Best and Worst of 2014

I was a bit underwhelmed by movies this year. Somehow, I felt last year had more punch.
Here's my list.

Excellent
Timbuktu
Boyhood
Whiplash
Ida
Force Majeure
The Wonders
Leviathan
Two Days, One Night
Mr. Turner
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foxcatcher
Selma
Mommy
The Babadook
Under The Skin
Obvious Child
Jodorowsky's Dune
The Unknown Known
Citizenfour
Bad Hair
The Passionate Thief  - A restoration of Mario Monicelli's classic

Very Good
Birdman
A Most Wanted Man
Locke
A Most Violent Year
Calvary
Yves Saint Laurent
Magic in the Moonlight
Venus In Fur

Good
Gone Girl
Big Eyes
The One I Love
The Two Faces Of January
Blue Ruin
Snowpiercer 
Listen Up, Phillip
Young And Beautiful
Frank
Top Five
The Trip To Italy
Eden
Pasolini
The Princess Of France
Clouds Of Sils Maria

Love Is Strange

Could Be Better
The Immigrant
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Inherent Vice
The Blue Room
Rosewater
Enemy
Into The Woods
Art and Craft
The Skeleton Twins
Beyond the Lights

Overrated
Dear White People
Guardians of the Galaxy
Saint Laurent
Nightcrawler
Only Lovers Left Alive

Morally Dubious
American Sniper

Pretentious
Jauja
Goodbye To Language

So Bad It's Good
Exodus: Gods and Kings

Bad
Interstellar
Wild
Time Out of Mind
A Master Builder
I Origins

So Bad It's Terrible
Noah

Despicable
Heaven Knows What 

The 10 Best And All The Rest of 2013

My 10 Best Movies of 2013
Nebraska, Alexander Payne
The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
La Grande Bellezza, Paolo Sorrentino
Inside Lllewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen
The Past, Asghar Farhadi
Like Father, Like Son, Hirokasu Kore-eda
American Hustle, David O. Russell
All Is Lost, J.C. Chandor
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater
20 Feet From Stardom, Morgan Neville
Honorable mention:  
Club Sandwich, Fernando Eimbcke 

And all the rest:

Splendid
The Wolf Of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese  
Enough Said, Nicole Holofcener
Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach
What Maisie Knew, David Siegel and Scott McGeehee
The Place Beyond The Pines, Derek Cianfrance
The Conjuring, James Wan
Much Ado About Nothing, Joss Whedon
12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen 
In The House, François Ozon
Reality, Matteo Garrone
Anchorman 2, Adam McKay 
A Touch Of Sin, Jia Zhangke
Abuse of Weakness, Catherine Breillat 
Alan Partridge, Declan Lowney
Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont
Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Hong San Soo
The Square, Jehane Noujaim

Good
Philomena, Stephen Frears  
In A World, Lake Bell
Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallee
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
The East, Zal Batmanglij
Hannah Arendt, Margarethe Von Trotta
I'm so Excited!, Pedro Almodóvar
Koch, Neal Barsky
American Promise, Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson
Gloria, Sebastián Lelio
Omar, Hany Abu-Assad 
The Bling Ring, Sophia Coppola
Four, Joshua Sanchez
The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki   
Crystal Fairy, Sebastian Silva
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix Van Groeningen

Flawed
Blue is The Warmest Color, Adbdellatif Kechiche
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón
Stranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie
The Butler, Lee Daniels
Mama, Andrés Muschietti
We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney
August: Osage County, John Wells
Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller
Stray Dogs Hsai Ming Liang
The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann
Lone Survivor, Peter Berg
Out Of The Furnace, Scott Cooper

Grossly Overrated
Her, Spike Jonze
The Grandmaster, Wong Kar Wai
Mud, Jeff Nichols
Upstream Color, Shane Carruth
Jealousy, Phillipe Garrel
Two Guns, Baltasar Kormakur

Special WTF Mention
Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas

Meh
Lovelace, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 
Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch
Jimmy P. Psychotherapy of A Plains Indian, Arnaud Desplechin

Bad
The Counselor, Ridley Scott
Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh
Real, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Star Trek Into Darkness, J. J. Abrams
Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine

Bottom of the Barrel
Bastards, Claire Denis