Complete Star Rating Guide to the Films of 2014

Below, a complete star rating guide to the 295 new releases I saw theatrically in 2014.
(D) beside a title denotes a documentary.



About Alex - 2 stars
About Last Night - 3 stars
Abuse of Weakness - 2.5 stars
Advanced Style (D) - 2 stars
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (D) - 2.5 stars
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (D) - 1.5 stars
Alan Partridge - 1.5 stars
Alive Inside (D) - 2.5 stars
The Amazing Spiderman 2 - 1.5 stars
American Sniper - 3.5 stars
Anita (D) - 1.5 stars
Annie - 2 stars
Antarctica: A Year on Ice (D) - 2.5 stars
Are You Here - 2 stars
Art and Craft (D) - 2 stars
As It Is in Heaven - 1.5 stars
At Middleton - 1 star
Bad Words - 1.5 stars
The Battered Bastards of Baseball (D) - 3 stars
Bears (D) - 3 paws
Before I Go to Sleep - 2.5 stars
Begin Again - 2.5 stars
Belle - 2 stars
The Best Offer - 3.5 stars
Bethlehem - 2 stars
Beyond the Edge (D) - 3 stars
Beyond the Lights - 2 stars
Bicycling with Moliere - 2.5 stars
Big Eyes - 1.5 stars
Big Hero 6 - 3 stars
Big Men (D) - 3 stars
Bird People - 2 stars
The Birder's Guide to Everything - 1.5 stars
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - 3 stars
Blended - 1.5 stars
Blood Ties - 3 stars
The Blue Room - 1.5 stars
Blue Ruin - 3 stars
Borgman - 2.5 stars
Boyhood - 2 stars
Breathe In - 2 stars
Cake - 3 stars
The Calling - 2.5 stars
Calvary - 1 star
Canopy - 2 stars
The Captive - 1.5 stars
The Case Against 8 (D) - 2.5 stars
Cesar Chavez - 1.5 stars
Chef - 2 stars
Child's Pose - 3 stars
Chinese Puzzle - 2 stars
The Circle (D) - 2.5 stars
Citizen Koch (D) - 2 stars
Citizenfour (D) - 3 stars
Closed Curtain - 1 star
Code Black (D) - 2.5 stars
A Coffee in Berlin - 2.5 stars
Cold Comes the Night - 1.5 stars
Cold in July - 2.5 stars
The Cold Lands - 2 stars
Comet - 1 star
The Congress - 1.5 stars
Cyber-Seniors (D) - 3 stars
The Dance of Reality - 2.5 stars
Dancing in Jaffa (D) - 2.5 stars
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 2 stars
Dear White People - 1.5 stars
Dinosaur 13 (D) - 3.5 stars
Diplomacy - 2 stars
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them - 1.5 stars
The Dog (D) - 2.5 stars
Dom Hemingway - 2.5 stars
Dormant Beauty - 1.5 stars
The Double - 1.5 stars
Draft Day - 1.5 stars
The Drop - 3.5 stars
Dumbbells - 1 star
Edge of Tomorrow - 2.5 stars
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (D) - 3 stars
Elena - 1 star
Elsa & Fred - 2.5 stars
Enemy - 2.5 stars
The Equalizer - 1.5 stars
Ernest & Celestine - 1.5 stars
Evolution of a Criminal (D) - 2 stars
The Face of Love - 1 star
Fading Gigolo - 2.5 stars
The Fault in Our Stars - 2.5 stars
Filth - 1.5 stars
Finding Vivian Maier (D) - 3.5 stars
A Five Star Life - 1.5 stars
Flamenco Flamenco (D) - 2.5 stars
For No Good Reason (D) - 1 star
Force Majeure - 3.5 stars
Foxcatcher - 2 stars
Frank - 1 star
Frontera - 1.5 stars
Fury - 1.5 stars
Gabrielle - 2.5 stars
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Comes to Eden (D) - 1.5 stars
The Gambler - 2.5 stars
G.B.F. - 1.5 stars
Generation War - 2 stars
The German Doctor - 3.5 stars
Get On Up - 2.5 stars
Giuseppe Makes a Movie (D) - 2.5 stars
The Giver - 1.5 stars
Gloria - 3 stars
God Help the Girl - 1.5 stars
God's Pocket - 2.5 stars
Gone Girl - 1.5 stars
The Good Lie - 2.5 stars
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (D) - 2.5 stars
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 1.5 stars
The Grand Seduction - 1.5 stars
The Great Flood (D) - 3 stars
The Green Prince (D) - 2.5 stars
Guardians of the Galaxy - 1.5 stars
The Guest - 1 star
Half of a Yellow Sun - 1.5 stars
Happy Christmas - 4 stars
Happy Valley (D) - 2 stars
Hector and the Search for Happiness - 1 star
The Homesman - 1.5 stars
Honey - 3 stars
Horrible Bosses 2 - 2.5 stars
The Hundred-Foot Journey - 2.5 stars
I Am Eleven (D) - 2 stars
I Origins - 2 stars
Ida - 1.5 stars
If I Stay - 1.5 stars
If You Build It (D) - 2.5 stars
Ilo Ilo - 1.5 stars
The Imitation Game - 2 stars
The Immigrant - 1.5 stars
In Bloom - 2 stars
In Secret - 2.5 stars
Inherent Vice - 2.5 stars
The Internet's Own Boy (D) - 3 stars
The Interview - 1 star
Interstellar - 2 stars
Into the Woods - 3.5 stars
It Felt Like Love - 2.5 stars
Ivory Tower (D) - 2 stars
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - 2 stars
Jealousy - 1.5 stars
Jersey Boys - 3 stars
Jimi: All is By My Side - 1.5 stars
Jodorowsky's Dune (D) - 3.5 stars
Joe - 2.5 stars
John Wick - 1.5 stars
The Judge - 3 stars
Just a Sigh - 1.5 stars
Keep On Keepin' On (D) - 3 stars
The Kill Team (D) - 3.5 stars
Kill the Messenger - 3 stars
Korengal (D) - 2 stars
Laggies - 2.5 stars
Land Ho! - 1.5 stars
Last Days in Vietnam (D) - 4 stars
The Last of Robin Hood - 2 stars
The Last of the Unjust (D) - 2.5 stars
The Last Sentence - 2.5 stars
Le Chef - 1 star
Le Week-End - 1.5 stars
The Lego Movie - 1.5 stars
Let's Be Cops - 2 stars
A Letter to Momo - 1.5 stars
Leviathan - 3 stars
Levitated Mass (D) - 2.5 stars
Life Itself (D) - 3.5 stars
Life of Crime - 2.5 stars
Life's a Breeze - 1.5 stars
Like Father, Like Son - 2 stars
Lilting - 1.5 stars
Listen Up Philip - 3 stars
The Little Bedroom - 1.5 stars
Locke - 3 stars
Love is in the Air - 1.5 stars
Love is Strange - 1.5 stars
The Love Punch - 1 star
Low Down - 3 stars
Lucy - 1.5 stars
The Lunchbox - 2.5 stars
Magic in the Moonlight - 2.5 stars
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (D) - 2.5 stars
Manakamana (D) - 2 stars
Maps to the Stars - 1.5 stars
A Master Builder - 2.5 stars
May in the Summer - 1.5 stars
Memphis - 1.5 stars
Men, Women & Children - 2 stars
A Million Ways to Die in the West - 1 star
The Missing Picture - 2.5 stars
The Monuments Men - 1.5 stars
Mood Indigo - 2.5 stars
A Most Violent Year - 3 stars
A Most Wanted Man - 3 stars
Mr. Turner - 2.5 stars
My Old Lady - 2 stars
National Gallery (D) - 2.5 stars
Need for Speed - 2 stars
Neighbors - 2 stars
Next Goal Wins (D) - 3.5 stars
Next Year Jerusalem (D) - 1.5 stars
Night Moves - 3.5 stars
Nightcrawler - 3.5 stars
Noah - 1 star
Non-Stop - 1.5 stars
The Notebook - 1 star
The November Man - 2 stars
Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1 - 2.5 stars
Nymphomaniac, Vol. 2 - 1.5 stars
Obvious Child - 2 stars
The Olivia Experiment - 1 star
Omar - 2 stars
On My Way - 2.5 stars
Once Upon a Time Veronica - 1.5 stars
The One I Love - 3 stars
1,000 Times Good Night - 2.5 stars
The Only Real Game (D) - 2 stars
The Other Woman - 2.5 stars
The Overnighters (D) - 1.5 stars
Palo Alto - 1.5 stars
Particle Fever (D) - 3 stars
Pelican Dreams (D) - 3.5 stars
Penguins of Madagascar - 1.5 stars
Planes: Fire & Rescue: 2 stars
The Pleasures of Being / Out of Step (D) - 2.5 stars
Plot for Peace (D) - 1 star
Point and Shoot (D) - 1.5 stars
Pride - 2.5 stars
The Railway Man - 1.5 stars
The Retrieval - 2 stars
Rich Hill (D) - 2.5 stars
Ride Along - 2 stars
Rob the Mob - 2.5 stars
The Rocket - 1.5 stars
Rosewater - 1.5 stars
The Rover - 1.5 stars
Run & Jump - 1.5 stars
The Sacrament - 2 stars
Selma - 2 stars
Sex Tape - 1.5 stars
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (D) - 3 stars
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show (D) - 2 stars
Siddharth - 2.5 stars
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks - 1 star
The Skeleton Twins - 2 stars
Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the 60s (D) - 2.5 stars
Snowpiercer - 1.5 stars
St. Vincent - 1.5 stars
Starred Up - 1.5 stars
Still Alice - 2.5 stars
Stranger by the Lake - 2.5 stars
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (D) - 3 stars
Tammy - 2.5 stars
That Awkward Moment - 1.5 stars
The Theory of Everything - 4 stars
Third Person - 1.5 stars
This Is Where I Leave You - 1.5 stars
3 Days to Kill - 1.5 stars
To Be Takei (D) - 1.5 stars
Top Five - 1.5 stars
Tracks - 2 stars
Transcendence - 1.5 stars
The Trip to Italy - 3.5 stars
True Son (D) - 3 stars
The Truth About Emanuel - 1 star
22 Jump Street - 2.5 stars
The Two Faces of January - 2 stars
Unbroken - 1 star
Under the Skin - 2.5 stars
The Unknown Known (D) - 2.5 stars
Venus in Fur - 1.5 stars
Violette - 2 stars
Virunga (D) - 3 stars
Visitors (D) - 2 stars
Viva La Liberta - 2 stars
Voice of the King (D) - 2 stars
A Walk Among the Tombstones - 1 star
The Way He Looks - 3 stars
We are the Best! - 2.5 stars
Web Junkie (D) - 2.5 stars
What If - 1.5 stars
Whiplash - 2 stars
White Bird in a Blizzard - 1.5 stars
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (D) - 1.5 stars
Wild - 3 stars
Wild Tales - 3 stars
Wish I Was Here - 1 star
Words and Pictures - 1.5 stars
Young & Beautiful - 2 stars
Yves Saint Laurent - 3 stars
The Zero Theorem - 1 star

Totals:
625 stars - 295 films
Average:
2.12 stars

Number of Star Ratings:
4 stars - 3
3.5 stars - 16
3 stars - 38
2.5 stars - 70
2 stars - 57
1.5 stars - 86
1 star - 25
0.5 stars - 0
0 stars - 0