Every year I tell myself I’m not going to make an
end-of-year top ten list. I hate ranking films, but every year I cave and wind
up throwing together a collection that I’m wholly unsatisfied with, and 2014 is
proving to be no exception. Despite the fact that it was a terrible year in
terms of overall box office receipts, that doesn’t mean there weren’t tons of
great movies to be seen. I’m a firm believer that, no matter how fucked up the
movie industry gets, there will always be people out there making interesting,
worthwhile, badass cinema, you only have to look for it. Just check out all the
amazing work on television right now, and all the big name filmmakers who are
migrating that way in search of creative freedom. There will always be
compelling stories being told.
