2014

Film Decades: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• 3 Days to Kill – directed by McG, starring Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, & Eriq Ebouaney
• 5 Flights Up – directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Morgan Freeman & Diane Keaton
• 22 Jump Street – directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Peter Stormare, Jillian Bell, Amber Stevens, & Wyatt Russell
• 50 to 1 – directed by Jim Wilson, starring Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, William Devane, Madelyn Deutch, Todd Lowe, & Calvin Borel
• 300: Rise of an Empire – directed by Noam Murro, starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, Lena Headey, Peter Mensah, David Wenham, Andrew Tiernan, Andrew Pleavin, & Rodrigo Santoro
• About Last Night – directed by Steve Pink, starring Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Joy Bryant, Christopher McDonald, & Paula Patton
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – directed by Marc Webb, starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, & Sally Field
• And So It Goes – directed by Rob Reiner, starring Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton, and Sterling Jerins
• As the Gods Will – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Sota Fukushi, Hirona Yamazaki, Shota Sometani, Mio Yuki, Nao Omori, Lily Franky, & Ryunosuke Kamiki – Japan
• Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? – directed by J. James Manera, starring Kristoffer Polaha, Laura Regan, Greg Germann, Eric Allan Kramer, Tony Denison, Mark Moses, Lew Temple, Stephen Tobolowsky, Peter Mackenzie, Larry Cedar, Louis Herthum, Neil Dickson, Rob Morrow, & Joaquim de Almeida
• Better Living Through Chemistry – directed by David Posamentier & Geoff Moore, starring Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, & Ray Liotta
• Big Eyes – directed by Tim Burton, starring Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Jon Polito, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, & Terence Stamp
• Big Hero 6* – directed by Don Hall & Chris Williams, starring the voices of Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell, Maya Rudolph, & Alan Tudyk
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)* – directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, & Naomi Watts
• The Book of Life* – directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez, starring the voices of Diego Luna, Zoe Saldaña, Channing Tatum, Christina Applegate, Ice Cube, Kate del Castillo, & Ron Perlman
• The Boxtrolls* – directed by Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi, starring voices of Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, & Simon Pegg
• Boyhood* – directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, & Ethan Hawke
• Cake – directed by Daniel Barnz, and starring Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Anna Kendrick, & Sam Worthington
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier* – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo, starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Robert Redford, & Samuel L. Jackson
• Chef* – directed by and starring Jon Favereau, with Emjay Anthony, Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, Amy Sedaris, & Robert Downey Jr.
• Cuban Fury – directed by James Griffiths, starring Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Ian McShane, Olivia Coleman, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Alexandra Roach, Rory Kinnear, & Kayvan Novak
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – directed by Matt Reeves, starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, & Kodi Smit-McPhee
• Dear White People – directed by Justin Simien, starring Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris, Brandon P. Bell, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson, & Dennis Haysbert
• Divergent – directed by Neil Burger, starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwyn, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, & Kate Winslet
• Dolphin Tale 2 – directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, Austin Stowell, Tom Nowicki, Austin Highsmith, Betsy Landin, & Juliana Harkavy
• Draft Day – directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary, Frank Langella, Sam Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, & Chadwick Boseman
• Dumb and Dumber To – directed by Peter & Bobby Farrelly, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rib Riggle, Laurie Holden, Don Lake, Kathleen Turner, Steve Tom, & Bill Murray
• Edge of Tomorrow – directed by Doug Liman, starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Noah Taylor, & Kick Gurry
• Elsa & Fred – directed by Michael Radford, starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden, Wendell Pierce, Jared Gilman, Chris Noth, & Scott Bakula
• Endless Love – directed by Shana Feste, starring Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, & Robert Patrick
• Escobar: Paradise Lost – directed by Andrea Di Stefano, starring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisacc Brady Corbet, Carlos Bardem, & Ana Girardot
• Exodus: Gods and Kings – directed by Ridley Scott, starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Sigourney Weaver, & Ben Kingsley
• The Expendables 3 – directed by Patrick Hughes, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell, Victor Ortiz, Harrison Ford, & Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Fault in Our Stars – directed by Josh Boone, starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff, & Willem Dafoe
• Foxcatcher – directed by Bennett Miller, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave, & Anthony Michael Hall
• Frank – directed by Lenny Abrahamson, starring Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, & François Civil – UK
• Fury – directed by David Ayer, starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, & Scott Eastwood
• The Giver – directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Swift, & Emma Tremblay
• God’s Not Dead – directed by Harold Cronk, starring Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A. R. White, & Dean Cain
• Godzilla – directed by Gareth Edwards, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, & Bryan Cranston
• Gone Girl – directed by David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, Missi Pyle, Emily Ratajkowski, Casey Wilson, & Lola Kirke
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – directed by Wes Anderson, starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, & Owen Wilson
• Guardians of the Galaxy* – directed by James Gunn, starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, & Benicio del Toro
• Hector and the Search for Happiness – directed by Peter Chelsom, starring Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Veronica Ferres, Barry Atsma, & Christopher Plummer
• Hercules – directed by Brett Ratner, starring Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rebecca Ferguson, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Mullan, & John Hurt
• The Homesman – directed by & starring Tommy Lee Jones, with Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow, & James Spader
• Horrible Bosses 2 – directed by Sean Anders, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, & Christoph Waltz
• How to Train Your Dragon 2* – directed by Dean DeBlois, starring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, & Kit Harington
• The Humbling – directed by Barry Levinson, starring Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest, Nina Arianda, Dylan Baker, Charles Grodin, Dan Hedaya, Billy Porter, Kyra Sedgwick, & Mary Louise Wilson
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, & Donald Sutherland
• I, Frankenstein – directed by Stuart Beattie, starring Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, & Jai Courtney
• The Imitation Game – directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, & Mark Strong
• Inherent Vice – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Jeannie Berlin, Maya Rudolph, Michael K. Williams, & Martin Short
• Interstellar – directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Matt Damon, & Michael Caine
• Into the Woods – directed by Rob Marshall, starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, & Johnny Depp
• Jersey Boys – directed by Clint Eastwood, starring John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza, & Christopher Walken
• Kingsman: The Secret Service* – directed by Matthew Vaughn, starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson, Sofia Boutella, Edward Holcroft, Mark Hamill, & Michael Caine – UK/US
• Laggies – directed by Lynn Shelton, starring Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Kaitlyn Dever, Jeff Garlin, Ellie Kemper, & Mark Webber
• Left Behind – directed by Vic Armstrong, starring Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan, Jordin Sparks, & Lea Thompson
• Life After Beth – directed by Jeff Baena, starring Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gruber, Anna Kendrick, Paul Weitz, Alia Shawkat, & Garry Marshall
• Magic in the Moonlight* – directed by Woody Allen, starring Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Hamish Linklater, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Erica Leerhsen, Eileen Atkins, & Simon McBurney
• Maleficent – directed by Robert Stromberg, starring Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, & Lesley Manville
• Maps of the Stars – directed by David Cronenberg, starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, & Evan Bird
• A Million Ways to Die in the West* – directed by & starring Seth MacFarlane, with Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman, & Liam Neeson
• The Monuments Men – directed by & starring George Clooney, with Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, & Cate Blanchett
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman – directed by Rob Minkoff, starring the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Ariel Winter, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann, & Allison Janney
• Muppets Most Wanted* – directed by James Bobin, starring Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, & Tina Fey
• Nightcrawler – directed by Dan Gilroy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, & Bill Paxton
• Noah – directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, & Anthony Hopkins
• The Nut Job – directed by Peter Lepeniotis, starring the voices of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham, Gabriel Iglesias, & Sarah Gadon
• Over Your Dead Body – directed by Takashi Miike, starring chikawa Ebizō XI & Kō Shibasaki – Japan
• Paddington – directed by Paul King, starring the voice of Ben Whishaw, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Nicole Kidman, & the voice of Michael Gambon – UK/France
• Ping Pong Summer – directed by Michael Tully, starring Marcello Conte, Myles Massey, Emmi Shockley, Joe McCaughtry, Andy Riddle, Helena Seabrook, Maddie Howard, Lea Thompson, John Hannah, Judah Friedlander, Amy Sedaris, & Susan Sarandon
• Princess Jellyfish – directed by Taisuke Kawamura – Japan
• Rage – directed by Paco Cabezas, starring Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Peter Stormare, Danny Glover, Max Ryan, Judd Lormand & Pasha D. Lychnikoff
• RoboCop – directed by José Padilha, starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jennifer Ehle, & Jay Baruchel
• Sabotage – directed by David Ayer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway, & Mireille Enos
• Saving Christmas – directed by Darren Doane, starring Kirk Cameron
• The Scribbler – directed by John Suits, starring Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Kunal Nayyar, Ashlynn Yennie, Eliza Dushku, & Billy Campbell
• Selma – directed by Ava DuVernay, starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Carmen Ejogo, Common, Giovanni Ribisi, Alessandro Nivola, Cuba Gooding Jr., & Oprah Winfrey
• Sex Tape – directed by Jake Kasdan, starring Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, & Rob Lowe
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – directed by Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, starring Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Jaime King, Christopher Lloyd, Jamie Chung, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Meloni, & Juno Temple
• The Skeleton Twins – directed by Craig Johnson, starring Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, Boyd Holbrook, & Joanna Gleason
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – directed by Jonathan Liebesman, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Danny Woodburn, Abby Elliott, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, & Whoopi Goldberg, with the voices of Johnny Knoxville & Tony Shalhoub
• The Theory of Everything – directed by James Marsh, starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd, & David Thewlis – UK
• This Is Where I Leave You* – directed by Shawn Levy, starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard, & Jane Fonda
• Transformers: Age of Extinction – directed by Michael Bay, starring Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, & T.J. Miller, with the voices of Peter Cullen, John Goodman, Ken Watanabe, Robert Foxworth, John DiMaggio, Mark Ryan, Remo Wilson, Ben Schwartz, & Frank Welker
• Tusk – directed by Kevin Smith, starring Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, & Johnny Depp
• Vampire Academy – ditched by Mark Waters, starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Dominic Sherwood, Cameron Monaghan, Sami Gayle, Sarah Hyland, Joely Richardson, Olga Kurylenko, & Gabriel Byrne
• What We Did on Our Holiday – directed by Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin, starring David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, & Billy Connolly
• Whiplash – directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, & Melissa Benoist
• Wild – directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Kevin Rankin, & W. Earl Brown
• Wish I Was Here* – directed by and starring Zach Braff, with Kate Hudson, Josh Gad, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon, Ashley Greene, Alexander Chaplin, Donald Faison, & Mandy Patinkin
• X-Men: Days of Future Past* – directed by Bryan Singer, starring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Evan Peters, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Elliot Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, & Patrick Stewart

Film Decades: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019