2014 was an intriguing year for movies. With no obvious breakout Oscar winners (12 Years a Slave) or billion-dollar box office smashes (like The Avengers), it’s easy to think it can be a forgettable year.
But that’s not really true. Peer beneath the surface and it was in
fact, a very strong year for movie fans — from emotional
masterpieces like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and returns-to-form like Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street to action-packed blockbusters such as Guardians of the Galaxy, there’s truly been something for everyone.
If you may still want to go back to the movie world of that year these are the must see movies!!!!!
1.The Wolf of Wall Street
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I’m a massive Martin Scorsese fan, but you’d be hard-pressed to argue
that his most recent films have lived up to the insanely high standard
set by Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and his other undisputed classics. Fortunately, 2014 marked a return to form for the 72-year-old moviemaker, as The Wolf of Wall Street
threw him back into comfortable territory, with a blue-collar,
rise-and–fall story zipping with classic Scorsese energy and black
comedy.
Telling the story of 1990s New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Steet
isn’t just a return to the top of the mountain for Scorsese, but for
star Leonardo DiCaprio too. As Belfort, DiCaprio delivers his best
performance since 2000’s Catch Me If You Can. Seriously, did anyone have any idea the guy was the best physical comedian of his generation?
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2.Nightcrawler
Director Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a role that draws inspiration from the likes of Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle and The King of Comedy’s Rupert Pupkin.
Gyllenhaal plays a weird drifter who becomes a kind of TMZ-style
crime reporter. I won’t spoil it further than that, but his portrayal of
the film’s unhinged loner protagonist is a superb central performance
drawn from a tight script from the writer of The Bourne Legacy. If you enjoyed Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, in both look and feel, you’ll enjoy this.
3.Birdman
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Okay, make that two comic book movies you should see this year! Except that Birdman isn’t really a comic movie in the same way that Guardians of the Galaxy
is. Instead it’s a flick in which former Batman actor Michael Keaton
plays, you guessed it, a former Hollywood actor who once put on the
tights to play big-screen comic book hero Birdman.
In the years since then, he’s fallen from view as a blockbuster
actor, and sets about trying to redeem himself by staging a Broadway
show to prove he’s still got it. Think Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, only with garish, brightly colored spandex instead of … okay, forget it. But director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman is well worth your time.
4.Gone Girl
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Telling the story of a missing woman whose husband becomes the
subject of suspicion, the movie takes a stab at Alfred Hitchcock-style
suspense, and pulls it off a whole lot better than Fincher’s previous Panic Room. If the ending gets a bit silly, that’s still not enough to derail one of the year’s best thrillers.
5.The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is
the Pixar movie that Pixar didn’t make. It’s lighthearted, full of
in-jokes, and genuinely touching (which is slightly surprising,
considering the whole movie is made up of CGI Lego bricks).
Anyone who has played a Lego video game will know just how inventive
and irreverent the franchise can be. Directed and co-written by Phil
Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie< is everything you’d want and more.
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