| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| OC87 | yes | 100 | 100 | an involving, surprisingly buoyant excursion. |
| The Invisible War | yes | 100 | 100 | a heartbreaking look at military rape |
| The Imposter | yes | 98 | 100 | *disturbing in ways only reality can manage |
| Gerhard Richter Painting | yes | 96 | 93 | a mesmerizing look behind the curtain at a magician at work |
| Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | yes | 95 | 89 | a striking portrait of a man compelled to act out despite the danger. |
| Searching for Sugar Man | yes | 93 | 92 | *a sweet mystery |
| Wagner's Dream | yes | 93 | 89 | *a divine look at daunting Ring cycle |
| Side By Side | yes | 93 | *a sharp, useful primer on the history of digital imagemaking | |
| The Queen of Versailles | yes | 92 | 91 | excellent and unexpectedly nuanced |
| Portrait of Wally | yes | 88 | 75 | how the battle to return a painting eventually shook the art world |
| The Green Wave | yes | 88 | 2009 presidential election in Iran | |
| Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment | yes | 82 | 83 | an enlightening and evocative snapshot. |
| China Heavyweight | yes | 81 | 80 | chronicles the tension between individual ambition and national identity |
| You've Been Trumped | yes | 80 | 78 | *the resistance of locals to a Donald Trump project |
| Kumare | yes | 79 | 83 | becomes eye-opening performance art |
| Katy Perry: Part of Me | yes | 75 | 79 | frothy bit of show and tell |
| Never Stand Still | yes | 71 | an entertaining look at a dance institution. | |
| La Source | yes | 63 | make you feel good about the world and the people in it | |
| Big Boys Gone Bananas!* | yes | 56 | *chronicling a legal fight by Nicaraguan workers against Dole | |
| Ordinary Miracles | yes | a pioneering cooperative of artists known as the Photo League | ||
| Once in a Lullaby | yes | memorable, well-observed | ||
| Trial by Fire | yes | burn survivors | ||
| Garden in the Sea | yes | underwater sculpture in the Sea of Cortez | ||
| Heist | yes | effective in outlining the history of deregulation | ||
| Drought | yes | poetic, almost abstract portrait of impoverished ranchers | ||
| Out of the Clear Blue Sky | yes | powerful, deftly constructed | ||
| Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White | yes | *exceptional | ||
| Neil Young Journeys | so-so | 86 | 75 | closeness defines and at times undermines |
| It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodore Herzl | so-so | 70 | 60 | informative but uneven |
| Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story | so-so | 55 | 43 | honors the late Yoni Netanyahu |
| One Day on Earth | so-so | 40 | 40 | remains a travelogue in search of a defining center. |
| Without a Net | so-so | The circus as savior | ||
| Ricky on Leacock | so-so | a little too grandiose | ||
| The Magic Life | so-so | not quite magical | ||
| Paul Williams: Still Alive | no | 96 | 100 | never completely warms up |
| Chely Wright: Wish Me Away | no | 91 | 100 | a carefully orchestrated media campaign |
| Music from the Big House | no | 43 | 50 | a disconcerting emotional distance. |
| Death by China | no | 40 | holds a revival meeting in an empty tent. | |
| Digital Dharma | no | lacks focus | ||
| Speak | no | doesn't deliver | ||
| Until They Are Home | no | fails to complete its mission | ||
| amimated | ||||
| ParaNorman | yes | 87 | 81 | *sometimes gets a little out of hand, especially at the end. Even so... |
| Madagascar 3 | yes | 75 | 58 | a neon-saturated, high-flying trapeze act |
| Brave | so-so | 74 | 68 | doesn't hit the bull's-eye |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | so-so | 39 | 39 | the ending is a little too sappy |
| regular movies | ||||
| The Matchmaker | yes | 100 | satisfyingly eccentric and unexpected | |
| Bonsái | yes | 95 | 100 | *charmingly captures young love |
| Turn Me On, Dammit! | yes | 92 | 94 | renders more than a few shades of a turbulent female adolescence. |
| Farewell, My Queen | yes | 91 | 84 | *life at the palace at Versailles at the start of the French Revolution. |
| Easy Money | yes | 89 | 94 | *originally titled 'Snabba Cash' |
| The Dark Knight Rises | yes | 86 | 77 | *more than shines, and on many levels |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | yes | 86 | 70 | *extraordinary |
| Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | yes | 82 | 100 | elegant restraint [over the] usual flair for wild theatrics. |
| Unforgivable | yes | 80 | 89 | Literate, intelligent and a model of accomplished European filmmaking |
| Celeste and Jesse Forever | yes | 80 | 72 | affectionate and intelligent |
| Take This Waltz | yes | 79 | 75 | a married woman falling in love with a neighbor. |
| Klown | yes | 77 | 80 | *The Danish comedy is a fine juggling act of dry … humor |
| The Color Wheel | yes | 76 | 90 | isn't easy to watch but it is satisfying. |
| Hope Springs | yes | 74 | 76 | an intelligent, funny look at a long marriage |
| Killer Joe | yes | 74 | 54 | *Never has noir been more diabolically naughty |
| Ruby Sparks | yes | 73 | 65 | an engaging new chapter on love |
| Ted | yes | 69 | 64 | crude but just cuddly enough |
| The Expendables 2 | yes | 67 | 68 | turns out to be kind of a kick. |
| The Campaign | yes | 67 | 58 | Rude, rowdy and raunchy |
| Beloved | yes | 65 | 75 | mad, destined, unrequited, sustaining |
| Sparkle | yes | 56 | 58 | you know what? It works |
| Patang | yes | 53 | 71 | deftly balances a vivid setting and finely drawn characters. |
| The Bourne Legacy | yes | 53 | 57 | an exemplary espionage thriller |
| The Well-Digger's Daughter | yes | old-school in the most pleasing of ways | ||
| Deranged | yes | finds the right balance between mystery and mayhem | ||
| Nobody Else but You | so-so | 84 | 88 | gets carried away with its taste for celebrity. |
| Dark Horse | so-so | 79 | 75 | Modest and mildly entertaining |
| Magic Mike | so-so | 78 | 92 | has the moves but not the heart |
| The Amazing Spider-Man | so-so | 78 | 90 | it's too long and sometimes dips below 'amazing.' |
| Prometheus | so-so | 73 | 73 | something of a disappointment |
| 2 Days in New York | so-so | 69 | 59 | [a] slight and giddy diversion |
| Extraterrestrial | so-so | 67 | 71 | oddball charms |
| Nuit #1 | so-so | 64 | 80 | promising, disappointing, touching or frustrating |
| The Revenge | so-so | 50 | 50 | smooth-enough entertainment |
| Rock of Ages | so-so | 42 | 44 | head-banging good fun |
| The Girl From the Naked Eye | so-so | 36 | 33 | more than a noir wannabe |
| The Magic of Belle Isle | so-so | 30 | 11 | Predictability ensues |
| Peace, Love & Misunderstanding | so-so | 27 | 36 | kind of groovy |
| The Watch | so-so | 14 | 17 | Some of the phallic jokes work, others are really lame |
| As One | so-so | international table tennis drama | ||
| Bol Bachchan | so-so | a central ruse plays out to little pleasurable effect. | ||
| Ek Tha Tiger | so-so | relentlessly superficial — nigh, ridiculous | ||
| Collaborator | no | 75 | 67 | The would-be thriller plods along instead of creating tension and menace. |
| Sacrifice | no | 68 | 55 | The historical epic from … director Chen Kaige is mostly melodrama. |
| Girlfriend Boyfriend | no | 67 | can't balance its story lines of romance and societal change | |
| Cosmopolis | no | 64 | 55 | proves a disappointment. |
| The Woman in the Fifth | no | 62 | 60 | is murky, unsatisfying |
| The Awakening | no | 59 | 38 | ultimately more complicated than it needs to be |
| To Rome With Love | no | 55 | 70 | affectionate but meandering |
| People Like Us | no | 54 | 56 | the script sets an awfully low bar |
| Savages | no | 53 | 60 | It's that kind of a story where things got so out of control |
| Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | no | 53 | 58 | starts imploding long before the massive asteroid [strikes] |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | no | 50 | 47 | the charm has worn off a bit |
| Falling Overnight | no | 40 | tries too hard to be cute | |
| Lola Versus | no | 38 | 54 | Please come to her emotional rescue |
| Odd Life of Timothy Green | no | 38 | 40 | odd indeed |
| Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | no | 38 | 26 | you wish … vampire hunting involved more wit and less whacking |
| The Last Ride | no | 36 | 43 | goes nowhere |
| Why Stop Now? | no | 31 | 25 | goes nowhere |
| Total Recall | no | 30 | 24 | though fun at times, can be too much to take |
| Bel Ami | no | 29 | 11 | social commentary is bloodless |
| Step Up Revolution | no | 28 | 21 | frantic cutting style |
| Drunkboat | no | 27 | adrift | |
| Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection | no | 22 | 25 | a sloppy effort |
| That's My Boy | no | 22 | 11 | It's a family reunion no one should attend. |
| Crazy Eyes | no | 21 | 14 | Superficial and uninteresting |
| 6 Month Rule | no | 17 | 20 | charmless |
| Goats | no | 14 | 0 | wastes a lot of talent |
| Blind Revenge | no | 14 | more melodrama than mystery. | |
| Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D | no | 8 | 0 | an extreme bore |
| The Babymakers | no | 6 | 13 | suffers from a split personality |
| 30 Beats | no | 5 | 0 | fails to find its rhythm |
| For the Love of Money | no | 0 | 0 | sputters to an unsatisfying conclusion |
| Assassin's Bullet | no | 0 | 0 | Slater and Sutherland can't save this ridiculous rip-off |
| Ultrasonic | no | 0 | just so much noise | |
| Cartas a Elena | no | badly overplays the big emotional scenes | ||
| Bro | no | cliched platitudes and the wide gulf in acting quality | ||
| Nipples and Palm Trees | no | This unsavory story about sexual encounters is totally unsatisfying. | ||
| Craigslist Joe | no | teases but doesn't deliver | ||
| Soldiers of Fortune | no | more noisy than exciting | ||
| After the Wizard | no | Dorothy and the gang after their trip to Oz | ||
| Painted Skin: The Resurrection | no | a fussy, convoluted mess |