| 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 |