1-2 (2014) 9  
   Provocative sci-fi satire. Explores technology's darker ramifications on society. Gamification, limitless storage, AI. Brilliant.
   
9. Citizenfour (2014) 9  
   Whistleblower Edward Snowden releases classified info about mass global surveillance by the NSA. Gripping, chilling.
   
10. Double, The (2014) 9  
    Cinematic adaptation of the Dostoevsky tale, full of loneliness and paranoia. Charmingly absurd, bureaucratic dystopia.
    
11. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 9  
    Cruise is caught in a time loop as Earth battles an alien invasion. Inspired blockbuster.
    
12. Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) 9  
    Behind Jodorowsky's ambitious, influential mid-1970s sci-fi film failure. With Dalí, Giger, Welles, Jagger, Pink Floyd.
    
13. Lego Movie, The (2014) 9  
    Irreverent, smartly funny and even subversive. Remarkable for a 100-minute toy advertisement. Well played, Lego.
    
14. Locke (2014) 9  
    The Tom Hardy show. An intense series of phone calls while driving to London. Gripping.
    
15. Song of the Sea (2014) 9  
    Magical journey of Irish siblings to free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world. Beautiful.
    
16. Under the Skin (2014) 9  
    Existential, visually mesmerizing film about loneliness by Jonathan Glazer, starring the otherworldly Scarlett Johansson.
    
17. Whiplash (2014) 9  
    Driven by his cutthroat instructor, a conservatory drummer is hellbent on becoming a jazz great.
    

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VERY GOOD

18. Babadook, The (2014) 8  
    A single mother and her troubled boy find a creepy children's book. Slowly enveloping dread.
    
19. Big Hero 6 (2014) 8  
    A robotics prodigy and inflatable robot Baymax become covert heroes of San Fransokyo. High-tech Pixar.
    
20. Comet (2014) 8  
    Bittersweet, jumbled retelling of moments from a couple's six-year relationship. Dreamlike references to parallel universes.
    
21. Congress, The (2014) 8  
    Ambitious, futuristic amalgam of Hollywood actor digitization and animated illusory utopia. Trippy. Robin Wright stars.
    
22. Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey - Episodes 1-7 (2014) 8  
    Neil deGrasse Tyson picks up where Carl Sagan left off. The story of our universe.
    
23. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) 8  
    Ten years after the simian flu pandemic, human survivors and apes are drawn into battle.
    
24. Gone Girl (2014) 8  
    Embrace media hysteria and lose faith in marriage and justice with Fincher's dark psychological thriller.
    
25. Imitation Game, The (2014) 8  
    How Alan Turing helped crack Germany's Enigma code during WWII and saved millions of lives.
    
26. Nightcrawler (2014) 8  
    Chilling satire of tabloid TV news culture. Chasing ratings mutually supports chasing ambulances. Genius Gyllenhaal.
    
27. Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2014) 8  
    Lars von Trier overlays explicit sexual encounters (via porn doubles) with philosophy, religion, biology, math.
    
28. One I Love, The (2014) 8  
    Weekend getaway of a married couple on the brink of separation becomes clever plot twist.
    
29. Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) 8  
    Jim Jarmusch's stylish vampires are an ancient source of creativity for human culture. Clever, cool.
    
30. Snowpiercer (2014) 8  
    Earth's remaining inhabitants are confined to a class-divided train circling the frozen globe. Stylish allegory.
    
31. Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2014) 8  
    Watch a magical moon nymph be bored by 10th-century Japanese nobility. Pastel-toned Studio Ghibli folktale.
    
32. Theory of Everything, The (2014) 8  
    Touching biography of physicist Stephen Hawking. Explores his personal life as ALS ravages his body.
    
33. What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 8  
    The real lives of vampire roommates in a New Zealand flat. Funny interactions with werewolves.
    

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GOOD

34. Before I Disappear (2014) 7  
    Circumstances cause a suicidal man to drag his young, precocious niece across Manhattan one night.
    
35. Boxtrolls, The (2014) 7  
    An orphan raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from extermination.
    
36. Brief History of Graphics, A (2014) 7  
    Five-part series by Stuart Brown of XboxAhoy covering the history/milestones of video game graphics/techniques.
    
37. Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014) 7  
    The dark surrealism of Swiss artist H.R. Giger interspersed with documentation of his final years.
    
38. Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, The (2014) 7  
    The tragic dissolution of a romantic relationship, told from two perspectives in two independent chapters.
    
39. For No Good Reason (2014) 7  
    Depp visits Ralph Steadman to discuss the motivation/process behind his deranged/Gonzo art. A bit congratulatory.
    
40. Frequencies (2014) 7  
    Ambitiously explores philosophical notions of fate and free will in an alternate reality of frequencies.
    
41. God Forgive Us (2014) 7  
    Parallel stories of four struggling strangers build to an unexpected collision. Engaging indie. Acting is passable.
    
42. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 7  
    Goofy, formulaic Marvel Universe blockbuster. Can an oddball group of intergalactic criminals save the galaxy?
    
43. In Your Eyes (2014) 7  
    Two seemingly unconnected people have an unexplainable telepathic bond that allows them to share experiences.
    
44. Lucy (2014) 7  
    Stylish, fast-paced existential thriller. But you must concede the utter nonsense about 10% brain capacity.
    
45. Mood Indigo (2014) 7  
    Gondry outwhimsied himself with this bipolar stop-motion diorama. Like Pee-wee's Playhouse plus Amélie, n'est-ce pas?
    
46. No No: A Dockumentary (2014) 7  
    The story of baseball star Dock Ellis, most famous for his 1970 no-hitter on LSD.
    
47. Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2014) 7  
    Lars von Trier further explores one woman's tragic life story and sexuality. Quite bleak, intellectual.
    
48. Oculus (2014) 7  
    Explores if inanimate objects can manifest supernatural violence. Trippy psychological horror via a reality-bending mirror.
    
49. Rosewater (2014) 7  
    Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is jailed in Iran under suspicion of espionage. Jon Stewart directs.
    
50. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) 7  
    The Eva Green show. Visually stunning and gritty like the Miller/Rodriguez original, but less compelling.
    
51. Who is Dayani Cristal? (2014) 7  
    Moving portrait of border-crossing migrant workers. Begins with an unidentified body in the Arizona desert.
    
52. Young & Beautiful (2014) 7  
    Both male fantasy and moving coming-of-age story. A sexually curious French girl takes up prostitution.
    
53. Zero Theorem, The (2014) 7  
    A computer hacker trying to discover the meaning of life keeps being interrupted by Management.
    

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FAIR

54. Godzilla (2014) 6  
    Godzilla rises again in this nuclear-powered remake that spans the Pacific. Awesome monsters, dull humans.
    
55. Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The (2014) 6  
    Jennifer Lawrence's charisma is the only thing holding this trilogy together. Sadly underdeveloped, yet overdone.
    
56. Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014) 6  
    Strange, vivid fantasy about a boy with a mechanical heart. Disjointed script, uncanny valley characters.
    

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ADEQUATE

57. Interview, The (2014) 5  
    Sophomoric Seth Rogen comedy about North Korea/dick jokes. Gained notoriety due to Sony Pictures hack.
    

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Statistical ratings distribution of these 57 films (3.4% of total rated films):
With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
(especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
Average rating for these 57 films: 7.9.



10:

10.5%




9:

19.3%




8:

28.1%




7:

35.1%




6:

5.3%




5:

1.8%




CRAP:

0%