| LAT | RTMC | RTC | note: “~” = the film's name | |
| documentary | ||||
| Timbuktu | yes | 99 | 97 | a compelling exploration of extremism's absurdities |
| Red Army | yes | 97 | 100 | a winning look at Soviet-era's storied ice hockey team |
| The Search for General Tso | yes | 94 | 100 | ample time to grab a bite afterward |
| Remote Area Medical | yes | 85 | 88 | shows real faces behind healthcare woes |
| Above and Beyond | yes | 80 | 83 | soars with true adventure |
| The Barefoot Artist | yes | 67 | poignant look at transformative artist Lily Yeh | |
| A Small Section of the World | yes | 40 | an inspiring coffee workers doc | |
| Mad as Hell | yes | 30 | 20 | documents wild trajectory of pundit Cenk Uygur |
| Alumbrones | no | 80 | about Cuban artists, fails to see big picture | |
| Backstreet Boys | no | 67 | 50 | touts band's resilience, has little insight |
| Inside the Mind of Leonardo | no | 25 | 0 | tours Italy, not Da Vinci's head |
| Manny | no | 20 | takes a lightweight look at Manny Pacquiao's rise | |
| Poverty Inc. | no | exhaustive and exhausting | ||
| ¿Es el Chapo? | no | delivers conspiracy theories but little else | ||
| The Touch of an Angel | no | excessive music, poorly filmed re-creations, et al | ||
| The Principle | no | Copernicus, shmernicus! | ||
| animated | ||||
| The King and the Mockingbird | yes | 100 | 100 | *a very French, playful tale |
| Song of the Sea | yes | 96 | 91 | *a masterwork by director Tomm Moore |
| Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast | yes | *a fun adventure | ||
| regular movies | ||||
| The Circle | yes | 100 | 100 | a richly absorbing docudrama about Swiss gay couple |
| Uzumasa Limelight | yes | 100 | offers a loving tribute to samurai films | |
| Selma | yes | 99 | 100 | *a powerful telling of the MLK story |
| Leviathan | yes | 99 | 100 | bleak Russia's soul |
| Paddington | yes | 98 | 100 | *Artful, clever, materializes brilliantly on screen |
| Two Days, One Night | yes | 97 | 100 | *has Marion Cotillard at her best |
| Mr. Turner | yes | 97 | 95 | *[a] portrait of British artist J.M.W. Turner |
| The Duke of Burgundy | yes | 93 | 90 | *a mesmerizing sexual thriller |
| Girlhood | yes | 92 | 94 | celebrates power and passion of sisterhood |
| Wild | yes | 91 | 95 | takes Reese Witherspoon into raw, bracing new territory |
| The Imitation Game | yes | 90 | 90 | *smartly entertaining |
| A Most Violent Year | yes | 90 | 86 | the most welcome kind of throwback |
| Still Alice | yes | 88 | 91 | powerfully presents a mind falling to Alzheimer's |
| Winter Sleep | yes | 88 | 89 | *haunting portrait of one man's crumbling world |
| Goodbye to Language 3D | yes | 86 | 81 | *speaks to a new way of seeing cinema |
| Killers | yes | 86 | 67 | skillfully handle the moral complexity of the script |
| Zero Motivation | yes | 83 | 73 | *Satiric, surreal, unexpected and at times wildly funny |
| Black Sea | yes | 82 | 80 | *a fittingly immersive submarine thriller |
| Human Capital | yes | 81 | 65 | a sharp view of economic divide |
| Predestination | yes | 80 | 78 | *an unpredictable thrill ride |
| Beloved Sisters | yes | 76 | 59 | a captivating period tale of forbidden love |
| American Sniper | yes | 73 | 83 | goes above and beyond war-hero tradition |
| Into the Woods | yes | 71 | 85 | spooky, thoughtful, delightful |
| Against the Sun | yes | 63 | admirable but destined to be overshadowed | |
| Ode to My Father | yes | 60 | 60 | expertly mines human drama |
| Suburban Gothic | yes | 56 | *fun cast helps bring it back from the dead | |
| Spare Parts | yes | 54 | 54 | *cobbles together a crowd-pleaser |
| Pioneer | yes | 51 | 50 | plumbs murky depths of a scary diving challenge |
| The Humbling | yes | 50 | 60 | shaggy, darkly comic and deeply eccentric |
| Cake | yes | 47 | 48 | J. Aniston has never looked worse or been better |
| Poker Night | yes | 44 | deals a poor hand with few high cards | |
| Lovesick | yes | 40 | script and star give romantic comedy a boost | |
| Black or White | yes | 38 | 40 | we're grateful for the chances [it] takes |
| Blackhat | yes | 34 | 30 | the satisfactions of ~ are surprisingly old school |
| The Devil's Violinist | yes | 27 | 20 | *a seductive take on Paganini as rock star |
| We'll Never Have Paris | yes | 22 | 14 | fun, quirky romantic comedy |
| The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | yes | 22 | 13 | chilling creep show |
| Free the Nipple | yes | 18 | 40 | a provocative take on real-life movement |
| Supremacy | yes | 13 | Aryan home-invasion drama | |
| Anything for Alice | yes | no need to divert from the dog-eared romantic-comedy playbook | ||
| Ask Me Anything | yes | answers teen questions deftly | ||
| PK | yes | a radical film in extraterrestrial guise | ||
| Diving Normal | yes | explores deep emotional waters | ||
| Gangs of Wasseypur | yes | manages its sprawling story lines deftly | ||
| Pelo Malo | yes | a strong, moving, mother and son drama from Venezuela | ||
| Buen Dia | yes | a warm and enjoyable cross-cultural fairy tale | ||
| Appropriate Behavior | so-so | 98 | 91 | an uneven but fun dating adventure |
| The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | so-so | 79 | 74 | ventures ashore with mixed results |
| Amira & Sam | so-so | 74 | 67 | post-military life, immigration, free-market capitalism, oh my |
| The Voices | so-so | 73 | 53 | speaks, albeit weakly, to fans of serial-killer films |
| Unbroken | so-so | 50 | 63 | Jolie chooses agony over redemption |
| Loitering With Intent | so-so | 30 | 11 | is often amusing but aimless |
| Love, Rosie | so-so | 21 | 8 | flashes some charm amid a flimsy rom-com tale |
| Mortdecai | so-so | 13 | 18 | mostly hits its madcap mark with zany Johnny Depp |
| Outcast | so-so | 7 | 0 | visually arresting, smartly paced, well-edited, unremarkable |
| Two-Bit Waltz | so-so | stumbles, but with charm | ||
| Druid Peak | so-so | an environmentally conscious if overlong redemptive coming-of-age drama | ||
| Mommy | no | 91 | 86 | showers audiences with excessive emotion |
| R100 | no | 82 | 75 | S&M-themed ... meant to be funny? |
| Match | no | 76 | 67 | Patrick Stewart is great, but plot doesn't quite 'Match' him |
| World Made Straight | no | 71 | 70 | feels more manufactured than organic |
| Big Eyes | no | 70 | 65 | feels too paint-by-numbers |
| Preservation | no | 70 | Hunters become the hunted in uneven thriller | |
| Three Night Stand | no | 67 | a messy tale of relationships gone awry | |
| Life Partners | no | 62 | 67 | Lightweight[. It] depicts ups and downs of BFFs |
| Goodbye to All That | no | 60 | 60 | Flat. Stagnant. |
| The Taking of Tiger Mountain | no | 60 | 50 | without a trace of subtlety or ambiguity |
| Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | no | 60 | 49 | too often overwhelms |
| Son of a Gun | no | 59 | 27 | misfires |
| Little Accidents | no | 52 | 42 | the dialogue stays too close to the surface |
| Archaeology of a Woman | no | 50 | A futile search for effective storyline and pacing | |
| Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | no | 49 | 52 | trilogy comes to an end |
| Miss Julie | no | 48 | 38 | too faithful to Strindberg play |
| Aftermath | no | 47 | 38 | *intrigues ... a twisty, fast-paced thriller |
| The Gambler | no | 46 | 35 | comes up short by failing to go all in |
| Comet | no | 45 | 13 | mostly fizzles |
| Song One | no | 36 | 37 | neo-folk-tingedis, tiresome in its preciousness |
| After the Fall | no | 36 | 33 | drifts by on a 'Breaking Bad' motif |
| Project Almanac | no | 35 | 30 | a leap back in time, not forward |
| Before I Disappear | no | 35 | 11 | plumped up with empty calories |
| Murder of a Cat | no | 33 | 33 | can't scratch up enough laughs or interest |
| The Wedding Ringer | no | 28 | 30 | Kevin Hart-Josh Gad chemistry not enough |
| Annie | no | 28 | 18 | without the expected sunshine, spirit or energy |
| Wild Card | no | 28 | 17 | draws an, oh, so predictable hand |
| Dark Summer | no | 28 | 0 | gets dimmer as it goes on |
| The Captive | no | 27 | 0 | baroque, ludicrous |
| Black November | no | 25 | 33 | Well-intentioned ... tends to overreach |
| Jupiter Ascending | no | 25 | 19 | cool worlds sink on Wachowskis' weak plot |
| Let's Kill Ward's Wife | no | 20 | casual charms and deft timing of its appealing cast until the midpoint | |
| Alien Outpost | no | 18 | 0 | plays out like a video game |
| Americons | no | 14 | about predatory lending, piles on the filler | |
| Seventh Son | no | 13 | 12 | medieval fantasy falls flat on every level |
| The Loft | no | 13 | 9 | So bad it's ... just bad |
| The Boy Next Door | no | 11 | 13 | J.Lo January junk |
| Taken 3 | no | 10 | 14 | Liam Neeson fires up action, and unintended laughs |
| Dying of the Light | no | 8 | 14 | Prosaic, not poetic |
| The Pyramid | no | 6 | 10 | without a point: Horror flick disappoints |
| Vice | no | 4 | 0 | a cheap, unimaginative version of 'Blade Runner' |
| Life of an Actress: The Musical | no | 0 | It's that obvious and embarrassingly earnest | |
| Panic 5 Bravo | no | an amateur outing on the border | ||
| By the Gun | no | Mob movie ... misses its mark | ||
| Two Hundred Thousand Dirty | no | a low-budget, no-chemistry affair | ||
| The Historian | no | Perfunctory. Has a lot to learn | ||
| Pretty Rosebud | no | a thorny, cliched Asian American tale | ||
| Phoenix Project | no | fails to rise | ||
| Plato's Reality Machine | no | spins unsatisfying vignettes | ||
| Pass the Light | no | could use a less-shiny lead character | ||
| One Small Hitch | no | an overly familiar rom-com |