The Year of the Art Film: What We Learned on the Silver Screen in 2014

I love making lists. It simplifies life and allows the indulgence of a John Cusack/High Fidelity fantasy to play in my head. However, to sum up the year with the top 10 or 15 or even 20 movies in a tidy, little list that will be, for all intents and purposes, identical to every other top-flicks-of-the-year list just seems dumb. Also, the movies on those lists will be showered with award nominations and/or have already been honored at film festivals, anyway. Instead, we can be talking about what ...