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LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
The Gist |
documentary |
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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 |
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*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 |
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d:uneven yet moving |
Racing Dreams |
so-so |
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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 |
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d:In short, it's pretty but dull. |
animated |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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unremarkable and formulaic |