Film Title	Critics	Readers	We	LAT	Ebert	Roeper	The Gist
Eastern Promises				yes		up	.
4 Months				yes			.
Blame It on Fidel				yes			.
Colma: The Musical				yes			.
Crossing the Line				yes			.
Czech Dream				yes			.
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman,				yes			.
Live-in Maid				yes			.
Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint				yes			.
Park				yes			.
Primo Levi's Journey				yes			.
Sharkwater				yes			.
Strange Culture				yes			.
Summer '04				yes			.
Them				yes			.
Total Denial				yes			.
Choking Man				so-so			.
Marigold				so-so			.
Resident Evil: Extinction	N/A	A-	N/A	so-so			the first one is still the best
Summercamp!				so-so			.
The Last Legion				so-so			.
56 Drops of Blood				no			.
7 Dias				no			.
Blood and Tears				no			.
Broken				no			.
Eye of the Dolphin				no			.
If I Didn't Care				no			.
In a Day				no			.
Sea of Dreams	N/A	D	N/A	no			all life has been squeezed out
Shadow Company				no			.
Splinter				no			.
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright				no			.
The Genius Club				no			.
The Shooting Party				no			.
Trigger Man				no			.
Good Luck Chuck	N/A	B-	N/A			down	some sort of humor-deprivation experiment.
Beauty Remains	N/A	N/A	N/A				all soft focuses, sax flourishes, and silky slo-mos.
Klimt							.
Terror's Advocate	A	N/A	A	yes			dense and unsettling
Fat Girls	A	C-	N/A	no			wins no points for delicacy.
The King of Kong	A	N/A	N/A	yes			roaringly funny
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten	A	N/A	A	yes			has an intimacy that's rare to encounter in rock docs.
The Unknown Soldier	A	B-	A	no			a telling exploration of Germany's present-day psyche
Private Property	A	B	A	yes			a script so clear and airtight that shrinks could use it for family therapy courses
Deep Water	A	C+	A				a whirlpool of gripping adventure, overblown ambitions and sheer human folly
Great World of Sound	A	B	N/A	yes			a terrific, small, funny, sad movie
3:10 to Yuma	A	B+	B+	yes		up	a sturdy and enjoyable remake of the 1957 minor classic
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	A	B+	N/A	yes		up	grabs hold and runs you through the wringer.
Outsourced	A	B+	N/A				has a gentle touch with the obvious fish-out-of-water touchstones.
Lake of Fire	A	A-	N/A	yes			Smart, visually appealing, and consistently engaging
No Country for Old Men	A	A-	A	yes		up	a viciously effective exercise in suspense
King Corn	A	A	B+	yes			a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer
Michael Clayton	A	B+	B	yes		up	Deliberate, demanding and character-driven
Steal a Pencil for Me	A	A-	A	yes			Not your mother's Holocaust movie
Gone Baby Gone	A	B+	B+	so-so		up	a thinking man's crime film
Dan in Real Life	A	B+	D-	yes		up	deftly interlaces heart and humor
Antonia	A	D+	B+	yes			less a candy-coated inspirational pill
In the Shadow of the Moon	A	B	A	yes		up	A stirring account of the Apollo program's mission to the moon
Desert Bayou	A	B	N/A	yes			a poignant indictment of a social disaster
The Life of Reilly	A	C-	B+				prickly wit, gleeful pride and bemused gratitude
Manda Bala	A	N/A	N/A	yes			loads of dark humor and cinematic flair
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song	A	A-	N/A				a terrific, multilayered portrait of a singer
Angels in the Dust	A	B+	N/A	yes			deftly weaves in the big picture through Cloete's bursts of anger at government ministers and traditional healers
My Kid Could Paint That	A	C+	N/A	no		up	an engrossing meditation on truth, media exploitation and the value of art
American Gangster	A	A	N/A	yes		up	one hell of an exciting movie
Darkon	A	C	N/A	yes			clever, lo-fi dorkumentary about fantasy role-players in Baltimore
Dans Paris	A-	B	N/A	no			a genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful small film
Superbad	A-	A-	A	yes		up	packs more gut-busting laughs than you can count.
Into the Wild	A-	A-	B	yes		up	magnificent precision and imaginative grace
For the Bible Tells Me So	A-	C+	B+	yes			a shrewd, detailed, eye-opening look
Delirious	A-	A	N/A	yes		up	speaks with style, verve and genuine wit.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	A-	A-	A	so-so		up	ravishing, magisterial, poetic
In Between Days	A-	N/A	A				plays like a teen movie with all the narration removed
The Darjeeling Limited	A-	B	A	yes		up	colorful and kinetic
Ladron Que Roba a Ladron	A-	B+	N/A				an obvious Ocean's Eleven knockoff
Control	A-	C	A-			up	a riveting, visually arresting portrait of a tormented soul.
The Bubble	B+	B	B	so-so			nails the nervous blend of vitality and desperation that is Israel today.
2 Days in Paris	B+	A	B-			up	a steady comedy of embarrassment
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains	B+	C	B	no			As complex as its subject
Exiled	B+	B	A-	yes			an accomplished suspense-action piece
The Last Winter	B+	B+	C+	yes			most chilling of global-warming movies.
The Camden 28	B+	C	B				stinging, and finally instructive
Wristcutters: A Love Story	B+	B+	N/A			up	somewhat original and amusing. But only somewhat.
Rocket Science	B+	C	B+			down	ever quite spits out what it has to say.
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With	B+	B	N/A	so-so		up	never completely takes off, yet somewhat overestimates the surrounding zaniness.
In the Valley of Elah	B+	B-	B-	no		up	a deeply reflective, quietly powerful work that is as timely as it is moving.
The Price of Sugar	B+	B-	N/A	yes			a solid and affecting piece of work
Out of the Blue	B+	B	N/A				Chilling, often moving docudrama
Skinwalkers	B	B	N/A				sparks an old-fashioned B-movie charge
Things We Lost in the Fire	B	B+	B-	yes		up	pretty sharp on the subject of addiction and recovery and relapse.
War/Dance	B	A	B+	yes			comes across as desperately, even irritatingly contrived
The Rape of Europa	B	D+	N/A	yes			Impressive in scope if unremarkable in style
Hatchet	B	B	B	no			All the key ingredients to make the quintessential gore-fest are there
Right at Your Door	B	B-	C	no			takes a viewer on a harrowing, distinctly uncomfortable journey.
Death at a Funeral	B	N/A	C			no	may go a bit over the top
Shoot 'Em Up	B	B	C-	no		down	a bloody, trashy, volcanically depraved action movie
Sunflower	B	N/A	N/A				serves up solid dramatic values
The Brave One	B	B+	C	no		up	keeps things intriguing, with Foster's haunted, fiercely committed performance certain to garner awards attention.
P2	B	B-	C				a refreshingly old-fashioned thriller
Stardust	B	B	B+			up	Everything but the enchanted kitchen sink shows up in the sprawling fairy tale
The Jane Austen Book Club	B	F	C-	so-so		up	This is a chick flick with a vengeance
Fierce People	B	D	C-	no		down	sometimes bogs down in anthropological metaphor
King of California	B	B-	C+	yes		down	boasts an eccentric tone, properly whimsical music and problematic father-daughter story
Canvas	B	N/A	N/A	no			a thoughtful, sweet film
Mr. Untouchable	B	B-	N/A	so-so			a fascinating first-person account
Kurt Cobain: About a Son	B	B+	N/A	yes			bold and successful
Rendition	B-	B	D+	so-so		down	timely without being gripping.
Lust, Caution	B-	B+	B+	yes		up	Too much caution and too little lust
The Nines	B-	B	C+	so-so			more than enough intelligence, intrigue and performance dazzle
Illegal Tender	B-	B	D+				plays like a mash-up of pulp fiction and telenovela
Closing Escrow	B-	B	N/A	so-so			overall this fixer-upper has very little curb appeal.
The Hunting Party	B-	B	C			up	Alternately glib, superficial and amusing
Meeting Resistance	B-	C	N/A	so-so			manages to capture the palpable frustration on the ground
Self-Medicated	B-	B	N/A	no			has more than its share of teen-angst clichés
Weirdsville	B-	B+	N/A	so-so			has some quirky pleasures
Across the Universe	B-	B+	D			up	goofy, pompous, annoyingly boomer-myopic Fab Four musical.
Lions for Lambs	B-	C-	D-	no			Talky, back-bendingly liberal but also deeply patriotic
Lars and the Real Girl	B-	N/A	A-	yes		down	a deep, sweet-hearted study
DarkBlueAlmostBlack	B-	B	B-				a well-acted soap with one too many plot lines
Golda's Balcony	B-	B-	N/A				inert yet strangely compelling
Music Within	B-	B	C-	no		no	collapses under its weighty sense of responsibility.
We Own the Night	B-	A	B-	so-so		down	defiantly, refreshingly unhip.
The 11th Hour	B-	N/A	N/A	yes		yes	has no time for subtlety.
Halloween	B-	B+	C				this bloodier, higher-body-count version leaves nothing to the imagination
Dragon Wars	C+	B	B	no			a feast of A-grade f/x married to a Z-grade, irony-free script.
The Kingdom	C+	B+	C+	no		up	a realist thriller that mixes crowd-pleasing mayhem with provocative politics.
Finishing the Game	C+	A-	D	no			a rice-paper-thin spoof
Resurrecting the Champ	C+	B-	C-	so-so			the plan of attack is overly sentimentalized and the execution is slack.
Slipstream	C+	B+	N/A	no			bold, experimental
Fred Claus	C+	B	C-	so-so			constructed like a rattling Santa sack of stocking stuffers
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising	C+	B-	D+	no		down	a pretty vivid fantasy book come-to-life
Sleuth	C	N/A	C+	so-so		down	Visually dull production and uneasy editing
Black Irish	C	A-	B-	so-so			doesn't miss a cliché of hardscrabble adolescence.
The Game Plan	C	B+	C-			down	sticks close to the playbook for family-friendly laffers
7 Days	C	B+	N/A				a film that has no sense of its own ridiculousness.
Cut Sleeve Boys	C	C	N/A				pretty much gay business as usual.
Martian Child	C	A	B-	no		down	engagingly weird
Saw IV	C	B+	C-				more than enough here to keep the fans intrigued, entertained, and squirming in their seats.
Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door	C	A-	N/A				makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach
The Invasion	C	B	D	yes		no	a slick but forgettable, characterless thriller.
The Good Night	C	B+	N/A				As becalmed and refreshing as a good night's sleep
How to Cook Your Life	C	B	N/A				gentle preaching is still preaching.
Freshman Orientation	C	C	D	no			a politically incorrect but ultimately exhausted social satire
Sydney White	C	B+	D+			down	It's no Mean Girls or even Clueless
Death Sentence	C	B+	C			down	endless amounts of blood spurting, exploding body parts and severed limbs.
Mr. Bean's Holiday	C	B	D+				has plenty of chuckles but few outright laughs
The Final Season	C	A	N/A	no			overscored, underwritten and sometimes awkwardly shot
Raising Flagg	C	B	N/A	no			slack, homespun synthetic yarn
Reservation Road	C	B+	C-	no		down	aims for tragedy but stalls at soap opera.
Trade	C	B+	N/A	so-so		up	pure exploitation
December Boys	C	B	C-	yes		down	visually well-mounted but narratively muddled
Romance & Cigarettes	C	C+	B-				alternately shines and sputters.
Ira & Abby	C	C	N/A				Annie Hall called, and it wants its plot back.
The Nanny Diaries	C	B-	C	no			rarely rises above standard sitcom fare
30 Days of Night	C	B+	B-	no		down	a catchy premise and quite enough splatter to satisfy gorehounds
Bee Movie	C	B+	C-	so-so		up	short on surprise and originality.
Darfur Now	C	N/A	N/A	so-so			testimony is only worth so much
Love for Sale	C	D-	N/A				once you know the title, you pretty much get the gist.
The Heartbreak Kid	C	B-	B-	no		down	a model of comic timing.
Berkeley	C	N/A	N/A	no			an overambitious period agenda betrayed by an obvious low budget.
Mr. Woodcock	C-	B	C-	no		down	Uninspired, sure, but sporadically, spasmodically funny.
Rush Hour 3	C-	A-	C+			down	stays true to the franchise formula of East-West fusion action
Balls of Fury	C-	B-	D-	no		down	Relentlessly silly
September Dawn	C-	C-	N/A	no			has the ham-fisted lyricism of political ads and pharmaceutical commercials.
Descent	C-	C-	N/A				A symposium in the men are pigs school of gender relations
Elizabeth: The Golden Age	C-	N/A	C	no		down	exquisitely complicated wigs and expensively grand wide shots
The Hottest State	C-	F	C-			up	takes a good deal of time to heat up
Feast of Love	C-	B-	D	no		up	far too cloyingly pleased with its own humanity.
Hannah Takes the Stairs	C-	C-	N/A	no			The characters in Hannah alternate between unconscious and self-conscious, and that's the charm.
Saawariya	C-	B+	N/A				basically inert
The Ten Commandments	C-	B	N/A				The only saving grace is the voice cast
Dedication	C-	B	C+			down	Vaguely uninviting, not-funny-enough touches
Rails & Ties	C-	B	N/A	no			like one bad TV movie that slammed into another.
O Jerusalem	D+	B-	D				adorably clumsy melodrama
The Brothers Solomon	D+	C-	D			down	a forced split-the-baby comedy that proves unwise from its very conception.
Bella	D+	A-	N/A	no			So slight that a gentle breeze might tip it over
Silk	D	B	N/A	no			Vacuous, arid and terminally dull
The Inner Life of Martin Frost	D-	B	N/A				What starts out as a clever exploration of consciousness quickly descends into underplotted folly.
War	F	B+	C	no			such a generic plot
Moving McAllister	F	C	N/A				a perfect storm of low-budget indie conventionality
The Man of My Life	F	F	C+				drunk on its own sense of contrived poetry
Daddy Day Camp	F	D	F	no		down	suffers all the near-classic sequel handicaps