2014: The Year in Review, Pt. 1

Well played, 2014 – you had so much to offer, movie-wise, I am trying something new this year...from the third city in which I have lived this year.

Yeah. It’s been a plentiful year as well, speaking to the personal.

And I likey.

But back to the subject at hand. I am splitting my now-traditional look back at the year that was in two.

Happy 2015.

Best Supporting Abs: Zac Efron’s in That Awkward Moment and Neighbors

Good Abs, Bad Movies: Kellan Lutz in The Legend of Hercules and Kit Harington in Pompeii

Best Aging Hair and Make-up: Tilda Swinton’s in The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Vainglorious Hair and Make-up: Tilda Swinton’s in Snowpiercer

Best (Dirty) Look: Reese Witherspoon’s in Wild

Best Kept Secret: Matt Damon’s role in Interstellar

Best Line: “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine,” said by Jack Bannon, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Keira Knightley at different points of The Imitation Game

Best (Meta) Villains: New York Times critics, as depicted in Birdman and Big Eyes

Let’s Feature More: Swarthy leading men like Amr Waked (Lucy) and Manish Dayal (The Hundred-Foot Journey)

Let’s Not Again: Have Michael Fassbender wear a papier-mâché head for the entirety of a movie like they did in Frank

Most Game: Boyhood’s Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater

Most Kick-ass: Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow

Most Shut. The Front. Door!: Uma Thurman in Nymphomaniac: Volume I

Most Underrated (tie): Draft Day and Edge of Tomorrow

Most Surprising: Guardians of the Galaxy

Most Welcome to the A-List: Chris Pratt

Most Welcome Back: Godzilla

Worst Trend: Unfunny comedies (Walk of Shame, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Sex Tape)

Can’t Wait to See More of – Female: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, from Belle

Can’t Wait to See More of – Male (tie): Domhnall Gleeson, from Frank, and James Corden (Begin Again)

Best Soundtrack: The Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1

Best OK Movie Made for the Fans: Veronica Mars

Worst Movie: Jersey Boys

Photos: Universal Pictures (Neighbors); Magnolia Pictures (Frank); Fox Searchlight Pictures (Belle).