LAT	RTMC	RTC	note: “~” = the film's name
documentary
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice	yes	100	100	shines vital light on black athletes of the Berlin Games
Abortion: Stories Women Tell	yes	100	100	lets real voices rise above the polarized debate
Silicon Cowboys	yes	100	100	Fast-paced tech doc tracks '80s rise of Compaq Computers
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War	yes	100		Ken Burns crisply portrays an American couple's heroism
Germans and Jews	yes	100		looks at the price — paid and unpaid — of a country's reconciliation
Dream Is Destiny	yes	94	100	appreciates filmmaker Richard Linklater's creative process
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World	yes	94	86	Werner Herzog terrifies us about the future
Starving the Beast	yes	93	100	takes a hard look at the defunding of public universities
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life	yes	91		Disney's first black animator looks back
Author: The JT LeRoy Story	yes	81	75	*lets a hoaxster speak rivetingly in her own words
A Family Affair	yes	75		intimate, sometimes painful, the truth elusive
Dancer	yes	71		gracefully captures turmoil within Sergei Polunin
Ants on a Shrimp	yes	67		tastes much better than it sounds
Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA	yes			there’s value in the way [it] gives the victims of tragedy a voice
No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story	yes			revealed via her father's letters
Made in Venice	yes			an affectionate tribute to legendary ’80s street skater Jesse Martinez
Equal Means Equal	yes			Kamala Lopez makes a forceful argument for women
Black Women in Medicine	yes			profiles glass-ceiling-busting physicians
Huntwatch	yes			unflinching documentary re Seal hunting
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years	so-so	94	95	The music buoys ~
Miss Sharon Jones!	so-so	88	92	lluminating and often powerful, if not always satisfying,
When Two Worlds Collide	so-so	88	83	Corrupt capitalism meets violent protest
Citizen Soldier	so-so	86		back-and-forth structure [pulls] the viewer out of the intensity.
Kampai! For the Love of Sake	so-so	40		dives deep (maybe too deep) into sake
An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell	so-so			a tour through photographer Rosamond Purcell's work
Hillsong — Let Hope Rise	so-so			preaches to the choir and the curious alike
The Abolitionists	so-so			lacks the visceral gut-punch needed to fully resonate
Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil	no	50	50	proves a less-than-scintillating portrait.
animated
Kubo and the Two Strings	yes	96	94	*spins a wondrous stop-motion yarn
Sausage Party	yes	82	86	*Seth Rogen and friends serve up a filthy, funny ~
The Wild Life	so-so	13	19	is light on heart
The Little Prince	no	93	90	fails to soar
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	no	8	0	Wait for the actual videogame
Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon	no			feels earthbound
regular movies
Transpecos	yes	100	100	A Border Patrol drug bust goes awry
Ixcanul	yes	100	100	Tragedy bubbles to the surface of the vivid Guatemalan drama
Hell or High Water	yes	99	97	*When the banks steal from you, is it OK to rob them?
Little Men	yes	96	95	*zeros in on teen-spirit qualities
Heaven Nor Earth	yes	95	88	one of the more unusual and effective explorations of modern war
Spa Night	yes	94	100	impressive Koreatown drama
Demon	yes	94	89	*Evil spirits crash the wedding; funny-spooky
Morris From America	yes	93	100	delivers refreshing take on teen angst
Southside With You	yes	92	98	drops in on the cute beginning of a beautiful Obama partnership
Fatima	yes	89	86	An immigrant family struggles to communicate
Mia Madre	yes	88	82	A filmmaker juggles life and work
Downriver	yes	88		avoids simple links between sexuality and sin
Other People	yes	87	94	Tears and wry laughs fuel Chris Kelly's insightful ~
In Order of Disappearance	yes	87	75	bleakly funny Norwegian crime thriller
Don't Breathe	yes	86	94	Home-invasion thriller flexes its genre muscles
Pete's Dragon	yes	86	84	*old-school Disney in the best way possible
Blood Father	yes	83	100	Mel Gibson is back with a vengeance
Imperium	yes	83	87	Daniel Radcliffe goes undercover with white supremacists in crime thriller
Sully	yes	82	78	a crisp and electric retelling of the story of the landing
Embers	yes	79	69	keeps hope burning in a world suffering from memory loss
The Vessel	yes	77	83	a worthy vehicle
Bridget Jones's Baby	yes	77	73	proves to be v.v. satisfying
The People vs. Fritz Bauer	yes	76	67	brings a largely unknown Nazi hunter to light
Lace Crater	yes	75	57	scary, funny and sensual
Disorder	yes	74	77	Matthias Schoenaerts brings ferocious order to ~
My King	yes	74	75	wrestles passionately with complicated issues of attraction and love
London Road	yes	74	60	an arresting true-crime musical
Operation Avalanche	yes	70	59	a peppy mockumentary guide to faking an Apollo moon landing
The Tenth Man	yes	69	86	low-key, charming
White Girl	yes	68	70	Morgan Saylor chases the thrill of the moment; electrifying
A Tale of Love and Darkness	yes	63	64	Natalie Portman makes her directorial debut with the touching Israeli memoir
Zoom	yes	61	57	Live-action/animated hybrid is a playful narrative turducken
Greater	yes	58		an appealing underdog saga
Complete Unknown	yes	45	45	A chameleonic Rachel Weisz invigorates the twisty ~
The Hollars	yes	45	43	warm, funny and truthful
Sea of Trees	yes	8	7	a deeply reflective experience
Blood in the Water	yes			Crime looks gorgeous in the Hollywood Hills-set thriller
Kate Plays Christine	so-so	93	92	Blurring the line between fact and fiction
Front Cover	so-so	88	100	a handsome, if wobbly, gay rom-com
Kicks	so-so	82	67	its strengths and weaknesses make for intriguing bedfellows
I Am Not a Serial Killer	so-so	80	60	has an unexpectedly warm and fuzzy side
Finding Altamira	so-so	67	50	a well mounted if largely prosaic period drama
The Model	so-so	67		digs into the sexual-political economy of Paris fashion
The Light Between Oceans	so-so	61	64	Grace shines past the emotional manipulations
Edge of Winter	so-so	40	40	a serviceably chilling, if conventional, allure
Let's Be Evil	so-so			Admirably imaginative but frustratingly clunky
Sole Proprietor	so-so			has a distinctive vision
Einstein's God Model	so-so			remains an engaging mind-bender
Billionaire Ransom	so-so			Rich kids fight back in shaky thriller
Moments of Clarity	so-so			seems reverse engineered for shock value to feed its theme
Tunnel	no	100		not enough story to warrant more than two-hour running time
Sun Choke	no	89		never gets to the root of a young woman's troubled mind
Florence Foster Jenkins	no	87	92	screams out for a participation award
Joshy	no	78	78	you wish that the emotional catharsis would appear sooner
Brother Nature	no	67		run-of-the-mill
Klown Forever	no	67		Danish shock comedy sequel falls flat
Snowden	no	63	55	Failures of intelligence bring down Oliver Stone's ~
Antibirth	no	59	56	explores the horror beneath American drug culture
War Dogs	no	59	45	misses its target
The Mind's Eye	no	58	38	Retro horror flick is no ‘Stranger Things’
Anthropoid	no	56	54	too much of his film, though, feels more preserved than alive
For the Plasma	no	56	44	Kooky ~ loses direction and meaning
Morgan	no	44	48	plays like a poor woman's 'Ex Machina'
Hands of Stone	no	44	43	Lightweight boxing biopic hits the wall
Kickboxer: Vengeance	no	44	33	With Van Damme reduced to supporting role, lacks star power
The Fight Within	no	40		Christian MMA drama ~ hits the mat with a thud
The 9th Life of Louis Drax	no	38	27	doesn't survive the free-fall of obviousness
Blair Witch	no	36	20	Slicker, jumpier; casts a mostly derivative spell
Skiptrace	no	35	50	lacks ‘Rush Hour,’ ‘'Shanghai Noon' spark
Max Rose	no	33	19	Nothing will make the Jerry Lewis career-highlight reel
Cardboard Boxer	no	29		Gritty authenticity goes up against cloying pathos
Five Nights in Maine	no	28	27	Fine actors not enough to sustain grief drama
Ben-Hur	no	28	24	has little to offer besides chariot thrills
Suicide Squad	no	27	19	a team, and a movie, in search of a mission
Mechanic: Resurrection	no	22	22	action scenes click, but fast-forward the rest (when it hits video)
Yoga Hosers	no	21	8	It's all in the family for Kevin Smith's sloppy horror-comedy
Mr. Church	no	15	11	predictable
The People Garden	no	14		falls in the forest and doesn't make a sound (or much of anything else)
Ithaca	no	13	25	Stalwart cast labors earnestly in Meg Ryan-directed drama
The Good Neighbor	no	11		Go see "Don't Breath" again instead
Nine Lives	no	9	8	may drive you to drink
When the Bough Breaks	no	6	0	the cradle will … eh, it doesn't really matter in this retread thriller
The Disappointments Room	no	0	0	plays on female hysteria cliches
Amateur Night	no	0		a droopy comedy about an out-of-work expectant father
Spaceman	no	0		fails to capture the essence of baseball's Bill Lee
The Green Fairy	no			a groan-inducing fantasy nonfiction ode to absinthe
Happy Birthday	no			talks its sadistic head off
El Ganzo	no			a will-they-or-won’t-they confusion
This Last Lonely Place	no			L.A. mystery ~ undone by melodrama
Emily & Tim	no			romantic drama ~ remains forgettable
Never	no			Male-female friendship is muddied
In Search of the American Dream	no			both sincere and a clunker of an immigration drama
Natural Selection	no			Christian drama is no subtle offering
Game of Aces	no			WWI flier drama looks good, lacks romance
Tell Me How I Die	no			it will likely be from boredom
Summer of 8	no			Beach drama swims in shallow waters
Mrs. Stevens	no			A flat round trip drama flunks out
A Beautiful Now	no			suffers from a lack of cohesion and loses control
The Devil's Dolls	no			not bad enough to be fun