For a multitude of reasons, these are my personal top films of this year. You can read my review of Boyhood and Gone Girl below.
- Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
- Starred Up (David Mackenzie)
- Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
- Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
- Gone Girl (David Fincher)
- Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
- Haemoo (Sung Bo Shim)
Top Documentary: Citizen Four (Laura Poitras)
Honorable Mentions: Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg), Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda), The Immigrant (James Gray), Whiplash (Damien Chazelle).