| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| This Is Not a Film | yes | 100 | 100 | potent, clandestine |
| Pina | yes | 95 | 100 | *a knockout. |
| Jiro Dreams of Sushi | yes | 95 | 91 | *as elegant and tasty as the splendid sushi prepared by the man in the title |
| Undefeated | yes | 92 | 88 | *a real story in which things sometimes get worse not better |
| Carol Channing: Larger Than Life | yes | 91 | terrific | |
| Crazy Horse | yes | 84 | 82 | brilliantly reveals the inner workings of [the] nightclub |
| In Heaven, Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery | yes | 83 | 80 | reveals the unforeseen ways death and life manage to intertwine in a Berlin forest. |
| Last Days Here | yes | 80 | 100 | hugely engrossing, stranger-than-fiction |
| Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow | yes | 77 | 83 | Anselm Kiefer's artistic process and its results |
| John Mellencamp: It's About You | yes | 57 | 63 | unhurried, visually compelling |
| Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus | yes | 50 | a hopeful film about the power of honest work to confer dignity | |
| Addiction Incorporated | so-so | 82 | 100 | the American tobacco industry hearings |
| 8 Murders a Day | so-so | 67 | 80 | the ultra-violent drug war in Juarez, Mexico |
| How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? | so-so | 55 | 20 | dazzlingly shot, often hypnotic |
| Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston | no | 39 | 14 | fails to find him |
| Iranian Taboo | no | dull, inelegant | ||
| Re:Generation Music Project | no | is a commercial in search of a product. | ||
| animated | ||||
| The Secret World of Arrietty | yes | 93 | 100 | *impeccable and pure |
| Chico & Rita | yes | 89 | 92 | *captures seductive pre-Castro Cuba |
| The Adventures of Tintin | yes | 74 | 67 | captures a boy's quest with his trusty dog in a stylish and sophisticated way |
| Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos | so-so | 82 | 80 | Fans, go be with your people. Others, approach cautiously. |
| Dr. Seuss' The Lorax | no | 59 | 50 | adds a whole lot of other stuff, most of it not very good |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | no | 13 | 11 | Beyond rescue? |
| regular movies | ||||
| A Separation | yes | 100 | 100 | *thrilling domestic drama from Iran |
| Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol | yes | 95 | 100 | *stylish and involving |
| The Kid With a Bike | yes | 95 | 94 | a surprising delight |
| Pariah | yes | 95 | 92 | a young African American woman struggles with growing-up and coming-out |
| Sound of Noise | yes | 92 | 83 | *a surprising amount of heart. |
| Miss Bala | yes | 90 | 94 | a taut thriller of pageants, power and drugs |
| London River | yes | 89 | 83 | contains enough emotionally satisfying moments to keep us invested in its lead characters' heartfelt journey. |
| The Turin Horse | yes | 88 | 90 | *what became of the whipped horse that Nietzsche threw himself on |
| Footnote | yes | 88 | 82 | [a] brainy, effective film |
| Declaration of War | yes | 87 | 100 | *vibrant and heartfelt |
| Bullhead | yes | 86 | 91 | an intense, shattering film |
| 21 Jump Street | yes | 86 | 86 | loser dudes who are absolutely winning |
| The Raid: Redemption | yes | 86 | 74 | an action bonanza |
| Chronicle | yes | 85 | 85 | *is smart about its telekinetic teens |
| The Hunger Games | yes | 85 | 82 | a winning story of sacrifice and survival-l |
| The Salt of Life | yes | 84 | 80 | a rueful, funny and wise tale |
| Deep Blue Sea | yes | 83 | 94 | exceptionally well-made and completely fearless |
| The Innkeepers | yes | 75 | 67 | *A haunting good time |
| Kill List | yes | 74 | 70 | Twisted [, gory] horror-thriller |
| Big Miracle | yes | 71 | 79 | *save the whales |
| Return | yes | 71 | 57 | has the quiet impact of a short story. |
| Carnage | yes | 69 | 46 | the worst of human behavior emerges from the shadows |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | yes | 64 | 62 | a charming film |
| The Woman in Black | yes | 63 | 68 | *well-done atmospheric thriller. |
| We Bought a Zoo | yes | 61 | 65 | an intelligent family film |
| 4:44 Last Day on Earth | yes | 60 | 44 | movingly celebrates connection |
| Film Socialisme | yes | 56 | 57 | Jean-Luc Godard sets sail |
| Safe House | yes | 53 | 59 | a take-no-prisoners action extravaganza |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | yes | 50 | 57 | handsomely polished, thoughtfully wrapped |
| On the Ice | yes | involving Alaska-set thriller | ||
| Falling Away | yes | a sincere, authentic, generally stirring effort. | ||
| Cirkus Columbia | so-so | 90 | 80 | could have benefited from a more defined absurdist edge |
| King of Devil's Island | so-so | 85 | 89 | crisply visualized [but] tropes unfortunately allowed to take over |
| Boy | so-so | 83 | 67 | New Zealand-set, coming-of-age quirkfest |
| Haywire | so-so | 82 | 86 | doesn't measure up to the best of the director's work like, say, "Traffic." |
| The Grey | so-so | 77 | 63 | Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from great heights. |
| War Horse | so-so | 75 | 87 | is full of beauty and emotion. But the film stumbles in its storytelling. |
| Jeff, Who Lives at Home | so-so | 73 | 78 | an addled but amiable comedy |
| Thin Ice | so-so | 72 | 71 | sinister fun to be had |
| Friends With Kids | so-so | 60 | 57 | ultimately lapses into the romantic-comedy tradition |
| Wanderlust | so-so | 60 | 53 | really raunchy |
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | so-so | 60 | 46 | a few shades brighter than its predecessor |
| Detachment | so-so | 53 | 47 | swinging wildly between screed and lament |
| In the Land of Blood and Honey | so-so | 50 | 46 | impressive and unexpected. But … not quite enough. |
| Contraband | so-so | 46 | 53 | too many loose ends threaten to sink the boat |
| Casa de Mi Padre | so-so | 45 | 37 | may leave the filmgoers wanting un poquito más. |
| Red Tails | so-so | 34 | 27 | takes a comic book approach to World War II |
| Underworld: Awakening | so-so | 29 | 50 | visual flair to the bloodletting along with another quality previously in short supply — competence. |
| This Means War | so-so | 25 | 24 | a frothy confection |
| October Baby | so-so | 24 | 23 | poignant, no matter which side of the debate you fall on |
| Loosies | so-so | 21 | 14 | A handful of raggedy story strands that engage even if they never fully coalesce. |
| The Understudy | so-so | things go from darkly comic to just plain dark, derailing | ||
| The Forgiveness of Blood | no | 87 | 91 | loose ends for long stretches |
| The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | no | 85 | 78 | loses what made the books and Swedish films so successful |
| Let The Bullets Fly | no | 80 | 64 | a western, barely an action film and hardly a historical drama |
| Rampart | no | 73 | 77 | careening between convoluted subplots |
| The Iron Lady | no | 57 | 48 | an affecting if not always satisfying portrait |
| The Front Line | no | 55 | 67 | An uneven war film from South Korea |
| Being Flynn | no | 49 | 40 | leaves you feeling as if everyone is trying a little too hard |
| John Carter | no | 49 | 35 | a big-budget bomb |
| Silent House | no | 47 | 55 | takes a turn not just for the worse but the ludicrous. |
| Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | no | 43 | 25 | a pretty scrawny experience |
| The FP | no | 43 | 20 | a white-trash dystopia of dumb-macho gangs |
| Albert Nobbs | no | 42 | 38 | has such an inherently restrained sensibility |
| Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | no | 41 | 28 | click that reject (eject?) button |
| Joyful Noise | no | 35 | 30 | spirited fluff |
| Lula, Son of Brazil | no | 33 | 14 | an act of hero worship, not a multifaceted exploration |
| Man on a Ledge | no | 32 | 19 | high thrills, little edge |
| Project X | no | 29 | 26 | characters that are too predictable and an attitude that's unseemly |
| Act of Valor | no | 29 | 20 | involving only when the shooting... gets underway. |
| Seeking Justice | no | 27 | 35 | rudimentary thriller from deliriously unsubtle director |
| The Vow | no | 27 | 23 | romantically and medically challenged weepie |
| The Flowers of War | no | 27 | 0 | abounds with well-worn movie archetypes and slathers on schmaltz. |
| The Decoy Bride | no | 20 | jettisons logic and detail for silly-quirky rompiness | |
| Angels Crest | no | 19 | 11 | Stars can't raise gloomy 'Angels' |
| The Divide | no | 17 | 0 | never lets the innate drama of the situation play out |
| Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | no | 15 | 29 | promises more than it actually delivers |
| The Viral Factor | no | 14 | A chaotic Asian crime mash-up hits the screen. | |
| Don't Go Into the Woods | no | 14 | an undercooked, "Glee"-like hybrid forest slasher flick | |
| Gone | no | 12 | 0 | somnolent, listless |
| The Darkest Hour | no | 10 | 0 | Alien invasion in Russia |
| The Devil Inside | no | 7 | 17 | Tired faux documentary 'footage', poorly executed exorcism scenes... |
| One for the Money | no | 3 | 0 | the romance and laughs are wanting. |
| Beneath the Darkness | no | 0 | 0 | odd, Southern Gothic thriller, mundane high school story. |
| A Thousand Words | no | 0 | 0 | feels more desperate than funny |
| Reuniting the Rubins | no | 0 | a frantic, badly constructed, slightly offensive muddle | |
| Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl | no | a colorfully busy splash of romantic comedy nonsense | ||
| Don 2 | no | apes the slick gloss and advertorial style of Michael Bay | ||
| Alls Well, Ends Well 2012 | no | all cartoon and no charm. | ||
| Love | no | feels disjointed and inorganic | ||
| Jodi Breakers | no | Plot holes | ||
| Monday Morning | no | A rambling, incoherent, ineptly assembled mess | ||
| Ranchero | no | reaches for thematic resonance and ends up only cliché-deep | ||
| Around June | no | an excruciating La La Land of treacly narration, airy-fairy dialogue |