My favorite films of the year (in alphabetical order):

Birdman

Boyhood

Force Majeure

Foxcatcher

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Interstellar

Life Itself

A Most Violent Year

Snowpiercer

Whiplash

Others I liked: Still Alice, Wild, CitizenFour, Inherent Vice, Nightcrawler, The One I Love, Under the Skin, American Sniper, Unbroken, Ida, Keep On Keepin’ On, The Skeleton Twins