|
LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
|
documentary |
|
|
|
|
Project Nim |
yes |
97 |
100 |
*d:unsettling |
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? |
yes |
97 |
93 |
*d:Taggart Siegel's vital documentary explains how colony collapse disorder could have critical effects on humans. |
One Lucky Elephant |
yes |
96 |
100 |
*d:A crusty circus owner struggles to find a home for an African elephant |
Cave of Forgotten Dreams |
yes |
95 |
100 |
*d:stepping inside the Chauvet cave |
Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff |
yes |
95 |
100 |
d:filled with gloriously vivid HD clips |
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest |
yes |
95 |
100 |
*d:an absorbing exploration of the history of the long-running hip-hop collective |
Making the Boys |
yes |
94 |
100 |
d:paints a vivid portrait of the era |
Crime After Crime |
yes |
93 |
86 |
d:deeply affecting account of the very real effect of political corruption |
Passione |
yes |
88 |
78 |
d:a vibrant exploration and celebration of Neapolitan music |
Buck |
yes |
85 |
79 |
d:the hard-knocks-but-hope-infused story of horse whisperer Buck Brannaman. |
The Last Mountain |
yes |
83 |
71 |
d:a damning look at Big Coal |
Make Believe |
yes |
82 |
86 |
d:lively ... though not terribly deep or revealing |
Forks Over Knives |
yes |
80 |
83 |
d:persuasive presentation of solutions to unhealthy eating habits |
Rejoice and Shout |
yes |
80 |
83 |
d:vibrant and comprehensive |
Beautiful Darling |
yes |
75 |
86 |
d:The allure of fame and the cruelty of an alienated life |
Farmageddon |
yes |
75 |
83 |
d:war on America's small farmers |
Hey Boo: Harper Lee and "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
yes |
74 |
80 |
d:the story it tells remains completely fascinating. |
Blank City |
yes |
74 |
75 |
d:mid-70s to mid-'80s Lower Manhattan No Wave Cinema movement |
Exporting Raymond |
yes |
71 |
67 |
d:[a] very entertaining cultural exchange |
The People vs. George Lucas |
yes |
69 |
80 |
d:Even his greatest detractors will still camp out for the next "Star Wars" installment. |
How to Live Forever |
yes |
62 |
80 |
d:the perils and possibilities that come with growing old. |
Jig |
yes |
60 |
36 |
d:superbly crafted, giving Irish step-dancing an exuberant treatment. |
Page One: Inside the New York Times |
no |
77 |
69 |
d:A lot of what they say is intriguing, but you wish they could stick to the point. |
L'Amour Fou |
no |
63 |
57 |
d:affectionate and frustrating |
The Undefeated |
no |
0 |
0 |
d:Essentially a Sarah Palin infomercial masquerading as a documentary |
animated |
|
|
|
|
Winnie the Pooh |
yes |
91 |
97 |
*proves a fitting tribute to one of the last century's most enduring children's tales. |
Kung Fu Panda 2 |
yes |
80 |
79 |
*Po returns in fine, paunchy form |
Cars 2 |
yes |
34 |
44 |
genially entertaining |
Mia and the Migoo |
so-so |
44 |
29 |
never fully pinpoints its intended audience |
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil |
so-so |
10 |
9 |
a storybook hurled straight at your head |
regular movies |
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|
|
|
Poetry |
yes |
100 |
100 |
*an aging woman trying to find her voice while encountering ugly truths in her small Korean town. |
Leap Year |
yes |
100 |
100 |
*deeply unsettling, psychologically acute |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 |
yes |
97 |
100 |
*the last, and one of the best, in the film series |
NEDS |
yes |
96 |
|
*a deft fusion of period detail, kitchen-sink grit and heightened cinematic reality. |
City of Life and Death |
yes |
93 |
89 |
the rape of Nanking is powerful and not to be missed |
Midnight in Paris |
yes |
92 |
96 |
*Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture |
Delhi Belly |
yes |
91 |
100 |
Bollywood pleasing escapist fare. |
Submarine |
yes |
91 |
81 |
*smart and funny |
Bridesmaids |
yes |
90 |
88 |
*real people in real relationships, real raunchy, real funny. |
13 Assassins |
yes |
90 |
83 |
*a classic samurai movie, right up there among the finest in the genre |
The Double Hour |
yes |
86 |
100 |
*A love story wrapped in a way-twisty thriller |
Beginners |
yes |
86 |
88 |
buoyant and disarming |
Terri |
yes |
84 |
86 |
*captivating film about conflicted high schoolers. |
Viva Riva! |
yes |
84 |
67 |
a nastily effective, sociologically pungent gangster drama |
Road to Nowhere |
yes |
83 |
86 |
*A shimmering neo-noir film about a femme fatale |
Stake Land |
yes |
81 |
92 |
familiar fright tropes feel vaguely organic again |
Fast Five |
yes |
79 |
81 |
hot jacking action |
Trollhunter |
yes |
79 |
62 |
nicely rises above this overused conceit |
The Robber |
yes |
79 |
|
the true exploits of one of Austria's most-wanted lawbreakers |
Everything Must Go |
yes |
76 |
82 |
No great epiphanies, just a few days, a little perspective, nicely told. |
The Tree |
yes |
76 |
75 |
a lyrical story of loss and longing |
Earthwork |
yes |
75 |
57 |
a flawless gem |
Just Like Us |
yes |
73 |
83 |
an amusing, uniquely unifying effort. |
Horrible Bosses |
yes |
72 |
61 |
*works in spite of its cruder, scrotum-centric instincts. |
!Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.) |
yes |
64 |
75 |
The struggle for equality for women in the pursuit of freedom of expression |
Another Earth |
yes |
63 |
69 |
sci-fi imaginings and quantum physics ... parallel universes |
That's What I Am |
yes |
60 |
100 |
*captivating and nostalgic coming-of-age dramedy |
The First Grader |
yes |
57 |
67 |
the life of Kimani Ng'ange'a Maruge |
Hesher |
yes |
53 |
48 |
a metal-head ... disrupts a mourning family |
Jumping the Broom |
yes |
52 |
56 |
Clashes of class within the African American community [presented] with humor, compassion and plenty of wisdom. |
Mr. Popper's Penguins |
yes |
46 |
45 |
far better for its penguins than its Popper |
Skateland |
yes |
44 |
43 |
a particularly affecting, well-observed portrait of young people coming of age |
The High Cost of Living |
yes |
44 |
|
heart-wrenching, beautifully articulated |
Monte Carlo |
yes |
39 |
38 |
simple, sweet fun abroad. |
Spork |
yes |
|
|
skewering schoolyard ignorance and cruelty to amusing, gratifying effect. |
Dissolution |
yes |
|
|
A man who killed longs for redemption |
35 & Ticking |
yes |
|
|
A capable cast and a good script makes going through a pre-midlife crisis enjoyable. |
Love Exposure |
so-so |
92 |
|
a one-of-a-kind experience |
The Trip |
so-so |
91 |
93 |
half fun, half irritation |
Tree of Life |
so-so |
87 |
91 |
demands to be admired but cannot be easily embraced. |
Thor |
so-so |
78 |
65 |
a mishmash with designs on being more interesting than it manages to be. |
Captain America: The First Avenger |
so-so |
73 |
76 |
There is, in fact, a pro forma nature to this entire project |
Friends With Benefits |
so-so |
70 |
67 |
even with all their huffing and puffing, [it] is never quite as satisfying as it should be. |
True Legend |
so-so |
68 |
75 |
dazzling fight sequences above any sort of cogent storytelling. |
Sarah's Key |
so-so |
66 |
53 |
goes back and forth between moments of strength and those that fall flat |
A Little Help |
so-so |
54 |
73 |
By turns well observed and overstated |
Prom |
so-so |
40 |
33 |
squeaky-clean to the point of mild-to-moderate aggravation, but it's not pushy. |
Transformers: Dark of the Moon |
so-so |
36 |
27 |
at least a better Bay has delivered a leaner, meaner, cleaner 3-D rage against the machines. |
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
so-so |
34 |
32 |
the latest edition of Disney's waterlogged franchise |
Green Lantern |
so-so |
26 |
17 |
works in fits and starts as its disparate parts go in and out of effectiveness |
Double Dhamaal |
so-so |
20 |
|
silly Bollywood sequel about four goofy and unemployed men |
Fading of the Cries |
so-so |
0 |
|
there is something oddly comforting in the wide-eyed innocence and misguided commitment |
The Chameleon |
so-so |
|
|
Though the complexities remain underdeveloped, you won't be bored. |
Singham |
so-so |
|
|
a finish that is predictable and flawed by its vigilante-style tactics |
X-Men: First Class |
no |
87 |
71 |
Multiple plots, overreaching effects and ancillary characters |
A Better Life |
no |
83 |
80 |
overly earnest and filled with stereotypes and cliches. |
Super 8 |
no |
82 |
84 |
"Super 8's" elements do not jell into a satisfying whole. |
The Beaver |
no |
65 |
67 |
a torrential downpour of pain |
Vincent Wants to Sea |
no |
58 |
|
somewhere between a terrible affliction and a terribly funny affectation |
Angel of Evil |
no |
48 |
|
a restless and hollow rundown of '70s criminal Renato Vallanzasca |
Bad Teacher |
no |
46 |
28 |
There are too many F's and incompletes to give this Cameron Diaz comedy an A. |
Empire of Silver |
no |
45 |
67 |
makes for unwieldy melodrama |
Last Night |
no |
44 |
50 |
a drama so pointed it feels more like a thesis than a story. |
Ironclad |
no |
43 |
17 |
a muscular if cheesy tale of resistance heroism |
The Perfect Host |
no |
38 |
50 |
a short-film concept stretched way too thin. |
Larry Crowne |
no |
36 |
22 |
acceptable around the edges but hollow and shockingly unconvincing at its core |
The Hangover Part II |
no |
35 |
22 |
seems more interested in box-office loot than laughs |
Sympathy for Delicious |
no |
32 |
33 |
grows increasingly tattered and flimsy |
The Ward |
no |
31 |
23 |
bland shock therapy |
The Best and the Brightest' |
no |
29 |
0 |
flies off its comic rails after an engaging start |
The Art of Getting By |
no |
19 |
20 |
Hollywood teen rebellion takes a mopey, irritating turn |
Priest |
no |
19 |
9 |
a hodgepodge of a horror movie. |
Something Borrowed |
no |
17 |
3 |
comes out barely lukewarm |
Beginning of the Great Revival |
no |
17 |
|
a bloated, boring enactment of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. |
Zookeeper |
no |
14 |
16 |
gets old quickly |
There Be Dragons |
no |
13 |
14 |
an extremely clumsy contrivance |
The Ledge |
no |
12 |
0 |
suffers from a seriously flawed script. |
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night |
no |
8 |
0 |
vampires, werewolves, zombies, detective noir and spoofy comedy |
The Big Bang |
no |
8 |
0 |
Self-conscious genre moves are probably inevitable in a film billed as "neo-noir." |
Passion Play |
no |
5 |
13 |
leaden noir fantasy |
A Love Affair of Sorts |
no |
0 |
0 |
epic navel-gazing and interminably low-stakes visual artistry. |
An Invisible Sign |
no |
0 |
0 |
earnest but fatally uneven |
The Abduction of Zack Butterfield |
no |
0 |
0 |
mash faux social commentary into the clumpy mix |
A Beautiful Life |
no |
|
|
schmaltzy |
A Proper Violence |
no |
|
|
its debits far outweigh its potential merits. |
Bloodworth |
no |
|
|
misfired hillbilly gothic |
Brother's Justice |
no |
|
|
patchy mockumentary |
Rift |
no |
|
|
convoluted horror-thriller |
The Bleeding House |
no |
|
|
close-knit characters talk in awkwardly roundabout ways |
The Putt Putt Syndrome |
no |
|
|
comes off, at best, as a wan sex farce |
Strangers Online |
no |
|
|
schadenfreude-inspired, cheaply made (and even more cheaply thought out) video dreck. |
Good Day for It |
no |
|
|
Not agile enough to make the idea of a contemporary small-town western really work |