LAT RTMC RTC note: “~” = the film's name
documentary



Rebels on Pointe yes 100 100 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
No Greater Love yes 100 100 powerfully documents soldiers' sacrifices
Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond … yes 100 100 *follows Carrey's deep dive into the mind of Kaufman
Everybody Knows … Elizabeth Murray yes 100 100 brings the artist's work boldly to life
Destination Unknown yes 100 100 records Holocaust survivors' emotional recall
Bill Nye: Science Guy yes 100 100 Smart and swift, informs and inspires
A River Below yes 100 100 reveals murkiness of best intentions
A Gray State yes 100 100 2015 death of Iraq war veteran and his family
Soufra yes 100
An uplifting refugee tale illuminates a bigger picture
Cuba and the Cameraman yes 100
Filmmaker forges bond over decades
Company Town yes 100
takes aim at factory owners in Arkansas
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story yes 97 100 *uncovers the secret life of a Hollywood glamour queen
Gilbert yes 94 100 reveals side of comic Gottfried you've likely never seen
The Rape of Recy Taylor yes 92 90 a somber, vital tribute to black women in the Jim Crow era
Wait for Your Laugh yes 92 88 *Rose Marie and her 90 years in show biz
Big Sonia yes 92 80 Nonagenarian Holocaust survivor delivers powerful life lesson
Intent to Destroy yes 91 83 examines Armenian genocide
The Final Year yes 82
gains emotional heft in the wake of the 2016 election
Frank Serpico yes 75 86 catches up with the truth-seeking New York cop
No Stone Unturned yes 75 29 the Irish Troubles in [this] angry true-crime doc
The Challenge yes 75
Qatari sheiks pursue passion for falconry
Along for the Ride yes 70 60 artfully goes 'Along for the Ride' with Dennis Hopper
The Dancer yes

portrays creativity and passion of Loïe Fuller
I Am Evidence yes

advocates for sexual assault victims
Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story yes

reveals a survivor's courage
Bunker77 yes

captures stranger-than-fiction life of bohemian surfer
Arthur Miller: Writer yes

draws a tender portrait of her father
Apache Warrior yes

chronicles 2003 air strike in Iraq with intensity
A German Life yes

Chilling account of looking the other way
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran yes

chronicles monarch's strange demise
Shadowman so-so 92 100 fizzy, interview-laden love letter
Voyeur so-so 78 70 fascinating and frustrating
What Happened in Vegas so-so

blows the whistle on local police
Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride! so-so

chronicles transgender woman's wild journey
Extraordinary Ordinary People so-so

clunky organization give way to something inspiring
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars so-so

Clapton exorcising personal demons
And the Winner Isn't so-so

diverting, oddly candid, often satirical
11/8/16 no 75 83 little more than a depiction of parallel roller coasters
The New Radical no 58 71 becomes increasingly sickening as we watch
Naples '44 no 57
haphazardly assembled in tone
From the Ground Up no

Vegan athlete doc lacks depth and focus
animated



The Breadwinner yes 93 93 *a striking and affecting animated film set in modern Kabul
Mary and the Witch's Flower yes 92
opens a world of visual enchantment
Coco so-so 96 93 sings a high-spirited but sometimes faltering tune
The Star no 44 33 [The] Nativity tale in unremarkable storytelling
Cinderella the Cat no

Violent sci-fi strays far from source
regular movies



Foxtrot yes 100 100 Israel's hottest export of the year and lives up to the hype
Mr. Roosevelt yes 100 100 Noël Wells proves you can go home again
Holy Air yes 100
provides [a] clever, melancholic take on religion and commerce
BPM (Beats Per Minute) yes 99 100 *salutes early '90s AIDS activism
Lady Bird yes 99 100 *a coming-of-age movie so real you won't believe it's fiction
Félicité yes 97 100 a gorgeous blur of chatter, movement and song
Most Beautiful Island yes 97 100 Ana Asensio is a triple threat in the haunting thriller
Aquarius yes 97 94 *tale of social and political decay is richly told
Call Me by Your Name yes 96 98 *a new coming-of-age classic
Mudbound yes 96 94 *Two Southern families bound by war and prejudice
The Light of the Moon yes 95 100 Fearless drama captures aftermath of sexual assault
1945 yes 94 100 unadorned parable the nature and consequences of evil
On the Beach at Night Alone yes 94 91 prickly, fascinating
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri yes 93 94 the nature of grief, revenge, violence and despair
Loveless yes 92 92 corrosive and hypnotic
The Shape of Water yes 92 91 *a wonder to behold; magical, thrilling and romantic to the core
The Disaster Artist yes 92 88 *a hilarious, heartening celebration of failure
A Fantastic Woman yes 90 100 *captivating transgender drama
The Other Side of Hope yes 90 90 *don't ask, just go with the flow
Princess Cyd yes 90 82 love and friendship in a Chicago summer
Song of Granite yes 87 83 Irish language and songs burn bright in moody ~
Blade of the Immortal yes 85 88 *Takashi Miike goes big with bloody action
The Divine Order yes 84 85 Swiss women get the vote (in 1971!)
Detroit yes 84 84 *searing, vital
My Friend Dahmer yes 82 83 *observes the damaged teenage pathology of a killer before he strikes
The Man Who Invented Christmas yes 80 72 *amusing patchwork of truths, half-truths and pure fiction
Hollow in the Land yes 75 80 has a winning similarity to 'Winter's Bone'
Last Flag Flying yes 74 73 *warm, ribald and elegiac
Angelica yes 70
*an alternately handsome and harrowing ghost stor
Bitch yes 67 43 riotous, unsettling, pitch-dark comedy-drama
Bullet Head yes 54 38 Adrien Brody and company power well-crafted
Justice League yes 40 24 *a seriously satisfying superhero movie
Badsville yes

Escape is the challenge in gritty crime drama
Heart Blackened yes

effectively pairs glitz and crime
Revolt yes

*delivers a swift, satisfying alien invasion
A Bad Idea Gone Wrong so-so 100
has funny moments amid many loose ends
Bad Match so-so 100
unleashes a fatal attraction for the Tinder set
I Remember You so-so 100
distinctive, if too reserved
Thelma so-so 92 96 takes an unsettling look at religion and sexuality
Thor: Ragnarok so-so 92 89 About halfway through, Thor gets a haircut
Wonder so-so 85 84 earnest message about kindness; After School Special flaws
Sweet Virginia so-so 77 82 dimly lighted and hushed to a fault
The Pirates of Somalia so-so 63
glib, overdone
Another WolfCop so-so 60
More genial Canadian vulgarity on tap in horror-comedy ~
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle so-so 57
overlong yet alluring
The Swindlers so-so 40
Who do you trust in slick Korean thriller ~
24 Hours to Live so-so 38 60 DOA meets John Wick; crisply photographed B-movie junk
Battlecreek so-so

Mixed performances set tone in Southern melodrama
I, Tonya no 89 89 her story is upstaged by the secondhand goombah shenanigans
Darkest Hour no 85 89 Gary Oldman's performance lifts Joe Wright's overwrought directing
Mayhem no 82 70 Bloody horror-comedy not to all tastes
The Price no 71 71 Wall Street striver drama tripped up by clichés
It Happened in L.A. no 67 57 Indie satire goes heavy on the misery
The Tribes of Palos Verdes no 65 43 Coastal fog smothers domestic drama
Kaleidoscope no 63 50 a bit too taken with its own muddling of facts and form
Maya Dardel no 62 43 succumbs to the pretentiousness it aims to subvert
Daisy Winters no 60
Would-be tearjerker tries too hard
Murder on the Orient Express no 57 50 Kenneth Branagh gives good Poirot, clumsy direction
LBJ no 54 48 lacks a distinctive voice
Love Beats Rhymes no 50 33 spins out clichés
Porto no 50 33 more heavy-handed than insightful
Kepler's Dream no 50
Family drama is strangely earthbound
Roman J. Israel, Esq. no 49 59 Denzel Washington's remarkable performance isn't helped by plot
Amanda & Jack Go Glamping no 40
rom com provides neither love nor laughs
Wonder Wheel no 30 29 a turn for the worse for Woody Allen
A Bad Moms Christmas no 29 15 Unwrapped, is an offense to women
Almost Friends no 29
Ill-timed, tone-deaf; gets romance all wrong
Cook Off! no 20
Stale mockumentary misses its mark
Destined no 20
Uninspired parallel lives drama falls on clichés
Daddy's Home 2 no 19 15 hits and misses while dashing through the gags
Psychopaths no 15
Genre auteur Mickey Keating slips with ponderous ~
Just Getting Started no 5 11 will have viewers audibly sighing, rather than laughing
Gangster Land no 0
goes soft on crime (and authenticity)
Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1 no

Visuals and ambition can't elevate ~
Art Show Bingo no

leaves a lot of empty squares
Attack of the Killer Donuts no

Horror-comedy lacks imagination
Bad Grandmas no

an excruciatingly flat, forced Southern-fried farce
Brotherhood of Blades II no

wuxia action dulled by story
Dark Meridian no

New Orleans crime thriller too twisty for its own good
Drawing Home no

Dutifully dull romance trods beautiful but bumpy road
Oasis no

serves as little more than a Panamanian travelogue
Remember Me no

Rita Moreno is memorable. Otherwise ...
Repatriation no

Returning vet drama plods into dizzying banality
Slumber no

Routine thriller boasts Maggie Q, but little else
The Doll no

Human Barbie can't save from its own incompetent horror