The documentary about Snowden «Citizenfour»Becomes one of the most critically rated films.
There is even talk that he could get the nomination in the queen category of the OscarIt would be the first time that a documentary succeeds.
Critically Rated Tapes
Richard Linklater's "Boyhood": 99% Positive Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 100 on Metacritic
«Mr. Turner »by Mike Leigh: 97% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 96 on Metacritic
*** "Citizenfour" by Laura Poitras: 98% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 89 on Metacritic
Chris Rock's "Top Five": 92% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 93% on Metacritic
Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash": 97% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 87 on Metacritic
Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher": 91% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 91 on Metacritic
"Birdman" by Alejandro González Iñarritu: 93% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 88 on Metacritic
Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel": 92% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 88 on Metacritic
Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's "Still Alice": 86% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 83 on Metacritic
David Fincher's "Gone Girl": 88% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 79 on Metacritic
Olivier Assayas's "Clouds of Sils Maria": 89% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 78 on Metacritic
Noah Baumbach's "While We're Young": 81% Positive Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 84 on Metacritic
"Wild" by Jean-Marc Vallée 86% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 75 on Metacritic
Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler": 83% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 77 on Metacritic
Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game": 87% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 71 on Metacritic
Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice": 71% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 85 on Metacritic
Tate Taylor's "Get on Up": 79% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 71 on Metacritic
James Marsh's "The Theory of Everything": 79% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 68 on Metacritic
Ed Zwick's "Pawn Sacrifice": 89% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 57% on Metacritic
"The Homesman" by Tommy Lee Jones: 73% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 69 on Metacritic
David Ayer's "Fury": 77% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 64 on Metacritic
Jon Stewart's "Rosewater": 74% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 68 on Metacritic
«St. Vincent »by Theodore Melfi: 76% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 64 on Metacritic
Michael Cuesta's "Kill the Messenger": 75% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 60 on Metacritic
Ned Benson's "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby": 63% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 58 on Metacritic
Out of the race
Alan Rickman's "A Little Chaos": 71% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 49 on Metacritic
Woody Allen's "Magic in the Moonlight": 51% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 54 on Metacritic
David Dobkin's "The Judge": 47% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 48 on Metacritic
Jason Reitman's "Men, Women and Children": 29% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and 37 on Metacritic
Thomas McCarthy's "The Cobbler": 0% Positive Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and (No Value) on Metacritic
(*** New films rated by critics)
Not yet projected
Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper": (Premiere 25/12/2014)
JC Chandor's "A Most Violent Year": (Premiere 12/11/2014)
Tim Burton's "Big Eyes": (Premiere 25/12/2014)
Tod Haynes's "Carol": (No Release Date)
Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings": (Released 12/12/2014)
Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar": (Premiere 7/11/2014)
Rob Marshall's "Into the Woods": (Premiere 25/12/2014)
Ava DuVernay's "Selma": (Premiere 9/01/2015)
Sarah Gavron's "Suffragette": (Premiere 16/01/2015)
Saul Dibb's "Suite Française": (no release date)
Rupert Wyatt's "The Gambler": (Premiere 19/12/2014)
"Trash" by Stephen Daldry: (Premiere 28/11/2014) Preview at the Rio de Janeiro Festival 24/9/2014
Rupert Goold's "True Story" (No Release Date)
Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken": (Premiere 25/12/2014)
More information - Critical Opinion on Oscar Favorites (19/10/2014)