30 best films of 2014

History of violence: Jack O’Connell plays the hot-headed teenager in Starred Up
History of violence: Jack O’Connell plays the hot-headed teenager in Starred Up

Our film critics have battled it out to form our top 30 - Click here or on the tab above for an interactive version of the list with trailers - but what would be on yours? Tell us below.

1/ Boyhood
Cinema has always been the best place for time travel, but rarely has it been so anchored in reality than in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. With the cast ageing over a dozen years, the film was a tender, funny, honest, embarrassing and finally transcendent portrait of a family. By filming the subjects repeatedly over 12 years, it captured a Texan boy’s life from the age of 6 to 18, the flowering of a human being in the rough. By sweating the small stuff, Linklater