Oliver Lyttelton's Top 15 Films Of 2014

This year we compiled an aggregated Playlist Best Films Of The Year which you can find here. However, regular contributors were also given the chance to submit personal lists. Here's the rest of our substantial year-end coverage, among which you'll find other personal top ten lists from our staff.  I’m not sure I considered 2014 a great year for film until I sat down to put this list together and found myself with a longlist of at least fifty movies. That’s perhaps because the greatness was spread wider than usual: lots of ace, esoteric indies in the spring, a surprisingly strong slate of blockbusters in the summer, and some strong prestige pictures in the fall (even if many of the films actually likely to be Oscar nominated are a bit milquetoast for my taste), plus killer festival fare throughout. As usual, I’m slightly on own my schedule -- as a British writer for mostly U.S. outlets who sees a big chunk of my viewing list at festivals, I’ve ignored release...