| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| The Square | yes | 100 | 100 | thoughtful and intensely dramatic |
| Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? | yes | 100 | 100 | Chomsky smartly animated |
| These Birds Walk | yes | 100 | 100 | Pakistan's lost children |
| Sweet Dreams | yes | 100 | the story of the first ice cream shop in Rwanda | |
| Liv & Ingmar: Painfully Connected | yes | 100 | lovely and lyrical, about the passionate yet fraught relationship | |
| At Berkeley | yes | 93 | 90 | a portrait of UC Berkeley and how it copes with a financial problem. |
| When I Walk | yes | 93 | 86 | extraordinarily accomplished, poignant, and wise. |
| I Am Divine | yes | 92 | 91 | creates a vivid sense of the actor's work |
| Tim's Vermeer | yes | 88 | 73 | inventor Tim Jenison as he tries to re-create a Vermeer painting |
| The Armstrong Lie | yes | 86 | 93 | smartly details Lance's scandalous cycle |
| Spinning Plates | yes | 84 | 86 | the personal challenges facing three restaurants |
| An American Promise | yes | 80 | 80 | a fascinating look at two boys' education |
| Symphony of the Soil | yes | 67 | explains in a convincing way the benefits of farming organically. | |
| Dear Mr. Watterson | yes | 66 | 55 | Calvin and Hobbes creator |
| Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey | yes | 60 | Impacts of polution in the Himalayas | |
| Lion Ark | yes | 57 | details an animal rescue mission | |
| One PM Central Standard Time | yes | 50 | deftly assembled grippingly detailed | |
| The Ghosts in Our Machine | yes | 43 | a heartfelt meditation on animal rights | |
| The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | yes | 38 | 40 | engrossing if essentially one-sided picture |
| The New Black | yes | a clear-eyed look at the same-sex marriage debate among blacks | ||
| Why We Ride | yes | a loving ode to the motorcycle | ||
| CinemAbility | yes | exhaustive and eye-opening | ||
| Brave Miss World | yes | charts a rape victim's new path | ||
| Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird | yes | quirky cartoonist's comic madness | ||
| The Unbelievers | yes | brainy — but accessible — discourse. | ||
| Unhung Hero | yes | travels the world asking 'Does size matter?' | ||
| Not Yet Begun to Fight | so-so | 88 | 100 | slightly disappointing, sidestepping a few worthwhile tangents |
| Lenny Cooke | so-so | 82 | 70 | the failure of a ranked high school basketball player |
| Blood Brother | so-so | 78 | 80 | lacks context but has a lot of heart |
| Enzo Avitabile Music Life | so-so | 69 | 40 | a well of emotion that the music alone is almost enough |
| Blood and Ties | so-so | compelling, satisfyingly twisty, melodramatic | ||
| Medora | no | 91 | 100 | honest but not very emotionally involving. |
| 12-12-12 | no | 64 | 50 | doesn't do Sandy relief concert justice |
| Justin Bieber's Believe | no | 56 | 57 | glosses over any blemishes on the singer's reputation |
| Human Scale | no | 56 | 40 | may find yourself more inspired to take a snooze than a stroll. |
| Penguin King | no | 50 | neither entertaining nor educational | |
| Bridging the Gap | no | look at Vienna Boys' Choir is off-key | ||
| Speciesism: The Movie | no | more polarizing than persuasive. | ||
| Cooper & Hemingway | no | tries too hard, talks too much | ||
| animated | ||||
| Frozen | yes | 84 | 86 | *an icy blast of fun from the first snowflake |
| The Wind Rises | yes | 83 | 86 | a soaring swan song for Hayao Miyazaki |
| Billy and Buddy | yes | finds a balance between character and caricature. | ||
| O Apostolo | yes | *The tale of a cursed town is told … with great effect. | ||
| Walking With Dinosaurs | so-so | 26 | 18 | can't decide whether to inform or entertain |
| Free Birds | no | 19 | 15 | lays an egg |
| Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion | no | like designer nightmares of cutesiness gone mad | ||
| regular movies | ||||
| The Selfish Giant | yes | 96 | 92 | *a sobering slice of social realism |
| The Past | yes | 95 | 93 | *a potent, intricate, family drama |
| Dallas Buyers Club | yes | 94 | 100 | *beyond ordinary biography or overplayed tragedy |
| American Hustle | yes | 94 | 96 | *shakes things up in madcap style |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | yes | 93 | 94 | *doesn't miss a beat |
| Philomena | yes | 92 | 95 | Rocky start. Solid, dramatic story |
| The Great Beauty | yes | 92 | 90 | * luxuriously, seductively, stunningly cinematic |
| Nebraska | yes | 91 | 95 | *offers a rich reward along its journey |
| Her | yes | 91 | 93 | *disturbing our peace … with a vengeance. |
| Blue Is the Warmest Color | yes | 90 | 94 | beautiful and explicit |
| Hunger Games: Catching Fire | yes | 90 | 90 | *An effective piece of melodramatic popular entertainment |
| Il Futuro | yes | 87 | 100 | a peculiar strain of otherworldly viewing. |
| Finding Mr. Right | yes | 80 | a quest worth taking | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | yes | 76 | 69 | fascinating, revolting, outlandish, uproarious and exhausting |
| The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | yes | 74 | 68 | set afire by the scorching roar of a dragon. |
| Man of Tai Chi | yes | 71 | 71 | a refreshingly grounded, kinetic style |
| In the Name Of… | yes | 70 | an absorbing drama about religion, repression and sexuality | |
| One Chance | yes | 70 | Paul Potts' aria turn at stardom is relived | |
| Invisible Woman | yes | 69 | 84 | *Charles Dickens' secret affair with an actress |
| About Time | yes | 68 | 55 | Works despite its odd element of fantasy. |
| Sunlight Jr. | yes | 65 | 62 | portrays the bleak and bankrupt brilliantly |
| Lone Survivor | yes | 64 | 57 | the right war to fight and the right cast to fight it |
| Ender's Game | yes | 62 | 49 | captures the now in its futuristic tale |
| Bastards | yes | 61 | 57 | family, wealth, power and desire. |
| Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | yes | 55 | 48 | a familiar story worth experiencing again |
| Haunter | yes | 52 | 63 | hauntingly pierces layers of reality |
| Here Comes the Devil | yes | 50 | 67 | *delightfully creepy |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | yes | 47 | 42 | balances his earnest and comedic sensibilities |
| The Last Days on Mars | yes | 20 | 21 | *a taut, bloody thriller in the zombie genre tradition |
| Cold Turkey | yes | 14 | 25 | turkey, football and family secrets. |
| Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings | yes | drag queens who rise from the dead | ||
| Aftermath | yes | Brothers face Poland's dark history | ||
| 11 A.M. | yes | time-travel sci-fi tale from South Korea | ||
| The Great Passage | yes | shows the power of words to transform | ||
| Torn | so-so | 89 | 100 | Flawed, redeems itself at the end |
| Saving Mr. Banks | so-so | 81 | 75 | Emma Thompson is a ripsnorter |
| Anchorman 2 | so-so | 74 | 69 | the classy-or-not gags continue |
| The Motel Life | so-so | 72 | 79 | at times overdoes things. |
| Best Man Holiday | so-so | 67 | 58 | heartfelt but uneven effort |
| Thor: The Dark World | so-so | 65 | 40 | hammered by repetition |
| Labor Day | so-so | 61 | 63 | lovely, but weighed down by the past |
| Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | so-so | 61 | 52 | a little story and a little substance add to a movie |
| Last Vegas | so-so | 45 | 27 | roughly what you'd expect, or fear, but a little better. |
| Oldboy | so-so | 44 | 43 | Graphic brutality and twisted sexuality |
| Reaching for the Moon | so-so | 13 | gives way to by-the-numbers biopic | |
| Nosotros los Nobles | so-so | genuine performances and narrative beats the formula | ||
| The Broken Circle Breakdown | no | 79 | 76 | a tendency to throw everything at you but the kitchen sink |
| Go for Sisters | no | 70 | 47 | It's a plot that never takes hold, a mystery devoid of suspense. |
| August: Osage County | no | 69 | 67 | does nothing but disappoint |
| How I Live Now | no | 68 | 58 | suffers from a clash of material |
| Great Expectations | no | 66 | 74 | Rich, nevertheless under-delivers |
| Capital | no | 59 | 53 | forgets the bottom line — outrage |
| Sal | no | 50 | Sal Mineo: cultural hero or average guy? | |
| Wrong Cops | no | 50 | fails to amuse | |
| The Book Thief | no | 49 | 43 | robs the truth from an evil time |
| Black Nativity | no | 48 | 50 | earnest but clichéd Christmas tale |
| Big Sur | no | 42 | 44 | a hollow trip to nowheresville |
| A Case of You | no | 40 | 40 | has been bottled before |
| Homefront | no | 39 | 17 | more stylistic than hard-hitting |
| The Counselor | no | 35 | 19 | a bleak waste of A-list talent |
| Last Love | no | 35 | 11 | lacks any spark |
| Lost for Words | no | 33 | skips over bicultural conflicts but retains latent sexism. | |
| Charlie Countryman | no | 29 | 31 | Pulpy dross of surpassing dumbness |
| Grudge Match | no | 21 | 0 | can't land a KO |
| 47 Ronin | no | 12 | 0 | doesn't quite cut it as a samuri fantasy |
| Paris Countdown' | no | 11 | 20 | misses the mark of a French thriller |
| Caught in the Web | no | 11 | traps us in a moralizing melodrama | |
| Diana | no | 8 | 10 | Naomi Watts: extraordinary, 'Diana': flawed |
| I'm in Love With a Church Girl | no | 6 | 0 | preaches to the choir |
| Immigrant | no | awkwardly told | ||
| Sake Bomb | no | blustering didacticism bungles the timing of the jokes | ||
| Out Loud | no | could be toned down | ||
| The Falls: Testament of Love | no | an earnest slog | ||
| The Impaler | no | tries to keep it real but misses the mark | ||
| Jump | no | falls short in humorless adaptation of play | ||
| Hollywood Seagull | no | a modern-day mishmash of a Chekhov classic |