Sometimes I go back and look at my old best-of lists to see if they hold up. I would humbly suggest that my 2014 list was pretty good. Interstellar was there (loved my rewatch a decade later in IMAX 70mm). The Grand Budapest Hotel is among the best movies of the decade if it is not the best movie of the decade, a clarion call about the danger of creeping totalitarianism and the clash between civility/civilization and nihilistic barbarism. Plus Blue Ruin (it’s great, check it out), John Wick (nearly the only original movie to have spawned a hugely successful franchise in the last 10 years?), and Snowpiercer. To say nothing of the number one pick, Gone Girl, which may be my favorite David Fincher movie.
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