|
LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
The Gist |
documentary |
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Second Skin |
yes |
N/A |
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d:about the phenomenon of online gaming |
Heart of Stone |
yes |
N/A |
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d:offers a hard-won sense of hope and possibilities. |
Tapped |
yes |
N/A |
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d:clear-headed |
Highwater |
yes |
N/A |
|
d:compelling, thoroughly gorgeous |
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers |
yes |
100 |
100 |
d:evocative |
Afghan Star |
yes |
100 |
100 |
**d:remarkable |
Being Jewish in France |
yes |
100 |
N/A |
d:exceptional |
The Cove |
yes |
94 |
96 |
d:a powerful and effective piece of advocacy filmmaking |
Crude |
yes |
92 |
100 |
d:a fascinating case study of real-world political action. |
Gotta Dance |
yes |
90 |
100 |
d:Warm and cozy with just the tiniest dollop of tension |
The English Surgeon |
yes |
88 |
80 |
d:a British neurosurgeon's annual trips to Ukraine |
The Way We Get By |
yes |
88 |
80 |
d:filled with a rare honesty and intimacy |
The Windmill Movie |
yes |
81 |
67 |
d:a fascinating portrait of Rogers' life. |
Under Our Skin |
yes |
81 |
100 |
d:Lyme disease eye-opener |
Sex Positive |
yes |
81 |
100 |
d:illuminating, timelessly timely |
Earth Days |
yes |
79 |
86 |
d:a serious, considered film. |
The End of the Line |
yes |
77 |
75 |
d:as beautiful as it is damning |
It Might Get Loud |
yes |
73 |
90 |
d:about the electric guitar and the men who play it best |
Capitalism: A Love Story |
yes |
72 |
61 |
d:Moore's scattershot is a lot more interesting than some filmmakers' focus |
More Than a Game |
yes |
68 |
60 |
d:a knockout of a sports documentary |
Art & Copy |
yes |
55 |
57 |
d:allows us to revisit those classic ads |
Walt & El Grupo |
yes |
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d:chronicles a youthful and searching Walt Disney. |
The Third Wave |
so-so |
N/A |
N/A |
d:more video diary than full-fledged documentary |
American Casino |
so-so |
67 |
50 |
a lopsided, visually uninspired film |
X Games 3D: The Movie |
so-so |
36 |
27 |
d:an uneven thrill-circus display |
House of Numbers |
no |
N/A |
N/A |
d:is not especially well-organized or focused |
We Live in Public |
no |
86 |
50 |
d:follows Web visionary Joshua Harris and gets as lost as he does. |
animated |
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Mary and Max |
yes |
N/A |
N/A |
a:a painstaking process of much whimsical detail |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs |
yes |
86 |
68 |
**a:wildly enjoyable |
Evangelion: 1.0 |
yes |
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a:dazzling anime |
9 |
so-so |
56 |
65 |
impressive and oppressive. |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs |
so-so |
45 |
37 |
a:sometimes lively, sometimes listless |
regular movies |
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Ink |
yes |
N/A |
N/A |
assured action fantasy |
El Tinte de la Fama |
yes |
N/A |
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an assured, graceful film |
12 in a Box |
yes |
N/A |
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a nicely calibrated romp |
Daytime Drinking |
yes |
N/A |
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a droll minimalist comedy with major insights |
Still Walking |
yes |
100 |
100 |
This small gem of a movie always feels true and real |
The Hurt Locker |
yes |
97 |
94 |
**Overwhelmingly tense, overflowing with crackling verisimilitude |
The Beaches of Agnès |
yes |
96 |
100 |
a lovely bit of memory and mischief. |
Somers Town |
yes |
95 |
100 |
a funny and endearing character comedy |
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg |
yes |
95 |
93 |
lovingly chronicled |
Ponyo |
yes |
95 |
91 |
viewers will find their inner child through a charming fish story |
In the Loop |
yes |
94 |
90 |
a very effective, verbally blood-stained portrait |
Zombieland |
yes |
89 |
88 |
fresh and funny take on the horror genre. |
Laila's Birthday |
yes |
88 |
N/A |
captures the senselessness of life in this city under siege |
District 9 |
yes |
88 |
87 |
very smart sci-fi |
No Impact Man |
yes |
87 |
88 |
environmental advocacy...for those of us who have the best of intentions |
A Serious Man |
yes |
86 |
80 |
a pitch-perfect comedy of despair |
Bright Star |
yes |
84 |
96 |
an exquisitely done, emotional love story |
Flame & Citron |
yes |
84 |
88 |
Danish anti-Nazi resistance fighters |
Big Fan |
yes |
83 |
89 |
a poignant, dead-on character study |
A Woman in Berlin |
yes |
83 |
83 |
**intelligent, provocative and intensely dramatic. |
Whip It |
yes |
82 |
83 |
a fun romp and an athletic drama with a heart. |
Amreeka |
yes |
81 |
89 |
**a small film of surpassing quality |
Bandslam |
yes |
80 |
89 |
a pretty good movie given that the odds of it having been a pretty bad movie |
Taxidermia |
yes |
78 |
86 |
allegory on life in Hungary from World War II to the present |
Beeswax |
yes |
77 |
89 |
a subtle, amusing film filled with charm and spontaneity |
Humpday |
yes |
77 |
79 |
sharply observed |
Thirst |
yes |
77 |
64 |
rare vampire movie with serious intellectual heft |
Julie & Julia |
yes |
75 |
80 |
**Bon appétit, indeed. |
The Vanished Empire |
yes |
73 |
86 |
a nicely turned film about the crushing inevitability of change |
My One and Only |
yes |
71 |
79 |
lovely little bit of nostalgia |
Grace |
yes |
67 |
N/A |
a family drama about a mother desperate to save her baby. |
Coco Before Chanel |
yes |
67 |
71 |
a superior filmed biography |
Paris |
yes |
66 |
67 |
turns an unblinking gaze on the beauty of melancholy |
Dead Snow |
yes |
65 |
62 |
undead Nazis terrorize vacationing med students. |
Public Enemies |
yes |
65 |
60 |
**an impressive film of great formal skill |
Adam |
yes |
64 |
75 |
a great-looking, beguiling film |
Paper Heart |
yes |
63 |
56 |
**a clever, charming look at love. |
Five Minutes of Heaven |
yes |
63 |
38 |
an intriguing, what-if take examining both sides of the Northern Irish conflict. |
Casi Divas |
yes |
56 |
N/A |
a funny, exuberant entertainment |
The Stoning of Soraya M |
yes |
55 |
57 |
goes well beyond its angry didacticism |
Cheri |
yes |
51 |
50 |
sluggish at the start despite having a lot of things going for it. |
The Blue Tooth Virgin |
yes |
50 |
N/A |
hilarious, acutely knowing |
The Proposal |
yes |
46 |
50 |
a good old-fashioned romance |
Aliens in the Attic |
yes |
30 |
33 |
isn't an out-of-this-world classic, but it's enjoyable. |
The Burning Plain |
yes |
29 |
27 |
Powerful, profound and beautifully rendered |
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard |
yes |
27 |
22 |
has a beater's clunky, fast-moving charm. |
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell |
yes |
24 |
36 |
hilarious yet stinging |
Irene in Time |
so-so |
N/A |
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a jumble of astute observation and clunkily heightened reality |
American Cowslip |
so-so |
N/A |
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ambitious but misfired comedy |
You, the Living |
so-so |
100 |
100 |
episodes that are worthy of comparison with those of the silent-era masters |
Cold Souls |
so-so |
84 |
87 |
at least its brain isn't the size of a chickpea. |
The September Issue |
so-so |
84 |
80 |
a slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary |
World's Greatest Dad |
so-so |
82 |
94 |
moving but cringe-worthy |
The Baader Meinhof Complex |
so-so |
81 |
78 |
Even though its purpose couldn't be more serious, its style could hardly be more pulp. |
Disgrace |
so-so |
78 |
91 |
adheres too slavishly to the text to really come to life on screen |
Sikandar |
so-so |
67 |
N/A |
boasts a significant story with several effective plot twists |
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself |
so-so |
64 |
80 |
Inelegant and watchable |
The Boys Are Back |
so-so |
63 |
75 |
affectionate but sometimes terrifying |
A Perfect Getaway |
so-so |
54 |
71 |
It twists. It thrills. Just pay no mind to the details. |
Orphan |
so-so |
51 |
43 |
loopy horror yarn |
Taking Woodstock |
so-so |
51 |
31 |
It's a frustrating complication of a movie |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra |
so-so |
37 |
33 |
the Joes are not bad, it's just that they could have been much better |
The Collector |
so-so |
29 |
14 |
different from the other slabs of meat hanging in the horror film locker. |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
so-so |
20 |
18 |
more robots and more noise, but it's less than meets the eye (and ear). |
Orgies and the Meaning of Life |
no |
N/A |
N/A |
murky, pretentious and self-indulgent |
The Open Road |
no |
N/A |
N/A |
a low-key road movie that doesn't stray far from the very, very beaten path. |
Máncora |
no |
N/A |
|
On a one-way road to trouble |
Inglourious Basterds |
no |
88 |
75 |
a film that loses its way in the thickets of alternative history |
The Informant! |
no |
77 |
74 |
Steven Soderbergh makes another exasperating film largely for himself. |
Loren Cass |
no |
73 |
N/A |
It's tedious, dispiriting stuff. |
White on Rice |
no |
71 |
N/A |
Buffoonery, and not in a good way |
New York |
no |
67 |
N/A |
a slice of the Big Apple that you should skip. |
Funny People |
no |
65 |
47 |
Sad really, but this change-up from comedy king Judd Apatow is a slog. |
Extract |
no |
64 |
50 |
Mike Judge's latest is a part-timer that never quite goes full. |
The Invention of Lying |
no |
60 |
54 |
too thin in character and plot to carry a feature-length film |
Life Is Hot in Cracktown |
no |
50 |
N/A |
social realism with soap-opera theatrics. |
Whatever Works |
no |
46 |
25 |
this film is no great shakes |
My Sister's Keeper |
no |
45 |
41 |
a heavy hand has brought it down. |
Shorts |
no |
44 |
56 |
Robert Rodriguez seems uninspired with his latest kid flic |
Fragments |
no |
43 |
0 |
Its bits and pieces just don't fit. |
Jennifer's Body |
no |
42 |
38 |
a sorely lackluster scare flick |
Surrogates |
no |
39 |
45 |
promising, but sense gets shoved aside in the pointless rush-rush. |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
no |
36 |
29 |
hits the screen with an ungainly thud. |
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha |
no |
33 |
33 |
seems a collection of parts rather than a whole |
Pandorum |
no |
31 |
33 |
tedious, disorienting |
The Answer Man |
no |
29 |
20 |
disarray ensues. And that's just the script. |
The Final Destination |
no |
28 |
0 |
silly and predictable |
Shrink |
no |
26 |
25 |
Seems to 'Shrink' from reality |
G-Force |
no |
26 |
19 |
isn't so much childish as smarmily adolescent. |
Play the Game |
no |
26 |
10 |
As brightly lighted as a bad sitcom |
Sorority Row |
no |
25 |
0 |
Don't rush to see this jumble of gore and gags. |
Gamer |
no |
21 |
N/A |
dismal |
Halloween II |
no |
21 |
18 |
Writer-director Rob Zombie piles on the sadism to little effect. |
The Narrows |
no |
20 |
0 |
too riddled with clichés |
The Other Man |
no |
19 |
8 |
it all makes better sense in retrospect. |
Love Happens |
no |
18 |
5 |
A hopelessly clichéd love story |
This Beautiful City |
no |
17 |
N/A |
an awfully optimistic title for such a grim and often ugly movie |
Year One |
no |
16 |
21 |
plenty of lowbrow, knuckle-dragging humor |
The Ugly Truth |
no |
16 |
10 |
continues a pretty ugly run of romantic comedies |
Spread |
no |
14 |
15 |
a low-suds 'Shampoo.' |
Post Grad |
no |
9 |
8 |
A joyless fluffball about after-college job woes |
All About Steve |
no |
6 |
8 |
majestically unstable and unfunny |
Whiteout |
no |
6 |
0 |
laughably lame film |
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt |
no |
0 |
0 |
can't lend either spunk or gravitas to what was already a preposterous yarn |