| LAT | RTMC | RTC | The Gist | |
| documentary | ||||
| Blood Equity | yes | N/A | N/A | d:the physical and mental struggles of ex-football players |
| Visual Acoustics | yes | 100 | N/A | d: the life of architectural photographer Julius Shulman |
| Good Hair | yes | 93 | 92 | d:Chris Rock tackles the social and economic issues surrounding ethnic hair. |
| Defamation | yes | 90 | N/A | d:strives admirably to be evenhanded |
| The Horse Boy | yes | 86 | 83 | d:follows author and human rights activist Rupert Isaacson |
| The Yes Men Fix the World | yes | 78 | 89 | d:fleet and amusing corporation-shaming Trojan horse antics |
| Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis | yes | 75 | 60 | d:one of the most morally complex figures to come out of the Holocaust. |
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe | yes | 67 | 83 | d:absorbing |
| Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story | yes | d:an astonishing collection of footage | ||
| La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet | yes | d:heart-stirring beauty and grace | ||
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty | no | 50 | 57 | d:a documentary about the underground rock poster movement |
| Strongman | no | d:tiresome | ||
| animated | ||||
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | yes | 91 | 95 | *playful and funny |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | yes | more than matches the mastery of the film that came before it | ||
| The Princess and the Frog | yes | *Go ahead and pucker up. | ||
| Astro Boy | no | 48 | 46 | "Transformers" for tots |
| Planet 51 | no | 19 | 27 | displays an almost criminal lack of curiosity about the small details |
| regular movies | ||||
| The Vicious Kind | yes | N/A | N/A | *unique, surprising and memorable. |
| Ocean of Pearls | yes | N/A | N/A | exceptional impact and complexity |
| Watercolors | yes | N/A | N/A | a graceful film |
| Murder in Fashion | yes | N/A | N/A | straightforward, well-paced, resourcefully made |
| Misconceptions | yes | N/A | N/A | polished comedy with a dauntingly improbable premise |
| The Maid | yes | 100 | 100 | *leaves you off balance, in the best possible way. |
| 35 Shots of Rum | yes | 94 | N/A | a warm, embracing work, with a flowing lyricism |
| The Wedding Song | yes | 93 | 100 | *two friends during the German occupation of Tunisia in 1942 |
| Home | yes | 92 | N/A | enjoyable, involving dramedy |
| Damned United | yes | 91 | 93 | Damned United' is pretty darned good |
| Gigante | yes | 91 | 83 | As unpretentious as it is perceptive, "Gigante" is a gem. |
| An Education | yes | 90 | 93 | Invariably funny and inexpressibly moving |
| Paranormal Activity | yes | 90 | 92 | Somewhere Hitchcock is smiling |
| The Messenger | yes | 90 | 89 | takes a home-front look at the collateral damage of our current desert wars. |
| Crazy Heart | yes | 89 | 100 | a powerful symmetry at work |
| Up in the Air | yes | 89 | 91 | *funny yet poignant |
| The White Ribbon | yes | 88 | 90 | tense, provocative and unnerving |
| Red Cliff | yes | 88 | 84 | a pleasantly traditional picture |
| The Sun | yes | 87 | 100 | touches of great theater |
| Precious | yes | 87 | 85 | hopeful tale of an abused, pregnant teen |
| Black Dynamite | yes | 86 | 78 | an enjoyable celebratory ode to a fiercely entertaining counterculture-inspired genre. |
| Araya | yes | 85 | N/A | 1959 film on the salt marshes of Venezuela is dated but fascinating |
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | yes | 84 | 86 | *slick new noir |
| Broken Embraces | yes | 83 | 92 | a deliciously twisted tale of love, death and a badly edited film. |
| A Single Man | yes | 82 | 80 | beautifully told story of life and death |
| Invictus | yes | 76 | 89 | recounts the true tale of Nelson Mandela |
| Bronson | yes | 76 | 65 | *the harsh true story of perhaps Britain's most notorious prisoner |
| The Young Victoria | yes | 75 | 80 | *a terrific period piece that retains a modern-day freshness |
| That Evening Sun | yes | 72 | 67 | filled with complex emotions and a powerful poignancy |
| The Blind Side | yes | 70 | 57 | Based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens tackle Michael Oher |
| The Last Station | yes | 68 | 83 | *well-acted across the board |
| (Untitled) | yes | 68 | 56 | *A clever skewering of the New York art and music scenes |
| Bliss | yes | 67 | 40 | It is mesmerizing to watch it unfold |
| Missing Person | yes | 64 | 63 | stylish neo-noir |
| Turning Green | yes | 57 | N/A | an amusing Irish coming-of-age comedy |
| Trucker | yes | 57 | 57 | a blue-collar woman with the grit and righteous strength of a Clint Eastwood character. |
| 44 Inch Chest | yes | 50 | 40 | an understated, graceful sense of the cinematic |
| The Book of Eli | yes | 45 | 50 | lean, stark, surprisingly effective |
| Women in Trouble | yes | 30 | 43 | an extravagant multi-character soap opera |
| Adventures of Power | yes | 29 | 14 | "Napoleon Dynamite" with imaginary drumsticks |
| To Save a Life | yes | 27 | 20 | appealing, poignant and inspiring |
| The Stepfather | yes | 11 | 14 | an effective remake of a screen classic that can stand alone on its own |
| The House of the Devil | yes | the baby-sitting gig from hell a devil of a good time. | ||
| Warning!!! Pedophile Released | yes | *a strikingly visual, deliberately fragmented work of evocative imagery | ||
| London River | so-so | N/A | N/A | drama set against the 2005 London Underground and bus bombings |
| Paa | so-so | N/A | N/A | lush in music and scenery but over-ripe in length. |
| Skin | so-so | 92 | 91 | plucked out of the mess of South Africa's apartheid |
| The Road | so-so | 72 | 67 | An honorable, yet unfulfilling, attempt at filming Cormac McCarthy's unfilmable book. |
| Youth in Revolt | so-so | 71 | 64 | no ringing endorsement, but it's January. |
| Sherlock Holmes | so-so | 69 | 50 | turns the master sleuth into an action hero, with mixed results. |
| Dare | so-so | 64 | 60 | a coming-of-age romp |
| Pirate Radio | so-so | 59 | 54 | music-video masquerading as a movie |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats | so-so | 59 | 41 | a quirky comedic drama about one of the stranger aspects of the modern American Army |
| The Little Traitor | so-so | 55 | 50 | a lyrical yet emotionally spare film about the unexpected casualties of war |
| Peter and Vandy | so-so | 53 | 0 | scrambled-narrative romance |
| Ong Bak 2: The Beginning | so-so | 48 | 40 | martial arts: graceful, story:not so much. |
| Armored | so-so | 47 | 43 | a well-executed B movie |
| New York, I Love You | so-so | 42 | 52 | an ending where there should be a beginning. |
| Love Hurts | so-so | 33 | N/A | a pleasant enough diversion |
| Free Style | so-so | 31 | 33 | a squeaky-clean sports flick |
| The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond | so-so | 29 | 45 | lovely, if flawed |
| Serious Moonlight | so-so | 28 | 30 | has its flaws, but then what marriage doesn't? |
| Staten Island | so-so | 14 | 20 | modestly stylish crime gewgaw |
| The Spy Next Door | so-so | 8 | 0 | "True Lies" without the striptease or the Arab-maiming. |
| Victory Day | no | N/A | N/A | thoroughly terrible |
| The Fall | no | N/A | N/A | buries a promising neo-noir plot with ponderous pacing |
| Creating Karma | no | N/A | N/A | shrill mishmash |
| Fall Down Dead | no | N/A | N/A | A laughable mish-mash of slasher-flick recyclables |
| Drool | no | N/A | N/A | amusing parts rather than a satisfying whole |
| Me and Orson Welles | no | 84 | 81 | when he's in a scene everyone else fades a little |
| Where the Wild Things Are | no | 71 | 68 | Sometimes you are better off with 10 sentences than tens of millions of dollars |
| The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | no | 68 | 60 | Perched uncomfortably between flat whimsy and Lifetime movie crescendos, |
| Brothers | no | 57 | 45 | fail to establish a convincing bond |
| A Christmas Carol | no | 54 | 44 | Bah humbug indeed |
| It's Complicated | no | 52 | 56 | isn't really, and that's the problem |
| The Box | no | 46 | 30 | painfully sluggish new sci-fi morality play |
| Saw VI | no | 44 | 25 | takes a stab at healthcare reform |
| Bitch Slap | no | 40 | N/A | offers only scant humor (and costumes) |
| Nine | no | 40 | 29 | isn't the sum of its glittery parts |
| The Lovely Bones | no | 40 | 28 | the translation to screen is hit-and-miss. |
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | no | 38 | 60 | surprisingly boring. |
| 2012 | no | 37 | 25 | ungodly language and situations |
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | no | 37 | 16 | a harmless bit of fluff with a very cool look, but there's just never enough bite. |
| Tickling Leo | no | 31 | 38 | confusingly told |
| Ninja Assassin | no | 31 | 32 | low on story but big on all-out violence |
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon | no | 29 | 38 | a bit of a shame. |
| Extraordinary Measures | no | 29 | 20 | brisk, business-like and oddly emotionless |
| Law Abiding Citizen | no | 23 | 13 | merely a revenge-genre retread |
| The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | no | 21 | 17 | it hasn't made him a better Tarantino knockoff |
| Legion | no | 20 | 33 | tired, loud, dumb |
| Leap Year | no | 19 | 24 | artless romantic comedy. |
| Amelia | no | 17 | 11 | The aviatrix loses her personality in this superficial film |
| Tooth Fairy | no | 15 | 20 | Lower your expectations |
| The Fourth Kind | no | 15 | 13 | ludicrous alien abduction flick |
| Looking for Palladin | no | 14 | N/A | meanders around Antigua (Guatemala) at a leisurely gait |
| Did You Hear About the Morgans | no | 14 | 13 | a failed romantic comedy that falls flat at every turn. |
| Gentlemen Broncos | no | 13 | 6 | ill-conceived curio |
| Couples Retreat | no | 11 | 15 | A likable cast and unlikable script combine for a forgettable comedy. |
| Opa! | no | 9 | 0 | as flat as its Greek island |
| Old Dogs | no | 6 | 5 | thuddingly unfunny |
| Transylmania | no | 0 | 0 | the third in the yawning "Dorm Daze" series of pea-brained "Porky's"-style bacchanals |
| Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat | no | just as silly and tedious as the first two | ||
| Punctured Heart | no | hugely well-meaning but painfully inept |