1. Inside Llweyn Davis
The moodiness, unexpected turns, borderline surreal blasts of bizarre incidents and deep-dish evocation of a scene and state of mind in Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers's 16th film have stuck with me all year. Interpretations have varied as to what we're to make of the struggling Greenwich Village folk singer who's his own worst enemy and is so sublimely played by Oscar Isaac. I still stick with the idea that the Coens wanted to show us the guy who, for all his talent, did not become Dylan; for some, being an anti-social purist works, for others it doesn't. It's one of the brothers' two or three best.