It is with great pleasure that we present our annual Year in Review for 2014. We gave our Patrons a sneak peek earlier this week and they have provided some great suggestions—we wish we could incorporate them all. Now it’s your turn to take a look, figure out what you missed, and share it far and wide!

Methodology

In compiling this year’s review, we used largely the same approach as for 2013. Films had to be feature-length and have had at least a limited theatrical run in the US during 2014. Popular films that only screened at festivals weren’t eligible, but will no doubt show up next year. We ignored the release window rule in the “Ones to Watch” section, which notes the up-and-comers from the festival circuit—and we’re very proud to see fellow Kiwi James Napier Robertson’s superb film The Dark Horse at the top of that list.

The results were calculated as at 1 January, and may well change as the year wears on (last year’s highest-rated film 12 Years A Slave no longer holds that position, as you can see here). We’ve compiled official lists for each of the major categories, available under the yir2014 tag.

In memoriam

The deaths last year of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams we felt deserved special mention, so we’ve included video tributes to those actors from Caleb Slain and Tony Zhou respectively. We were greatly saddened by the ing of a number of other industry names during the year, including Sir Richard Attenborough, Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Bob Hoskins, Mickey Rooney, Harold Ramis, Shirley Temple Black and Saul Zaentz.

We’ll leave the rest of the review content for you to discover—use the up/down arrow keys on your keyboard (if you have one) to zoom through the pages one by one.

The 2014 Letterboxd Year in Review

We have lots more on the way in 2015, more about that very soon!