LAT RTMC RTC The Gist
documentary



Second Skin yes N/A
d:about the phenomenon of online gaming
Heart of Stone yes N/A
d:offers a hard-won sense of hope and possibilities.
Tapped yes N/A
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

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



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

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



Ink yes N/A N/A assured action fantasy
El Tinte de la Fama yes N/A
an assured, graceful film
12 in a Box yes N/A
a nicely calibrated romp
Daytime Drinking yes N/A
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
a jumble of astute observation and clunkily heightened reality
American Cowslip so-so N/A
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