LAT	RTMC	RTC	note: “~” = the film's name
documentary
The Ruins of Lifta	yes	100	100	an abandoned Palestinian village, painful marker for Arabs and Jews
The Uncondemned	yes	100	100	The not-so-hidden atrocities of war get their day in court
Off the Rails	yes	100	100	a life devoted to, and imprisoned by, a mass-transit obsession
National Bird	yes	100	100	powerful cinematic journalism
Peter and the Farm	yes	100	100	The vision is one of pastoral agony
One More Time With Feeling	yes	100	100	Tragedy hovers over
Disturbing the Peace	yes	100		a vital, absorbing documentary
The Anthropologist	yes	100		looks at mothers and daughters, culture and climate change
Finding Babel	yes	100		search for the legacy of one of the Soviet Union's greatest writers
Seasons	yes	95	91	a visually dazzling journey into the animal kingdom
Gimme Danger	yes	94	96	*Director Jim Jarmusch lets Iggy Pop let it rip
Fire at Sea	yes	94	93	a harrowing look at the horrors of the international refugee crisis
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened	yes	93	100	chronicles the rare Stephen Sondheim flop
Notes on Blindness	yes	93	83	powerful insight on emotion, spirituality, life and disability
The Eagle Huntress	yes	92	88	a heartwarming, intimate story of gender rebellion
Into the Inferno	yes	90	90	Werner Herzog risked his life for the thrilling volcano documentary
Blood on the Mountain	yes	89	100	a fortuitous exploration of industrial wrath
The Ivory Game	yes	89	78	sounding the alarm of dire emergency
All Governments Lie	yes	89		takes mainstream media to task
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing	yes	88	80	expertly reconstructs the terror attacks of April 15, 2013
On the Map	yes	88	80	the basketball contest that gave Israel a sense of national pride
Oasis: Supersonic	yes	82	92	Gallagher brothers rock and brawl
Magnus	yes	81		The loneliness of the long-distance chess grandmaster
Mifune: The Last Samurai	yes	79	88	sheds light on the legendary Japanese actor
By Sidney Lumet	yes	73	80	A late American master speaks anew in
A Billion Lives	yes	40		Pro-vaping documentary makes a compelling case
USS Indianapolis: The Legacy	yes			the remarkable story of a naval tragedy and its survivors
Don’t Look Down	yes			enjoyable, if oddly non-propulsive
Ivory. A Crime Story	yes			he lawless hunt for elephant ivory
Iron Moon	yes			illuminated by poetry of Chinese working class
Ice Guardians	yes			makes the case for hockey’s enforcers
This Is Life	yes			doctors and staff working hard to do right for their patients
Solitary	yes			chillingly looks at life at a supermax prison
An Eye for an Eye	so-so	80		the rehabilitative power of forgiveness
Apparition Hill	so-so			A varied group searches for spiritual answers
The Trans List	so-so			ersonal history, struggle and liberation
Asperger’s Are Us	so-so			puns or off-kilter humor
Rooted in Peace	so-so			its own roots never go quite as deep as they might
Rigged 2016	no			an hour-long campaign ad for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson
Beauty Bites Beast	no			tries to bolster its case with silly comic-strip animation, et al
Behind Bayonets and Barbed Wire	no			attempts to re-create the horrors of the Bataan Death March
Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria	no			[needs] a more focused approach to its central story
Behind 'The Cove'	no			falls short of the mark
animated
Moana	yes	95	98	*sweet relief to audiences looking for an escape from everyday reality
The Red Turtle	yes	90	100	*a wonderful, wordless animated marvel
Trolls	so-so	76	64	Delirious animated musical, both craven and charismatic
regular movies
Things to Come	yes	100	100	quietly wonderful
Esteros	yes	100		Young men revisit friendship, sexuality
Manchester by the Sea	yes	97	100	Powerful, emotional filmmaking that leaves a scar
Little Sister	yes	95	100	Nun-in-training returns home
The Love Witch	yes	95	86	recalls '70s sexploitation
The Edge of Seventeen	yes	94	95	winning coming-of-age dramedy
Arrival	yes	94	90	*deeply human, expertly realized science fiction
Baden Baden	yes	94		delightfully off-center
Hunter Gatherer	yes	92	100	a warmly eccentric little indie
Always Shine	yes	91	82	sharp vacation thriller
Doctor Strange	yes	90	85	*trippy, transporting
Loving	yes	89	93	a husband and wife who made history because their love was a crime
Elle	yes	89	87	masterful rape-revenge thriller
Lion	yes	86	82	over-dramatization impossible to mess it up
The Founder	yes	79	67	reveals the face of American greed
Evolution	yes	78	92	*The opposite of nurture on display in creepy French horror fantasy
The Monster	yes	78	82	nifty little freakout of a third feature
A Street Cat Named Bob	yes	76	88	a rewardingly unassuming, tough and tender portrait
The Eyes of My Mother	yes	76	76	*a lyrical, grisly horror film that upends expectations
Nocturnal Animals	yes	71	58	skillful meta-thriller revisits a broken marriage
No Pay, Nudity	yes	71		melancholic comedy
Miss Sloane	yes	68	68	timely political melodrama
Come and Find Me	yes	67	40	is worth tracking down
Dreamland	yes	63	100	Musician finds benefactor
Allied	yes	61	55	old-fashioned glamour spy thriller
Lazy Eye	yes	50	67	gay ex lovers unite again
Almost Christmas	yes	49	43	encompasses every holiday high, low and in-between
The Windmill	yes	44		classes up the horror genre
I Was a Teenage Wereskunk	yes			gleefully reanimates the monster and teen flicks of the past
Fell, Jumped or Pushed	yes			captures delirium of indie filmmaking
Keep in Touch	yes			explores the far-reaching tentacles of grief
Anne Frank: Then and Now	yes			brings the story to Palestinian teens
Nobody Walks in L.A	yes			a glossy, intoxicating advertisement for the City of Angels
Goldbricks in Bloom	yes			Takes on the complicated relationship between art and commerce
Evan's Crime	yes			an effectively scrappy and involving us-against-them drama
Fools	yes			weaves a romantic fantasy world for two troubled strangers
77 Minutes	yes			a gritty immersion into grim criminal territory
Earthquake	yes			1988 Armenian tragedy plays out
Am Not Madame Bovary	so-so	88	89	compelling enough to overcome the stylistic overkill
Hacksaw Ridge	so-so	87	93	[a] mightily impressive, morally incoherent spectacle
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	so-so	74	71	casts a faltering spell
Bleed for This	so-so	71	81	is all over the place
Rainbow Time	so-so	62	50	pushes the "comedy of awkwardness” to uncomfortable new levels
The Duelist	so-so	46	40	may miss the mark, but it's dazzling to watch
Pet	so-so	45	60	tweaks captive-captor conventions
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	so-so	45	43	moving, muddled Iraq War soldier's story
Dog Eat Dog	so-so	43	31	wacky, never boring
Army of One	so-so	27		noisy, busy and not that funny, but ...
Mr. Donkey	so-so			broad yet insightful
Shangri-La Suite	so-so			emulates ’70s indie cinema with style and affection — to a fault
The Shelter	so-so			has grand ambitions for a B-movie
CRD	so-so			Indian film ~ both baffling and enchanting
Don’t Call Me Son	so-so			a manifesto for identity liberation or a soap opera
Po	so-so			could have used a subtler, less didactic approach
SiREN	no	75	60	a bachelor party goes oh, so wrong
Trash Fire	no	67	43	Irredeemable characters plague horror-comedy ~
Rules Don't Apply	no	56	63	never takes off
Sky on Fire	no	50		Hong Kong action auteur Ringo Lam returns
The Take	no	46	22	routine action-thriller
King Cobra	no	43	33	doesn’t add up to either pulpy trash or exposé
New Life	no	40		rarely explores the depths of love and adversity
Ali and Nino	no	40		simplistic, airless World War I romance
The Pickle Recipe	no	33	33	whips up sour humor
Bad Santa 2	no	24	15	relies entirely too much on the naughty parts
Inferno	no	20	19	Tom Hanks seems lost inside the scenic treasure-hunt thriller
Tank 432	no	20		Horror and war without much payoff
The Comedian	no	17	0	Robert De Niro amuses, but the movie doesn't kill
Incarnate	no	16	17	takes a little too long to get to its chills
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage	no	9	14	Stilted, unfocused
Shut In	no	3	0	boasts Naomi Watts, comfy sweaters and little else
The Unspoken	no	0	0	it sure is loud (and not very scary)
Life on the Line	no	0	0	salutes the folks who risk injury every day to keep our power flowing
My Dead Boyfriend	no	0		No life or laughs to the dated comedy ~
Run the Tide	no	0		this dreary film is no place for likable Taylor Lautner
Chief Zabu	no			falls flat, even with a politically ambitious N.Y. developer
Jack’s Apocalypse	no			unable to convey any realistic stakes or authenticity in its story line
The Charnel House	no			fails to muster much horror
The David Dance	no			can't escape its outdated stage roots
Hara Kiri	no			Dull nihilists drag down experimental drama
The Drama Club	no			a crassly unpleasant ensemble piece
Love Is All You Need?	no			overreaches in attempt to inverse hate
Adrift	no			comes across as fragmented and overwrought
Pocket Listing	no			can't make the sale with its strange design and poor taste
Anonymous	no			Beneath the shiny facade, nothing but emptiness