The Ten Best Films of 2014 (by Rogerebert.com contributors)

The way it worked was: Each writer for the site submitted his/her own individual Top 10 List. The editors then collated the group list into a collective Top 10. Tomorrow, our own individual lists will be published. Each one of us was assigned to write a blurb about a specific film on the group Top 10. I was assigned Jim Jarmusch’s dreamy Only Lovers Left Alive.

So voila, from the contributors at Rogerebert.com:

The Ten Best Films of 2014.

And I’ll put up a link tomorrow to all of our individual Top 10s. It should be interesting! It’s such a talented group of writers over there. I am proud to be a part of it.

I have also put together a much more sweeping Top Films of 2014, there’s something like 30 films on it, and I’ll put that up here some time before Christmas, which, good Lord, is next week. In the next couple of days then.

To those who griped about this being a bad year for movies (the gripes happen every year), I would say: What the heck are you talking about? The early part of the year we were DROWNING in awesome films, all of which were playing in actual multiplexes, and not just in New York and L.A. It was a pretty damn great year for movies. This fall we have had Inherent Vice, Selma, Dear White People, The Babadook, Nightcrawler, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night … there are more. These are major films, for all different kinds of reasons.

Anyway, enjoy our list. Maybe you’ll see some of your favorites there too.