Film Title	LAT	RTMC	RTC	The Gist
God and Gays: Bridging the Gap	yes	N/A		d: Their stories are filled with searing pain, real courage -- and a triumph of the spirit.
Dostana	yes	N/A		a Bollywood comedy jampacked with fun
Toots	yes	100	100	d: enjoyable, well-assembled
Secrecy	yes	100	100	d: combines thoughtful interviews with an elegant visual look to produce an incisive examination of some of the key issues of our time.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell	yes	100	100	d: a marvelous documentary detailing how the everyday became extraordinary
Let the Right One In	yes	97	90	sinister but gorgeous and compelling
A Christmas Tale	yes	95	92	a captivating portrait of the most gorgeously fractious dysfunctional family.
August Evening	yes	95	88	a poignant film filled with ample rewards for those who submit to its leisurely pace and gentle observations
Happy-Go-Lucky	yes	94	100	eavesdropping on situations that can go from humor to fury in a heartbeat.
Moving Midway	yes	94	100	d: plays its own quirky yet thoughtful part in the question of how much the South has truly moved.
The Black Balloon	yes	94	100	or the most part, this unblinking family drama packs a visceral punch
Obscene	yes	92	N/A	d: as vital, incisive and entertaining as its subject
Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains	yes	92	88	d: an exceptional film, at once disturbing and elevating, deliberate yet powerful.
Hunger	yes	91	N/A	a hard look inside Belfast's Maze Prison
I've Loved You So Long	yes	91	100	performances this strong and direction this sensitive make us simply grateful to have an emotional story we can sink our teeth into and enjoy.
Slumdog Millionaire	yes	91	96	a Hollywood-style romantic melodrama that delivers major studio satisfactions
Frost/Nixon	yes	91	94	taking a silk purse of a project, making it even silkier
Still Life	yes	91	93	as inert as its title may suggest
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story	yes	90	N/A	d: a hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted, about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force.
Frontrunners	yes	88	90	d: It truly makes you wish you were back in 11th grade
Bolt	yes	84	75	a sweet Disney family film, but Lasseter's oversight has made it smarter than it otherwise would have been
Rachel Getting Married	yes	83	100	examines the complex push-pull of families that don't always get what they want but just might get what they need.
The Matador	yes	80	80	d: capture the paradox of beauty and cruelty that charges their entire film.
Fear(s) of the Dark	yes	73	70	a most frightful Halloween aperitif.
Role Models	yes	73	65	wobbles like crazy en route to a surprisingly strong finish
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers	yes	72	100	Rich in revealing detail and apt in its use of everyday Spokane settings
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist	yes	71	83	A smart soundtrack and the delightful Michael Cera and Kat Dennings give 'Nick & Norah' room to play.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year	yes	67	71	playful and high-spirited, with a refreshing emphasis on collective action and the importance of group effort over the individual
Patti Smith: Dream of Life	yes	65	77	a dream of a movie; gauzy, free-associative and reverberant.
Cadillac Records	yes	64	68	after every misstep, the film seems to find its feet again
Ben X	yes	64	67	a brilliant, harrowing first feature that plunges the viewer headlong into Ben's chaotic existence.
Synecdoche, New York	yes	64	47	makes an irrefutable case for the universality of the individual human experience.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	yes	60	60	most of the elements that made "Madagascar" all those millions are back, including lemur leader King Julien
Special	yes	58	17	a low-stakes charmer
Saving Marriage	yes	57	N/A	make acutely suspenseful a series of events whose outcome is already known
What Just Happened	yes	57	50	Barry Levinson's funny, sly and highly stress-inducing movie about two crazy weeks in the life of a successful producer.
Good Dick	yes	55	N/A	carries its messed-up, highly improbable premise so lightly and gracefully that it ultimately comes off as a sweet, plausible and curiously grounded love story
Breakfast With Scot	yes	55	55	has a sitcom format, but complex emotions and perceptions keep breaking through the surface in an engaging, thoughtful manner.
The Universe of Keith Haring	yes	54	63	strong enough to win over the skeptics.
Changeling	yes	51	46	To see this film is to understand both how fragile and how essential our hopes for decency and truth are in a world that must be made to care about either one.
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela	yes	50	N/A	a poignant narrative
Twilight	yes	44	58	This film succeeds, likely unreservedly for teens and in a classic guilty pleasure kind of way for adults,
Otto; or, Up With Dead People	yes	43	40	darkly funny, yet it acquires surprising poignancy and meaning.
Choose Connor	yes	42	N/A	a real stunner, an unusual coming-of-age story that packs a wallop in unexpected ways.
Just Buried	yes	38	N/A	puts 'fun' in funeral
The Little Red Truck	yes	29	N/A	an inspiring look at a diverse array of youngsters introduced to the joys of stage performing.
I Can't Think Straight	yes	27	17	sensual, witty and elegant
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom	yes			has its awkward and uneven moments but delivers the goods.
W	yes			Josh Brolin's empathetic portrayal of the president helps make for a pleasing, effective film.
Fraude: Mexico 2006	yes			a bit one-sided, but no less persuasive.
Fix	so-so	N/A		incessant first-person-camera viewpoint prevents the film from doing more
Milk	so-so	93	91	yet another accident of history has made "Milk," ... more involving than it would otherwise be.
Call + Response	so-so	80	N/A	adding another call-to-action voice against a worsening global scourge: human trafficking
Days and Clouds	so-so	80	80	an intriguing look at an affluent Genoa couple whose relationship crumbles
The Express	so-so	64	74	At times stirring, inspiring and thoughtful, "The Express" ends up feeling like a fumble at the goal line.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas	so-so	62	50	an affecting drama that refuses to soft-pedal its harrowing conclusion.
Flash of Genius	so-so	59	41	This spurned-inventor story is an underdog tale, but does it really need to be so doggedly formulaic?
RocknRolla	so-so	57	56	prefers just to hang around, killing time with the fellas until they turn on the lights.
Choke	so-so	56	35	Scruffy and sloppy, and not without a filthy charm
Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert	so-so	53	63	makes looking for Muslim comedy in the Western world worthwhile.
Battle in Seattle	so-so	53	40	can't quite properly portray the 1999 protests
Australia	so-so	52	52	Baz Luhrmann's epic is ambitious. Maybe overly so.
Soul Men	so-so	41	64	crude but diverting
Smother	so-so	40	N/A	a fairly standard story of a young man and his overbearing mother
Miracle at St. Anna	so-so	29	25	an important story indifferently told
Forever Strong	so-so	29	20	well shot and edited
Nobel Son	so-so	27	28	moments of vengeance-filled enjoyment but also a sense of tonal haphazardness.
Talento de Barrio	so-so	0	N/A	There's a punchy little 90-minute movie in here -- but it's been dragged out too long.
Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe	no	N/A	N/A	a slick but muddled indie
Tennessee	no	N/A		[a] visually arresting but overly self-conscious glum-fest.
Little Big Top	no	N/A		Sideshow isn't worth the money
Antarctica	no	N/A		pushes the envelope to just this side of hard core
B.O.H.I.C.A.	no	N/A		never gels into the stirring antiwar statement it clearly aspires to be.
The Alphabet Killer	no	N/A		ultimately so unsatisfying.
A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy	no	N/A		d: somehow slight and insubstantial, a series of snapshots rather than a more studied portrait.
Able Danger	no	N/A		a convoluted "Maltese Falcon" redux
JCVD	no	83	76	The giddy near-brilliance of its central conceit is squandered by flat execution.
Eden	no	71	75	never entirely shakes off its roots as a two-hander.
Splinter	no	69	82	extricates itself quickly from your moviegoing consciousness, but it never totally gets under your skin.
Quantum of Solace	no	67	35	All dressed up with no particular place to go
The Dukes	no	65	67	misses some high notes.
Religulous	no	65	63	The documentary on religion sets out not after answers but cheap laughs.
The First Basket	no	63	N/A	d: doesn't get far beyond the surface of its subject
The Secret Life of Bees	no	58	65	The art direction is marvelous, but this is a story set in the South of the 1960s. Even the all-star cast has trouble making it feel real.
Gardens of the Night	no	58	40	feels like some sort of child predator instructional film, as presented by celebrity pitchman Tom Arnold.
Quarantine	no	58	38	The recovered-video-style horror film has pretty good performances and some thrills, but in the end you'll want out.
Body of Lies	no	53	48	ends up too unconvincing and conventional to consistently hold our attention.
The Tree of Life	no	50	N/A	too often a blur of names and dates
Fireproof	no	50	N/A	a bad trip for anyone stuck watching this tedious drug comedy
City of Ember	no	47	61	never quite succeeds
The Beautiful Truth	no	46	20	d: comes off mostly like a hybrid of retro-style educational film and late-night infomercial.
Sex Drive	no	45	57	Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this "Sex Drive" is only partly worth the trip.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua	no	44	50	Definitely not anybody's best friend.
Tru Loved	no	43	63	has no more style than a vintage TV movie and is not without contrivance and stereotypes.
Blindness	no	37	30	In Fernando Meirelles' land of the blind, the one-eyed man isn't king -- the morally degenerate opportunist is.
An American Carol	no	36	N/A	The comedy from David Zucker has a silly, slapdash quality that lacks any real satirical bite, but there are some amusing moments.
Transporter 3	no	36	35	doubles as [a] greatest-hits package<s> of contemporary action-flick clichés
Pride and Glory	no	36	33	A plodding, formulaic police drama bathed in bluish light
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	no	35	17	The Simon Pegg comedy is derivative, tone-deaf and garishly unfunny.
Morning Light	no	32	31	detail-deficient storytelling and hyper-editing
Repo! The Genetic Opera	no	26	0	The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.
Shoot on Sight	no	25	N/A	has good intentions but winds up a thematically simplistic, dryly plotted and perfunctorily shot melodrama
Four Christmases	no	24	18	one shrill contrivance after another.
Max Payne	no	20	9	With its perpetual gloom and Mark Wahlberg's fixed scowl, this tale of a vengeance-seeking cop is bogged down in the shadows.
Passengers	no	19	13	Despite strong acting by Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson, the mystery-drama about plane crash survivors stalls over a too-predictable story.
Punisher: War Zone	no	17	6	the gory follow-up to 2004's "Punisher"
Saw V	no	12	9	a particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural.
The Elephant King	no	11	N/A	A better film is in there somewhere
My Best Friend's Girl	no	11	20	Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny.
Lake City	no	9	10	shifts gears so often it never gets out of the driveway
Johnny Got His Gun	no	0	N/A	has the deadly earnestness of a school play
The House of Adam	no	0	N/A	too slack, too lacking in style and pace, and it nose dives into a superfluous and overly sentimental foray into the supernatural
The Haunting of Molly Hartley	no	0	N/A	a dead-on-arrival thriller that resolutely fails to come to life.
Callback: The Unmaking of Bloodstain	no			could use some focus
The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror	no			a primitive mix of campy sex and gore
Zack and Miri Make a Porno		65	52	a modest success for Kevin Smith, due in large part to the charm of Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks.
Filth and Wisdom		28	30	while certainly ambitious, is mostly unconvincing and incoherent.