| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| The Interrupters | yes | 100 | 100 | *d:inspirational |
| We Were Here | yes | 100 | 100 | d:how the AIDS epidemic devastated and transformed San Francisco's gay community. |
| Summer Pasture | yes | 100 | d:has an earthy intimacy and compassion for its subjects | |
| Senna | yes | 92 | 87 | d:a moving tribute to one of the best Formula One drivers who ever lived |
| Bobby Fischer Against the World | yes | 86 | 100 | d:expertly constructed |
| The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | yes | 84 | 86 | *d:electric |
| Life in a Day | yes | 81 | 75 | d:tries to capture the rhythms and unravel the rhymes of a single 24-hour period. |
| Pearl Jam Twenty | yes | 65 | 50 | d:celebrates the Seattle rock band on its 20th anniversary |
| Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles | yes | 61 | 67 | d:something mysterious, a little strange and a lot of fun. |
| El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | yes | 54 | 64 | *d:behind the scenes at the restaurant hailed as the most influential in the world. |
| Programming the Nation? | yes | 43 | 33 | d:profoundly disturbing, as ambitious as it is provocative |
| The Harvest/La Cosecha | yes | d:the physical toll of migrant farm work on young workers | ||
| Darwin | yes | d:a beautiful, elegiac work with unexpected impact and meaning | ||
| There Was Once | yes | d:illuminating | ||
| Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure | so-so | 71 | 63 | taped arguments of alcoholics [and] their strange and increasingly sad afterlife |
| Battle for Brooklyn | so-so | 70 | 67 | d:Although not exactly even-handed, the movie proves a deft look at a reluctant crusader |
| Jane's Journey | so-so | 45 | 40 | d:does not make for compelling cinema |
| Granito: How to Nail a Dictator | so-so | 45 | 20 | d:a naggingly studied tone |
| The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan | so-so | d:gets under your skin in ways that are memorable and poignantly real | ||
| Rebirth | so-so | d:suffers occasionally from sentimental overreach | ||
| The Whale | so-so | d:the talking-head testimony, it grows repetitive | ||
| Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place | no | 64 | 64 | d:a psychedelic trip to nowhere |
| The Weird World of Blowfly | no | 60 | d:The music is dirty and the film is a downer | |
| Finding Joe | no | 43 | d:weighed down by a barrage of declarations from zealots | |
| Chasing Madoff | no | 41 | 25 | d:frenzied |
| Born and Bred | no | 33 | d:reaches for some big-picture connect-the-dots it can never quite pull together | |
| Sarah Palin: You Betcha! | no | 29 | 17 | d:stale and journalistically lacking |
| In Search of God | no | d:painfully inept | ||
| Connected | no | d:dizzyingly jammed with animated and archival imagery | ||
| animated | ||||
| Nine Nation Animation | yes | 93 | 100 | *accomplished shorts from around the world |
| The Smurfs | no | 21 | 24 | By turns grating and cloying, misguided. |
| regular movies | ||||
| Weekend | yes | 96 | 100 | a moving and empathetic look at how relationships develop |
| Rapt | yes | 95 | 83 | *Well-acted and procedurally sleek |
| Moneyball | yes | 94 | 97 | *a story that goes beyond baseball. |
| The Guard | yes | 94 | 89 | *a great gust of very funny fresh air. |
| Silent Souls | yes | 93 | 100 | *a marvel |
| Take Shelter | yes | 93 | 93 | *a world of darkness visible and unexpected light, as recognizable as it is surreal |
| 50/50 | yes | 93 | 88 | maintains its balance remarkably well. |
| Point Blank | yes | 92 | 100 | *Unfolding at a blistering clip from its slam-bang opening through its bravura close |
| Attack the Block | yes | 89 | 86 | *works as both a sci-fi horror flick and a teen adventure film. |
| Bellflower | yes | 88 | 100 | *male aggression, fractured love, one tricked-out muscle car and a homemade flamethrower |
| Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame | yes | 87 | 89 | *splendid, action-filled period epic |
| Tucker & Dale vs. Evil | yes | 87 | 89 | *a refreshingly upending horror-comedy bromance. |
| The Hedgehog | yes | 86 | 100 | an exquisite, intimate film of restraint and delicacy |
| Higher Ground | yes | 84 | 87 | intelligence, wit and mature spirit |
| Mozart's Sister | yes | 82 | 89 | societal inequalities act as a dissonant countermelody to a famous artist's biography |
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes | yes | 81 | 79 | *Smart, fun and thoroughly enjoyable |
| The Myth of the American Sleepover | yes | 77 | 73 | evoking a coming of age as it should be rather than the way it really is. |
| The Debt | yes | 77 | 71 | *a superbly crafted espionage thriller packed with Israeli-Nazi score settling |
| Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life | yes | 76 | 60 | Unconventional, imaginative, nothing if not audacious |
| Mysteries of Lisbon | yes | 75 | 83 | *moves with its own logic, dreamlike and unshakable. |
| Crazy, Stupid, Love | yes | 75 | 76 | *grand romantic gesture about grand romantic gestures |
| Fright Night | yes | 74 | 88 | *clever, funny remake of the 1985 vampire film |
| The Help | yes | 73 | 68 | an unlikely rebellion in a Southern town in the 1960s |
| Littlerock | yes | 72 | 67 | ethereal and ephemeral musing on the art and artifice of communication. |
| The Mill and the Cross | yes | 71 | 63 | dramatizes the creation of Pieter Bruegel's 1564 painting "The Way to Calvary" |
| Griff the Invisible | yes | 69 | 44 | comically dismantles our superhero-worshiping culture |
| Good Neighbors | yes | 65 | 75 | *Quirky, creepy and increasingly involving |
| Mr. Nice | yes | 57 | 80 | *a compelling film about international drug trafficker Howard Marks |
| "3" (Drei) | yes | 50 | 43 | involving, even when sentimentality creeps [in] |
| The Sleeping Beauty | yes | 46 | *Sly and playful, it's a beauty. | |
| Colombiana | yes | 36 | 50 | a scandalous blend of action, sex and violence |
| Special Treatment | yes | 33 | 40 | complex, compassionate and endlessly illuminating |
| Creature | yes | 11 | 14 | *delightfully dopey |
| Politics of Love | yes | clever and lively | ||
| Bodyguard | yes | *a rousing example of Bollywood-style pure escapist entertainment | ||
| My Brother's Bride | yes | the singing, dancing and settings, including the Taj Mahal, are stunning. | ||
| My Afternoons With Margueritte | yes | as soft and light as a summer breeze | ||
| @urFrenz | yes | bracing yet understated drama. | ||
| Dolphin Tale | so-so | 83 | 88 | well-meaning if stridently heart-tugging |
| Contagion | so-so | 82 | 82 | some of its many plot strands play out less convincingly than others |
| The Future | so-so | 81 | 75 | The film doesn't have much of a motor. But there's a lot to like, and to admire. |
| Circumstance | so-so | 75 | 75 | sometimes choppy narrative |
| Our Idiot Brother | so-so | 67 | 67 | [An] amiable, if underachieving comedy |
| Amigo | so-so | 62 | 64 | Uneven but ultimately affecting |
| Glee: The 3D Concert Movie | so-so | 61 | 52 | the hullabaloo might be lost on anyone who isn't a 'Gleek.' |
| Gun Hill Road | so-so | 58 | 44 | narrative conflict leads inexorably into clichéd parent-child showdown |
| House of Boys | so-so | 57 | a mostly winning combo of sex, old-fashioned corn, romance-novel fantasy and AIDS tragedy | |
| Puncture | so-so | 55 | 78 | more downer than dander-raiser |
| Brighton Rock | so-so | 51 | 38 | stylish but heavy-going |
| Berlin 36 | so-so | 50 | doesn't clear the bar for dramatic impact | |
| 30 Minutes or Less | so-so | 44 | 34 | just sharp enough at its peaks to be frustrating in its valleys |
| Beware the Gonzo | so-so | 44 | feels timid and unadventurous | |
| The Afterlight | so-so | 38 | 0 | glacially paced, symbolism-heavy |
| Conan the Barbarian | so-so | 26 | 23 | it's kind of a wicked blast to watch, especially if you're in the mood for some righteous revenge. |
| Machine Gun Preacher | so-so | 22 | 13 | could have used a good deal more of his discipline |
| Apollo 18 | so-so | 21 | 0 | a low-key and unassuming film of rising tension rather than big scares or wild shocks. |
| The Neighbor | so-so | "Neighbor" is no masterpiece but is distinctive and deeply felt. | ||
| The Road to Freedom | so-so | needs more shape, more nuance and more punch. | ||
| Drive | no | 93 | 84 | uncomfortable mixing of classic noir and contemporary mayhem. |
| Warrior | no | 82 | 82 | shows promise before ultimately overdosing on its own testosterone |
| The Whistleblower | no | 64 | 53 | too well-intentioned for its own good |
| Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | no | 59 | 47 | Scary … at least until about 30 minutes in |
| Final Destination 5 | no | 57 | 26 | Prepare to groan |
| 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy | no | 50 | It plays more as pretense than plot | |
| Archie's Final Project | no | 50 | Self-consciously fizzy but tasteless and ultimately sour | |
| The Devil's Double | no | 49 | 58 | relentlessly violent and lurid |
| Cowboys & Aliens | no | 44 | 53 | A leaden mash-up of western and science-fiction elements that ends up noisy, grotesque and unappealing |
| Margaret | no | 43 | 36 | a turbulent, unrealized dream |
| Restless | no | 37 | 24 | ultimately runs aground on the film's overly familiar trappings. |
| Straw Dogs | no | 36 | 46 | miscast, barely functional in terms of technique, stupid and unnecessary |
| A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | no | 29 | 45 | uneven |
| One Day | no | 27 | 25 | the pieces never come together in this disappointing romantic drama |
| Shark Night 3D | no | 24 | a disposable hard-body-count B movie | |
| What's Your Number? | no | 23 | 7 | a sub-par romantic comedy |
| Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D | no | 23 | isn't so much bad as it is just boring | |
| The Change-Up | no | 21 | 18 | hacky and repellent |
| Stay Cool | no | 20 | cartoonish figures, bad jokes and hackneyed situations | |
| I Don't Know How She Does It | no | 17 | 14 | enough to make you urp. |
| Bunraku | no | 16 | 20 | gets lost in its bells and whistles |
| Seven Days in Utopia | no | 13 | 7 | earnest but as flat as the Texas terrain. |
| Tanner Hall | no | 13 | 0 | Detention would be better than watching 'Tanner Hall' |
| Dream House | no | 8 | 0 | fails to scare up any thrills |
| The Family Tree | no | 7 | 0 | scattered |
| Abduction | no | 3 | 0 | the all-star elders surrounding our squinting hero |
| The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll | no | 0 | 0 | Neither the nods to musical greatness nor the '70s-cred presence of Peter Fonda dispels the hokeyness of the story. |
| Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star | no | 0 | 0 | Unfunny sexual euphemisms abound, making for a lazy, R-rated comedy. |
| Where the Road Meets the Sun | no | lots of missed connections, earnest but inorganic, trying hard but uninvolving | ||
| Café | no | either mundane or clichéd — or both. | ||
| One Fall | no | ultimately feels minor and superficial | ||
| First Dog | no | spottily acted … corn and treacle. |