under the skin

Trailers are a huge part of the fabric of movies. They play before every film shown in theaters, and on every movie website around the world. They’re commercials, obviously, but they’re also more than that; miniature works of art that utilize the core elements of cinema—image, sound, music, action, editing—at their most pure and refined. And today at ScreenCrush we’re celebrating movie trailers by saluting the best sneak previews of 2014.

Ever since the prosperous age of the 1920's, films have had a wide range of diverse approaches. Now in 2014, the possibilities of cinema are endless. When you enter a multiplex you can now easily move from one radically different genre to the next...