LAT RTMC RTC The Gist
documentary



Whiz Kids yes 100 N/A d:follows three high school students as they prepare for the Intel Talent Science Search
Enemies of the People yes 100 N/A *d:explores the under-told story of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and the mass genocide
Mugabe and the White African yes 97 N/A d:a remarkably vivid portrait of a land and its people
Restrepo yes 97 92 d:intimate and visceral
Harlan — In the Shadow of 'Jew Suss.' yes 95 100 d:Was Veit Harlan the Nazis' dupe or a willing collaborator?
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders yes 94 90 d:captures the rhythms and patterns of their daily demanding lives
The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom yes 92 83 d:beautiful, stirring and inescapably elegiac
The Oath yes 91 N/A d:an intimate portrait of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work yes 91 89 d:bawdy and surprisingly trenchant
Winnebago Man yes 90 85 d:a breezy stalking doc
Stonewall Uprising yes 84 89 d:make chillingly clear how oppressive and downright dangerous life was for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people at that time.
Countdown to Zero yes 80 85 d:a thorough look at the many ways the world's 23,000 nuclear weapons endanger us
The Wildest Dream yes 76 69 *d:adroitly mixes a variety of material
Videocracy yes 68 N/A d:a look at TV-centric celebrity culture in the age of Silvio Berlusconi
8: The Mormon Proposition yes 62 63 d:An outstanding and urgent example of the investigative documentary
The Lottery yes 50 40 d:tirringly captures the anti-charter school sentiment
Burzynski yes 44 40 d:big pharmacy holds the FDA in its thrall
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno yes

*d:View the wreckage and marvel at what might have been.
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia so-so N/A N/A d:nutty, oddly involving
Most Valuable Players so-so N/A N/A d:a bit like an exhausting cheerleader: all excitement and no oomph
After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United so-so 91 N/A d:lacks the intimacy and narrative focus needed for a more wholly involving experience.
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo so-so 88 100 d:by turns hypnotically beautiful and painfully slow
The Nature of Existence so-so 60 67 d:an affable appetizer.
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel so-so 57 50 d:skips past the darker implications of Hefner's sexual universe
The Philosopher Kings so-so

d:uneven yet moving
Racing Dreams so-so

d:doesn't always follow up on its more interesting issues
Cropsey no 91 100 d:they tip over from homespun inquisitors to manipulative showmen.
Best Worst Movie no 88 83 d:especially pointless freak show-gazing
Great Directors no 72 57 d:very much of a mixed bag.
Beautiful Islands no

d:In short, it's pretty but dull.
animated



Toy Story 3 yes 98 100 *stayed true to its roots and expanded its reach
Shrek Forever After yes 54 40 comes back with more heart and much of the kick-in-the-pop-culture-keister cleverness
Despicable Me no 78 87 gives off the unmistakably fatal air of trying too hard.
Tales From Earthsea no 41 14 so stiff and humorless it rarely if ever engages its audience.
regular movies



Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger yes N/A N/A filled with clever ticks filtered through feelings that are as conflicted about being Jewish as they are about being cool.
The Kids Are All Right yes 95 93 Witty, urbane and thoroughly entertaining
Animal Kingdom yes 94 93 *dark and violent yet beautiful and poetic at the same time
Looking for Eric yes 90 92 a melancholy comedy about wins and losses in soccer, life and love
Winter's Bone yes 89 86 Ree Dolly's bleak and desperate search for her father in the Ozarks
Get Low yes 88 95 *fact-based and transporting
Kites yes 86 100 so heady and naive a brew, it would have been perfect for the silent screen.
Lebanon yes 86 100 *shows us in no uncertain terms how war destroys everything and everyone it touches
Kisses yes 85 100 a pair of 11-year-old runaways in downtown Dublin
Peepli Live yes 85 100 manages to mine substantial dark humor from this tragic situation
Daddy Longlegs yes 85 93 *terrifyingly funny
Anton Chekhov's The Duel yes 85 88 *expert literary adaptation
Farewell yes 84 79 sports a smart sophistication along with an amazing story
Inception yes 84 76 a tremendously exciting science-fiction thriller
Patrik 1.5 yes 83 N/A deftly uses humor to set off an often wrenching, emotionally charged drama
Mademoiselle Chambon yes 81 100 an exquisite chamber piece
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World yes 80 79 *definitely has game
The Other Guys yes 80 77 funny and clever. Just don't think too hard.
Kings of the Evening yes 78 N/A warm, beguiling picture
Micmacs yes 78 72 *a fun house of mirrors that is lovely to get lost in.
Cyrus yes 78 70 amuses and unnerves in equal measure.
Life During Wartime yes 75 72 *the results are still hilarious, uncomfortable and insightful.
Ramona and Beezus yes 74 73 sure-handed adaptation of the Beverly Cleary children's book series.
Splice yes 74 71 *hybrid that works
The Father of My Children yes 71 N/A an extraordinarily empathetic humanistic drama
[REC] 2 yes 70 43 rare zombie movie with actual scares.
John Rabe yes 67 33 rich in telling and ironic details.
The Girl Who Played With Fire yes 65 65 it leaves you longing for more
Here and There yes 60 N/A a wisp of a wry comedy
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky yes 58 40 A powerful portrayal of the avant-garde pair's passionate affair.
Flipped yes 57 N/A the oft-trod coming-of-age terrain feels newly turned.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse yes 54 63 back with all of the lethal and loving bite
Perrier's Bounty yes 53 N/A a fast-paced and enjoyable if violent diversion...revels in its quirky characters
Step Up 3D yes 51 63 An exhilarating summer treat for all ages
The Extra Man yes 44 44 too precious around the edges, but it gets somewhere
Road, Movie yes

beguiling, beautiful
2:22 so-so N/A N/A a so-so heist thriller that rarely fulfills its genre-elevating ambitions.
The Swimsuit Issue so-so N/A N/A routine formation all the way
Solitary Man so-so 81 87 grows softer and more conventional in the later stages
I Am Love so-so 81 80 restraint in the cooking would have made for an even more satisfying meal.
Get Him to the Greek so-so 75 77 The … funny and compelling moments are overshadowed by all the raunchiness
Raavan so-so 70 N/A replete with dizzying camerawork, myriad complications, violent mayhem, …
Valhalla Rising so-so 70 60 has the bones of an action epic but the soul of something cultier
The Karate Kid so-so 69 66 its running time may test its target audience's patience.
The Infidel so-so 67 N/A an admirably cagey effort to mine humor from … Muslim-Jewish relations
Around a Small Mountain so-so 67 67 can be either beguiling or baffling depending on your point of view.
Ondine so-so 64 57 both magical and frustrating.
The Dry Land so-so 63 71 well-worn film subject.
Agora so-so 63 67 covers a fascinating, overlooked period
Salt so-so 58 58 prove[s] she can handle guns, grenades and the bad guys even if the story line is implausible.
The Concert so-so 58 55 moves from rowdy, broad comedy to shameless heart-tugging
Knight and Day so-so 53 53 the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of the summer
Holy Rollers so-so 53 50 never quite catches fire
MacGruber so-so 53 25 may not be an explosion of laughs, it's no dud, either.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice so-so 40 31 The more we're hit with stuff, the less wondrous it becomes
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time so-so 39 25 a prince in need, when what we really need is prince indeed.
Finding Bliss so-so 25 20 strips away the rougher edges of the porn business
The Last Airbender so-so 8 7 pegged almost exclusively to a small-fry state of mind.
Raajneeti no N/A N/A mostly winds up with a convoluted and tonally awkward "Godfather" rehash
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle no N/A N/A its ending utterly flames out
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl no N/A N/A lacks fully realized situations and characters.
Operation: Endgame no N/A N/A ugly action-thriller
The Disappearance of Alice Creed no 80 73 never rises above the mechanical and contrived
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema no 67 N/A a South African crime epic with plenty of vigor, violence and vengeance
Cemetery Junction no 67 N/A a thoroughly unremarkable coming-of-age dramedy
Predators no 64 46 starts well and ends poorly
The Killer Inside Me no 53 33 little more than torture porn tricked out in art-house finery
The A-Team no 52 48 "overkill is underrated," but you wouldn't know it from this film.
Dinner for Schmucks no 50 45 distinctly unfunny
The Expendables no 48 38 A cartoonish symphony of muscles, bullets, tattoos and cigars
Middle Men no 45 62 a rather dull muddle
The Living Wake no 43 40 a protracted act of stultifying self-indulgence
Spoken Word no 42 N/A maddeningly ruled by signposts spotted from miles away.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead no 38 40 turns silly and diffused as its convoluted story spins out.
Eat Pray Love no 38 38 Happy tears, sad tears, tears of relief, tears of regret, gut-wrenching sobs
Survival of the Dead no 34 7 the metaphorical meat is one audiences may not care to digest.
My Last Five Girlfriends no 33 N/A (500) Days of Summer, without the wit.
Charlie St. Cloud no 27 19 fails to fully embrace the film's weepy potential.
Sex and the City 2 no 17 9 a needless, heedless sequel
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore no 14 35 a modest upgrade over the weak 2001 film
Killers no 14 0 relies on weak chemistry between the lead actors and weaker jokes.
Love Ranch no 13 10 So what went wrong? The short answer is: just about everything,
Jonah Hex no 12 7 a hot mess
Marmaduke no 11 12 it's kind of fun. For about five minutes.
Grown Ups no 10 11 filled with you-had-to-be-there moments, bad jokes
Twelve no 4 9 A slickly dark-edged pity party for damaged Upper East Side adolescents
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore no

unremarkable and formulaic