This week, I released this website's 2nd annual aggregate critics poll, featuring the 85 most acclaimed films from the 2014 calendar (which can viewed by clicking here and here). Today comes a list of what I like to call The Outliers, a.k.a. the list of all of the other films that were mentioned in at least one of the year-end top-ten lists used to create the aggregate poll.
To reiterate, over 300 films were mentioned at one point or another in the 2014 lists. Some of those films weren't actually even films, but stuff that could qualify as TV miniseries and anthology series (which I still qualified for the poll, since they are technically one-off stories) and regular TV series (which I did not, since those stories can last multiple seasons). Most of them were naturally from the year 2014, but there were still some 2013 leftover (just like in the top 85) as well as one film from 1996 (Level Five, directed by the late Chris Marker, which received a re-release in the US during the summertime).
We will begin the list by introducing the 15 films that qualified for the top 100, but just missed out on the top 85:
NUMBERS 86-100
86(tie). LEVEL FIVE (dir: Chris Marker)
26 points
86(tie). THE SKELETON TWINS (dir: Craig Johnson)
26 points
88. STILL ALICE (dir: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland)
25.5 points
89(tie). VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR (dir: Denis Cote)
25 points
89(tie). UNBROKEN (dir: Angelina Jolie)
25 points
91. LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM (dir: Rory Kennedy)
24.5 points
92(tie). GLORIA (dir: Sebastian Lelio)
24 points
92(tie). STORY OF MY DEATH (dir: Albert Serra)
24 points
92(tie). THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (dir: Martin Scorsese)
24 points
95. TIMBUKTU (dir: Abderrahmane Sissako)
23.5 points
96. HOW TO TRAIN YOU DRAGON 2 (dir: Dean DeBlois)
22.5 points
97. GOD HELP THE GIRL (dir: Stuart Murdoch)
22 points
98. THE LUNCHBOX (dir: Ritesh Batra)
21.5 points
99(tie). ACTRESS (dir: Robert Greene)
21 points
99(tie). FURY (dir: David Ayer)
21 points
And now...
THE REST (in alphabetical order)
22 JUMP STREET (dir: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (dir: Noam Murro)
A FIELD IN ENGLAND (dir: Ben Wheatley)
A MASTER BUILDER (dir: Jonathan Demme)
A TOUCH OF SIN (dir: Jia Zhangke)
ABOVE AND BELOW THE MINHOCAO (dir: Mark Lewis)
ABUSE OF WEAKNESS (dir: Catherine Breillat)
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN (dir: Nancy Buirski)
ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA (dir: Declan Lowney)
ALL IS LOST (dir: J.C. Chandor)
ALL THIS MAYHEM (dir: Eddie Martin)
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS (dir: Grace Lee)
AMOUR FOU (dir: Jessica Hausner)
ANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE (dir: Anthony Powell)
AUGUST WINDS (dir: Gabriel Mascaro)
BAD HAIR (dir: Mariana Rondon)
BAD WORDS (dir: Jason Bateman)
BEGIN AGAIN (dir: John Carney)
BELOVED SISTERS (dir: Dominik Graf)
BETHLEHEM (dir: Yuval Adler)
BEYOND THE LIGHTS (dir: Gina Prince-Bythewood)
BIG BAD WOLVES (dir: Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado)
BIG EYES (dir: Tim Burton)
BIG HERO 6 (dir: Don Hall, Chris Williams)
BIG MEN (dir: Rachel Boynton)
BIRD PEOPLE (dir: Pascale Ferran)
BJORK: BIOPHILIA LIVE (dir: Nick Fenton, Peter Strickland)
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (dir: Abdellatif Kechiche)
BOGOWIE (dir: Lukasz Palkowski)
BREAKFAST WITH CURTIS (dir: Laura Collela)
BUTTER ON THE LATCH (dir: Josephine Decker)
BUZZARD (dir: Joel Potrykus)
CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (dir: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Karlyn Michelson)
CHARLIE'S COUNTRY (dir: Rolf de Heer)
CHEAP THRILLS (dir: E.L. Katz)
CHEF (dir: Jon Favreau)
CHEATIN' (dir: Bill Plympton)
CHILD'S POSE (dir: Calin Peter Netzer)
CLASS ENEMY (dir: Rok Bicek)
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (dir: Olivier Assayas)
COHERENCE (dir: James Ward Byrkit)
COLD IN JULY (dir: Jim Mickle)
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (dir: Jean-Marc Vallee)
DAS SPEKTRUM EUROPAS (dir: Cristi Puiu)
DIPLOMACY (dir: Volker Schlondorff)
DRAFT DAY (dir: Ivan Reitman)
DREAMS ARE COLDER THAN DEATH (dir: Arthur Jafa)
DUMB AND DUMBER TO (dir: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)
ELENA (dir: Petra Cost)
ELLIE LUMME (dir: Ignatiy Vishnetsky)
ERNEST & CELESTINE (dir: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner)
EVERYDAY (dir: Michael Winterbottom)
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL (dir: Darius Clarke Monroe)
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (dir: Ridley Scott)
FARBE (dir: Sigmar Polke)
FADING GIGOLO (dir: John Turturro)
FALCON RISING (dir: Ernie Barbarash)
FED UP (dir: Stephanie Soechtig)
FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS (dir: Mitra Farahani)
FINAL CUT: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN (dir: Gyorgi Palfi)
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (dir: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel)
FISH & CAT (dir: Shahram Mokri)
GEBO AND THE SHADOW (dir: Manoel de Oliviera)
GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM (dir: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz)
GLEN CAMPBELL: I'LL BE ME (dir: James Keach)
GODZILLA (dir: Gareth Edwards)
GUILTY OF ROMANCE (dir: Sion Sono)
HAPPY CHRISTMAS (dir: Joe Swanberg)
HAPPY VALLEY (dir: Amir Bar-Lev)
HATESHIP LOVESHIP (dir: Liza Johnson)
HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (dir: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
HELI (dir: Amat Escalante)
HILL OF FREEDOM(dir: Hong Sang-soo)
HORSE MONEY (dir: Pedro Costa)
HOUSEBOUND (dir: Gerald Johnstone)
HYENA (dir: Gerard Johnson)
I ORIGINS (dir: Mike Cahill)
ILO ILO(dir: Anthony Chen)
IN BLOOM (dir: Chris Michael Birkmeier)
INTO THE WOODS (dir: Robert Marshall)
IT FOLLOWS (dir: David Robert Mitchell)
JAUJA (dir: Lisandro Alonso)
JERSEY BOYS (dir: Clint Eastwood)
JIMMY P.(dir: Arnaud Desplechin)
JOE (dir: David Gordon Green)
JOURNEY TO THE WEST (dir: Stephen Chow, Derek Kwok Chi-Kin)
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON (dir: Alan Hicks)
KIDS FOR CASH(dir: Robert May)
LAGGIES (dir: Lynn Shelton)
LAND HO! (dir: Aaron Katz, Martha Stephens)
LAST WEEKEND (dir: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams)
LE PARADIS (dir: Alan Cavalier)
LE WEEK-END (dir: Roger Michell)
LESSON OF THE EVIL (dir: Takashi Miike)
LIFE OF RILEY (dir: Alan Resnais)
LIFE PARTNERS (dir: Susanna Fogel)
LITTLE FEET (dir: Alexandre Rockwell)
LOW DOWN (dir: Jeff Preiss)
LUCY (dir: Luc Besson)
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (dir: Woody Allen)
MAIDAN (dir: Sergei Loznitsa)
MALEFICENT (dir: Robert Stromberg)
MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN (dir: Mohammad Rasoulof)
MEMPHIS (dir: Tim Sutton)
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN (dir: Jason Reitman)
MISS JULIE (dir: Liv Ullmann)
MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS (dir: Tom Berninger)
MOOD INDIGO (dir: Michel Gondry)
MUPPETS MOST WANTED (dir: James Bobin)
MY LITTLE PONY: EQUESTRIAN GIRLS- RAINBOW ROCKS (dir: Ishi Rudell, Jayson Thiessen)
NEBRASKA (dir: Alexander Payne)
NEIGHBORS (dir: Nicholas Stoller)
NOAH (dir: Darren Aronofsky)
NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN (dir: Katrin Gebbe)
NORTHERN LIGHT (dir: Nick Bentgen)
OLIVE KITTERIDGE (dir: Lisa Cholodenko)
OMAR (dir: Hany Abu-Assad)
OUR SUNHI (dir: Hong Sang-soo)
PADDINGTON (dir: Paul King)
PATERMA INVERTED (dir: Yasuhiro Yoshiura)
POINT AND SHOOT (dir: Marshall Curry)
POLICEMAN (dir: Nadav Lapid)
PREDESTINATION (dir: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig)
PROXY (dir: Zack Parker)
PULP: A FILM ABOUT LIFE, DEATH AND SUPERMARKETS (dir: Florian Habicht)
RAMBLERAS (dir: Daniela Speranza)
RED ARMY (dir: Gabe Polsky)
RETURN TO HOMS (dir: Talal Derki)
REVENGE OF THE MEKONS (dir: Joe Angio)
ROB THE MOB (dir: Raymond De Felitta)
SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY (dir: Drew Tobia)
SHADE AND LIGHT (dir: Juliano Ribeiro Salgad, Wim Wenders)
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRY (dir: Mary Dore)
STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS (dir: Sam Fleischner)
STARRY EYES (dir: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmeyer)
STATIONS OF THE CROSS (dir: Dietrich Bruggermann)
STOP THE POUNDING HEART (dir: Roberto Minervini)
SONG OF THE SEA (dir: Tomm Moore)
THE 50 YEAR ARGUMENT (dir: Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi)
THE AMAZING CATFISH (dir: Claudia Sainte-Luce)
THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL (dir: Chapman Way, Maclain Way)
THE BLUE ROOM (dir: Mathieu Amalric)
THE BOOK OF LIFE (dir: Jorge Gutierrez)
THE BOXTROLLS (dir: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi)
THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (dir: Felix Van Groeningen)
THE CONGRESS (dir: Ari Folman)
THE DAVID WHITING STORY (dir: Walter Reuben)
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM (dir: Ned Benson)
THE DOG (dir: Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren)
THE DOUBLE (dir: Richard Ayoade)
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (dir: Peter Strickland)
THE EQUALIZER (dir: Antoine Fuqua)
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (dir: Josh Boone)
THE FILMS OF JOANNA HOGG: "UNRELATED," "ARCHIPELAGO," AND "EXHIBITION"
THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR (dir: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine)
THE GAMBLER (dir: Rupert Wyatt)
THE GREAT BEAUTY (dir: Paolo Sorrentino)
THE GREAT INVISIBLE (dir: Margaret Brown)
THE GUEST (dir: Adam Wingard)
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (dir: Peter Jackson)
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY- PART 1 (dir: Francis Lawrence)
THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (dir: Guillaume Nicloux)
THE KILL TEAM (dir: Dan Krauss)
THE KING OF ESCAPE (dir: Alain Guiraudie)
THE LAST SENTENCE (dir: Jan Troell)
THE ONE I LOVE (dir: Charlie McDowell)
THE PAST (dir: Asghar Farhadi)
THE RETRIEVAL (dir: Chris Eska)
THE SALT OF THE EARTH (dir: Juliano Rubiero Salgado, Wim Wenders)
THE SECRET TRIAL 5 (dir: Amar Wala)
THE SELFISH GIANT (dir: Clio Barnard)
THE SMELL OF US (dir: Larry Clark)
THE THIRD PERSON (dir: Paul Haggis)
THE TRIBE (dir: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
THE TRIP TO ITALY (dir: Michael Winterbottom)
THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY (dir: Hossein Amini)
THE UNKNOWN KNOWN (dir: Errol Morris)
THE WAY HE LOOKS (dir: Daniel Ribiero)
THEY CAME TOGETHER (dir: David Wain)
THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY (dir: Josephine Decker)
THURSDAY TIL SUNDAY (dir: Dominga Sotomayor)
THY WOMB (dir: Brillante Mendoza)
TIP TOP (dir: Serge Bozon)
TOP FIVE (dir: Chris Rock)
TRACKS (dir: John Curran)
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (dir: Michael Bay)
TRESPASSING BERGMAN (dir: Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas)
TRUE DETECTIVE: SEASON 1 (dir: Cary Fukunaga)VENUS IN FUR (dir: Roman Polanski)
VIOLETTE (dir: Antonio Frazzi)
WAR OF LIES (dir: Martin Provost)
WETLANDS (dir: David Wnendt)
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (dir: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi)
WHILE WE'RE YOUNG (dir: Noah Baumbach)
WHITE GOD (dir: Kornel Mundruczo)
WHO TOOK JOHNNY (dir: David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley)
WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL? (dir: Shion Sono)
WITCHING AND BITCHING (dir: Alex de la Iglesia)
WORDS AND PICTURES (dir: Fred Schepisi)
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (dir: Brian Singer)
It should be noted that several of the movies mentioned here were only shown in the festival circuit, and have yet to be released in most parts of the globe. In 2013, such honorable mentions who fit into this category included Ida, Blue Ruin and Manakamana, and they were all movies that made it onto the top 85 of 2014. So, expect to see several of these place better in the 2015 lists after more critics are given the chance to see it. And now, the list of the 300 year-end lists that helped make up the 2014 poll:
Individual Lists
Robert Abele
Simon Abrams
Sam Adams
Al Alexander
Melissa Anderson
Ali Arikan
Michael Atkinson
Sean Axmander
Jason Bailey
Jeff Baker
Dana Barbuto
Linda Barnard
Marjorie Baumgarten
Josh Bell
Sheila Benson
James Berardinelli
William Bibbiani
Rick Bentley
Meredith Borders
Chuck Bowen
Peter Bradshaw
Liz Braun
Matt Brennan
Brad Brevet
Richard Brody
Tom Brook
Tom Brueggermann
Stephanie Bunbury
Sean Burns
Ty Burr
Paul Byrnes
Jehu Calderon
Jeff Cannata
Ian Casselberry
Justin Chang
David Chen
Daryl Chin
Adam Chitwood
Donald Clarke
Susan G. Cole
Sherilynn Connelly
Adam Cook
Richard Corliss
Dominic Corry
Jake Coyle
Jordan Cronk
Mike D'Angelo
Brian Darr
Erik Davis
Steve Davis
Peter Debruge
David Denby
Dennis Dermody
Serena Donadoni
Edward Douglas
A.A. Dowd
Duane Dudek
David Edelstein
David Ehrenstein
David Ehrlich
Eric Eisenberg
Annlee Ellingson
Gregory Ellwood
Steve Erickson
Devin Faraci
David Fear
Scott Feinberg
Marshall Fine
Bob Fischbach
Russ Fischer
Scott Foundas
Jim Fouratt
Haleigh Foutch
Cynthia Fuchs
Abby Garnett
Bill Gibron
Owen Gleiberman
Matt Goldberg
Bill Goodykoontz
William Goss
Pam Grady
Tim Grierson
Jaime Grijalba
Larry Gross
Rafer Guzman
Pete Hammond
Angie Han
Beth Hanna
Devindra Hardawar
Peter Hartlaub
Dennis Harvey
Jesse Hassenger
Philippa Hawker
Britt Hayes
Eugene Hernandez
Leba Hertz
Aaron Hilis
J. Hoberman
Stephen Holden
Anne Hornaday
Robert Horton
David Hudson
Darren Hughes
Drew Hunt
Robert Hunter
Eric Hynes
Richard T. Jameson
Steven Jenkins
Brian D. Johnson
J.R. Jones
Kimberly Jones
Tarah Judah
Inkoo Kang
Adam Kempenaar
Ben Kenigsberg
Lisa Kennedy
Glenn Kenny
Laura Kern
Ehsan Khoshbakht
Jonathan Kiefer
Danny King
Bruce Kirkland
Borys Kit
Chris Knight
Eric Kohn
Dan Kois
Michael Koresky
Genevieve Koski
Jay Kuehner
Josh Kupecki
Peter Labuza
Liam Lacey
Cody Lang
Josh Larsen
Mick LaSalle
Ryan Lattanzio
Richard Lawson
Kevin B. Lee
Will Leitch
Christy Lemire
Robert Levin
Phillip Lopate
Justin Lowe
Matthew Lucas
Lou Lumenick
Germain Lussier
Moira Macdonald
Gary Maddox
Vince Mancini
Calum Marsh
Kevin McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Patrick Z. McGavin
Marsha McCreadie
Drew McWeeny
Sean P. Means
Scott Mendelson
Carla Meyer
Brian Miller
Kristi Mitsuda
Marc Mohan
Roger Moore
Bob Mondello
Katherine Monk
Joe Morgenstern
Wesley Morris
Matt Mueller
Angelo Muredda
Kathleen Murphy
Noel Murray
Randy Myers
Chris Nashawaty
Adam Nayman
Col Needham
Perri Nemiroff
Rob Nelson
Joe Neuemaier
Amy Nicholson
Michael Nordine
Jocelyn Noveck
Sean O'Connell
Clint O'Connor
Andrew O'Hehir
Connie Ogle
Mark Olsen
Christopher Orr
Leigh Paatsch
Michael Pattinson
Gerald Peary
Sasha Perl-Raver
Steve Persall
Jamie Philbrick
Michael Phillips
Keith Phipps
Claudia Puig
James Quandt
Karl Quinn
Nathan Rabin
Steven Rae
Peter Rainer
Nicolas Rapold
Mack Rawden
Carrie Rickey
Rex Reed
Mara Reinstein
Simon Reynolds
Katey Rich
Tasha Robinson
Rene Rodriguez
Richard Roeper
Jonathan Romney
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Joshua Rothkopf
Mike Rubin
Mike Ryan
Evan Saathoff
Ben Sachs
Robert Saucedo
Marc Savlov
Adam Schartoff
A.O. Scott
Mike Scott
Nick Schager
Alan Scherstuhl
David Sexton
Betsy Sharkey
Keith Simanton
Brent Simon
Matt Singer
Jim Slotek
Kyle Smith
Michael Smith
Eric D. Snider
Josh Spiegel
Maciej Stasierski
David Sterritt
Marlow Stern
Dana Stevens
Sasha Stone
David Stratton
Bob Strauss
Ray Subers
Peter Suderman
Glenn Sumi
Kristopher Tapley
Anna Tatarska
Amy Taubin
Ella Taylor
Anne Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
Scott Tobias
Peter Travers
Michael Tully
John M. Urbanich
Barbara Vancheri
Todd VanDerWerff
James Verniere
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Chris Vognar
John Waters
Scott Wampler
Nathan Weinbender
Regina Weinreich
Sam Weisberg
Elizabeth Weitzman
Zachary Wigon
Matthew Wilder
Joe Williams
Alison Willmore
Norman Wilner
Calvin Wilson
Chuck Wilson
Jake Wilson
Stephen Whitty
Susan Wloszczyna
Anders Wright
Andrew Wright
Edgar Wright
Stephanie Zacharek
Staff Lists
Cahiers du Cinema
Complex
Consequence of Sound
Den of Geek
Empire
Huffington Post
FILMTV.it
LAist
Little White Lies
Movie Mezzanine
MTV News
Paste
People
RogerEbert.com
Slant
The Guardian
The Playlist
Time Out London
Total Film
TV Guide
Twitch
Yahoo! News
The website's look-back at the year of 2014 in film will wrap up sometime in late February, with a recap of the past winter's awards circuit. Other than that, I think it's officially safe to say that we can finally start to bring the previous year to a close. Now, let's see what movies you have to offer, 2015!
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