The 20 Best Films Of 2014

From the ridiculous to the sublime, as part of our ongoing year-end coverage, we recently looked at the worst films of the year, but we wouldn't want to rest on a negative note for too long, so there was only one way to go from there: to The Playlist's Official 20 Best Motion Pictures of 2014.

Traditionally, we've run separate lists by separate staffers, but this year, we also wanted to try something a little different. So for the first time ever, editors, staffers, contributors and contributing writers were polled on their top 10 lists, with ten points awarded for first place, nine for second etc, resulting in The Playlist's top twenty.

It's always worth noting that with Playlisters based everywhere from L.A. to Berlin, not everyone sees everything at the same time, and as we closed polling this past weekend, it's possible that we'd have seen certain movies yet to hit wide release climb higher (given the passion from the few who saw films like "Mommy,"...