Gallery: Our Picks for the Best Movies of 2014
Fox Searchlight01Birdman
*Birdman* is easily the best long-take, metanarrative film about a washed up former comic-book movie star ever made. (Expand gallery to full screen to find out why we loved each film.)
Walt Disney Animation Studios02Big-Hero-6
*Big Hero 6* won us over with a smart story, fantastic characters, and the best animated robot this side of WALL-E.
Warner Bros.03the-lego-movie
Everything—including *The Lego Movie*—is awesome.
IFC04Boyhood
What director Richard Linklater and his remarkable cast achieved in *Boyhood* is much more than just a cinematic stunt. It's an emotionally rich, pitch-perfect tale of self-discovery.
Warner Bros.05Edge-of-Tomorrow
Although comparisons to videogames tend to be pejorative in the world of movies, that's exactly what makes *Edge of Tomorrow* so compelling.
Sony Pictures Classics06Foxcatcher
Dear Steve Carell and Channing Tatum: We always knew you had it in you. *Foxcatcher* just proved it.
Marvel Studios07GuardiansOfTheGalaxy
The Weinstein Company08Imitation Game
*The Imitation Game* is the movie we wish Alan Turing were alive to see.
Paramount Pictures09Interstellar
As cold and desolate as much of *Interstellar'*s setting is, Nolan’s tale of love and redemption and dreaming is warm, meditative, and ultimately as fulfilling as the connection between father and daughter.
Open Road Films10Nightcrawler
*Nightcrawler* let Jake Gyllenhaal crank the Creep Factor up to 11.
20th Century Fox11x-men-days-of-future-past
*X-Men: Days of Future Past* acted as a corrective, one that effectively deleted everything that infuriated us about 2006’s *X-Men: The Last Stand* with that age-old, failsafe narrative device: time travel.
20th Century Fox12Dawn-of-the-Planet-of-the-Apes
Andy Serkis' performance-capture work in *Dawn of the Planet of the Apes* was incredible.
Radius/TWC13Snowpiercer
Director Bong Joon-ho’s disturbing dystopian tale, an examination of class issues set within a never-stopping train carrying the last survivors of the human race, messed with our heads in ways both wonderful *and* violent.
