| Film Title | LAT | RTMC | RTC | The Gist |
| The Age of Stupid | yes | N/A | d:Think "An Inconvenient Truth" but with a personality | |
| The Queen and I | yes | N/A | d:captivating | |
| The Poker House | yes | N/A | vital, stirring film | |
| Kassim the Dream | yes | N/A | d:a nuanced survivor's story that memorably transcends its genre. | |
| Newcastle | yes | N/A | a surfer film in which its story and its people count for more than its surfing sequences | |
| Fados | yes | 100 | 100 | d:the final film in Carlos Saura's glorious musical trilogy |
| Up | yes | 98 | 94 | heartfelt enough to restore your faith in whatever needs restoration. |
| Tulpan | yes | 97 | 100 | by turns off-the-wall and serious, comic and sad. |
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil | yes | 97 | 100 | d:endearing and warmhearted |
| Star Trek | yes | 96 | 91 | has in general bridged the gap between the old and the new with alacrity and purpose. |
| The Song of Sparrows | yes | 96 | 100 | The overlooked and the ordinary is exactly the terrain Majidi loves to walk |
| Herb & Dorothy | yes | 95 | 92 | An ordinary couple with an extraordinary art collection. |
| Summer Hours | yes | 95 | 95 | a family drama with a larger point. |
| Drag Me to Hell | yes | 94 | 85 | fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross |
| Food Inc. | yes | 94 | 89 | d:smart, expertly shot |
| Goodbye Solo | yes | 94 | 100 | deals thoughtfully with some of the most complex elements of the human equation |
| Revanche | yes | 93 | 90 | a darkly compelling film from Austria |
| Seraphine | yes | 91 | 100 | it neither condescends to nor romanticizes its subject. |
| (500) Days of Summer | yes | 90 | 85 | **something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy. |
| Forbidden Lie$ | yes | 89 | 83 | d:[a] dizzying, drop-dead fascinating documentary on Norma Khouri |
| Adventureland | yes | 89 | 88 | engaging, bittersweet and even fun. |
| Sugar | yes | 89 | 92 | a beautifully made film about a young man's journey of self-discovery |
| Tyson | yes | 88 | 91 | d:"It's like a Greek tragedy. Only I'm the subject." |
| Burma VJ | yes | 86 | 83 | d:filmmaking at its most fearless |
| Soul Power | yes | 85 | 80 | d:a vibrant and joyous new documentary |
| Earth | yes | 85 | 85 | difficulties be damned, it shouldn't be missed. |
| Il Divo | yes | 85 | 100 | be prepared to hold on to your seat |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | yes | 84 | 89 | **cozy tales told around a cinematic campfire |
| Tony Manero | yes | 84 | N/A | a stinging allegory on the corrosive effects of the Pinochet regime in Chile |
| Every Little Step | yes | 83 | 89 | d:a can't-miss effort that knows how to please |
| O'Horten | yes | 82 | 100 | a gentle comedy, both funny and melancholy |
| Unmistaken Child | yes | 81 | 100 | d:bears witness to a strange and mysterious process |
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love | yes | 80 | N/A | d:an exemplary look at the African superstar's life |
| Jerichow | yes | 79 | 100 | fresh complexities and bleak irony |
| An Unlikely Weapon | yes | 79 | 100 | d:love letter of a documentary |
| Big Man Japan | yes | 78 | 67 | You've probably never seen anything like [it] |
| The Hangover | yes | 78 | 79 | A comedy that is hysterically and embarrassingly black |
| Ballerina | yes | 76 | 100 | d:everyone is beautiful at the ballet |
| Valentino: The Last Emperor | yes | 75 | 82 | d:smart and incisive film |
| Who Does She Think She Is? | yes | 73 | 83 | d:its impulse is visionary, not plaintive |
| Our City Dreams | yes | 71 | 60 | d:powerful, daring and makes you think |
| Outrage | yes | 70 | 85 | d:a look at conservative Republican politicians who are alleged to be closeted gays |
| Brüno | yes | 69 | 52 | Baron Cohen's instincts for outrage are spot on |
| Departures | yes | 69 | 69 | manages to be anything but dark; whimsy and sweet irony are laced throughout |
| Rudo y Cursi | yes | 69 | 100 | [a] puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy |
| Paris 36 | yes | 66 | 56 | irresistible and impeccable period musical |
| The Merry Gentleman | yes | 62 | 54 | a dark and lovely drama |
| Easy Virtue | yes | 58 | 70 | a Noel Coward comedy of manners |
| The New Twenty | yes | 55 | 60 | engaging |
| Is Anybody There? | yes | 52 | 38 | another memorable Michael Caine film. |
| The Taking of Pelham 123 | yes | 51 | 55 | crisp, effective New York subway hostage drama |
| Death in Love | yes | 50 | 44 | a head-turning, visionary achievement. |
| Sleep Dealer | yes | 50 | 67 | Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic |
| Battle for Terra | yes | 46 | 58 | Earthlings are the alien invaders in this engaging 3-D animated film. |
| Gigantic | yes | 42 | 27 | one of the better independent films in recent memory. |
| Naked Ambition: An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry | yes | 40 | N/A | d:an entertaining, adeptly crafted documentary |
| Weather Girl | yes | 40 | N/A | **breezy romantic comedy |
| Fighting | yes | 37 | 57 | The word that best expresses the film is "vivid." |
| The Limits of Control | yes | 26 | 16 | absorbing and visually mesmerizing |
| Fast & Furious | yes | 24 | 21 | should leave you exhausted and satiated for a very long time. |
| Mutant Chronicles | yes | 18 | N/A | It's photogenic people killing mutants before green screens; what more could you ask? |
| The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story | yes | d:so heartfelt that it elicits a sense that complex creative relationships may ultimately elude explication | ||
| Lemon Tree | so-so | 92 | 92 | A tale of encroachment and entrenchment |
| Examined Life | so-so | 85 | 88 | d:10 minutes apiece with seven notable philosophers |
| Bart Got a Room | so-so | 71 | 71 | slight comedy |
| Tetro | so-so | 59 | 58 | haunting, beautiful and often frustrating |
| Lymelife | so-so | 59 | 71 | stumbles at the end, but is otherwise well acted |
| Management | so-so | 53 | 55 | a mellow slow dance of a romantic comedy |
| Hannah Montana: The Movie | so-so | 45 | 52 | big, beautiful, a little boring and utterly safe. |
| American Swing | so-so | 45 | 57 | d:unexplored sadness ... amid the orgy of upbeat testimonials. |
| Alien Trespass | so-so | 35 | 21 | The ode to '50s sci-fi gets props for authenticity but could have upped the entertainment factor. |
| Terminator Salvation | so-so | 34 | 34 | elements from earlier in the franchise. But some of its soul has been lost. |
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | so-so | 27 | 26 | an amusingly sentimental whiff of a romantic comedy |
| Everybody Dies | no | N/A | so minimalist that it barely exists in any aspect. | |
| That Game of Chess | no | N/A | unconvincingly played and poorly crafted | |
| The Butterfly Tattoo | no | N/A | as sputtering as an awkward teen | |
| Break | no | N/A | a hard-boiled Quentin Tarantino knockoff | |
| C Me Dance | no | N/A | rudimentarily written, acted and directed | |
| Not Forgotten | no | N/A | more convoluted than satisfying | |
| Moon | no | 85 | 73 | we're left stranded on the dark side of the moon |
| Treeless Mountain | no | 81 | 50 | it's hard not to feel emotionally hijacked by the well-worn iconography of pathos |
| State of Play | no | 80 | 65 | a meandering movie that sometimes hits dead center and sometimes misfires dismally |
| Adoration | no | 79 | 77 | it all feels familiar -- that is, when it doesn't just feel lost |
| In a Dream | no | 71 | 63 | d:detract[s] focus from the bigger picture. |
| Enlighten Up! | no | 69 | N/A | d:essentially a high-minded reality TV turn |
| Julia | no | 67 | 57 | nothing about Julia is easy |
| American Violet | no | 67 | 64 | demands more |
| Away We Go | no | 62 | 48 | squanders its genuine assets and ends up not as special as it tries to be. |
| The Girlfriend Experience | no | 61 | 57 | leaves one feeling that a sleek gadget has been needlessly purchased. |
| Brothers at War | no | 61 | 70 | d:never finds a satisfying enough structure or viewpoint to give it an actual center. |
| Lifelines | no | 60 | 20 | an insufferably over-familiar take on angst in affluent suburbia. |
| Crank | no | 60 | 33 | Crank' turns it up to 'silly' |
| The Soloist | no | 56 | 71 | hits all the wrong notes. |
| 17 Again | no | 55 | 43 | Light in substance |
| The Brothers Bloom | no | 55 | 45 | forced creativity throughout |
| Empty Nest | no | 54 | 20 | in the end, it all can't help feeling a little slight |
| Observe and Report | no | 53 | 55 | like the film version of a stun gun |
| Imagine That | no | 46 | 52 | shiny, family-friendly trifle |
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | no | 44 | 33 | not so much a movie as a series of running antiquity gags |
| Angels & Demons | no | 38 | 35 | ...its many fast-moving plot lines are hard to follow. |
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | no | 37 | 15 | Believe me, it's not a pretty picture. |
| Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America | no | 31 | N/A | unfortunately marred |
| Land of the Lost | no | 29 | 19 | a silly contrivance of a comedy |
| Little Ashes | no | 27 | 10 | a trifling historical fantasy, gossip wrapped in gossamer, beautiful to watch but it takes only a light wind to leave the story in tatters. |
| Dance Flick | no | 27 | 36 | grinding its way through formulas |
| Love N' Dancing | no | 25 | N/A | pretty unremarkable stuff that has little to excite |
| Blood: The Last Vampire | no | 20 | 10 | often-unwatchably dim |
| Obsessed | no | 19 | 7 | It's no 'Fatal Attraction,' but when Beyoncé's in the room, you'll hardly care. |
| Next Day Air | no | 19 | 21 | fails to deliver the goods |
| I Hate Valentine's Day | no | 17 | 15 | is seriously outfitted for chick-flick duty. |
| The Informers | no | 14 | 5 | amounts to flipping through an out-of-date fashion magazine |
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | no | 14 | 14 | may be slick and acted with some conviction, but it is a fake |
| Dragonball Evolution | no | 14 | 33 | the movie equivalent of deep-fried sushi |
| I Love You, Beth Cooper | no | 13 | 8 | A flat, tired rehash of teen movie story tropes |
| My Life in Ruins | no | 12 | 9 | doesn't do Greece or its star many favors. |
| The Skeptic | no | 8 | N/A | Old-fashioned in the worst sense |
| What Goes Up | no | 0 | 0 | succeeds only in producing a series of contrived characters and situations |
| Homecoming | no | 0 | 0 | B-grade redo of “Misery” |
| Skills Like This | 57 | 50 | feels maniacally scattershot |