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Best Movies of 2014, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
86 films from 2014 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Interstellar ('2014), at 8.7 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Blended, 6.5 on IMDb against 31 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interstellar '2014 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 8.7 | 73% | 74 | 8.5 | Christopher Nolan |
| 2 | Whiplash '2014 | Drama / Musical / Thriller | 8.5 | 94% | 89 | 8.4 | Damien Chazelle |
| 3 | Gone Girl '2014 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 88% | 79 | 7.9 | David Fincher |
| 4 | The Grand Budapest Hotel '2014 | Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | 92% | 88 | 8.0 | Wes Anderson |
| 5 | Guardians of the Galaxy '2014 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.0 | 91% | 76 | 7.9 | James Gunn |
| 6 | The Imitation Game '2014 | Drama / Thriller / War | 8.0 | 90% | 71 | 8.0 | Morten Tyldum |
| 7 | Edge of Tomorrow '2014 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.9 | 91% | 71 | 7.6 | Doug Liman |
| 8 | X-Men: Days of Future Past '2014 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.9 | 90% | 75 | 7.5 | Bryan Singer |
| 9 | Nightcrawler '2014 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 95% | 76 | 7.7 | Dan Gilroy |
| 10 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier '2014 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 90% | 70 | 7.7 | Joe Russo |
| 11 | Big Hero 6 '2014 | Animation / Action / Comedy | 7.8 | 90% | 74 | 7.7 | Chris Williams |
| 12 | Boyhood '2014 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 100 | 7.5 | Richard Linklater |
| 13 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) '2014 | Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | 91% | 87 | 7.4 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 14 | Wild Tales '2014 | Drama / Thriller / Comedy | 8.1 | 94% | 77 | 7.9 | Damián Szifron |
| 15 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 '2014 | Fantasy / Action / Animation | 7.8 | 92% | 77 | 7.7 | Dean DeBlois |
| 16 | The Theory of Everything '2014 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 81% | 71 | 7.8 | James Marsh |
| 17 | The Lego Movie '2014 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.7 | 96% | 83 | 7.4 | Phil Lord |
| 18 | Fury '2014 | War / Drama / Action | 7.6 | 75% | 64 | 7.5 | David Ayer |
| 19 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes '2014 | Sci-Fi / Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 91% | 79 | 7.3 | Matt Reeves |
| 20 | John Wick '2014 | Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 87% | 68 | 7.5 | Chad Stahelski |
| 21 | The Fault in Our Stars '2014 | Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 81% | 69 | 7.6 | Josh Boone |
| 22 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies '2014 | Action / Fantasy | 7.4 | 59% | 59 | 7.3 | Peter Jackson |
| 23 | What We Do in the Shadows '2014 | Comedy / Horror | 7.6 | 96% | 76 | 7.5 | Jemaine Clement |
| 24 | Predestination '2014 | Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.4 | 84% | 69 | 7.4 | Michael Spierig |
| 25 | American Sniper '2014 | War / Action | 7.3 | 71% | 73 | 7.4 | Clint Eastwood |
| 26 | The Equalizer '2014 | Thriller / Action / Crime | 7.3 | 61% | 57 | 7.3 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 27 | The Judge '2014 | Drama | 7.4 | 49% | 48 | 7.3 | David Dobkin |
| 28 | Still Alice '2014 | Drama | 7.5 | 85% | 72 | 7.5 | Wash Westmoreland |
| 29 | Begin Again '2014 | Comedy / Musical / Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 83% | 62 | 7.2 | John Carney |
| 30 | Chef '2014 | Comedy | 7.3 | 87% | 68 | 7.1 | Jon Favreau |
| 31 | Paddington '2014 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | 77 | 7.1 | Paul King |
| 32 | I Origins '2014 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.3 | 51% | 57 | 7.6 | Mike Cahill |
| 33 | Unbroken '2014 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 52% | 59 | 7.4 | Angelina Jolie |
| 34 | Coherence '2014 | Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 89% | 65 | 7.2 | James Ward Byrkit |
| 35 | Locke '2014 | Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 91% | 83 | 6.9 | Steven Knight |
| 36 | Love, Rosie '2014 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 32% | 44 | 7.8 | Christian Ditter |
| 37 | 22 Jump Street '2014 | Crime / Comedy / Action | 7.0 | 84% | 71 | 6.8 | Phil Lord |
| 38 | Maleficent '2014 | Fantasy / Action / Romance | 6.9 | 54% | 56 | 7.1 | Robert Stromberg |
| 39 | Serial (Bad) Weddings '2014 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Philippe de Chauveron |
| 40 | Non-Stop '2014 | Action / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 62% | 56 | 6.8 | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| 41 | Big Eyes '2014 | Drama | 6.9 | 72% | 62 | 7.0 | Tim Burton |
| 42 | Enemy '2014 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.8 | 74% | 61 | 6.8 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 43 | The Babadook '2014 | Drama / Horror | 6.8 | 98% | 86 | 6.5 | Jennifer Kent |
| 44 | The Maze Runner '2014 | Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.8 | 66% | 57 | 7.2 | Wes Ball |
| 45 | Penguins of Madagascar '2014 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | 74% | 53 | 6.5 | Simon J. Smith |
| 46 | If I Stay '2014 | Drama | 6.7 | 36% | 46 | 7.3 | R.J. Cutler |
| 47 | Oculus '2014 | Horror | 6.6 | 75% | 61 | 6.5 | Mike Flanagan |
| 48 | A Walk Among the Tombstones '2014 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 68% | 57 | 6.3 | Scott Frank |
| 49 | Blended '2014 | Comedy / Romance | 6.5 | 15% | 31 | 6.9 | Frank Coraci |
| 50 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For '2014 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.5 | 43% | 46 | 6.4 | Frank Miller |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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