Film Title	LAT	RTMC	RTC	The Gist
Falling	yes	N/A	N/A	one of the best small pictures of its kind in recent memory.
Tired of Kissing Frogs	yes	N/A	N/A	a delightful romantic comedy, traditional in form but contemporary in feeling
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic	yes	100	N/A	a pleasant-enough diversion with a notable song score.
Kenny	yes	100	N/A	a low-key study of underdog pride rather than a Larry the Cable Guy bodily function jokefest.
Take Out	yes	100	100	cinéma-vérité verve
The Order of Myths	yes	100	100	an invaluable portrait of us-and-them America
Man on Wire	yes	100	100	has the pace of a thriller and the human interest of a psychological drama.
Wall-E	yes	97	97	"Wall-E" gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films
My Winnipeg	yes	96	100	haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal
Trouble the Water	yes	96	100	What you do have, if you're fortunate, is a film like "Trouble the Water" to tell your story to the world.
Chris & Don: A Love Story	yes	95	100	makes movingly clear why their bond endured
The Pool	yes	95	100	[a] keenly observant narrative feature debut
Encounters at the End of the World	yes	94	100	The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest.
Momma's Man	yes	94	100	At once poignant and ruefully amusing
The Dark Knight	yes	94	90	A chance to disturb us in the ways these kinds of movies rarely do.
Tell No One	yes	92	94	… a top-notch thriller so twisty you may forget to breathe
My Father My Lord	yes	91	88	resonates with the graceful simplicity of a religious parable.
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot	yes	89	92	the playing's the thing and, for most, just beholding these NBA hopefuls' dazzling skills will be more than enough.
Mongol	yes	88	92	has a feeling for stunning vistas and wide-screen composition that is really something to see.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired	yes	87	N/A	tells it with such intelligence, dispassion and detail that it's like we've never heard it before.
Baghead	yes	87	92	delightfully unpredictable.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army	yes	87	87	you've entered another world, filled with nightmarish things both unimaginable and indescribable.
Love and Honor	yes	86	N/A	an impeccably made classic Japanese period picture in which a nobility of spirit is tested amid the most beautiful of settings
Transsiberian	yes	85	100	Transsiberian transports us into a new and different world and creates a unique cinematic experience
A Jihad for Love	yes	84	82	a courageous documentary on the plight of gays in the Muslim world
Live and Become	yes	83	91	a valuable dramatic addition to our understanding of the recent history of an ever-uprooted world populace.
The Grocer's Son	yes	82	N/A	unfolds with subtlety, humor and affection -- and becomes in the process a pure enchantment.
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl	yes	81	96	the film's humanistic approach preaches tolerance and hope.
Yella	yes	80	100	one of the many new German films that contrast life today in the former East Germany with the way things are done in the west
Lou Reed's Berlin	yes	80	100	there's a chilly hauteur at the movie's core
A Girl Cut in Two	yes	79	90	Impeccably made and uncompromisingly adult, ... unquestionably the work of a master.
The Last Mistress	yes	77	90	… an extreme cinematic pleasure, a well-told yarn of merciless desire.
Mister Foe	yes	76	78	a thrillingly dramatized obsession and a strangely affecting love story
Alice Neel	yes	75	50	as nuanced and complex as its subject, as compelling as her piercingly intense canvases
Frozen River	yes	74	90	Spare and unsentimental as well as intensely dramatic, character-based but grounded in reality and filled with involving incidents
Beauty in Trouble	yes	74	67	deeply affecting and darkly amusing
Flow	yes	73	83	a smartly done, involving look at a number of interrelated water issues.
A Very British Gangster	yes	70	86	a gutsy, startlingly personal look at not only one of Britain's most notorious gangsters
Trumbo	yes	69	83	"Trumbo" is an unconventional film about an unconventional man. Part documentary, part expertly staged readings…
Bustin' Down the Door	yes	67	N/A	entertainingly captures surfing's last great hoorah of no-holds-barred radicalism.
Beautiful Losers	yes	67	83	an absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success.
A Man Named Pearl	yes	67	80	it's hard not to be stirred by this hopeful portrait.
CSNY/Déjà Vu	yes	66	80	[an] unflinching, well-constructed picture
Save Me	yes	65	60	a modest, thoughtful, independent production of exceptional insight and quietly devastating power.
The Unknown Woman	yes	62	75	transcends the lurid and the coincidental with range, depth and insight
Ping Pong Playa	yes	62	63	manages to sustain a goofy-sweet comic energy and offers sly observations about assimilation, sibling rivalry and the art of competitive maternal bragging.
Expired	yes	60	57	this modest, intimate film holds attention beyond initial expectations.
Love Comes Lately	yes	59	60	the movie comes closest to capturing Singer's mastery
Traitor	yes	54	54	this is a good, twisty, absorbing work.
The Family That Preys	yes	53	70	an earful of praise for your writing and directing.
No Regret	yes	50	N/A	an exposé of class differences and sexual hypocrisy it could hardly be more scathing
Kicking It	yes	50	33	Rarely has the healing power of sports been as genuinely depicted
Stealing America: Vote by Vote	yes	46	17	this persuasive refresher course on our increasingly sketchy electoral process will prove essential viewing for any constitutionally minded American.
What We Do Is Secret	yes	45	57	a visceral, energized biopic that captures the vibrant idiocy of punked-out youth and a tortured soul
The House Bunny	yes	41	29	among the sunnier, funnier films of the year
Diminished Capacity	yes	28	22	… a knack for spinning fanciful strands of straw into gold, time and again.
Holding Trevor	yes	14	N/A	… suspenseful and involving -- and tinged with humor as well as pathos.
Boy A	yes			an absorbing, finely nuanced morality tale
The Garden	yes			the fascinating complexities of a classic Los Angeles conflict and an excellent documentary that does them full justice.
A Secret	yes			subtle telling of how a French Jewish teenager ... learns how his parents ... survived the occupation
Ten Nights of Dreams	yes			in the grand, exquisite tradition of the Japanese cinema of the supernatural
Red	yes			Small-town rifts are convincingly exposed as hatred is unleashed.
Tinker Bell	so-so	N/A	N/A	Memo to: Tyler Perry
Ghost Town	so-so	87	90	too many encounters are allowed to sputter out lackadaisically
Tropic Thunder	so-so	84	84	Simultaneously smart and dumb, mixing clever satire with way over-the-top raunch and unrelenting profanity
Vicky Cristina Barcelona	so-so	79	83	tries to balance comedy and drama. Again, the result is off-kilter.
Burn After Reading	so-so	77	54	A bleakly funny spoof on spy films as well as a melancholy riff on despairing lives
Wanted	so-so	73	76	"WANTED" straddles the line between the delightfully absurd and the merely ridiculous
Brideshead Revisited	so-so	72	69	the film is neither a true triumph nor a total disaster
Pineapple Express	so-so	69	69	facetiously violent, rambunctiously amusing
American Teen	so-so	68	63	ordinariness is both strength and weakness here.
The Incredible Hulk	so-so	67	58	The result is solid and efficient, if unadventurous, illustrating both the lure and the limitations of comic book extravaganzas.
Appaloosa	so-so	64	64	has its virtues undercut by the way that critical female role has been handled.
Brick Lane	so-so	63	50	The storytelling is awfully compressed in this adaptation
Hamlet 2	so-so	62	55	an uneven film in which the hits are so dead-on that the misses don't seem to matter.
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer	so-so	61	N/A	As a horror-comedy, it boldly declines to scare or amuse
Hamlet 2	so-so	61	57	an uneven film in which the hits are so dead-on that the misses don't seem to matter.
Journey to the Center of the Earth	so-so	60	79	minor-league visual pleasures will be most enjoyed by those with the smallest number of celluloid reference points
Mamma Mia!	so-so	53	41
Mamma Mia	so-so	53	40	More like: Oh, no! The stage-to-screen adaptation is loaded with excess. But, hey, Meryl Streep comes off well.
Towelhead	so-so	52	53	Although Alan Ball never finds the right tone in 'Towelhead,' star Summer Bishil entrances as Jasira.
Step Brothers	so-so	52	47	the movie doesn't seem to have anything on its mind
Cthulhu	so-so	50	N/A	"Cthulhu" isn't awful, but it isn't particularly compelling either
Lakeview Terrace	so-so	41	52	a serviceable enough popcorn exercise in a few floundering Angelenos who can't just get along.
The Longshots	so-so	38	38	a gentle, audience-friendly drama that's sometimes too safe for its own good.
Space Chimps	so-so	37	47	there's probably not enough fuel beyond cute chimps in Candyland to achieve orbit for the kids.
The Rocker	so-so	36	39	the movie is sweet but slow and a little out of date
Henry Poole Is Here	so-so	33	23	the dearth of honest characterization in Albert Torres' script lends the whole exercise a shallow impatience
Igor	so-so	29	21	treats every scene as if he's in a speed race for cutting and camera movement.
Fly Me to the Moon	so-so	18	23	Until a climactic fight scene, the film's as mild as baby shampoo.
Babylon A.D.	so-so	7	0	Unfortunately, the film quickly degenerates into chases and gunfights and not much else.
Largo	so-so			The lighting is low, its attention is 100% on the performers and it doesn't make things easy for its customers.
Proud American	no	N/A	N/A	too often carries the preachy, stilted aura of something you'd see in civics class or at a trade show
Asian Stories (Book 3)	no	N/A	N/A	draggy, overly talky and rarely amusing.
Re-Cycle	no	N/A	N/A	The Pang brothers do have a certain visual panache but as storytellers they are strictly for the trash dump.
I Served the King of England	no	94	91	pales in comparison to Volker Schlöndorff's film of Günter Grass' "The Tin Drum" -- but it does look gorgeous.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson	no	84	89	'Gonzo' is stuffed with Hunter S. Thompson minutae but shies from the tough questions.
In Search of a Midnight Kiss	no	84	80	not the epitome of independent cinema.
XXY	no	73	82	sabotaged by plot contrivance.
America the Beautiful	no	70	50	Well meaning but as hopelessly smeary as a makeup job applied during a bumper-car ride
Elegy	no	69	54	out of touch, balefully slow and, for a film at least partly about the zesty enterprise of sex, awfully lifeless.
The Wackness	no	66	76	It snows us with more visual flash than it knows what to do with
Sukiyaki Western Django	no	65	44	self-destructs like a wildfire as it attempts to spoof spaghetti westerns
Get Smart	no	53	58	Action is emphasized over laughs and the job gets bungled.
Sixty Six	no	53	43	stiffly drawn and often just plain unlikable.
Bottle Shock	no	49	52	stiffly drawn and often just plain unlikable.
Eight Miles High	no	42	N/A	failing to fulfill the fun trash quotient while also never getting at what makes Obermaier tick.
Finding Amanda	no	38	27	Matthew Broderick's self-loather tries to help a hooker. Should we laugh or cry?
Hancock	no	37	38	The Will Smith vehicle is as self-destructive as its superhero.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe	no	34	24	so down to earth, it's almost mundane.
The Doorman	no	29	50	keeps the humor believably shallow
Righteous Kill	no	24	15	isn't up to its stars' potential.
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!	no	21	0	Stephens' stabs at contrasting pathos come off as merely maudlin.
Meet Dave	no	20	29	pays lip service to the joys of exploring new worlds, but it never steps off the tour bus.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars	no	19	5	Despite excellent animation, 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' fails with bad dialogue and plot machinations
Hounddog	no	18	25	isn't so much controversial as it is howlingly bad.
The Love Guru	no	15	6	Mike Myers' sophomoric shtick wears out its welcome fast.
Mirrors	no	15	0	a ridiculous studio remake of a Korean horror film
The Women	no	10	14	gets bogged down, despite the A-list cast.
Bangkok Dangerous	no	10	8	pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	no	9	11	has some good things, it does not have enough of them to make the third time the charm.
College	no	8	13	heavy on raunch and light on actual comedy or originality.
Surfer, Dude	no	0	N/A	This Matthew McConaughey vehicle amounts to beach blanket boredom.
Disaster Movie	no	0	0	Even running out of suitable titles can't stop this juggernaut of mediocrity
Red Roses and Petrol	no	0	0	a dysfunctional clan movie
Take	no			too enamored of its time-shifting gimmick and cheap suspense to ultimately have much impact.
Young People . . .	no			The cast tries but rarely achieves an authenticity of emotional intimacy
Death Race		39	43