My number one hasn't seemed to have made it onto any lists or polls I've seen. This may be because all the critics will have seen it in 2013, but it's UK release date was in January this year.
12 Years A Slave
Finding Vivian Mayer
Leviathan
Pride
All Is Lost
Still The Enemy Within
Boyhood
Road
Moebius
Next Goal Wins
Maps To The Stars
An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker
Of Horses & Men
Frank
Tom At The Farm
Ida
Calvary
Fruitvale Station
Stations Of The Cross
Two Days One Night
A few from the festivals that didn't get a release, but might (definitely would, in the case of the first two) have been in my top 20 had they have done so:
Life Feels Good (Polish film festival)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (London film festival)
Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story (East End film festival)
The Dance Of Reality (East End Film Festival)
9 Month Stretch (French film festival)
Worthy mentions:
Under The Skin
Manuscripts Don't Burn
The Rocket
Citizen Four
The Zero Theorem
We Are The Best
Welcome To New York
Starred Up
Cold In July
The Punk Singer
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Armstrong Lie
Stranger By The Lake
Bastards
The Past
Magic Magic
A Touch Of Sin
Pantani: Death Of a Cyclist
When I Saw You
Mr Turner
Pluto
The Man Whose Mind Exploded
I Am Divine
God's Pocket
A Most Wanted Man
and from the festivals:
Tokyo Tribe (London Film Festival)
Freefall (London film festival)
The Scribbler (Sci-fi London)
OKV: The Manual (Sci-fi London)
Wakolda (Jewish film festival)Statistics: Posted by milchman — Sun Dec 28, 2014 5:29 pm
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