A pretty impressive crop of flicks this year I thought, but there were only a couple that I can say I really loved. If you agree or disagree with our ranking, tell us about it. It's also fun to know that someone found a movie through this list that might not have ordinarily been on their radar. Additionally I'll mention that a few of these you might have seen on previous years' lists...those are movies I saw at a festival, but they just gained a wide release this year. As usual, the same caveat applies this year: These are just ranked in the order of my enjoyment of the film, not the quality of the film. And again, just because a movie is ranked low doesn't mean I didn't like it (in fact, the only films I didn't like were the bottom 10 or so). I am just selective about what I see...I try only to watch films I know I'm going to enjoy.
1 12 Years a Slave
2 Before Midnight
3 The Wolf of Wall Street
4 American Hustle
5 August: Osage County
6 Dallas Buyers Club
7 Nebraska
8 Mud
9 The Way Way Back
10 Short Term 12
11 Captain Phillips
12 An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story
13 Her
14 Jayne Mansfield's Car
15 Philomena
16 Populaire
17 Enough Said
18 Cold Comes the Night
19 Stories We Tell
20 All is Lost
21 Blue Jasmine
22 Good Ol' Freda
23 Circle the Wagen
24 Forever's End
25 Salinger
26 Lovelace
27 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
28 Don Jon
29 The Kings of Summer
30 Big Star: Nothing can Hurt Me
31 Inside Llewyn Davis
32 Saving Mr. Banks
33 In a World…
34 Drinking Buddies
35 At Middleton
36 Free Samples
37 A Hijacking
38 See Girl Run
39 Blackfish
40 Child of God
41 Frances Ha
42 Monsters University
43 Parkland
44 What Maisie Knew
45 If You Build It
46 Spring Breakers
47 The Iceman
48 Scenic Route
49 Game Change
50 The World's End
51 Lee Daniels' The Butler
52 Gravity
53 Upstream Color
54 A Band Called Death
55 Behind the Candlebra
56 Side Effects
57 The Act of Killing
58 Great Chicken Wing Hunt
59 Little Hope Was Arson
60 The Gatekeepers
61 The Lifeguard
62 TWA Flight 800
63 Fruitvale Station
64 20 Feet From Stardom
65 A Place at the Table
66 Peter and Toshi get a Camera
67 The Odd Way Home
68 The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
69 Take Away One
70 Electrick Children
71 This Ain't No Mouse Music!
72 No More Road Trips?
73 This is the End
74 Room 237
75 The Spectacular Now
76 Identity Thief
77 Man of Steel
78 Cutie and the Boxer
79 Prince Avalanche
80 Finding Neighbors
81 Wrong
82 Xmas Without China
83 Coffee, Kill Boss
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Eric, I saw that you've seen my film, Circle the Wagen, & that you've ranked it higher than Inside Llewyn Davis, which is a great compliment! (we actually got a better audience rating at Austin Film Festival too, which I couldn't believe!)
Which festival did you see it at?
Thanks very much,
-=Charlie
Hi Charlie,
I just saw your comment. How cool! You might have guessed that I saw your film at the Austin Film Festival. I guess there's just something about your dogged determination and weird adventures that struck a chord with Austinites. I have recommended it to lots of my friends, including a friend of mine in Kansas who bought a 1950s Memphis City Bus from a junkyard in Austin, drove down with his brother and got it running. They then drove it to their parents' house in Arkansas and there it sits. One day, he hopes to get it to Kansas where he is in the process of turning a 30,000 sqft, 3 story, 100 year old grocery warehouse into his home. You and he are cut from the same cloth.
THAT would be one fantastic home. And yes, I'm jealous.
Thanks for writing back, Eric. AFF was a GREAT experience for us & we actually went back about 5months later to screen for Whole Foods mega convention. No place like Austin.
Thank you for your compliments. Your friend will be happy to know that we're on track to be released online (Netflix, iTunes, etc) in July & on DVD in August. Befriend me on Facebook if you'd like. And then I'd like to befriend your pal & check out pics of his home transformation!
Thanks again & best!
-=Charlie
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