This is largely an arbitrary list that is no particular order. I am not ranking them because, well, I’m just lazy like that. I just walked out of all of the below very impressed or engaged or moved in some way. Among some of the most cited films of the year I still have not seen The Wolf of Wall Street, Her, Dallas Buyers Club or Captain Philips. Here we go:
- All is Lost (JC Chandor)
A photo from Jason Osder’s LET THE FIRE BURN - The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling)
- Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
- Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg)
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
- Mother of George (Andrew Dosumnu)
- Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
- Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
- Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
- All The Light in the Sky (Joe Swanberg)
- Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder)
- 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers)
- 20 Feet From Stardom (Morgan Neville)
- Our Nixon (Penny Lane)
- Springbreakers (Harmony Korine)
- The Dirties (Matt Johnson)
- This is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan)
- Gravity
