| 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 |