Looking at Film from Every Angle

2014 Reviews

Best Film of the Year: Snowpiercer

Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Best Actor: David Oyelowo – Selma
Best Actress: Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Best Supporting Actor: Logan Lerman – Fury
Best Supporting Actress: Emma Stone – Birdman
Best Director: Joon-Ho Bong – Snowpiercer
Best Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Adapted Screenplay: Snowpiercer
Best Score: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Song: “Glory” – Selma
Best Editing: Gone Girl
Best Cinematography: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Production Design: TIE: The Grand Budapest Hotel & Snowpiercer
Best Costume Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Makeup: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Best Sound: Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Sound Effects: Snowpiercer
Best Visual Effects: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Top Ten of 2014

Snowpiercer
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
Gone Girl
Selma
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Edge of Tomorrow
Fury
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Honorable Mentions: Big Hero 6, Boyhood, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hunger Game: Mockingjay – Part 1, The Imitation Game, The Lego Movie, Neighbors, The Purge: Anarchy, Stage Fright

— A —

After the Dark (***) (Full Review)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— B —

Big Hero 6 (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (****) (Full Review) (Short Review)
The Boxtrolls (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Boyhood (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— C —

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (****) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— D —

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Divergent (** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— E —

Edge of Tomorrow (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— F —

Feast (Short Film) (*** ½)
Fury (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— G —

G.B.F (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)
The Giver (**) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Godzilla (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Gone Girl (****) (Full Review) (Short Review)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (****) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Guardians of the Galaxy (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— H —

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— I —

The Imitation Game (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Interstellar (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Into the Woods (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— J —

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (**) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— K —

Kingsman: The Secret Service (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— L —

Lava (Short Film) (***)
The Lego Movie (*** ½) (Full Review)
Lucy (**) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— M —

The Maze Runner (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)
A Million Ways to Die in the West (** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Muppets Most Wanted (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)