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2014 Film Review: The Surprises

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Bubbling under our Top 50 films of the year we find a group of works that helped shaking our preconceptions off during the last twelve months. Some of them may have set new trends in the current world of cinema; some others took well established authors towards unexpected new directions.

Also surprising was the controversial return of the Biblical epic; queer cinema getting out of his niche and reaching a wider audience; the growing love for Nordic Noir; the return of the mockumentary; gorgeous travelogues; the celebration of an excellent year against all odds for Spanish movies and even a few good blockbusters which managed to defy Hollywood’s lack of interest for original ideas.

And the film surprises of 2014 were:

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2014 Film Review: The Disappointments

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The Awards season is over, which means it’s about time to wrap last year up and begin embracing what 2015 has in store. Judging by such great early releases as ‘The Duke Of Burgundy’; ‘It Follows’ and ‘White Dog’, all premiered during last year’s LFF, as well as the overall reactions to the competition in Sundance and the Berlinale, it looks like we may be up for another excellent harvest.

The way we traditionally put an end to the season is with our annual recap, looking at the year’s biggest disappointments, then the biggest surprises and finally our Top 50 best films.
We begin talking a walk on the dark side by counting down the films we had high expectations for but didn’t live up to them, which doesn’t necesarily mean the worst movies we saw last year -that dubious honor would be shared by Seth McFarlane’s profoundly unfunny ‘ A Million ways to die in the west’ and perhaps the greatest waste of talent of 2014 ‘Horrible Bosses 2’, achieving the almost impossible goal of making even a worse movie than its predecessor.

Among those less fortunate works we find many a failed, over-hyped awards contender; a few legendary auteurs going through a creative bump and some screen couples seriously lacking of chemistry… And the Disappointments of the year are:

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