|
LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
note: “~” = the film's name |
documentary |
|
|
|
|
Pick of the Litter |
yes |
100 |
100 |
a complete delight, a much-needed balm for the soul |
Inventing Tomorrow |
yes |
100 |
100 |
it’s their futures you want them to win |
Free Solo |
yes |
100 |
100 |
El Capitan with no ropes |
Susanne Bartsch: On Top |
yes |
100 |
|
persuasive canonization |
Letter From Masanjia |
yes |
100 |
|
human suffering, compassion and perseverance |
Science Fair |
yes |
98 |
10 |
It’s showtime for smarties |
Hale County This Morning, This Evening |
yes |
95 |
100 |
involving visual symphony |
Bisbee '17 |
yes |
95 |
94 |
impressive in its scale and sweep |
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable |
yes |
93 |
100 |
a fine exploration of the artist |
Hal |
yes |
91 |
82 |
lively and evocative |
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco |
yes |
88 |
|
A warm remembrance |
Love, Gilda |
yes |
87 |
83 |
*a stirring valentine |
Kusama — Infinity |
yes |
84 |
100 |
A mesmerizing work of art |
Active Measures |
yes |
83 |
86 |
[a] thorough, chilling rabbit-hole inquiry |
Reversing Roe |
yes |
83 |
|
timely |
Quincy |
yes |
78 |
70 |
loving and yet surprisingly clear-eyed |
Fahrenheit 11/9 |
yes |
77 |
70 |
*channels outrage in a messy, powerful way |
The Sentence |
yes |
|
|
A family torn apart |
Studio 54 |
yes |
|
|
immersive and entertaining |
Moynihan |
yes |
|
|
unusually detailed and thoughtful |
Living in the Future's Past |
yes |
|
|
Climate change as a cultural problem |
Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow |
yes |
|
|
a slick, engrossing sizzle reel of the agency's triumphs |
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection |
so-so |
88 |
89 |
at times risks being too pleased with itself |
Chasing the Win |
so-so |
|
|
lags a bit in the backstretch |
animated |
|
|
|
|
Smallfoot |
so-so |
73 |
67 |
clever twist on the Yeti myth works well |
regular |
|
|
|
|
Tea With the Dames |
yes |
100 |
100 |
*Candid, insightful and unpredictable |
I Am Not a Witch |
yes |
97 |
100 |
*audacious satire of modern Africa is deeply involving |
The Hate U Give |
yes |
96 |
94 |
*A girl changed by 'Hate' |
Private Life |
yes |
95 |
96 |
*a brilliantly agonizing peek into fertility woes |
Mandy |
yes |
94 |
95 |
*visionary revenge thriller |
The Kindergarten Teacher |
yes |
91 |
|
*deft and intelligent minor-key variation |
A Star Is Born |
yes |
90 |
96 |
*Passionate, emotional and fearless; gangbusters |
Old Man & the Gun |
yes |
90 |
95 |
*Robert Redford hits the bull's-eye |
Hereditary |
yes |
89 |
96 |
*supremely tense and devastating |
All About Nina |
yes |
89 |
82 |
*Both bleakly humorous and laugh-out-loud funny |
First Man |
yes |
88 |
89 |
*soars beyond the typical biopic |
After Everything |
yes |
88 |
|
real soul and gravitas |
Museo |
yes |
87 |
100 |
a fun, stylish, singular heist flick |
Knuckleball |
yes |
87 |
|
A thriller, but with a slow build |
White Rabbit |
yes |
86 |
|
a fast-moving, funny film |
Colette |
yes |
85 |
86 |
*shrewd, witty |
A Simple Favor |
yes |
85 |
80 |
*bracing as an ice-cold gin martini |
Monsters and Men |
yes |
83 |
95 |
*A police shooting is viewed from three perspectives |
The Land of Steady Habits |
yes |
83 |
75 |
Laying it all out with a piercing authenticity |
22 July |
yes |
80 |
|
*Aftermath of terror |
The Last Suit |
yes |
78 |
83 |
A road-trip-flick with distinction |
Let the Corpses Tan |
yes |
77 |
67 |
*a gorgeous, nasty valentine |
Five Fingers for Marseilles |
yes |
74 |
86 |
crackles with energy toward an explosive finale |
Final Score |
yes |
71 |
80 |
sufficiently fleshed out and well performed |
The Happy Prince |
yes |
71 |
|
dreamy, inventive and beautifully crafted |
Hold the Dark |
yes |
70 |
75 |
The moodily violent, Alaska-set mystery |
Wobble Palace |
yes |
70 |
|
dreamy, sunny; an elevated look |
The House With a Clock in Its Walls |
yes |
67 |
57 |
moderately transporting, visually elaborate |
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser |
yes |
65 |
60 |
Netflix high school rom-com |
Stella's Last Weekend |
yes |
65 |
|
A chatty family affair with feeling |
The Little Stranger |
yes |
59 |
63 |
tells a familiar but pleasurably engrossing story |
Bel Canto |
yes |
58 |
75 |
Swelling with humanity and romance |
White Boy Rick |
yes |
58 |
50 |
tender and tragic among the glitz and the grime |
Trouble |
yes |
50 |
50 |
Bumper crop of fine acting |
Painless |
yes |
|
|
This won’t hurt a bit. No, really |
Blaze |
so-so |
98 |
100 |
overlong, shaggy slice of musical Americana |
Heavy Trip |
so-so |
91 |
100 |
spewing bodily functions; amusing ride |
The Sisters Brothers |
so-so |
85 |
84 |
Is this a western or a comedy? |
Sadie |
so-so |
79 |
|
meanders and is often a bit pokey |
Black 47 |
so-so |
76 |
75 |
Anglo-Irish western-style revenge tale |
The Children Act |
so-so |
69 |
79 |
evinces measured intelligence, but ... |
The Apparition |
so-so |
65 |
57 |
somewhat less than the sum of its parts |
Boarding School |
so-so |
38 |
40 |
uncompromising coming-of-age psychodrama/gothic horror |
Mara |
so-so |
14 |
|
eventually delivers some decent scares |
Alright Now |
so-so |
|
|
crazy, loose energy |
Beyond the Sky |
so-so |
|
|
a pastiche of The X-Files and Close Encounters |
Longing |
so-so |
|
|
a gutsy slice of emotional complexity |
The Samuel Project |
so-so |
|
|
Flaws can't blunt Holocaust drama |
Revenge |
no |
93 |
95 |
gradually finds its way to a predictable |
Nelly |
no |
86 |
|
flows with endless melodrama |
A Crooked Somebody |
no |
80 |
80 |
He didn't see this coming? Really? |
Apostle |
no |
80 |
|
piles it on with a supernatural twist |
Chasing the Blues |
no |
80 |
|
as tiresome as a stuck record |
Diane |
no |
80 |
|
Thriller takes an aimless direction |
Scaffolding |
no |
80 |
|
small-bore Israeli drama |
Bad Times at the El Royale |
no |
73 |
60 |
messy Tarantino-esque thriller |
The Ranger |
no |
72 |
|
promises more than it delivers |
Assassination Nation |
no |
70 |
59 |
An insulting grrrl power ruse |
Beautiful Boy |
no |
69 |
|
overly familiar and dramatically unsatisfying |
I Think We’re Alone Now |
no |
66 |
10 |
illogical, unremarkable concerns |
Lizzie |
no |
64 |
63 |
methodical and measured to a fault |
Blood Fest |
no |
62 |
|
strictly for fans |
The Oath |
no |
62 |
|
enough to give you indigestion |
Lost Child |
no |
50 |
|
A bonding effort better left undone |
MDMA |
no |
50 |
|
Little insight into a drug dealer’s life |
Shine |
no |
50 |
|
melodramatic story makes "West Side Story" look subdued |
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween |
no |
48 |
|
a dud |
The Song of Sway Lake |
no |
47 |
14 |
Much nostalgia, but little story |
The Laws of Thermodynamics |
no |
44 |
|
Science can’t help generic rom-com |
Destination Wedding |
no |
43 |
24 |
a painfully indulgent anti-romantic comedy |
Cruise |
no |
38 |
|
'80s throwback is just that, no more |
The Predator |
no |
34 |
26 |
will make you laugh and groan |
Little Women |
no |
33 |
14 |
New take feels stuck in the past |
Unbroken: Path to Redemption |
no |
33 |
0 |
Too much time on one ‘Path’ |
Ride |
no |
33 |
|
On a ‘Ride’ to nowhere |
Kin |
no |
31 |
20 |
a dark and confounding young-adult thriller |
Night School |
no |
29 |
36 |
mediocre material fails skilled ensemble |
Loving Pablo |
no |
29 |
25 |
broad and glossy biopic |
Venom |
no |
29 |
18 |
as sludgy as it looks |
The Nun |
no |
28 |
35 |
Habit-forming? Not this ‘Nun’ |
Little Italy |
no |
23 |
|
Pizza with a side of stereotypes |
Bayou Caviar |
no |
20 |
|
Cajun hash |
A Happening of Monumental Proportions |
no |
18 |
14 |
A wealth of talent with scant results |
Peppermint |
no |
13 |
14 |
action thriller that misses the true targets |
Life Itself |
no |
13 |
6 |
emotionally sadistic |
God Bless the Broken Road |
no |
13 |
|
narrative hodgepodge |
Reprisal |
no |
0 |
0 |
a strictly routine B-movie |
American Dresser |
no |
0 |
|
Full of plotholes and potholes |
Maximum Impact |
no |
0 |
|
A tolerably dumb action comedy |
Age of Summer |
no |
|
|
Sunny teen tale makes few waves |
An Actor Prepares |
no |
|
|
comedic road movie doesn’t take any fresh detours |
Bigger |
no |
|
|
If only the script had worked out |
Cynthia |
no |
|
|
awfully bland |
Lost Fare |
no |
|
|
well-meaning indie drama |
Morning, Noon & Night |
no |
|
|
meandering, pointless and boring |
The Breeding |
no |
|
|
Artsy and erotic, but pretentious |
The Church |
no |
|
|
Horrors-it's so bad, it's amusing |
The Padre |
no |
|
|
A noir unworthy of its locations |