Just missing out on a place in the top ten were…
11. Interstellar
12. X-Men: Days of Future Past
13. Edge of Tomorrow
14. Pride
15. Calvary
16. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
17. The Guest
18. Mr. Turner
19. Fury
20. The Raid 2
How the top ten would have looked if we’d gone with UK release dates…
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. The LEGO Movie
3. Nightcrawler
4. Gone Girl
5. Boyhood
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8. Her
9. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
10. Interstellar
Our writers individual favourites of the year…
Gary Collinson – Guardians of the Galaxy
Luke Owen – The LEGO Movie
Oliver Davis – Boyhood
Robert W Monk – Gone Girl
Matt Spencer-Skeen – The LEGO Movie
J-P Wooding – Chinese Puzzle
Tom Jolliffe – Nightcrawler
Amon Warmann – Whiplash
Stephen Glass – Under the Skin
Kat Kourbeti – Interstellar
Simon Columb – The Grand Budapest Hotel
James Garcia – The LEGO Movie
Scott Davis – Her
Anthony Stokes – Guardians of the Galaxy
Jackson Ball – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Piers McCarthy – Locke
William Fanelli – Boyhood
Brogan Morris – Inside Llewyn Davis
Eddy Gardiner – Boyhood
Helen Murdoch – Nightcrawler
Anghus Houvouras – Birdman
Adam Rivett – Boyhood
Kris Wall – Guardians of the Galaxy
Chris Cooper – Guardians of the Galaxy
Ozzy Armstrong – Whiplash
Gavin Logan – The Wolf of Wall Street
Tori Brazier – Interstellar
Robert Kojder – Whiplash
Paul Risker – Omar
Manny Camacho – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Rohan Morbey – Her
Villordsutch – Guardians of the Galaxy
Jake Peffer – Nightcrawler
And our previous Top Tens…
2013 – Gravity
2012 – The Dark Knight Rises
2011 – Drive
2010 – Inception
What are your picks for the best movies of the year? We’d love to hear your thoughts.…
Listen to the Flickering Myth Podcast discussion on our Top Ten Movies of 2014 here…
Originally published December 31, 2014. Updated July 3, 2023.
