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The 20 best films of 2014

The best films of the year – the overground, the underground, the widely released and the still emerging, from oldtimers and first-timers – as chosen by 112 of our international contributors and colleagues.

Sight & Sound contributors
Friday 28 November 2014

Annual round-ups
From the Magazine

The equalizers

Nick James on the ongoing search for more women in films, and in film.

Nick James
Friday 28 November 2014

Comment
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Film of the week: Concerning Violence

Göran Hugo Olsson builds on The Black Power Mixtape with a richly dialectical archive essay intertwining Frantz Fanon’s writings on colonial violence and two decades of African liberation struggles. Ashley Clark looks on admiringly.

Ashley Clark
Thursday 27 November 2014

Reviews and recommendations
British TV drama versus the world

Is the UK television drama finally back to doing what it does best? Nick Edwards reports.

Nick Edwards
Thursday 27 November 2014

TV
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Film of the week: Winter Sleep

There are flashes of cinematic greatness in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or winner – smothered by stretches of cinematic slumber, says Jonathan Romney.

Jonathan Romney
Sunday 23 November 2014

Reviews and recommendations
Women on Film, sci-fi edition: It gets dystopian

When it comes to winning female superheroes in 21st-century Hollywood blockbusters, Katniss Everdeen really is one in a million, says Bidisha.

Bidisha
Saturday 22 November 2014

Comment
CPH:DOX 2014: history in the turning

The Fall of the Wall was showcased at this year’s Danish celebration of documentary art; but the best of the fest raked over less fêted events, as well two forays in nonfiction performance. Carmen Grey reports.

Carmen Gray
Friday 21 November 2014

Festivals
Performing lives: Queer Lisboa 2014

Ben Walters on four films at this year’s Queer Lisboa film festival that queered the art/life divide – in rising order of enigma.

Ben Walters
Friday 21 November 2014

Festivals
Cinema of saudade: Doclisboa’14

Nick James finds Portugal’s trademark wistful melancholia on screen via Dutch master Johan van der Keuken, Marguerite Duras and the longtime head of the Portuguese Cinematheque.

Nick James
Friday 21 November 2014

Festivals
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Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

The battle opens up some in this third quarter of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian martial saga – but its protagonist risks getting left behind, says Sophie Mayer.

Sophie Mayer
Thursday 20 November 2014

Reviews and recommendations