Film Title	Critics	Readers	We	LAT	Ebert	Roeper	The Gist
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story				yes		up	.
Romance & Cigarettes				yes			.
A Walk to Beautiful				yes			.
All in This Tea				yes			.
Badland				yes			.
Beaufort				yes			.
Everything's Cool				yes			.
Forever				yes			.
Holly				yes			.
How to Cook Your Life				yes			.
Iska's Journey				yes			.
Just Sex and Nothing Else				yes			.
Lagerfeld Confidential				yes			.
Men in the Nude				yes			.
Military Intelligence and You!				yes			.
Protagonist				yes			.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired				yes			.
Smiley Face				yes			.
The Band's Visit				yes			.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly				yes			.
The Lost				yes			.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie				yes			.
The Take				yes			.
Ugly Me				yes			.
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story				yes			.
Young and Restless in China				yes			.
Man in the Chair				so-so			.
Oswald's Ghost				so-so			.
Running with Arnold				so-so			.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation				so-so			.
A Four Letter Word				no			.
Body				no			.
Grizzly Park				no			.
Liberty Kid				no			.
Noah's Ark				no			.
Orthodox Stance				no			.
Remember the Daze				no			.
Strange Wilderness				no			.
Summer Love				no			.
Sunflower				no			.
Tre,				no			.
Young Yakuza				no			.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall						up	.
Le Scaphandre et le papillon						up	.
Half Moon	A	B-	A	yes			touching and wise
The Orphanage	A	B+	B-	yes			a fastidiously grim ghost story
Billy the Kid	A	C+	N/A	yes			leaves almost every other documentary on the block behind.
Into the Wild	A	B+	B				magnificent precision and imaginative grace
There Will Be Blood	A	B	A	yes			a bold and sprawling epic
Flight of the Red Balloon	A	D+	A				eloquent study of loneliness
Deep Water	A	C+	A				a whirlpool of gripping adventure, overblown ambitions and sheer human folly
Charlie Wilson's War	A	B-	C	no		up	dark and funny and mean and sexy
Paranoid Park	A	B+	A	yes		down	a haunting tone poem laced with violent death.
Persepolis	A	B+	A	yes			one of the most unique, and moving, animated films ever made.
Sweeney Todd	A	A-	A	yes		up	Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages.
Eleven Men Out	A	C	D				has thoughtful and funny characters
Juno	A	B+	A-	yes		up	an ultra-smart-mouthed comedy
Eastern Promises	A	B+	A				A rhapsodic movie directed with considerable formal intelligence and brooding power
No Country for Old Men	A	B	A				a viciously effective exercise in suspense
Jellyfish	A	C-	B+				a dreamy, arty, alluringly cockeyed tale
The Duchess of Langeais	A	B-	A	yes			a masterful, multilayered, sometimes enigmatic work of dark irony
Sputnik Mania	A	C	N/A				important slice of you-are-there documaking.
Blame It on Fidel	A	C+	B+				thoroughly delightful
The Witnesses	A	B	B+	so-so			A fast-moving, engrossing multiple-character drama
Taxi to the Dark Side	A	N/A	N/A	yes		up	will earn a lasting place in social and cinematic history
U2 3D	A	B+	N/A	so-so		up	even better than the real thing.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	A	B-	A	yes			Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns	A	B	B	so-so			cheerfully dim-witted
Looking for Cheyenne	A	F	N/A	yes			An utterly refreshing look at work, love and politics
Shelter	A	B-	B-				a pleasant romantic drama
My Name Is Albert Ayler	A	B-	A				a short but dense portrait
Margot at the Wedding	A-	B-	B+	yes			Nicole Kidman is so unlikable as to be spectacular.
My Brother Is an Only Child	A-	C	B+	yes			offers a warm humor
Heartbeat Detector	A-	C-	N/A				rewardingly chilly
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep	A-	B	B+	yes			Nifty special effects
Enchanted	A-	B+	B+	yes			more than lives up to its title.
Praying With Lior	A-	C-	N/A				a hardcore tearjerker.
Planet B-Boy	A-	B-	C+				Often exhilarating
Definitely, Maybe	A-	B+	C-	no		up	a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy.
Atonement	A-	A	B	yes		up	sweeps you up on waves of humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance.
I'm Not There	A-	B	A	so-so		up	a curiosity that could delight or turn off loyal Dylan fans
The Violin	A-	A	A	yes			a solemn, suspenseful, extremely well-shot political drama.
How She Move	A-	C+	B				moody, intelligent take on conventional material.
The Visitor	A-	C	D+	yes		up	could be this year's humanistic indie hit.
Starting Out in the Evening	A-	B-	N/A	yes		up	compelling story, great acting, intelligent writing and sensitive direction.
Shine a Light	A-	B+	C+	yes		up	an invigorating musical trip down memory lane
Priceless	A-	C-	N/A	yes			an enjoyable riff on genuine romance
Caramel	A-	C+	N/A	yes			The set-up is hardly new
The Unforeseen	A-	C+	A	yes			a political film of sorts with no overt politics
Alexandra	A-	B-	A	yes			presents war for what it is
The Great Debaters	B+	A-	B	yes		up	Good story, well told.
What Would Jesus Buy?	B+	C+	N/A	yes			slick, well-paced, and tremendously entertaining.
The Counterfeiters	B+	B+	B+				plays like a sepia-toned realist drama
Water Lilies	B+	F	N/A				nails the aching doubts and offhanded cruelty of 15- and 16-year-old girls.
City of Men	B+	B+	C+	so-so			as heavy with message as any Hollywood delinquent drama of the late '50s.
Summer Palace	B+	C-	A	yes			an intimate epic
Snow Angels	B+	B	C+	so-so		up	Emotionally harrowing and gentle by turns
Nanking	B+	B-	N/A				honors the highest calling of documentary filmmaking.
The Bank Job	B+	B+	B+	yes		up	full of surprises
Diary of the Dead	B+	B	B	no		down	an ingenious, energetic, angry and extremely plugged-in piece
Honeydripper	B+	B-	C+	yes			benign and cheerful tall tale
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club	B+	D-	N/A				an appropriately mellow chronicle
This Christmas	B+	B+	B-			up	a holiday staple to be watched time and again.
Cloverfield	B+	B-	A	so-so		up	stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment
Shotgun Stories	B+	B	N/A				a precisely modulated yet cumulatively forceful story
Rambo	B	A-	D				This isn't one of those happy war films where they just shoot people.
Body of War	B	C-	N/A				pointedly critical commentary
The Spiderwick Chronicles	B	B	B	so-so		down	An enjoyable adventure fantasy
Smart People	B	B	C+	yes		up	competent but just mildly diverting
The Savages	B	A	B+	yes		down	has enough empathy and wit to realize that even the sad parts are, somehow, funny.
CJ7	B	B+	B	no			a hyperactive, wishful-thinking special effects fantasy
Be Kind Rewind	B	B+	B			up	an exuberant, fanciful fable
Love Songs	B	C+	N/A	yes			leaves you with a funny taste in your mouth.
Spiral	B	C-	N/A	so-so			works up an unsettling mood
Still Life	B	N/A	N/A				has almost zero plot but molto mood.
Beowulf	B	B	A-	no			a vibrant, nerve-tingling piece of pop culture
Chicago 10	B	C+	B+	yes			The authentic newsreels and brightly hued animation are a schizoid mix.
Redacted	B	D-	B	no		down	Powerful, polarizing, and disturbing
I Am Legend	B	A-	B+	so-so		up	Remarkably eerie
The Killing of John Lennon	B	C	C+	no			a harrowing, impressionistic, widescreen tour-de-force
Nim's Island	B	B+	B	so-so		up	sloppy storytelling plagues the entire picture
The Kite Runner	B	B+	C+	no		up	poignant, intimate epic
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day	B	B	B-	yes		up	a pert little period costume drama
Tuya's Marriage	B	F	N/A				lacking in dramatic heft
Stop-Loss	B	B-	B+	yes		up	a wildly uneven drama, by turns sincere and synthetic
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show	B	D+	C+	yes		up	overlong, intermittently funny
Married Life	B	C+	B-	no		up	Slow, deliberate
The Amateurs	B	C	N/A	no		down	does more than strain credulity, it administers multiple fractures.
The Grand	B	B+	C-			down	it's funny  sometimes very funny.
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!	B	B+	B-	so-so		up	true to the Seuss vision
Teeth	B-	C	N/A	yes			bites off more than it can chew.
Grace Is Gone	B-	A	D+	yes		up	No politics, no pleading. No artifice.
Towards Darkness	B-	B+	N/A				may be too clever for its own good.
Leatherheads	B-	B	C+	yes		up	one playful, self-deprecating wink too many
In Bruges	B-	B	A-	yes		up	an audacious combination of Old World grace and modern ultraviolence.
The Dhamma Brothers	B-	N/A	B-				flabby, rambling narrative structure
Untraceable	B-	B-	F				sufficiently compelling.
Girls Rock!	B-	C-	B+	so-so			this dreary doc does little more than underline the talking points.
Young @ Heart	B-	A	A	yes		up	irresistibly joyous
Superhero Movie	B-	D-	D+	no		up
The Golden Compass	B-	B-	A	yes		up	Big, noisy, and fantastic yet curiously sodden
Mad Money	B-	A	F	no		up	breezy and zippy and girl-power peppy
Cassandra's Dream	B-	N/A	D+			up	sends out more mixed signals than an inebriated telegraphist.
Alice's House	B-	C+	B	yes			utterly average foreign art-house film
Step Up 2 the Streets	B-	A-	B+			down	foot-stomping fun.
The Signal	B-	B-	B+				has the crazy all right, bless its cold and sick little heart.
Charlie Bartlett	B-	B	B-			down	sweetly subversive
Vivere	B-	C-	N/A	no			piles heavy emotional baggage on a slender story frame.
Bra Boys	B-	B	N/A	yes			strangely compelling
The Hammer	B-	B	C+			up	inordinately likable and consistently funny
Bella	B-	A-	N/A				So slight that a gentle breeze might tip it over
Dark Matter	B-	D	D+	no			there's not a single credible performance here
The Other Boleyn Girl	B-	B	C+	no			a classy romantic cocktail
Semi-Pro	B-	B	D	no			comedy comfort food
Look	C+	C+	N/A	no			blends sharp satire with Orwellian chills to intriguing effect.
The Mist	C+	B	A			up	nifty, unusually spry, and almost shockingly pessimistic
Street Kings	C+	B+	C+			down	covers familiar territory
Over Her Dead Body	C+	B	C				a romantic comedy dangerously low on carbonation.
10,000 BC	C+	B-	D	yes		down	lovely-to-look-at but ultimately forgettable
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins	C+	B+	C-	no		down	overlong but exuberantly performed
Never Back Down	C+	B+	C			up	edited for maximum whaaaammmmm! and crrrrraackkkk!
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium	C+	B-	B+	no			the whimsy feels forced.
Alvin and the Chipmunks	C+	A-	B-	so-so		down	intermittently cute
Doomsday	C+	B	A				hysterically unoriginal
Run Fatboy Run	C	B	D+			up	few surprises but is crowd-pleasing
Chaos Theory	C	C	C	so-so		down	a would-be satire
Youth Without Youth	C	B	C+	so-so		up	full of arcane references
P.S. I Love You	C	B	C-	no		up	will have the sentimentally challenged weeping
The Walker	C	A-	C-	no			a serious movie and, gliding around the center of power, a stylish one.
Goodbye Bafana	C	B-	N/A				a kindly paint-by-numbers affair
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert	C	B-	N/A				engineered as part of the Miley Cyrus mythmaking effort
Penelope	C	B+	B-				never works up much comic steam.
Romulus, My Father	C	B	N/A	yes			Warmly felt but haltingly told
Day Zero	C	N/A	N/A				Sabotaged by trite political dissertation and the presumption of novelty
Irina Palm	C	C	C	yes			staggeringly inane
Southland Tales	C	B	D+	no			rich, strange, and very funny
27 Dresses	C	A-	D-	no		down	pleasantly predictable
The Ruins	C	B-	B+	no			finds a constant stream of calamities to inflict upon the characters.
Awake	C	B	D-				only slightly more effective than E.R.
Hats Off	C	B+	N/A				visually indifferent documentary
21	C	B+	C-	so-so		up	a clever and novel card-sharp thriller.
Under the Same Moon	C	A-	B-	so-so		up	The issue of illegal immigration gets a falsely sentimental take
Lost in Beijing	C	C+	N/A	no			the plot doesn't really hold up.
Dirty Laundry	C	A	N/A	no			plays like a theater piece
Steep	C	B-	C+				less a documentary than a sales pitch
August Rush	C	A-	C+	no		down	teeters perilously on the brink of preciousness
American Zombie	C	D+	N/A				the satire is highly uneven
Drillbit Taylor	C	B	C-	no		down	a relatively lame exercise that never achieves comic traction.
Flakes	C	C	N/A				wants so badly to be hip.
Boarding Gate	C	A	B	yes			self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy
My Blueberry Nights	C	D+	D+	no		down	As much a trifle as its title suggests
Flawless	C	B-	D+			up	Not the freshest heist movie ever made
Randy and the Mob	C	B-	N/A				feels like it never quite reaches ramming speed.
Nina's Heavenly Delights	C	C-	N/A	no			overly mushy
Jumper	C-	B	C	no		down	disappointingly inert.
Arranged	C-	C	N/A				comes off better than it should
Vantage Point	C-	B	B-			down	a perfectly serviceable thriller
Midnight Eagle	C-	B-	N/A	no			clunky, monotonous
Funny Games	C-	C	B-			down	shocking and deliberately manipulative
Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise	C-	B	B				At once hagiographic and revealing
Hitman	C-	B+	D			up	fails to deliver the kind of pounding, visceral action that genre fans expect
The Bucket List	C-	B	D	no			a feel-good film about death
The Air I Breathe	D+	B+	N/A	no			morosely pretentious
Sleepwalking	D+	C-	D	no		up	makes good on its title in a not-so-good way.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets	D+	B+	B	no		down	your mouth hangs open in astonishment at one preposterous event after another.
Shrooms	D+	C-	N/A				a forgettable time-waster.
Love in the Time of Cholera	D	B-	D+	no			turgid and lifeless movie adaptation.
College Road Trip	D	B	B-			down	a collection of family-friendly platitudes
Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding	D	C+	N/A				.
Chapter 27	D	B-	C-	so-so		up	misbegotten psychological portrait
Flash Point	D	B-	N/A				an attitude endorsing the sorts of tactics that suit a police state.
How to Rob a Bank	D	B-	N/A				objectively awful
Witless Protection	D-	C	C				the slapstick and action set pieces are lame
Fool's Gold	D-	B	C+	no		down	has all the buoyancy and shimmer of a shipwreck.
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie	D-	B-	N/A				defies explanation.
The Perfect Holiday	D-	C+	F			down	neither perfect nor much of a holiday
Meet Bill	D-	B-	N/A				full of leaden hijinx
The Comebacks	D-	C+	F				The hit-to-miss ratio is deplorably pathetic
One Missed Call	D-	B-	D-				a generic and unscary monster movie
Backseat	D-	C-	N/A				plots a meandering course
Sex and Death 101	D-	C-	C	no		up	stultifying, overwritten cleverness
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem	D-	B	D	no			a big heaping pile of mediocrity
The Eye	F	B	D				emblematic of the sorry state of modern horror
Shutter	F	B	D				the epitome of gutless, derivative hackwork.
The Hottie and the Nottie	F	D-	F	no		down	Crass, shrill, disingenuous, tawdry, mean-spirited, vulgar
Prom Night	F	B-	D+	no			poorly written, ill conceived
Meet the Spartans	F	C	F				Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny
Revolver	F	A-	D	no			pretentious style and fractured storytelling