Love Is the Perfect Crime(Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest, or: Metabolism(Corneliu Porumboiu)
World War Z(Marc Forster)
12 Years a Slave(Steve McQueen)
Star Trek Into Darkness(J.J. Abrams)
Go for Sisters(John Sayles)
Starred Up(David Mackenzie)
Adult World(Scott Coffey)
Memphis(Tim Sutton)
Abuse of Weakness(Catherine Breillat)
Enough Said(Nicole Holofcener)
Venus in Fur(Roman Polanski)
Twenty Feet From Stardom(Morgan Neville)
The Last Stand(Kim Jee-woon)
The Double(Richard Ayoade)
American Hustle(David O. Russell)
Closed Curtain(Jafar Panahi & Kambuzia Partovi)
A Touch of Sin(Jia Zhang-Ke)
The Major(Yuri Bykov)
Le Week-end(Roger Michell)
Begin Again(John Carney)
Tangerines(Zaza Urushadze)
Captain Phillips(Paul Greengrass)
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears(Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
The Great Beauty(Paolo Sorrentino)
Welcome to the Punch(Eran Creevy)
The Conjuring(James Wan)
Dom Hemingway(Richard Shepard)
Blue Jasmine(Woody Allen)
Inside Llewyn Davis(Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Particle Fever(Mark Levinson)
What If(Michael Dowse)
Watermark(Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky)
Short Term 12(Destin Daniel Cretton)
Blind Dates(Levan Koguashvili)
Hide Your Smiling Faces(Daniel Patrick Carbone)
2 Autumns, 3 Winters(Sébastien Betbeder)
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?(Michel Gondry)
October November(Götz Spielmann)
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons(Stephen Chow)
The Immigrant(James Gray)
The Square(Jehane Noujaim)
I Give It a Year(Dan Mazer)
Soldate Jeannette(Daniel Hoesl)
Oculus(Mike Flanagan)
Alan Partridge(Declan Lowney)
2 Guns(Baltasar Kormákur)
Burning Bush(Agnieszka Holland)
At Berkeley(Frederick Wiseman)
12 O'Clock Boys(Lotfy Nathan)
Our Sunhi(Hong Sang-soo)
Behind the Candelabra(Steven Soderbergh)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared(Felix Herngren)
Concussion(Stacie Passon)
Jealousy(Philippe Garrel)
Wrong Cops(Quentin Dupieux)
The Unknown Known(Errol Morris)
White Reindeer(Zach Clark)
Stoker(Park Chan-wook)
Hell Baby(Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon)
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas(Arnaud des Pallières)
Cannibal(2013, Manuel Martín Cuenca)
Afflicted(Clif Prowse & Derek Lee)
A Wolf at the Door(Fernando Coimbra)
Felony(Matthew Saville)
A Master Builder(Jonathan Demme)
The Best Offer(Giuseppe Tornatore)
American Promise(Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson)
Parkland(Peter Landesman)
Cheap Thrills(E.L. Katz)
For Those in Peril(Paul Wright)
A Case of You(Kat Coiro)
Borgman(Alex van Warmerdam)
Pacific Rim(Guillermo del Toro)
Seduced and Abandoned(James Toback)
Prince Avalanche(David Gordon Green)
These Final Hours(Zak Hilditch)
Kilimanjaro(Walter Strafford)
Machete Kills(Robert Rodriguez)
Some Velvet Morning(Neil LaBute)
The Galápagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden(Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine)
In a World...(Lake Bell)
Fanny(Daniel Auteuil)
Lee Daniels' The Butler(Lee Daniels)
Rigor Mortis(Juno Mak)
Magical Universe(Jeremy Workman)
Touchy Feely(Lynn Shelton)
Child's Pose(Calin Peter Netzer)
Beautiful Creatures(Richard LaGravenese)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon(Hong Sangsoo)
Intruders(Noh Young Seok)
A Teacher(Hannah Fidell)
Stranger by the Lake(Alain Guiraudie)
It Felt Like Love(Eliza Hittman)
One Chance(David Frankel)
Closer to the Moon(Nae Caranfil)
May in the Summer(Cherien Dabis)
Little Feet(Alexandre Rockwell)
The Last of the Unjust(Claude Lanzmann)
The French Minister(Bertrand Tavernier)
The Last of Robin Hood(Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
Iron Man Three(Shane Black)
Night Moves(Kelly Reichardt)
The Grandmaster(Wong Kar-wai)
Enemy(Denis Villeneuve)
Code Black(Ryan McGarry)
My Name Is Hmmm...(Agnès Troublé)
Blind Detective(Johnnie To)
Dallas Buyers Club(Jean-Marc Vallée)
Bad Hair(Mariana Rondón)
Monsters University(Dan Scanlon)
About Time(Richard Curtis)
The Wolverine(James Mangold)
The Wind Rises(Hayao Miyazaki)
Grigris(Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Chinese Puzzle(Cédric Klapisch)
Story of My Death(Albert Serra)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya(Isao Takahata)
The Pretty One(Jenée LaMarque)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire(Francis Lawrence)
Paradise(Diablo Cody)
Gabrielle(Louise Archambault)
Blackfish(Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
Beneath the Harvest Sky(Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly)
Runner Runner(Brad Furman)
Some Girl(s)(Daisy von Scherler Mayer)
Devil's Pass(Renny Harlin)
Contracted(Eric England)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug(Peter Jackson)
Palo Alto(Gia Coppola)
The Art of the Steal(Jonathan Sobol)
Whitewash(Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais)
All Is Bright(Phil Morrison)
Fading Gigolo(John Turturro)
Web Junkie(Shosh Shlam & Hilla Medalia)
Lone Survivor(Peter Berg)
Tip Top(Serge Bozon)
Bluebird(Lance Edmands)
Big Men(Rachel Boynton)
Omar(Hany Abu-Assad)
Bicycling With Molière(Philippe Le Guay)
Escape From Tomorrow(Randy Moore)
Breathe In(Drake Doremus)
The Fifth Estate(Bill Condon)
Love Battles(Jacques Doillon)
After Tiller(2013, Martha Shane & Lana Wilson)
Run & Jump(Steph Green)
Human Capital(Paolo Virzì)
Sunlight Jr.(Laurie Collyer)
The Lifeguard(Liz W. Garcia)
Heli(Amat Escalante)
The Film Critic(Hernán Guerschuny)
Half of a Yellow Sun(Biyi Bandele)
1982(Tommy Oliver)
The Summer of Flying Fish(Marcela Said)
24 Exposures(Joe Swanberg)
Real(Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Face of Love(Arie Posin)
Marius(Daniel Auteuil)
The Invisible Woman(Ralph Fiennes)
Oldboy(Spike Lee)
The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier)(János Szász)
Side Effects(Steven Soderbergh)
Scenic Route(Kevin Goetz & Michael Goetz)
Last Love(Sandra Nettelbeck)
Tom at the Farm(Xavier Dolan)
The Kings of Summer(Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
Salvo(Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza)
In Fear(Jeremy Lovering)
Bad Turn Worse(Zeke Hawkins & Simon Hawkins)
Hours(Eric Heisserer)
A Fragile Trust(Samantha Grant)
Like Father, Like Son(Kore-Eda Hirokazu)
The German Doctor(Lucía Puenzo)
Elysium(Neill Blomkamp)
Thor: The Dark World(Alan Taylor)
The Truth About Emanuel(Francesca Gregorini)
Tracks(John Curran)
Admission(Paul Weitz)
Nightingale(Philippe Muyl)
Somewhere Slow(Jeremy O'Keefe)
The Look of Love(Michael Winterbottom)
Pioneer(Erik Skjoldbjærg)
Mood Indigo(Michel Gondry)
On My Way(Emmanuelle Bercot)
Odd Thomas(Stephen Sommers)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(Ben Stiller)
Fruitvale Station(Ryan Coogler)
Mama(Andy Muschietti)
Philomena(Stephen Frears)
Bad Words(Jason Bateman)
Drones(Rick Rosenthal)
The Railway Man(Jonathan Teplitzky)
Girl on a Bicycle(Jeremy Leven)
Southcliffe(Sean Durkin)
The Great Gatsby(Baz Luhrmann)
Prisoners(Denis Villeneuve)
The Kill Team(Dan Krauss)
Afternoon Delight(Jill Soloway)
Hateship Loveship(Liza Johnson)
Labor Day(Jason Reitman)
The Liberator(Alberto Arvelo)
Almost Human(Joe Begos)
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors(Sam Fleischner)
In the Name Of(Malgoska Szumowska)
Jobs(Joshua Michael Stern)
The Dance of Reality(Alejandro Jodorowsky)
McCanick(Josh C. Waller)
A Field in England(Ben Wheatley)
Adore(Anne Fontaine)
Nymph()maniac Vol. II(Lars von Trier)
Big Sur(Michael Polish)
The Wait(M. Blash)
Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian(Arnaud Desplechin)
CBGB(Randall Miller)
The Zero Theorem(Terry Gilliam)
White House Down(Roland Emmerich)
Brightest Star(Maggie Kiley)
Norte, the End of History(Lav Diaz)
Still Life(Uberto Pasolini)
The Bling Ring(Sofia Coppola)
Hank and Asha(James E. Duff)
And Now a Word From Our Sponsor(Zack Bernbaum)
Cold Comes the Night(Tze Chun)
Beneath(Ben Ketai)
The Congress(Ari Folman)
Salinger(Shane Salerno)
The Hot Flashes(Susan Seidelman)
Child of God(James Franco)
Violette(Martin Provost)
The Last Days on Mars(Ruairí Robinson)
Tasting Menu(Roger Gual)
The Secret Lives of Dorks(Salomé Breziner)
Breaking the Girls(Jamie Babbit)
Very Good Girls(Naomi Foner)
Underdogs(Doug Dearth)
I'm So Excited!(Pedro Almodóvar)
Breakup at a Wedding(Victor Quinaz)
Ass Backwards(Chris Nelson)
Hard to Be a God(Aleksei German)
A Castle in Italy(Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
Manakamana(Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
Man of Steel(Zack Snyder)
Open Grave(Gonzalo López-Gallego)
Stranded(Roger Christian)
Blood Glacier(Marvin Kren)
Ghost Team One(Scott Rutherford & Ben Peyser)
Only God Forgives(Nicolas Winding Refn)
Enter the Dangerous Mind(Youssef Delara & Victor Teran)
Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.
The Letterboxd
version of this list has posters for every film and whatnot.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year
it had its world premiere. Films that premiered last year but were
commercially released this year would be on last
year's list.