LAT	RTMC	RTC	The Gist
documentary
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein	yes	100	N/A	d:it's tough to look away.
Breath Made Visible	yes	100	100	d:Anna Halprin's remarkable life as a guiding light of experimental, avant-garde dance
Exit Through the Gift Shop	yes	98	100	*d:Subversive, provocative and unexpected
No One Knows About Persian Cats	yes	97	100	d:a heart-pounding descent into the illegal underground music scene of Tehran
Sweetgrass	yes	96	91	d:an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary
Prodigal Sons	yes	90	89	d:[a] transgender coming-out
45365	yes	88	N/A	d:a graceful, affectionate yet clear-eyed portrait of daily Middle America small-town life
Casino Jack and the United States of Money	yes	88	82	d:a smart, lively, thoroughly involving doc about a complex, critical subject
The Art of the Steal	yes	83	77	d:energetically entertaining if a bit one-sided
Oceans	yes	80	82	d:once [the] exhilarating visuals get going, it's easy to ignore the words.
Hubble 3D	yes	80	70	*d spectacular new Imax film
Behind the Burly Q	yes	79	83	d:the most comprehensive documentary on burlesque ever made
Babies	yes	71	85	d:documents the first year in the lives of four infants from different parts of the world.
Tales From the Script	yes	71	60	*d:highly enjoyable
Phyllis and Harold	yes	68	50	d:comprehensive, wrenching yet luminous
Waking Sleeping Beauty	yes	67	67	*d:terrific inside Hollywood sensibility
The Cartel	yes	64	80	punchy, provocative
Trash Humpers	yes	57	67	d:a perverted love letter to fans of his brand of unstable, fringe-y terror.
See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary	yes			d:absorbing, intimate
A Nightmare in Las Cruces	yes			d:a creditable job recounting the details of this heinous event and probing its haunting aftermath.
Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe	so-so	N/A	N/A	d:alternately illuminating and dull
Neil Young Trunk Show	so-so	88	90	d:not always pretty, but...very much rock 'n' roll.
The Thorn in the Heart	so-so	43	25	d:will have far more resonance for the Gondry family than for anyone else.
When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors	no	54	50	d:little insight into the band's enduring popularity.
Céline: Through the Eyes of the World	no			d:the result is hardly enlightening
animated
The Secret of Kells	yes	N/A	N/A	*A ravishing, continually surprising example of largely hand-drawn animation
How to Train Your Dragon	yes	98	93	*like the mythical creatures at the heart of this tale, the movie soars.
A Town Called Panic	yes	88	100	*a:filled with strange and wonderful talking people and animals
regular movies
Red Riding	yes	N/A	N/A	*will haunt you waking and sleeping, night and day
West of Pluto	yes	N/A	N/A	amusing classroom show-and-tells and a series of visually creative transitions (love that tree-wrestling dog). Nice job.
The Cry of the Owl	yes	N/A	N/A	a crisp, elegantly foreboding visual bleakness
Surviving Crooked Lake	yes	N/A	N/A	offers tension and honest emotion
My Name Is Khan	yes	N/A	N/A	a potent, engaging and timely entertainment
Manuela and Manuel	yes	N/A	N/A	a lively, lowbrow screwball farce
Liverpool	yes	N/A	N/A	a bold, successful attempt at a film narrative in which images are everything and words are few.
Just Say Love	yes	N/A	N/A	overplays its ending luckily doesn't spoil it.
TiMER	yes	N/A	N/A	wonderfully real interactions, embracingly hip dialogue
Everyone Else	yes	100	N/A	How lovely to have something to actually contemplate when the lights come up
Ajami	yes	97	100	*intertwining of cultures is what's on view here
A Prophet	yes	95	93	*the movie that reminds you why you love the movies.
Harmony and Me	yes	92	85	*a finely tuned construction and acute sense of rhythm and character
Mother	yes	90	100	*enthralling, unpredictable, yet highly accessible
Children of Invention	yes	89	100	absorbing and deftly played
Fish Tank	yes	89	92	exceptionally well-crafted
Mid-August Lunch	yes	89	80	delicious
Please Give	yes	86	80	*No American writer-director has her exact sense of the way some of us live today
The Secret in Their Eyes	yes	85	86	bound to linger in the memory for years.
Easier With Practice	yes	85	80	*totally captivating
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo	yes	82	80	*a mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller
Mother and Child	yes	81	80	classy, well-acted soap opera. Hold the suds.
The Ghost Writer	yes	81	75	*a dark pearl of a movie
Kick-Ass	yes	78	76	*A highly seductive enterprise that's equal parts disturbing and enticing
The Yellow Handkerchief	yes	74	86	sensitive road film a trip worth taking.
District 13: Ultimatum	yes	73	85	a showcase for stunts, which isn't a bad thing
The Girl on the Train	yes	73	80	intricacies of interpersonal drama
Handsome Harry	yes	71	N/A	A rare feature, beautifully executed
Harry Brown	yes	71	64	smartly done socio-economic killer thriller
The Eclipse	yes	69	80	*agreeably melancholy, spooky and romantic
Breaking Upwards	yes	69	50	a breakup worth going through.
The Exploding Girl	yes	67	75	*delicately done but indelible
Shutter Island	yes	67	62	a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie
The Warlords	yes	63	75	a sweeping saga set during the Taiping Rebellion of 1860s China
Hot Tub Time Machine	yes	62	67	A blast of laughs from the past
Mystery Team	yes	54	N/A	a pleasant, charming knockabout
The Joneses	yes	54	55	cleverness, timeliness and strong performances
She's Out of My League	yes	51	43	*disarming sentimentality and a certain decency along with the requisite raunch and repressed rage.
Green Zone	yes	48	58	it attempts the impossible and comes remarkably close to pulling it off
Just Wright	yes	45	52	The sports rom-com scores with believable characters.
La Mission	yes	42	33	highly involving, often poignant tale
The Red Baron	yes	24	N/A	*a handsome, meticulously detailed epic
The Harimaya Bridge	yes			a unique, complex, consciousness-raising accomplishment.
3 Idiots	so-so	N/A	N/A	there's an unavoidable joie de vivre
Vincere	so-so	96	100	intense and intriguing, if at times uneven
City Island	so-so	80	86	scrapes by and delivers a smile or two
OSS 117 — Lost in Rio	so-so	77	60	France's send-up of a James Bond-type spy who's a bumbling idiot has its charms.
Women Without Men	so-so	75	N/A	a hypnotic look at four very different women in 1953 Iran
Iron Man 2	so-so	75	66	acceptable, nothing more.
Toe to Toe	so-so	67	N/A	over-earnest dialogue and tidying-up plotting
Date Night	so-so	66	71	a half-a-loaf comedy
The Perfect Game	so-so	63	50	an imperfect film, but...
Edge of Darkness	so-so	55	55	a solid comeback vehicle
Alice in Wonderland	so-so	52	61	surprisingly inert overall
Godspeed	so-so	50	N/A	melodramatic swerves and less-than-revelatory acting
The Good Guy	so-so	47	50	keeping the clichés...mostly at bay.
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?	so-so	45	44	all-too-familiar operatic scenes and easy solutions.
Letters to Juliet	so-so	43	50	a sugary paean to quixotic clichés and a film destined to be a guilty pleasure
Who Do You Love	so-so	40	17	entertaining, if sometimes slight
From Paris With Love	so-so	35	23	flies like a crazed eagle on uppers
The Good Heart	so-so	33	20	story of second chances and the duck that got away
Cop Out	so-so	20	21	There really is no good reason to recommend "Cop Out."
The Bounty Hunter	no	N/A	N/A	JA's great hair and GB's roguish charm isn't enough for the action-comedy.
Shinjuku Incident	no	N/A	N/A	may make some Chan fans long for "Rush Hour 4
Dream Boy	no	N/A	N/A	awkwardly contrived, dreary
After.Life	no	N/A	N/A	a thriller that's better off dead.
The Square	no	86	56	the angles don't quite meet
The Good, the Bad, the Weird	no	84	43	the urge to thrill grows wearisome
The Crazies	no	71	52	replace[s] iconoclastic chills with paint-by-numbers shocks
Greenberg	no	70	69	an unlikable loser whose downbeat life comes off as more depressing than dramatic.
Defendor	no	67	60	Its naive earnestness has its charms, but like its title character, "Defendor" never takes flight.
The Runaways	no	64	65	spends too much time with the wrong character.
The Greatest	no	63	44	more like a collection of appropriate, well-acted scenes than as a fully satisfying narrative.
The City of Your Final Destination	no	53	43	Filled with unrealized possibilities and fraught with flaws
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	no	52	55	portrayed too realistically to really enjoy.
Chloe	no	51	36	puzzling, little more than a messy affair
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief	no	50	38	unadventurous and uninteresting
Don McKay	no	50	14	loopy film noir
Frozen	no	47	25	Skiers stranded in a chairlift
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)	no	46	45	so idiotic, exploitative and sickening one wishes [it] could be scrubbed from memory
Mercy	no	45	N/A	not enough good qualities to completely overcome the strain of its clichés.
Robin Hood	no	45	45	this "Robin Hood" has been misconceived twice over.
The Losers	no	41	28	a violent, bloody mess
Death at a Funeral	no	40	39	Death at a Funeral
Brooklyn's Finest	no	39	24	overcooks both its story and its stars
Formosa Betrayed	no	36	33	a mostly pedestrian political thriller
The Wolfman	no	32	37	No bite either, or humor, or camp.
Clash of the Titans	no	31	33	the first film to actually be made worse by being in 3-D.
Paper Man	no	30	17	quirk-laden indie
Princess Kaiulani	no	29	N/A	makes for starchy entertainment in the historical drama
Remember Me	no	27	24	needs more heart than heartthrob.
Dear John	no	27	20	like a very bad relationship with a very beautiful someone
Repo Men	no	24	14	borrows heavily from similar, and better, films.
The Back-Up Plan	no	23	24	uses every obvious pregnancy joke in the book
Valentine's Day	no	18	16	ooey-gooey sweetness and absolutely no nutritional value
Our Family Wedding	no	18	16	fails to address race issues, settling instead for tired jokes.
When in Rome	no	17	14	Toss three coins in a fountain and wish this film would go away
A Nightmare on Elm Street	no	15	13	it's hardly what you'd call a dream reunion
Saint John of Las Vegas	no	15	11	an otherwise unremarkable debut
Happiness Runs	no	14	N/A	an astoundingly bad memory piece that blows its potential dramatic heft at every turn
Multiple Sarcasms	no	7	0	Woody Allen lite
Furry Vengeance	no	2	0	focuses too much on bodily functions.
The Killing Jar	no	0	0	molasses-slow-and-thick
Stolen	no	0	0	A leaden murder mystery with a clunky structure
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond	no			poorly acted claptrap
The Lightkeepers	no			Richard Dreyfuss overacts, the plot is predictable, and it all plays like an adaptation of a dog-eared romance novel.
Why Am I Doing This?	no			does try to address the prejudicial challenges non-whites face trying to make it in showbiz.