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The 100 Best Movies of 2014, Ranked by Tomatometer

Enter the best movies of 2014, where we list every movie that went Certified Fresh. 2014 was the year we began peak-Marvel Cinematic Universe with the transformative paranoid thriller Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Guardians of the Galaxy, transforming comic book C-listers into pop culture icons.

Science-fiction had a good spread with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt‘s Edge of Tomorrow, Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer, the start of Legendary’s take on Godzilla, and Christopher Nolan’s epic Interstellar. Elevated horror continue turning the screws on the genre with The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

2014 was also the end of Studio Ghibli as we once knew it, with Isao Takahata releasing his final film, the elegiac fable The Tale of Princess Kaguya, and Hayao Miyazaki with his melancholic The Wind Rises, also the director’s last until coming out of retirement for The Boy and the Heron.

Keanu Reeves found his way back with John Wick. Jake Gyllenhaal reinvented himself for the grimy, unsettling Nightcrawler. Wes Anderson hit the mainstream with The Grand Budapest Hotel. And Richard Linklater turned in his report on Boyhood, 12 years after starting. Boyhood would go on to win our 2014 Golden Tomato Award for Best Movie, and would additionally be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. One-take wonder Birdman would ultimately take home the Academy Award, over other nominees American Sniper, Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, and Whiplash.

The worldwide highest-grossing movie of the 2014 is not on this list: Transformers: Age of Extinction, with over $1.1 billion. The rest of the top ten box office are: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Guardians of the Galaxy, Maleficent, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Interstellar.