| LAT | RTMC | RTC | note: “~” = the film's name | |
| documentary | ||||
| India's Daughter | yes | 100 | 100 | traces atrocity that became a tipping point |
| Song of Lahore | yes | 100 | 100 | Pakistan's Sachal Jazz Ensemble beat the odds |
| Steve McQueen:The Man & Le Mans | yes | 98 | 100 | chronicles Steve McQueen's troubled auto-racing film |
| Heart of a Dog | yes | 98 | 94 | is an experimental marvel |
| Welcome to Leith | yes | 97 | 100 | about white supremacists, may be year's scariest movie |
| The Armor of Light | yes | 96 | 100 | Christian, anti-abortion but pro gun rights? |
| How to Change the World | yes | 95 | 100 | *shows how Greenpeace started with a bang and kept going |
| Hitchcock/Truffaut | yes | 95 | 95 | a revealing glimpse at filmmakers' summit |
| The Russian Woodpecker | yes | 95 | 88 | provocative, spooky and just a little nutty |
| The Pearl Button | yes | 94 | 88 | deftly relates harsh Chilean history |
| Janis: Little Girl Blue | yes | 91 | 94 | reveals what drove, and haunted, Janis Joplin |
| Censored Voices | yes | 89 | 100 | revisits 1967's Six Day War |
| Frame by Frame | yes | 89 | 83 | follows four Afghan photojournalists focused on the future |
| Killing Them Safely | yes | 89 | 80 | Think the Taser saves lives? |
| Tab Hunter Confidential | yes | 87 | 82 | Easygoing, enjoyable; accurately reflects its star |
| TransFatty | yes | 86 | 80 | rages against degenerative illness |
| Very Semi-Serious | yes | 83 | 88 | You don't have to be a New Yorker reader to enjoy |
| Bikes vs Cars | yes | 54 | 60 | shows how L.A., Copenhagen and other cities stack up |
| The Diplomat | yes | an ode to Richard Holbrooke from his son, David | ||
| Bolshoi Babylon | yes | exposes the beauty and darkness of the ballet company | ||
| Sembene! | yes | a candid portrait of the 'father of African cinema' | ||
| Imba Means Sing | yes | African children's joyful voices propel ~ | ||
| Coming Home's | so-so | 93 | 95 | moving reunion tale could skip the heavy music |
| Stink! | so-so | 89 | 100 | sometimes feels more like a long, angry blog post |
| Sweet Micky For President | so-so | 80 | Michel Martelly's unlikely path to the Haitian presidency | |
| Karski & the Lords of Humanity | so-so | a moving look at a Polish resistance fighter during WWII | ||
| The Barkley Marathons | so-so | tests the limits of racers — and viewers | ||
| Creeping Garden | no | 92 | 86 | covers slime mold with style instead of substance |
| What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy | no | 89 | 82 | eventually becomes an exercise in futility |
| Kingdom of Shadows | no | 80 | offers disparate views of drug war but no cohesive portrait | |
| A Ballerina's Tale | no | 73 | 67 | falls flat when it could have leaped |
| CodeGirl | no | 60 | lacks competitive drama | |
| Rock in the Red Zone | no | 60 | barely enough material here to fill one interesting "60 Minutes" segment | |
| Evidence of Harm | no | Manipulations veer dental risk documentary toward fiction | ||
| Tower to the People | no | a slog through Nikolai Tesla's dream | ||
| City Slickers Can't Stay With Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story | no | fails to dig too deep | ||
| Eating Happiness | no | sounds like a self-serious essay written by an ineloquent grade schooler | ||
| animated | ||||
| The Good Dinosaur | yes | 76 | 85 | *a wondrous, wacky Jurassic world for tykes |
| Moomins on the Riviera | yes | 70 | A pleasant if slow time had by all in | |
| Extraordinary Tales | yes | 61 | 83 | *animates 5 Poe stories in extraordinary ways |
| Boy and the Beast | yes | rise[es] above typical martial arts saga | ||
| The Peanuts Movie | so-so | 86 | 77 | gives little grief as it straddles old and new |
| Capture the Flag | no | never gets off the ground | ||
| regular movies | ||||
| Night Owls | yes | 100 | a nimble rom-com | |
| Brooklyn | yes | 98 | 100 | *emotionally rich immigrant's tale |
| Mustang | yes | 97 | 100 | *a moving portrait of Turkish sisters' fierce femininity |
| Army of Shadows | yes | 97 | 96 | *Bleak beauty of Jean-Pierre Melville's ~ revealed in full |
| Spotlight | yes | 96 | 98 | illuminates how the Boston Globe covered church sex scandal |
| Theeb | yes | 96 | 94 | winds tension and harsh beauty into a winning coming-of-age tale |
| The Wonders | yes | 95 | 85 | finds sweatness in unlikely places |
| Creed | yes | 94 | 91 | a fresh retelling of 'Rocky' has us in its corner |
| Sand Dollars | yes | 93 | 100 | Love doesn't come without entanglements |
| Carol | yes | 93 | 91 | belongs among the best movie love stories |
| Carol | yes | 93 | 91 | beautiful and thrilling; among the best movie love stories |
| Bone Tomahawk | yes | 88 | 100 | *Pokey, wry; cuts to the core of quirky horror westerns |
| Macbeth | yes | 80 | 75 | the acting soars and the violence blazes |
| A Royal Night Out | yes | 73 | 75 | a cutely madcap adventure |
| Youth | yes | 73 | 70 | Quixotic, idiosyncratic, effortlessly moving |
| Trumbo | yes | 70 | 73 | a timely tale of political paranoia and personal pain |
| Danish Girl | yes | 70 | 67 | Exquisitely acted intimacy in pulls you in |
| The Night Before | yes | 67 | 67 | *adds a little something extra to Christmas movies and midnight Masses |
| Krampus | yes | 65 | 30 | Christmas scares that are all in good fun |
| Nasty Baby | yes | 64 | 55 | When life takes a turn, it can be a ~ |
| MI-5 | yes | 62 | delivers quality British drama | |
| Criminal Activities | yes | 47 | 75 | has fun with its mob ties |
| Wannabe | yes | 38 | genuinely suspenseful | |
| Bare | yes | 33 | covers its stripper tale with a feminine sensibility | |
| Jem and the Holograms | yes | 19 | 19 | play with girl power spirit |
| Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | yes | 13 | 22 | still adds scares six films in |
| I Remember You | yes | dwells on fate and love after water rescue | ||
| Like You Mean It | yes | charts a delicate course | ||
| Lady in the Van | so-so | 93 | 91 | The translation from stage to film doesn't completely work |
| James White | so-so | 91 | 83 | worth experiencing despite a difficult, at times elliptical story |
| Entertainment | so-so | 79 | 86 | can rub the wrong way, but you can't help but look |
| Suffragette | so-so | 73 | 63 | overly earnest leanings |
| The Hallow | so-so | 72 | 89 | stirs evil spirits along with audiences |
| The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 | so-so | 70 | 64 | The Hunger Games deserved a better ending |
| Spectre | so-so | 64 | 67 | burnout hovers over latest Bond film |
| By the Sea | so-so | 31 | 25 | too little story, witty and self-aware |
| A Wonderful Cloud | so-so | works well in an L.A. full of oddballs | ||
| Mediterranea | no | 87 | 83 | glosses over context of 2010 race riot in Italy |
| Xenia | no | 85 | 100 | wanders down odd paths |
| Chi-Raq | no | 82 | 84 | Frustrating and wildly uneven |
| Flowers | no | 76 | 67 | arranges the mood but falls short on feeling |
| The Girl King | no | 75 | sterile production design lacking in authenticity | |
| Heneral Luna | no | 71 | 71 | wages an overtly biased campaign for Filipino hero |
| The Hunger Games Mockingjay -- Part 2 | no | 70 | 64 | deserved a better ending |
| Miss You Already | no | 68 | 57 | tries too hard |
| Looking Glass | no | 67 | sluggishly paced family drama | |
| The Funhouse Massacre | no | 63 | an aimless gorefest | |
| Legend | no | 61 | 48 | wastes a wild Tom Hardy in dual role |
| The Summer of Sangaile | no | 60 | 50 | gets lost in delicate package |
| I Smile Back | no | 53 | 52 | constructed almost entirely of empty clichés about suburban ennui |
| #Horror | no | 50 | 80 | works better as social satire than straight horror |
| Tokyo Tribe | no | 50 | 50 | uninspired violence and misogyny |
| Mi America | no | 50 | an epic crime drama with too many elements | |
| Uncle Nick | no | 50 | a leering Christmas tale | |
| Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse | no | 44 | 20 | Be prepared for the worst |
| Altered Minds | no | 43 | good mystery with sincere performances but shallow plot | |
| The 33 | no | 42 | 36 | the story of the trapped Chilean miners |
| Secret in Their Eyes | no | 42 | 28 | has a strong cast and a familiar formula |
| Love | no | 41 | 13 | fades into tedious voyeurism |
| Our Brand Is Crisis | no | 34 | 32 | pulls punches |
| Submerged | no | 29 | thriller sinks under weight of trying too hard | |
| Burnt | no | 28 | 11 | leaves a sour aftertaste |
| Victor Frankenstein | no | 26 | 16 | soulless |
| Condemned | no | 25 | has a bad virus not worth catching | |
| Every Thing Will Be Fine | no | 24 | 8 | boggy and foggy |
| Heist | no | 23 | 27 | also steals the audience's time |
| Lost in the Sun | no | 20 | veers off-course in a road saga spread too thin | |
| Sex, Death and Bowling | no | 20 | has too much on its mind | |
| Love the Coopers | no | 19 | 21 | messy and overdone |
| The Last Witch Hunter | no | 16 | 21 | Vin Diesel can't summon the magic |
| Asthma | no | 13 | sounds fine, but the filmmaking needs a breath of fresh air | |
| Rock the Kasbah | no | 8 | 3 | hits a wrong note, but Bill Murray charms |
| Christmas Eve | no | 0 | a big holiday letdown | |
| Missing Child | no | suffers from low budget and energy | ||
| Granny's House | no | feels stiff and stilted | ||
| Excess Flesh | no | an ugly overindulgence in misogyny | ||
| Dancin' It's On | no | stumbles on drama scenes | ||
| Landmine Goes Click | no | turns intriguing premise into hateful drag | ||
| Care of Footpath 2 | no | an exercise in excess | ||
| This Isn't Funny | no | lacks chemistry too | ||
| Wrecker | no | winds up as road kill next to classic 'Duel' | ||
| Joe's War | no | a simplistic look at a Marine's PTSD | ||
| Iraqi Odyssey | no | an unwieldy tale of his scattered family | ||
| Cold Deck | no | can't catch a break |