LAT	RTMC	RTC	note: “~” = the film's name
documentary
King Georges	yes	100	100	a poignant, funny overview of chef Perrier's Le Bec-Fin restaurant
Trapped	yes	100	100	a primer on increased regulation of U.S. abortion providers
Everything Is Copy	yes	100	100	is fitting tribute to the canny Nora Ephron
Notfilm	yes	100	100	a charming look at an unlikely Beckett-Keaton pairing
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures	yes	96	89	brings a complex artist into fine focus
Colliding Dreams	yes	94	100	explores Israel-Palestinian issue with eye on secular Zionism
The Last Man on the Moon	yes	93	87	a stellar look at astronaut Gene Cernan
Requiem for the American Dream	yes	91	89	Noam Chomsky takes on America's current messy state
City of Gold	yes	90	96	a grease-stained, loving portrait of The Times' Jonathan Gold
Thank You for Playing	yes	89	100	finds levity in the tragedy of cancer
Fastball	yes	89	82	catches poetry in motion chasing the game's speediest pitches
Havana Motor Club	yes	88		richly profiles Cuba's covert racing scene
Transfixed	yes	80		about a couple in transition
Sunday Ball	yes	80		captures the spirit of soccer and so much more
All the Time in the World	yes	75		follows a family's bid for an off-the-grid life
Becoming Mike Nichols	yes	70	80	charts director's creative arc
Rabin, the Last Day	yes	65	57	retells one of Israel's saddest stories
Rolling Papers	yes	64	73	shares the high times of Colorado's pot culture
The Brainwashing of My Dad	yes	58		The effects of talk radio and Fox News
Yalom's Cure	yes			is a meditative immersion into a leading psychologist's life
Look at Us Now, Mother!	yes			an involving exercise in parental indiscretion and over-examined lives
They'll Have to Kill Us First	so-so	100	100	underscores the courage of Mali's musicians
We Are Twisted ... Sister	so-so	86	80	imperfect but engaging
Mexico's Bravest Man	so-so			or not? This documentary makes it hard to tell.
Mad Tiger	no	71	67	looks at the odd Japanese indie punk band Peelander-Z
Catching the Sun	no	67		never stays in any one place long enough to make a sufficient impact
Crazy About Tiffany's	no	22		an ode to conspicuous consumption
Hot Water	no			takes a shaky look into uranium contamination
Natural Born Pranksters	no			just murdered prank-based humor
animated
Only Yesterday	yes	100	100	*a classic in Japanese animation, is a delicate beauty
Zootopia	yes	98	97	*quite simply a beastly good time at the movies
April and the Extraordinary World	yes	98	92	*strangely wonderful, wonderfully strange
Snowtime!	no	68	54	its snow fort collapse into a snowy mess
regular movies
Fireworks Wednesday	yes	100	100	male-female relationships & human complications
Embrace of the Serpent	yes	99	100	Worlds collide in the angry and poetic Colombian film
Krisha	yes	96	100	masterfully captures the emotional horror show of a family
Cemetery of Splendor	yes	96	94	*gently melds the everyday and the supernatural
Marguerite	yes	95	100	hits all the right notes, unlike the opera singer
Eye in the Sky	yes	95	97	*offers close-up, chilling look at moral quandaries posed by drone strikes
The Forbidden Room	yes	95	83	*thoughtful and silly at the same time
A Space Program	yes	92	100	is buoyed by the problem-solving spirit of galactic travel
Mei Rén Yú' (The Mermaid)	yes	91	89	big-hearted fun
Emelie	yes	91	88	parents may never hire another babysitter
The Witch	yes	91	87	*a horror film that unnerves frame by frightening frame
The Clan	yes	90	100	a shocking, and true, family tale
10 Cloverfield Lane	yes	90	90	*creates its suspense down the road from 'Cloverfield'
My Golden Days	yes	89	95	the pangs of first love are felt again
Casa Grande	yes	89		[its] message on class and race is blunt but on the mark
Everybody Wants Some!!	yes	88	93	bigger than it looks and deeper than it seems
The Confirmation	yes	88	91	wry, understated
The Invitation	yes	88	89	has a thrilling evening planned for you
Born to Be Blue	yes	88	85	a basic yet insightful Chet Baker story
They Look Like People	yes	88		it's the threat from within that terrifies most
Midnight Special	yes	84	85	*keeps us in the dark in the best of baffling ways
Sweet Bean	yes	83	80	offers tender lessons in life, love and, of course, food
The Wave	yes	79	85	*shows Hollywood how to make a disaster film with real thrills
Eddie the Eagle	yes	79	63	An unlikely run at the Olympics takes flight
Too Late	yes	71	83	a bold take on detective genre
Valley of Love	yes	70	83	a spiritual trip into Death Valley for French couple
Louder Than Bombs	yes	68	65	Family secrets explode
Automatic Hate	yes	67	80	the ties that bind are bitter and spiteful
Creative Control	yes	63	47	takes a well-aimed skewer at the New York hipster crowd
Rise of the Legend	yes	63		martial arts epic is a throwback that's a kick
Triple 9	yes	53	51	An elite cast and gritty direction lift the bad-cops tale
Bleak Street	yes	50	40	a grim but empathetic look at Mexico City's demimonde
Miracles From Heaven	yes	48	52	delivers a fact-based doozy
About Scout	yes	40		Team rebellion and survival tactics keep ~ intriguing
Jane Wants a Boyfriend	yes	29		A young woman with Asperger's looks for romance
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2	yes	28	28	squeezes you in a warm, familiar embrace
Kill Me, Deadly	yes			*takes a fun shot at a 1940s-style Hollywood mystery
Cloro	yes			a deep, beautifully modulated Italian coming-of-age tale
The Phoenix Incident	yes			mixes fact and sci-fi in a creative, bold alien abduction tale
The Dark Horse	so-so	95	100	frees you of the feeling you're watching one more adversity saga
Mountains May Depart	so-so	87	93	intimately engaged in the push-pull between tradition and progress
Pee-wee's Big Holiday	so-so	81	54	takes some wrong turns
Remember	so-so	71	48	Christopher Plummer is persuasive in thriller
Take Me to the River	so-so	70	67	an assured if oblique family psychodrama
Admiral	so-so	60		makes Netherlands' military history a Hollywood-style spectacle
Pandemic	so-so	46		proves serviceably frightening, if sporadically gory
Marguerite & Julien	so-so	29		as risky and provocative as its taboo subject matter
Batman v Superman	so-so	27	25	does go on too long and lingers more than it should
I Saw the Light	so-so	21	21	solid but not spectacular, a retelling of a sad story that never catches fire
Chongqing Hot Pot	so-so	13		like the city's spicy boiled dish: flavorful, but also just as common.
The Dog Wedding	so-so			Relentless quirks aside, ~ gets in some nice rom-com bites
Hard Labor	no	83		isn't very satisfying as a thriller
Standing Tall	no	81	80	isn't always dramatically satisfying
Road Games	no	80		tries for Hitchcockian, but it's really just an odd ride
Baskin	no	73	67	should be red meat to gorror-hounds
Miles Ahead	no	72	69	hits a few strange notes
Of Mind and Music	no	71		straightforward and plodding
High Strung	no	71		plays every cliché in the book
Darling	no	68	75	has its 'Shining' moments but is more moody than scary
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	no	68	55	Another foray into Afghanistan goes astray
Ava's Possessions	no	62		shows it can get tiresome playing with demons
Race	no	61	59	loses track of the real story behind 1936 Olympian Jesse Owens
1982	no	60		plays it way too cool
Jack of the Red Hearts	no	60		implausibly stacks the deck
Barney Thomson	no	57	80	takes too much off the top of a dark comedy
Sold	no	56	43	undersells the tragic power and depth of human trafficking of children
Hyena Road	no	52	67	Drama becomes a casualty because of its documentary format
Risen	no	52	56	vague spiritual truisms and hokey one-liners
Demolition	no	50	50	fails to stand up as an involving film
Young Messiah	no	50	14	lacks passion
Hardcore Henry	no	48	43	Wild, fast and out of control
One More Time	no	46	40	plays a simple tune
Knight of Cups	no	46	37	runneth over with gorgeous imagery and little else
Forsaken	no	43	42	a remedial western
The Final Project	no	43		Blatant rip-off shows why found footage has lost its way
They're Watching	no	40	50	has a good foundation but needs a rehab
The Brothers Grimsby	no	38	30	Sacha Baron Cohen pushes crude to new levels
Me Him Her	no	38	17	needs to relax ... now breathe
Mr. Right	no	37	47	Stop and think before you commit to ~
The Other Side of the Door	no	37	17	What's scary is its stereotypes
Ktown Cowboys	no	33		a clumsy, misguided tour of Koreatown
The Bronze	no	32	35	Melissa Rauch and team go for the gold but miss the mark
The Perfect Match	no	29	20	offers only surface appeal
Kill Your Friends	no	26	33	[a] chilly gleam of bad behavior and acrid humor
London Has Fallen	no	25	13	for angry conspiracy theorists, not so much for others
Camino	no	24		an otherwise D-grade B-movie survival-thriller
Backtrack	no	22	17	a high-class horror lacking in the thrills
Who's Driving Doug	no	20		a bumpy, cliche-filled trip to Vegas
The Boss	no	19	17	deserves a trip to HR and a pink slip
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny	no	18		lacks the magic of original
A Country Called Home	no	17		full of dull indie movie cliches
Rescue Dogs	no	17		so annoying, not even cute canines can save the day
Girl in the Photographs	no	16	29	fails to develop beyond a minor horror film
Gods of Egypt	no	12	12	So bad, the gods of ancient Rome, Greece and Babylon are ROTFL
Allegiant	no	12	0	strictly for devoted fans
The Preppie Connection	no	11	0	never fully clicks
Get a Job	no	5	9	doesn't work hard enough to seal the deal
Backgammon	no	0		wordy mind games win out over an artistic streak
Burning Bodhi	no			the focus on a friend shifts to all about 'me'
No Letting Go	no			suffers from a dearth of subtext
Someone Else	no			leaves its audience somewhat less than impressed
Stealing Cars	no			occasionally stalled
Daddy	no			It's hard to embrace this tale of a randy older guy and his affair
Temps	no			Man-child meets driven woman and sex ensues