LAT	RTMC	RTC
documentary
Thunder Soul	yes	100	100	*d:one of the premier funk bands of the 1970s
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone	yes	100	100	*d:capture[s] the energy and attitude of the band's early days
Hell and Back Again	yes	100		*d:rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command
Knuckle	yes	94	100	d:as bruising and brutal as any punch.
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby	yes	92	83	d:a portrait long on political insight, enhanced by a rich collection of archival clips
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu	yes	90		d:a startling sense of dictatorial monomania.
Benda Bilili	yes	90		*d:high energy and propulsive music
To Be Heard	yes	88	100	d:Neither preachy nor self-consciously "uplifting,"
Dragonslayer	yes	83	100	d:rendered with punk rock energy and grace.
Klitschko	yes	82	80	d:an absorbing boxing documentary
Garbo: The Spy	yes	80	57	*d:artful
Pianomania	yes	79	67	*d:"I've always dreamed of this sound,"
Elevate	yes	63		d:presented with equal parts humor and sensitivity
Bombay Beach	yes	61	83	d:more lyrical tone poem than straightforward documentary
The Sons of Tennessee Williams	yes	60		d:a consciousness-raising revelation
The Swell Season	yes	58		d:an incisive cut at fame's effect on … real-life music and romance
Crazy Wisdom	yes	55	50	d:a film about a man who categorically resists summarization
Greater Good	yes			d:an effective eye-opener
Dzi Croquettes	yes			d:both a tribute and a terrific entertainment
An African Election	yes			d:seeing what was transpiring with an astute eye
The Big Fix	yes			d:scathing BP oil spill exposé
Being Elmo	so-so	93	90	d:chooses not to dig beneath the surface
Incendiary: The Willingham Case	so-so	80	89	d:as unsatisfying as it is compelling
Revenge of the Electric Car	so-so	75	70	d:Nissan is sponsoring screenings.
My Reincarnation	so-so	70		d:Languid and contemplative
America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments	so-so	50		d:a mixed bag of a film
A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps	so-so			d:stirring, if inconclusive
Under Fire: Journalists in Combat	so-so			d:a mix of interviews and subject-relevant combat footage
Into The Abyss	no	88	79	d:is missing clarity, insight, outrage
Where Soldiers Come From	no	78	71	d:less urgent and involving than its intense subject matter might have dictated.
The Other F Word	no	63	40	d:winds up feeling scattershot and unfocused
Limelight	no	61	44	d:feels wildly one-sided and ultimately myopic
Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace	no			d:sluggishly examines the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord
animated
Arthur Christmas	yes	92	96	*manic but charming
Puss in Boots	yes	81	86	*a crackling bullwhip
Happy Feet Two	so-so	42	37	still a kick, but coherent storytelling goes missing
regular movies
Le Havre	yes	100	100	Buster Keaton isn't dead, he's alive and well in Finland
Kinyarwanda	yes	100	100	haunting stuff
In Darkness	yes	100	100	*so realistic and so involving
The Muppets	yes	98	92	*sweet and subversive
Tomboy	yes	97	88	Quiet and naturalistic in the best way
Coriolanus	yes	93	86	*has taken "Coriolanus" from little known to virtually unforgettable
The Descendants	yes	92	90	*winning and warm-hearted
Daylight	yes	90	100	*takes a standard kidnapping plot and turns it inside out
The Yellow Sea	yes	89		one of the films of the year for underserved action-heads.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	yes	86	91	*perhaps the great spy tale of our time-l
Martha Marcy May Marlene	yes	86	78	*Identity and the destructive power of cults on kids are played to perfection
Outrage	yes	85	73	low-key and offhanded in its mastery
We Need to Talk About Kevin	yes	83	75	*what if that baby grows into someone terrifying?
A Dangerous Method	yes	81	79	smart, satisfying and sometimes even thrilling
Tyrannosaur	yes	81	67	leaves you limp, exhausted and feeling battered by the end
Young Adult	yes	78	85	*allows just the right amount of grime into the people and places.
Melancholia	yes	78	79	*d:the world ends horrifically, romantically
The Conquest	yes	78	57	*a smart, involving and strikingly adult drama
Shame	yes	77	74	strips its characters bare literally and figuratively
Ra. One	yes	75	83	*Bollywood at its best
Like Crazy	yes	73	75	*intensely wrought and immensely satisfying love story
Paranormal Activity 3	yes	72	60	*an inventive and witty take on the franchise
Toast	yes	70	70	*sweet and tart, airy and rich and, above all, a thoroughly irresistible confection.
Norman	yes	62	86	watching Norman learn how to manage a stick shift and life is definitely worth it.
The Women on the 6th Floor	yes	57	67	*funny and agreeable movie farce
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch	yes	43	38	rips through a thicket of corporate intrigue
J. Edgar	yes	41	55	a somber, enigmatic, darkly fascinating tale
Johnny English Reborn	yes	38	40	A delicately silly comic pleasure
The Thing	yes	33	32	*slippery, effective
A Bird of the Air	yes	25		strikes a pleasing balance between amusing and sensitive
Hugo	so-so	97	94	[not] a wholly satisfying experience.
My Week With Marilyn	so-so	82	82	lush and vibrant when Williams is onscreen, mostly fussy British discontent when she's not.
The Ides of March	so-so	82	73	Cast and dialogue are good, but plot is thin
The Skin I Live In	so-so	81	74	disturbing yet provocative drama about identity, gender and love.
The Way	so-so	79	73	suffers from too much talk (and too much music soundtrack)
Chalet Girl	so-so	79		more enjoyable than it should be.
Blackthorn	so-so	74	78	mostly satisfying western
The Dead	so-so	73		it's not a pretty picture.
Footloose	so-so	72	53	more energy, less heart
Tower Heist	so-so	67	63	might not be a classic (it's not)
Real Steel	so-so	59	61	built from previously used parts, but it fights well.
Anonymous	so-so	46	40	no classic, but it's fun
Another Happy Day	so-so	42	33	a provocative if imperfect debut
The Big Year	so-so	40	58	feathery fluff
In Time	so-so	38	37	flawed yet intriguing
All's Faire in Love	so-so	7	14	breezy, good-natured
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	no	96	80	little more than a fascistic glorification of violent slum cleansing
The Woman	no	81		unsubtle and inelegant
Rampart	no	74	73	the film spins out of control, careening between convoluted subplots
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas	no	73	67	the 3-D only makes the general not-funniness that much closer
Oranges and Sunshine	no	70	50	gets bogged down in the details.
Snowmen	no	60		feeble stabs at humor and overreaching profundity
Killing Bono	no	55	50	too slippery to hold onto
Sleeping Beauty	no	51	41	can be maddeningly opaque
The Rum Diary	no	50	46	struggling movie
Janie Jones	no	50	45	a mixture of discordant notes and way-too-familiar chords
Young Goethe in Love	no	47	38	drowns in swoony clichés.
5 Star Day	no	47	29	star magnetism that isn't returned
The Mighty Macs	no	46	40	its potential warmth and excitement caves under the weight of … good intentions.
The Catechism Cataclysm	no	43	40	just a kicky title in search of a movie
Dog Sweat	no	43	40	a multistrand feature set in Tehran
Texas Killing Fields	no	43	14	The strong cast has a weak script to work from
Immortals	no	37	21	not able to create a movie that actually made sense
London Boulevard	no	30	25	Crime, fame, Colin Farrell not a good mix
W.E.	no	30		an overwrought historical drama
Courageous	no	29	14	unabashedly preaches to the choir.
Breaking Dawn	no	27	25	broken
The Three Musketeers	no	27	0	Whatthehell?
Dirty Girl	no	26	8	wants to be a filthy-mouthed alternative to the John Hughes canon
The Sitter	no	22	22	The raunch factor is high and the laugh factor is low.
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)	no	21	14	overdoes everything
11/11/2011	no	20		Thrills and chills just don't add up in
The Son of No One	no	19	20	messy, logic-strained
Fireflies in the Garden	no	19	9	much fraying being done by the film itself
Trespass	no	14	22	undermined by its own overwrought energy
The Double	no	14	7	seems to just give up
I Melt With You	no	13	22	Men desperately seeking binges of self-destructive excess
A Warrior's Heart	no	10	0	feels decidedly recycled
Answers to Nothing	no	9	18	a lack of real conclusiveness
The Reunion	no	9	14	has only one point-and-shoot gear
The Greening of Whitney Brown	no	8	0	flies off the rails in a third act
New Year's Eve	no	7	3	proudly superficial
1911	no	5	0	thinly-veiled propaganda picture
Jack and Jill	no	3	0	feels like an elementary school recess that's gone on too long
Father of Invention	no	0	0	something is obviously wrong
How I Got Lost	no			Slick moodiness, dime-store philosophizing and an egregiously low-burning pace
The Legend Is Born -- Ip Man	no			Ip Man Zero
The Hammer	no			inspirational but full of sports cliches
Nothing Special	no			badly paced, ineptly written and filled with superfluous moments.
Pete Smalls Is Dead	no			it just feels artificial and forced
The Lady	no			Luc Besson is completely out of his element
I Am Singh	no			Terribly earnest and earnestly terrible
Magic to Win	no			turns up as a real loser