| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| The Battered Bastards of Baseball | yes | 100 | 100 | *recalls the Mavericks' glory days |
| Fifi Howls From Happiness | yes | 100 | 100 | ventures into artist's exile |
| Underwater Dreams | yes | 100 | *a group of Mexican-born students trump opponents from MIT | |
| Life Itself | yes | 97 | 100 | a moving examination of life of influential critic Roger Ebert |
| The Dog | yes | 95 | 100 | *entertainingly unravels a stranger-than-fiction existence |
| The Kill Team | yes | 88 | 80 | a concise account rogue U.S. soldiers involved in "sport" killings |
| To Be Takei | yes | 86 | 83 | a buoyant, engaging look at the life of the actor |
| Alive Inside | yes | 65 | 64 | a joyful look at music's key to unlock dementia |
| The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff | yes | brisk look at [his] extraordinary career | ||
| Whitey: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger | yes | disturbing on so many levels it's | ||
| Us and the Game Industry | yes | an otherwise accessible, engaging documentary | ||
| Mission Blue | yes | far more informative and impactful than "Deepsea Challenge 3D" | ||
| Deepsea Challenge 3D | so-so | 58 | 42 | the film seems to gloss over meaningful logistics of the expedition |
| The Fluffy Movie | so-so | 50 | 50 | better suited to a 90-minute cable TV slot than the big screen |
| Rich Hill | no | 83 | 82 | a poor perspective on teens mired in poverty |
| Beyond the Edge | no | 68 | 60 | about scaling Everest, fails to aim high |
| Captivated | no | 63 | revisits the Pamela Smart trial, to mixed results | |
| Finding Fela! | no | 61 | 53 | finds facts but not feelings |
| Video Games: The Movie | no | 18 | 29 | an insecure promotional tool instead of a documentary |
| America: Imagine the World Without Her | no | rebuts history of exploitation argument | ||
| No Cameras Allowed | no | little more than a superficially stylish, self-congratulatory tale | ||
| Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet of Eternity | no | doesn't do him justice | ||
| animated | ||||
| A Letter to Momo | yes | 68 | 64 | Physical beauty, fearless adventure, silly comedy and sensitive emotions |
| Planes: Fire & Rescue | yes | 44 | 48 | *fluid visuals and fast-moving action |
| Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods | yes | familiar look, slapstick comedy and over-the-top martial arts | ||
| Cheatin' | yes | *idiosyncratic, mature animation | ||
| Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja | yes | more visually spectacular and emotionally resonant than previous films | ||
| K Missing Kings | no | is an anime hot mess | ||
| regular movies | ||||
| Boyhood | yes | 99 | 100 | *an extraordinarily intimate portrait of a life unfolding |
| Love Is Strange | yes | 96 | 95 | and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired |
| Gabrielle | yes | 95 | 100 | From the love scenes to the frustrations, nothing is overplayed |
| Closed Curtain | yes | 92 | 93 | a cry for openness and art in Iran |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | yes | 92 | 88 | *Five Against the House ragtag bunch of misfits, rascals and rebels |
| Frank | yes | 91 | 90 | an offbeat dive through the looking glass of creativity |
| Venus in Fur | yes | 91 | 88 | *Roman Polanski knows the ropes |
| A Most Wanted Man | yes | 90 | 87 | *Taut |
| Siddharth | yes | 89 | 100 | an unsentimental portrait of poverty in contemporary India |
| Abuse of Weakness | yes | 88 | 90 | cool, oblique and fascinating |
| Calvary | yes | 88 | 85 | a serious-minded, lightly comedic rumination on life, death, etc. |
| The Empty Hours | yes | 83 | balmy, blissful | |
| Happy Christmas | yes | 79 | 65 | *scraggly, plenty of heart and much to enjoy |
| Land Ho! | yes | 76 | 76 | *you are very likely to feel a good deal better. |
| The Congress | yes | 76 | 53 | boasts a propulsive image-making pull |
| A Master Builder | yes | 73 | 67 | an odd little success |
| Road to Paloma | yes | 64 | 60 | An easy, enjoyable journey |
| May in the Summer | yes | 63 | 86 | an engaging look at a wedding quandary |
| Hercules | yes | 62 | 64 | *packs action-filled punch |
| Life of Crime | yes | 62 | 46 | true to mayhem and humor of Elmore Leonard |
| A Five Star Life | yes | 55 | 33 | gently explores what it means to be unmarried, middle-aged and female |
| War Story | yes | 47 | 56 | a survivor who may be purposely losing her self while pursuing her story |
| Le Chef | yes | 47 | 33 | *an amusing soufflé |
| The Calling | yes | 44 | 38 | an absorbing, solidly crafted procedural thriller |
| Beneath | yes | 40 | a taut, atmospheric thriller about the aftermath of a coal mine collapse | |
| Step Up All In | yes | 39 | 36 | the film has a muscled buoyancy and thrilling, joyful spectacles |
| Deliver Us From Evil | yes | 31 | 27 | thrills with Eric Bana's haunted cop |
| The Maid's Room | yes | 27 | 33 | a sly, satisfying thriller about class, status and violence |
| 4 Minute Mile | yes | 25 | 29 | a finely written and directed sports drama |
| Come Back to Me | yes | 20 | 20 | a sufficiently tense and eerie shocker |
| Are You Here | yes | 8 | 13 | a gentle buddy movie with charm |
| NightLights | yes | achieves something admirably genuine about caretaking | ||
| The Olivia Experiment | yes | turns the genre on its ear just enough to feel refreshingly original | ||
| Kundo: Age of the Rampant | so-so | 78 | 83 | Part political treatise, part spaghetti western, kicky audio-visual touches |
| The One I Love | so-so | 78 | 67 | like a rom-com served with a side of sci-fi |
| Jealousy | so-so | 68 | 88 | more atmospheric than involving |
| The Hundred-Foot Journey | so-so | 65 | 68 | a sweet and unapologetic fairy tale for adults |
| Mood Indigo | so-so | 60 | 57 | Wacky, surreal, insanely playful |
| Magic in the Moonlight | so-so | 53 | 47 | an amusing trifle and sugary truffle |
| Earth to Echo | so-so | 49 | 45 | an 'E.T.' knockoff, is pleasantly diverting |
| If I Stay | so-so | 41 | 35 | finds its footing amid miscalculations and awkward moments |
| Aftermath | so-so | 40 | 29 | a fairly involving, slow boil of a thriller that's as eerie as it is grim. |
| Child of God | so-so | 39 | 36 | fascinates like a song sung just out of tune |
| The Giver | so-so | 32 | 28 | takes on more action, but something's missing |
| Into the Storm | so-so | 20 | 21 | is a howling visual-effects success |
| The Admiral: Roaring Currents | so-so | a thrilling look at sea battle | ||
| Fort McCoy | so-so | uneven, if heartfelt | ||
| Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | no | 91 | 85 | have not quite matched the élan of the previous film |
| As It Is in Heaven | no | 80 | 71 | never as tense and gripping as it should be |
| Get on Up | no | 76 | 79 | reaches for high concept instead of getting down |
| What If | no | 71 | 69 | is a rom-com that tries too hard to charm |
| The Notebook | no | 69 | 67 | turns something with modern-day implications into distant allegory |
| Jamie Marks Is Dead | no | 62 | 67 | has a nagging pulse problem |
| Lucy | no | 61 | 62 | an action-packed waste of brain power |
| The Purge: Anarchy | no | 57 | 48 | ups the ante and the gore |
| Around the Block | no | 57 | warmed-over soup from the school cafeteria | |
| Coldwater | no | 53 | 29 | fails to tap into drama of youth reform centers |
| I Origins | no | 47 | 44 | looks polished, but story is out of focus |
| The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears | no | 47 | 44 | lacks ... the heart that separates a good film from a great one |
| About Alex | no | 46 | 29 | aims for 'Big Chill,' ends up a little lukewarm |
| Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | no | 43 | 21 | is a sinful waste of a sequel |
| Life After Beth | no | 42 | 41 | suffers a slow comedic death from repetition |
| Premature | no | 41 | 14 | a rapidly wearying comedy that mistakes crudeness with humor |
| Wish I Was Here | no | 40 | 36 | should have wished for insight |
| The Possession of Michael King | no | 36 | 50 | fails at found-footage fad |
| November Man | no | 36 | 38 | script undercuts Pierce Brosnan's performance |
| The Expendables 3 | no | 34 | 10 | Things go boom to ho-hum effect |
| As Above, So Below | no | 33 | 10 | leads to grade-Z horror clichés |
| Cabin Fever: Patient Zero | no | 28 | 17 | parallel stories of surpassing boredom |
| The Last of Robin Hood | no | 26 | 42 | the film's procedural pacing begins to overshadow the emotion |
| Tammy | no | 25 | 22 | not much fun, and talented Melissa McCarthy needs to wise up |
| Affluenza | no | 23 | 29 | tries for 'Great Gatsby,' comes up shortchanged |
| Jersey Shore Massacre | no | 20 | 17 | wallows in misogynist gore |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | no | 20 | 9 | a half-hearted shell game |
| Very Good Girls | no | 19 | 11 | little resonates as persuasive, let alone memorable |
| When the Game Stands Tall | no | 18 | 25 | disingenuous and patronizing |
| Sex Tape | no | 18 | 3 | lacks appeal, even with Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz |
| Ironclad: Battle for Blood | no | 17 | quenches hack-a-thon fans' thirst for blood | |
| And So It Goes | no | 16 | 10 | plays too cutesy with Douglas-Keaton match-up |
| Let's Be Cops | no | 15 | 13 | wastes a sharp comic premise |
| Rage | no | 15 | 8 | is just another tired Nicolas Cage action film |
| Jake Squared | no | 14 | 17 | Midlife crisis badly played out |
| Louder Than Words | no | 9 | 14 | good intentions and meandering filmmaking |
| After | no | 9 | could have used a lot more work before | |
| Septic Man | no | 7 | is as drearily gross as it sounds | |
| Among Ravens | no | 0 | has little to crow about | |
| Behaving Badly | no | 0 | a dreadful sex comedy that gets worse and worse | |
| Happiness on Earth | no | 0 | proves difficult to appreciate | |
| The Prince | no | 0 | appears more like a pauper in the thriller department | |
| Cinemanovels | no | falls short as homage to romantic melodramas | ||
| Girl on the Train | no | goes off the rails in film noir journey | ||
| Audrey | no | definitely not worth waiting for | ||
| Raw Cut | no | is more sitcom than thriller | ||
| 37: A Final Promise | no | comes off as a paranormal and schizophrenic take on a Lifetime movie | ||
| Found | no | has little redeeming value | ||
| The Word | no | doesn't work as well as it should | ||
| The Damned | no | an exercise in dumb moves | ||
| Cantinflas | no | You're left with that empty feeling of a surface barely scratched |