If you haven’t heard of him, Padhila began his career with the documentary Bus 174, which told the remarkable true story of a man who took a busload of passengers hostage and ended up in the middle of a media circus. Now, we certainly don’t expect next year’s Robo remake to better the original, but there’s at least one reason to look forward to it with some sense of optimism: the track record of Brazilian director Jose Padilha. This much-publicised remake has plenty going against it, not least the weight of history: Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is rightly regarded by many as being among the best films of the 1980s, with its heady cocktail of graphic violence, black comedy and corporate satire. If you want to buy any of these titles then check out our Top 25 Must-See Movies of 2014 Amazon Wishlist we curated just for you HERE. One of those would go on to work a lot better than the other. In 2012, we picked Gravity as our top choice.
So with all this in mind, here’s our pick of the 25 must-see films of 2014. Then there are films like Hayao Miyazaki’s swansong The Wind Rises, which doesn’t qualify since it already came out in 2013 in most territories – likewise Ari Folman’s animated film The Congress, which isn’t due out in the UK until 2014, but made its debut in Cannes back in May.
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