| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| Dancing in Jaffa | yes | 100 | 100 | doesn't force-feed its message of hope but genuinely earns it. |
| Vanishing Pearls | yes | 100 | shows fallout after Gulf disasters | |
| Next Goal Wins | yes | 100 | an irresistible underdog story — sports-fan credentials not required | |
| Jodorowsky's Dune | yes | 98 | 95 | *a fun retelling of the ill-fated adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic |
| Finding Vivian Maier | yes | 95 | 91 | *A secret life pulled into focus |
| Mistaken for Strangers | yes | 93 | 83 | a brother as roadie for his brother |
| Bears | yes | 90 | 86 | *doesn't sugarcoat the harsh reality and unforgiving elements |
| Watermark | yes | 81 | 82 | an immersive experience in global water use |
| The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden | yes | 75 | 64 | unveils a wild time on the islands |
| Anita | yes | 71 | 63 | revisits the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas drama |
| Bible Quiz | yes | an unpredictable pleasure | ||
| Island of Lemurs: Madagascar | so-so | 73 | 88 | the film feels padded |
| We Could Be King | so-so | carries the ball as far as it can | ||
| The Final Member | no | 90 | 83 | My dad has been collecting penises as long as I remember |
| Cesar's Last Fast | no | 67 | focuses on the myth, not the man | |
| Unclaimed | no | 60 | stilted voice-over narration | |
| Peter Brook: The Tightrope | no | 57 | 67 | stumbles |
| Farmland | no | 20 | 20 | comes off like lobbyist propaganda |
| Journey of a Female Comic | no | isn't a persuasive tour | ||
| animated | ||||
| Tiger & Bunny: The Rising | yes | *The film may herald a political wave for anime. | ||
| Rio 2 | so-so | 47 | 45 | Too much plot, … issues, … characters. But not too much music |
| Short Peace | so-so | uneven but often dazzling anthology feature | ||
| regular movies | ||||
| Ilo Ilo | yes | 100 | 100 | Heartfelt ... slowly builds a powerful emotional connection |
| Ida | yes | 97 | 95 | as potent and persuasive as its images are indelibly beautiful |
| A Birder's Guide to Everything | yes | 94 | 88 | more swan than ugly duckling |
| Afternoon of a Faun | yes | 91 | 92 | a graceful tale of ballet, loss |
| Locke | yes | 89 | 100 | *more involving than this year's more costly extravaganzas. |
| It Felt Like Love | yes | 89 | 89 | a fine study of a girl's coming of age |
| Alan Partridge | yes | 88 | 88 | delightfully back in spotlight he covets |
| Only Lovers Left Alive | yes | 87 | 91 | an elegant vampire love story |
| Under the Skin | yes | 86 | 71 | *an unsettling sci-fi fable |
| Last Passenger | yes | 83 | 86 | an engrossing, pulse-quickening journey |
| Joe | yes | 83 | 80 | *Nicolas Cage is back! |
| Kid Cannabis | yes | 83 | shows high and low life of a pot dealer | |
| On My Way | yes | 79 | 83 | Catherine Deneuve goes 'On My Way,' and it's an enjoyable ride |
| Muppets Most Wanted | yes | 78 | 69 | has fun with the fuzz vs. the fuzzy |
| Veronica Mars | yes | 77 | 61 | welcomes the old gang back for familiar fun |
| Noah | yes | 76 | 78 | *goes overboard — to riveting effect |
| The Machine | yes | 76 | 60 | *conjures a stylish sense of wonder, danger |
| The Raid 2 | yes | 75 | 77 | exciting, exquisite action — if you can handle the brutality. |
| The German Doctor | yes | 73 | 78 | a credible imagining of a period in Josef Mengele's South American exile |
| Oculus | yes | 72 | 61 | *delivers intelligently nasty scares |
| Enemy | yes | 71 | 70 | Tightly wound and agreeably strange |
| Bad Words | yes | 65 | 70 | *Dark humor, sarcasm and biting comedy punctuate |
| The Railway Man | yes | 65 | 53 | deftly deals with war's emotional trauma |
| Small Time | yes | 63 | 38 | has humor and heart big time. |
| Hank and Asha | yes | 59 | 60 | lovingly charm each other, and the audience |
| Proxy | yes | 58 | 43 | fascinating, unnerving and endlessly unpredictable thriller. |
| Fading Gigolo | yes | 55 | 61 | funny, touching |
| Breathe In | yes | 54 | 60 | Not every love should dare to speak its name, not even close. |
| Cuban Fury | yes | 52 | 47 | *sweet, quite amusing and even a tad inspiring. |
| Divergent | yes | 40 | 37 | an acceptable, play-it-safe version |
| Antboy | yes | 40 | gives superpowers to a 12-year-old boy | |
| Just a Sigh | yes | 30 | a bracingly romantic drama … a mature sense of passion and mystery. | |
| Transcendence | yes | 18 | 15 | *goes pleasingly against the genre grain. |
| The Right Kind of Wrong | yes | 12 | 40 | Predictable plotting is made fresh with a script with quirky humor |
| Haunted House 2 | yes | 9 | 23 | No-holds-barred humor is a powerful presence in |
| Honey | yes | takes nuanced approach to euthanasia | ||
| Jesus People | yes | Christian pop music in the style of 'Best in Show' and 'A Mighty Wind.' | ||
| Fray | yes | stands at, and deserves, attention | ||
| Bright Days Ahead | yes | an enjoyable and unfussy portrait of growing older and feeling younger | ||
| Blue Ruin | so-so | 93 | 88 | the tension settles in slowly [and] keeps you with it |
| Teenage | so-so | 83 | 92 | repetitive and oversimplified … has an aching, dreamlike pull |
| Grand Piano | so-so | 83 | 64 | an oddball thriller with interesting camera work |
| Rob the Mob | so-so | 77 | 75 | a humanist drama steeped in sentimentality-l |
| Draft Day | so-so | 62 | 58 | an earnest and way-contrived endeavor |
| Heaven Is for Real | so-so | 49 | 45 | is sincere to a fault, and the closer it gets to heaven, the more it wavers. |
| In the Blood | so-so | 44 | 25 | The gender reversal is welcome, the warmed-over ideas not so much. |
| Make Your Move | so-so | 43 | 33 | Korean pop music steps up despite the lifeless writing |
| Stay | so-so | 15 | 29 | [rises] rise above its terrible dialogue |
| Junk | so-so | Buddies' chemistry saves 'Junk' from comedy scrap heap | ||
| Falcon Song | so-so | spins a retro tale in ranch country | ||
| Hot Guys With Guns | so-so | isn't always smooth or funny or well-thought-out | ||
| Le Week-End | no | 90 | 85 | offers an unremittingly bleak 48 hours in Paris |
| Cheap Thrills | no | 88 | 79 | full of indecent, horrific proposals |
| Detonator | no | 80 | fails to ignite | |
| Belle | no | 79 | 74 | Gugu Mbatha-Raw rises above an overstuffed script |
| Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 | no | 77 | 72 | some odd combo of put-on and provocation |
| The Den | no | 73 | has little to say on snuff film industry | |
| Uwantme2killhim | no | 65 | gets tangled up in its own Web | |
| No God, No Master | no | 60 | 33 | Dreadfully earnest … in the manner of John Sayles at his preachiest |
| Nymphomaniac: Volume II | no | 57 | 43 | too much, but not enough |
| 13 Sins | no | 56 | 43 | doesn't quite cut it as a 'Saw' remake |
| Decoding Annie Parker | no | 55 | 67 | at times lurches between the two women's very separate lives. |
| The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | no | 54 | 36 | spins a tangled web |
| Hateship Loveship | no | 49 | 69 | founders on weak emotional center |
| Blood Ties | no | 47 | 25 | engaging but falls short as crime saga |
| Demon Within | no | 42 | 38 | could do without psychobabble |
| Cesar Chavez | no | 40 | 32 | captures only the shell of the complicated man |
| A Farewell to Fools | no | 40 | can't rise above a dim plot | |
| The Quiet Ones | no | 39 | 18 | frightfully loud and hokey |
| The M Word | no | 38 | 17 | gives menopause a bad name |
| Bad Johnson | no | 33 | 43 | a movie of our times ... not especially good, funny or interesting |
| Walking With the Enemy | no | 32 | 20 | WWII heavy-handed history |
| Perfect Sisters | no | 30 | 33 | Flawed [,but] at least has some good performances |
| Friended to Death | no | 30 | 20 | too silly to send up Facebook culture |
| Boys of Abu Ghraib | no | 30 | Too much is lacking … to make a strong statement. | |
| Alien Abduction | no | 29 | 40 | found footage … cheesy effect. |
| Brick Mansions | no | 29 | 32 | collapses into incoherence |
| The Other Woman | no | 25 | 25 | devolves and dumbs down its characters |
| Goodbye World | no | 25 | 0 | The apocalypse is no place for wimps. Whiners, on the other hand... |
| Mr. Jones | no | 25 | trades creepy for chaotic | |
| Need for Speed | no | 23 | 24 | Next to 'Fast & Furious,' 'Need for Speed' stalls out |
| Shirin in Love | no | 23 | 0 | A feeble story and cardboard characters |
| Better Living Through Chemistry | no | 22 | 14 | Suburban pharmacological comedy's plot fails to live up to its potential |
| Frankie & Alice | no | 21 | 25 | by-the-numbers melodrama |
| Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club | no | 17 | 17 | has all the hallmarks of a poor sitcom — flat, hackneyed, unbelievable |
| Locker 13 | no | 17 | mostly doesn't work | |
| Refuge | no | 17 | There's little to love about the torpid 'Refuge' | |
| McCanick | no | 15 | 0 | implausible, preposterous |
| Tasting Menu | no | 15 | 0 | too few tantalizing culinary visuals with paper-thin characters |
| Jinn | no | 13 | 20 | feels like one-half of an old grindhouse double bill |
| Walk of Shame | no | 13 | 11 | runs short on ideas |
| Dark House | no | 11 | bloody, contrived horrors go thud | |
| Authors Anonymous | no | 8 | 0 | The exhausted mockumentary … stumbles on its own amateur writing |
| Maladies | no | 7 | 0 | pretentious, tedious |
| Sparks | no | Lackluster 'Sparks' puts the comic-book movie on a budget | ||
| Tennessee Queer | no | Homophobic stereotypes fail to amuse | ||
| John Doe: Vigilante | no | is 'Dexter'-ish and weightless | ||
| Awakened | no | searches for answers but finds only cliches | ||
| Bad Country | no | macho-robbing mustaches and a silly wardrobe. | ||
| Go With Le Flo | no | or better yet, don't | ||
| Poseidon Rex | no | falls short of 'Sharknado' ambitions | ||
| Where We Started | no | doesn't really get going | ||
| Water & Power | no | falters from stage to film |