Without further ado, here are (both of) our Top 10 Films of 2014.
Except even then, our heroine must live on in some capacity.
For anyone who has watched a loved one go through this nightmare, it never strikes an inauthentic note.
Tracks
Humans by their very nature are social creatures.
Hence whyTracksode to the lonesome is so endearing.
And at the center of it all is a career best performance by Jake Gyllenhaal.
Ergo, this is a wild success story in the world of television news!
The American dream made toxic or the fastest track to becoming a respected job creator?
The choice is up to you…
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The effect is a pervasive sense of loss from the first frame.
kinda looks for even Anderson, the frivolity of a visual carousel must come to an end.
After all, the brutal ugliness of reality is only one horse figurine behind you.
Interstellardares to dramatize time dilation and five-dimension theoretical physics in a popcorn movie about a humanist apocalypse.
There are few movies that cling to the mind after a single viewing likeInterstellar.
Like its protagonist, this practical effects-reliant spectacle will hardly age in the coming years.
That dichotomy is perhaps the only fair critique about this white-kunckled experience.
Otherwise, it really is perfect from any perspective, save perhaps for that of a first date.
The result is a movie that is nigh incomparable with its 2014 contemporaries in matters of ambition or temperament.
Coltranes Mason grows into an impressive young man who reflects his Austin directors sensibilities.
Yet, it is more the journey that the film goes in exploring this youth that definesBoyhood.
However, the movie never veers towards the violent, the melodramatic, or even the naturally cinematic.
Whiplash
With almost any story, the creation of art is supposed to justify the means.
Professor Fletcher is one of cinemas great villains in the vein of R. Lee Ermeys Sgt.
Hartman, save he might actually be creating something wonderful in his verbal deadliness.
The effect is a visceral lucidity thats as freewheeling as Michael Keatons schizophrenic onscreen alter ego, Riggan Thomson.
Having once forsaken depth for commercialisms fleeting attention, the films arc is about desperately regaining admiration.
While obviously paralleling Keatons own biography, the character feels like really a proxy for Inarritu.
It says popularity is prestiges slutty little cousin but it is basking in having all of the above.
Instead, its best to just get lost in the madness of the years most fascinating film.
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Elegant, stunningly shot and unremittingly mournful, Leviathan may be Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsevs masterpiece.
Is the Babadook real or a manifestation of mother and sons crumbling mental states?
Gyllenhaals leering, emaciated grin is like something out of a silent German horror film.
Whiplash
This movie lit me up both times I saw it and has stayed with me ever since.
Both are fantastic but Simmons is simply unbelievable in his ferocity.
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