LAT	RTMC	RTC	The Gist
documentary
Something's Gonna Live	yes	N/A	N/A	d:splendid, deeply moving documentary
Race to Nowhere	yes	N/A	N/A	d:explores the culture of high achievement
Last Train Home	yes	100	100	d:exceptional
The Other City	yes	100		d:compelling, consciousness-raising
Inside Job	yes	93	94	*d:lays out the argument that the meltdown of 2008 was no unfortunate accident.
Waiting for Superman	yes	93	80	d:a withering examination of the country's public school system
Budrus	yes	92		d:a tiny village where something potentially very big happened
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?	yes	90		d:generous tribute
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child	yes	88	83	d:a remarkably rich documentary
The Tillman Story	yes	86	82	*d:a paradigmatic narrative of our tendentious, turbulent times.
Kings of Pastry	yes	84	86	*d:the alluring, irresistible world of desserts
Neshoba	yes	83	N/A	d:displays the worst and best of America
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Goul	yes	82		d:thoughtful, confident, completely engrossing
Sequestro	yes	71	N/A	d:a tremendous feat of inspired structuring and editing
A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism	yes	60		d:beautifully shot, fascinating film
Picture Me	yes	50		d:revealing and engaging
Highwater	yes	42	60	d:compelling, thoroughly gorgeous
Chosin	yes			d:interviews with the men in the brutal winter battle at North Korea's Chosin Reservoir.
100 Voices: A Journey Home	yes			profound expression of the healing power of music
Ahead of Time	yes			d:deftly recounts the career highlights of pioneering journalist Ruth Gruber
Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers	yes			d:an energetic personality parade of some of the sport's die-hards.
Freakonomics	so-so	60	50	d:Several filmmakers examine Levitt and Dubner's book.
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo	so-so			d:Informally sketched but deeply felt
Cash Crop	so-so			d:The sociopolitical, remedial and economic aspects of marijuana
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector	no	74	83	d:erratic
I'm Still Here	no	51	35	d:how much of it is a put-on?
Gerrymandering	no	31	50	d:topic is just too esoteric to warrant feature-length dissection
Music Makes a City	no			d:weakened by sluggish pacing and an overly detailed, increasingly narrow focus.
animated
My Dog Tulip	yes	96	100	*the transformative relationship between a man and his dog
regular movies
Chamaco	yes	N/A	N/A	disturbing views of life on the streets of Mexico City, informed by a strong cast.
Prince of Broadway	yes	100		almost indefinable..., warmhearted and bittersweet, laced with both humor and tough emotions
The Social Network	yes	97	100	The founding of Facebook is a tale that unfolds at a splendid clip.
Alamar	yes	94	100	*a young Mexican father takes his 5-year-old son on a two-week vacation
The Town	yes	94	91	*a fast-paced, character-driven heist movie
Like Dandelion Dust	yes	90		A couple lose their adopted child to the biological parents
The Girl	yes	89		A Swedish film depicts a young one left in her own care.
Carlos	yes	88	100	d:hypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius
Let Me In	yes	88	81	A shrewd American remake of the Swedish original.
Buried	yes	87	80	*gripping new thriller
Hideaway	yes	83	100	a seductively beautiful and subtle film
The Temptation of St. Tony	yes	83		An unlikely 'saint' in a midlife crisis.
Down Terrace	yes	83		darkly funny but unexpectedly jolting
Nowhere Boy	yes	82	86	rockin' riff on John Lennon's turbulent teenage years
Heartbreaker	yes	79	N/A	Hollywood has all but forgotten how to turn out adult amusements of this type
Catfish	yes	79	90	built to charm
Nanny McPhee Returns	yes	77	61	It's a fairy tale in the best tradition.
Soul Kitchen	yes	76	92	lively, easygoing farce filled with high-energy music and amusing complications
Enter the Void	yes	76	75	*spectacular head trip
The Last Exorcism	yes	72	71	makes for an atmospheric, character-rich stab at movie fright
Lovely, Still	yes	69	86	deeply committed to examining the dilemmas inherent in aging.
White Wedding	yes	69	50	provides an absorbing physical and cultural snapshot of contemporary South Africa
Paranormal Activity 2	yes	67	53	killing a franchise with one bad sequel can be easily laid to rest
Altiplano	yes	67		A Peruvian village high in the Andes is attacked by mercury poisoning
Letters to Father Jacob	yes	67		a pardoned woman reads letters to a blind priest
Brotherhood	yes	64	N/A	bleak yet compelling
Never Let Me Go	yes	63	71	a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night.
Bran Nue Dae	yes	60	63	kicking up dust and singing
Hereafter	yes	57	60	*determination to deal with unconventional material in a classical way.
It's Kind of a Funny Story	yes	56	61	captures exactly what being a teenager is all about
Centurion	yes	56	60	by turns heroic, fearsome, funny, fateful and, oh, so brutal,
The Freebie	yes	56		A charming couple try to spice things up in this improvised comedy.
The Winning Season	yes	50	60	still working things out at the final buzzer.
Howl	yes	49	50	Allen Ginsberg's poem at three different angles
Hatchet II	yes	36	36	This horror sequel serves up blood, guts and some good laughs.
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop	yes	35	N/A	rich brew for some, weak tea for others
The People I've Slept With	yes	33	40	a saucy comedy that deftly turns serious.
Inhale	yes	30	38	a tense and morally complex thriller with a devastating twist
Soch Lo	so-so	N/A	N/A	promising if uneven debut
Mesrine: Killer Instinct	so-so	95	N/A	a fast-moving meat-and-potatoes crime thriller
Easy A	so-so	85	96	neither as smart nor as funny as it wants to be.
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1	so-so	82	73	moves along at a brisk clip
The Milk of Sorrow	so-so	80	80	unfolds at such a ... slow pace that the impact of the drama is muted.
Leaving	so-so	79	71	a dark and depressing romantic parable
Tamara Drewe	so-so	72	71	doesn't hold together
Secretariat	so-so	65	77	shows no fear of the sentimental, and that's putting it mildly
Jack Goes Boating	so-so	64	87	mostly worthwhile
The American	so-so	64	63	doesn't manage to deliver a fully satisfying meal
The Sicilian Girl	so-so	62	N/A	alternately clumsy and poetic
Hot Summer Days	so-so	60		pop-song-driven montages and surging schmaltz
Going the Distance	so-so	52	48	liked the movie mainly for Barrymore
The Switch	so-so	52	44	what you might call a Bate[(man)]-and-switch affair
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	so-so	50	57	a confusion with the film pulled between its light and dark sides
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	so-so	49	40	that empty-calorie letdown after it's over
Stone	so-so	44	42	vexing, a little obvious — and hard to shake off.
It's a Wonderful Afterlife	so-so	36	80	Affectionate and energetic, but too tedious for cross-cultural appeal.
Life as We Know It	so-so	29	36	worth hanging in there to see how it all turns out.
Resident Evil: Afterlife	so-so	14	20	an express to Monstertown on tracks greased with zombie entrails.
Skirt Day	so-so			a provocative if overwrought hostage drama
Heaven's Rain	so-so			Hampered by Brown's pedestrian direction
El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances	so-so			could be more focused and sharper edged
The Scenesters	no	N/A	N/A	a substanceless murder mystery
Teza	no	89	80	gives a woefully unclear look at Ethiopia
Piranha 3D	no	81	60	a "Jaws" and "Piranha" hard-R parody
Machete	no	72	68	wears out its welcome, though, long before la revolución
Red	no	70	60	pushes so hard that it becomes irritating
Jackass 3D	no	67	29	vomit, sweat "cocktail" drinking games, excrement, Taser gags
Conviction	no	61	65	can't quite do justice to its true story.
Mao's Last Dancer	no	58	60	often hampered by awkward melodrama.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	no	56	64	unfocused, erratic, downright messy sequel
Douchebag	no	47	43	The most provocative thing is its title,
Devil	no	43	29	overall slightness as a chiller
Jim	no	43	20	Whaaa?
GhettoPhysics	no	42	40	belabors the metaphorical implications of the pimp-prostitute relationship
Barry Munday	no	38		Indie clichés sink this rake's redemption.
Chain Letter	no	33		Forward this or meet a horrible fate of having to watch this movie.
I Spit on Your Grave	no	32	22	A bad remake of the artless, poorly made original
Takers	no	30	27	the new heist movie starring blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and T.I.
The Virginity Hit	no	29	25	creating an unneeded layer of strained situational comedy
Case 39	no	22	0	lackluster horror flick.
Legendary	no	18	13	a bold-faced name for a lowercase effort
Alpha and Omega	no	17	8	unexceptional 3-D offering
The Romantics	no	14	10	a largely unlikable cast of characters
You Again	no	12	13	a baffling, would-be romantic-comedy
My Soul to Take	no	8	0	a thrill-free snooze
Kalamity	no	0		ultimately a thematic cop-out
Chasing 3000	no			fails to do what Clemente so famously did in his final at-bat
Scar	no			The depth of its depravity is clear.
Legacy	no			exceedingly sullen, creeping of pace
Ticked-Off Trannies With Knifes	no			a joyless grind