| LAT | RTMC | RTC | The Gist | |
| documentary | ||||
| Marwencol | yes | 100 | 100 | *d:isn't standard man-triumphing-over-adversity-fare |
| The Two Escobars | yes | 91 | 100 | *d:dynamically chronicles their meshed fates. |
| Boxing Gym. | yes | 91 | 80 | *d:Frederick Wiseman's quietly provocative documentary |
| Bhutto | yes | 91 | 80 | d:thorough and involving |
| Disco and Atomic War | yes | 90 | d:although like the Cold War itself, the film does drag on at times, "Disco" really is a delight | |
| Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | yes | 89 | 88 | d:a taut and compelling investigation |
| William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | yes | 83 | d:less as clear-eyed investigation than [an] intimate and moving portrait | |
| Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields | yes | 71 | 78 | *Never heard of the singer-songwriter? After seeing this engaging documentary, you'll likely become a huge fan of his exceptional music. |
| Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story | yes | 67 | 67 | d:major focus on Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax. |
| Cool It | yes | 46 | 46 | doesn't find Gore's truth inconvenient so much as distorted |
| Wasteland | yes | *d:a vast landfill north of Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny | yes | d:a wholly upbeat portrait of a popular, undaunted leader. | ||
| Lemmy | so-so | 89 | d:the filmmakers leave something wanting | |
| Troubadours | so-so | 80 | d:plays like linked mini-biographies | |
| The Kids Grow Up | so-so | 60 | 67 | d:what might have been insufferable navel-gazing attains poignancy. |
| animated | ||||
| Tangled | yes | 87 | 92 | *proves a pleasure after a shaky start. |
| The Illusionist | yes | 86 | 82 | *Sylvain Chomet [delivers] all sorts of visual and storytelling magic, as he did in 'The Triplets of Belleville |
| Summer Wars | yes | 77 | 80 | *a sophisticated yet poignant family entertainment |
| Megamind | so-so | 67 | 69 | clever, amusing |
| Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance | so-so | doesn't suffer wandering attention spans. | ||
| Yogi Bear | no | 13 | 19 | no pic-a-nic. |
| The Dreams of Jinsha | no | a painstakingly if awkwardly assembled hand-drawn entry from Chinese animators. | ||
| regular movies | ||||
| Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen | yes | 100 | 100 | *follows the exploits of the 12th century Benedictine nun, a feminist centuries ahead of her time. |
| True Grit | yes | 95 | 95 | *a film whose aim is always true |
| Nora's Will | yes | 94 | 88 | *a man who fights a stubborn rear-guard action against his dead ex-wife's final wishes |
| 127 Hours | yes | 93 | 100 | *one man's incredible, unforgettable journey |
| Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | yes | 92 | 100 | *likely to become a winter favorite for those allergic to holiday treacle. |
| The King's Speech | yes | 91 | 100 | *the future king of England and his speech therapist |
| Another Year | yes | 91 | 86 | *the everyday becomes extraordinary. |
| White Material | yes | 90 | 100 | *a woman confronting armed chaos in Africa |
| Blue Valentine | yes | 90 | 82 | an intensely intimate rendering of love |
| Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | yes | 86 | 100 | a musical romance told in jazz and shot in black and white |
| The Fighter | yes | 86 | 76 | rousing |
| Undertow | yes | 86 | A man must come to terms with his sexuality and his dead lover | |
| Unstoppable | yes | 85 | 90 | A runaway train drama that never slows down |
| The Magician | yes | 83 | a hit man improbably allows himself to be filmed in action | |
| Amer | yes | 83 | *a bravura exploration of fear and desire | |
| Made in Dagenham | yes | 81 | 63 | adaptation of the 1968 seamstress strike in England |
| Four Lions | yes | 81 | 58 | *a comedic look at terrorists |
| Me Too | yes | 80 | a coming-of-age story with a difference: Its hero has Down syndrome | |
| Night Catches Us | yes | 77 | 75 | manages to be both pertinent and dramatically persuasive |
| Heartless | yes | 76 | 100 | *compelling psychological horror-thriller |
| Somewhere | yes | 76 | 70 | more successful in creating ambience and visual imagery than it is in telling its story |
| Today's Special | yes | 75 | 56 | *Imaginative, warm and witty |
| Mumbai Diaries | yes | 74 | 88 | a shimmering, loving homage |
| Kaboom | yes | 71 | 75 | takes the time-honored gambit of gradually revealing that nothing is as it seems |
| Biutiful | yes | 65 | 70 | an ethereal yet visceral meditation on living and dying. |
| Zenith | yes | 63 | 67 | evokes a bleak view of the human condition and a sense that pervasive paranoia might well be justified |
| Shake Hands with the Devil | yes | 63 | Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallarme's peacekeeping mission to Rwanda | |
| Change of Plans | yes | 53 | 57 | a tasty French romantic comedy diversion with just a touch of seriousness thrown into the mix. |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | yes | 49 | 56 | an extremely satisfying ending to the story of Lisbeth Salander |
| Love & Other Drugs | yes | 42 | 31 | [a] love story that gets it right. |
| Twelve Thirty | yes | 25 | 40 | *gradually draws the viewer into its thrall and builds to an unpredictable but effective climax. |
| Burning Palms | yes | 17 | *fragility and desperation that lurk beneath the surface of the lives of some anonymous L.A. residents | |
| Aftershock | yes | involving, well-acted saga | ||
| Essential Killing | yes | a grueling, offbeat tale of human survival | ||
| Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster | so-so | 95 | 100 | conflicting impulses between drizzly emotional moments and slap-happy frenzy. |
| Dogtooth | so-so | 92 | 91 | part enigma, part allegory and even part sci-fi in its creation of a completely alternate reality |
| Applause | so-so | 85 | 83 | leaves you wanting more |
| The Way Back | so-so | 81 | in its best moments is ... as big as life itself. | |
| Fair Game | so-so | 79 | 72 | seems to be doing everything right but still doesn't manage to leave you with a completely satisfied feeling. |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | so-so | 78 | 72 | isn't for the uninitiated. |
| I Love You Phillip Morris | so-so | 77 | 73 | one mixed bag of a movie |
| Barney's Version | so-so | 74 | 75 | flawed but exhilarating |
| Red Hill | so-so | 74 | 57 | hybrid western/slasher [with] a commendably entertaining calling-card oomph. |
| Die Fremde | so-so | 73 | 80 | worthy if uneven study of the tragedy of honor crimes. |
| The Housemaid | so-so | 71 | 63 | sleek, erotic and suspenseful, at least for the first hour |
| The Company Men | so-so | 70 | 78 | great cast at the service of a so-so movie. |
| Outside the Law | so-so | 64 | 40 | its the heart of the brothers that sometimes confounds the director |
| Eichmann | so-so | 60 | richly detailed and timelessly important — but also ponderous | |
| Jolene | so-so | 59 | 57 | a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles |
| Morning Glory | so-so | 54 | 43 | Rachel McAdams gives the kind of performance we go to the movies for |
| Welcome to the Rileys | so-so | 54 | 42 | flawed yet promising film |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | so-so | 50 | 48 | wonderful moments and delightful characters, but overall falters. |
| Every Day | so-so | 47 | 50 | intriguing, yet woefully uneven |
| For Colored Girls | so-so | 33 | 31 | Its poetry is hot and searing |
| The Dilemma | so-so | 25 | 31 | the actor's good-time character grows up. |
| The Rite | so-so | 17 | 23 | What did you expect? Spinning heads? Pea soup? |
| Country Strong | so-so | 17 | 17 | down-home comfort |
| Skyline | so-so | 10 | 0 | space aliens drop in on Los Angeles, luring the city's residents |
| A Marine Story | so-so | drive[s] home its underlying message about the injustice of "don't ask, don't tell" | ||
| Violet Tendencies | so-so | enjoyable if uneven sex comedy | ||
| Meskada | so-so | never quite builds a solid momentum or finds a true sense of purpose | ||
| If You Are the One 2 | so-so | a mildly charming dose of romantic gloss | ||
| Black Swan | no | 86 | 85 | an overheated slog |
| Rabbit Hole | no | 84 | 81 | an air of genteel familiarity stifles |
| Inspector Bellamy | no | 81 | 83 | a sadly bland footnote to an illustrious and influential career |
| A Somewhat Gentle Man | no | 75 | 57 | promises a more complex and full-blooded portrait than the film is able to deliver. |
| Monsters | no | 62 | 56 | blunted by a weak plot, forgettable dialogue and sloppy politics |
| No Strings Attached | no | 52 | 53 | bits sound like they were cribbed from bathroom stall scribes |
| Tron: Legacy | no | 49 | 31 | there's not nearly enough new life. |
| The Mechanic | no | 48 | 31 | [A] cheap, cruddy remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson vehicle |
| The Warrior's Way | no | 46 | 40 | a tiresome lab experiment in computer-generated tropes and green-screen oppressiveness. |
| The Next Three Days | no | 45 | 37 | Run, Russell, run! Save yourself. |
| Faster | no | 43 | 27 | violent but bland |
| The Green Hornet | no | 43 | 22 | a boring bromedy that features mumblecore heroics instead of the real thing. |
| Due Date | no | 39 | 45 | John Hughes did it better |
| The Other Woman | no | 38 | 15 | mostly flat and plodding |
| Burlesque | no | 33 | 27 | Big Musical Numbers by the score rather than a film |
| Queen of the Lot | no | 33 | 20 | has become even sloppier regarding basics like photography, editing and sound recording |
| All Good Things | no | 31 | 44 | too fact heavy |
| Sanctum | no | 30 | 32 | the gee-whiz factor is overwhelmed by the oh-jeez writing |
| From Prada to Nada | no | 27 | 17 | more in common with a slapped-together TV movie |
| Repo Chick | no | 22 | 0 | feels slapdash, ill-formed and out-of-touch. |
| Gulliver's Travels | no | 21 | 19 | falls between complete disaster and loads of fun |
| Wild Target | no | 21 | 18 | seems destined to spin dangerously out of control. |
| The Tourist | no | 21 | 7 | international intrigue and mistaken identity aren't enough to overcome the lackluster chemistry. |
| The Taqwacores | no | 11 | a thin veneer of tiresome obnoxiousness | |
| Saw 3D | no | 10 | 15 | has so little creativity, its goriness provokes laughter or sleep. |
| Little Fockers | no | 10 | 4 | just isn't funny |
| Alien Girl | no | 10 | 0 | a grim, artless Russian-made gangster picture |
| The Roommate | no | 8 | 0 | a waste all around of young, attractive actresses |
| Waiting for Forever | no | 7 | 0 | an insipid contemporary fairy tale |
| Hemingway's Garden of Eden | no | 5 | 0 | thoroughly distracted by elephant hunting |
| Season of the Witch | no | 4 | 0 | an oddly lifeless tale set during the Crusades. |
| The Nutcracker in 3D | no | 0 | 0 | Your Thanksgiving turkey has arrived on schedule |
| Walkaway | no | suffers from a marked lack of energy | ||
| Break Ke Baad | no | Indian romcom: engaging performances. Too bad the script doesn't live up to them. | ||
| The Assistants | no | This movie about wanting to make a movie doesn't make for much of a movie. | ||
| Dead Awake | no | poorly structured and even more poorly shot | ||
| Violent Blue | no | [a] drearily indulgent slog | ||
| Ong Bak 3: The Final Battle | no | Gone is the scrappy, brutal wit of the original | ||
| What Women Want | no | this Chinese-language carbon copy doesn't find a distinctive voice. |