| 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 | ||||
| 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 |