| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| Planet of Snail | yes | 100 | 100 | *simple, direct and magical |
| How to Survive a Plague | yes | 100 | 100 | 1980s Greenwich Village while it was in the grip of the AIDS crisis. |
| They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain | yes | 100 | 100 | as quietly enthralling as Myanmar's people. |
| Beauty Is Embarrassing | yes | 100 | an entertaining portrait of pop art's Wayne White. | |
| 5 Broken Cameras | yes | 96 | 92 | raw[,] … lyrical and elegiac |
| The House I Live In | yes | 92 | 93 | calls for cease-fire in war on drugs |
| Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | yes | 91 | 93 | unfolds in grand fashion |
| Somewhere Between | yes | 91 | 80 | a moving account of teen adoptees |
| The Waiting Room | yes | 90 | 100 | a hospital and its patients struggle to survive. |
| Wild Horse, Wild Ride | yes | 89 | 100 | proves a warm and memorable ride. |
| The Other Dream Team | yes | 89 | 100 | Lithuanian pride on the basketball court |
| We Women Warriors | yes | 86 | captures the heroism of native women in Colombia | |
| Detropia | yes | 81 | 80 | the economically ravaged Motor City of Detroit |
| The Ambassador | yes | 80 | 89 | *Part muckraking nonfiction film, part performance piece |
| Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare | yes | 78 | 60 | Cogent, convincing, determinedly non-ideological |
| Doctored | yes | 57 | involving, well-crafted, humane | |
| Words of Witness | yes | [a] crucial story of modern revolution | ||
| The Right to Love: An American Family | yes | marriage equality | ||
| Harvest of Empire | yes | sows seeds of debate | ||
| The Iran Job | yes | exceptional in its storytelling | ||
| Fame High | yes | the kids in "Fame High" will stay with you. | ||
| Ethel | yes | chronicles the life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy | ||
| Girl Model | so-so | 91 | 71 | The nonaggressive approach can be frustrating |
| Hellbound? | so-so | 67 | manages to be provocative | |
| Downtown Express | so-so | 60 | 60 | looks and sounds good, but the writing and acting hit sour notes. |
| Of Two Minds | so-so | has a tendency to take unnecessary detours | ||
| Life Is Strange | so-so | has many failings but still manages to be effective | ||
| Electoral Dysfunction | so-so | too lightweight and coy for genuine effect. | ||
| Tears of Gaza | no | 86 | leaves too much unsaid | |
| Step Up to the Plate | no | 68 | 78 | missing a few ingredients |
| Love Free or Die | no | 67 | fails to deliver deeper insights | |
| Decoding Deepak | no | 50 | 60 | precious little table-turning or real insight |
| Mulberry Child | no | 33 | an awkward mix of real events and reenactments | |
| Blinky & Me | no | documentary about animator Yoram Gross | ||
| Hollywood to Dollywood | no | for Dolly Parton fans only | ||
| animated | ||||
| Toys in the Attic | yes | 73 | *Whimsy and menace | |
| Frankenweenie | so-so | 85 | 85 | *another Tim Burton stop-action horror flick |
| Hotel Transylvania | so-so | 44 | 38 | It should have resulted in funnier fare. |
| regular movies | ||||
| The Thieves | yes | 100 | a stylish mix of light romance and dark crime caper. | |
| Looper | yes | 94 | 95 | *coolly smart, head-spinning |
| Argo | yes | 94 | 95 | *based on a true story … well acted and directed |
| Compliance | yes | 88 | 88 | taut and unsettling |
| Robot & Frank | yes | 88 | 86 | *Charming, playful and sly |
| Sleepwalk With Me | yes | 88 | 82 | a funny take on relationships |
| The Trouble With the Truth | yes | 88 | an equitable, tender, sometimes surprising game of hard truth-telling | |
| Keep the Lights On | yes | 87 | 92 | a romance between two men |
| The Master | yes | 87 | 92 | *bristling with vivid moments and unbeatable acting |
| End of Watch | yes | 85 | 89 | gritty, humorous and moving |
| Arbitrage | yes | 84 | 83 | a sophisticated swing at a hedge-fund magnate |
| Middle of Nowhere | yes | 83 | 70 | deft, moving and complex |
| The Hole | yes | 81 | scary fun; dive in | |
| Alps | yes | 79 | 67 | a landscape of altered reality |
| Premium Rush | yes | 74 | 82 | *a tightly wound, radically fresh slice of street action |
| Sinister | yes | 62 | 48 | *delivers authentic chills |
| Solomon Kane | yes | 62 | 40 | *gets action-adventure just right |
| Trouble With the Curve | yes | 54 | 58 | amiable, old-fashioned |
| The Good Doctor | yes | 53 | 71 | creepy and cool |
| Hermano | yes | 50 | Soccer meets street life in this familiar but winning Venezuelan film. | |
| Vulgaria | yes | 44 | sees modern life in wise if raunchy ways | |
| The Paperboy | yes | 39 | 55 | *a dark, angrily steaming tale |
| The Possession | yes | 38 | 38 | *A better-than-most fright-time tale |
| Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best | yes | 35 | a charming indie ode to musical dreams | |
| Now, Forager | yes | 20 | an authentic portrayal of harvesting and cooking | |
| Taken 2 | yes | 19 | 30 | revenge, action, violence, Liam Neeson |
| Backwards | yes | 14 | 11 | is a warm film about competitive rowing |
| Masquerade | yes | a fanciful but entertaining bit of court intrigue. | ||
| Fat Kid Rules the World | so-so | 94 | 88 | endearingly uneven |
| The Master | so-so | 85 | 84 | cryptic to no good end |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | so-so | 84 | 83 | A bit unsteady but winsome |
| Smashed | so-so | 82 | 80 | offers nothing new to say about alcohol addiction |
| Samsara | so-so | 82 | 63 | a frustrating beauty |
| Wuthering Heights | so-so | 76 | 71 | a stark, muddied affair |
| Hello I Must Be Going | so-so | 75 | 85 | lets us down in the second half |
| Pitch Perfect | so-so | 74 | 77 | essentially a college version of 'Glee' |
| The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate | so-so | 74 | 71 | overstuffed with plot and characters |
| 17 Girls | so-so | 65 | 56 | atmospheric but thin fiction |
| 10 Years | so-so | 63 | 67 | there's a lot of been-there, done-that going on. |
| Liberal Arts | so-so | 61 | 50 | gets a C |
| Stars in Shorts | so-so | 58 | 67 | none of the shorts is groundbreaking, but none is terrible either. |
| The Eye of the Storm | so-so | 58 | 42 | off-and-on impressive |
| Little Birds | so-so | 50 | 60 | promising and frustrating |
| War of the Buttons | so-so | 23 | 17 | never ventures far afield in this take on the French Resistance |
| My Uncle Rafael | so-so | 20 | elicits plenty of goofy chuckles | |
| Home Run Showdown | so-so | an amiable sports-as-life throwback | ||
| Pickin' and Grinnin | so-so | not without its raggedy charms and sporadic chuckles | ||
| West of Thunder | so-so | curiously engaging, despite flaws. | ||
| Almost Perfect | so-so | lacks oomph | ||
| The Bullet Vanishes | no | 91 | 80 | No story but lots of action |
| Seven Psychopaths | no | 84 | 73 | can't handle its own crazy |
| Fred Won't Move Out | no | 80 | 80 | neither here nor there |
| Chicken With Plums | no | 77 | 82 | half-baked |
| Dredd 3D | no | 76 | 64 | a clunk-headed action picture. |
| Unconditional | no | 67 | 60 | gets bogged down in platitudes |
| Lawless | no | 65 | 54 | is a bloody, cliched mess |
| Red Hook Summer | no | 63 | 53 | fizzles as much as it fumes |
| Bachelorette | no | 54 | 54 | a caustic, drunken tragedy — with lipstick |
| The Inbetweeners | no | 52 | 45 | just another bawdy spring break movie |
| V/H/S | no | 52 | 42 | punctures a hole in itself, causing ambience bleed-out |
| The Tall Man | no | 50 | 29 | one tall tale too many |
| Bait | no | 50 | sounds tempting but is mostly blah | |
| Here Comes the Boom | no | 44 | 24 | no knockout |
| Little White Lies | no | 42 | 15 | overstays its welcome and squanders its talented cast |
| Frankie Go Boom | no | 38 | 44 | is more 'Frankie Go Bust' |
| Starry Starry Night | no | 38 | skims the surface | |
| Butter | no | 35 | 26 | butter sculpture |
| Won't Back Down | no | 34 | 18 | blames a teachers union for a failing school |
| The Oogieloves | no | 33 | 33 | ineffectual and disengaging |
| Resident Evil: Retribution | no | 32 | 18 | zombies, slaughter and hyperviolent sci-fi |
| Special Forces | no | 18 | 17 | More video game than cinema |
| Supercapitalist | no | 18 | 0 | dull, hectoring |
| The Words | no | 17 | 18 | can't add up to much of a film |
| Excuse Me for Living | no | 14 | 14 | a comedy that only an old, out-of-touch billionaire could love. |
| Branded | no | 13 | convoluted and pretentious | |
| House at the End of the Street | no | 12 | 18 | why all the teen melodrama? |
| The Victim | no | 11 | a cringeworthy thriller that has nothing going for it. | |
| The Cold Light of Day | no | 7 | 0 | a thriller that lacks suspense |
| The Apparition | no | 3 | 14 | lacking either body heat or visceral suspense. |
| Atlas Shrugged Part II: The Strike | no | 0 | 0 | blandly mediocre |
| Last Ounce of Courage | no | 0 | weighed down by zealotry | |
| You May Not Kiss the Bride | no | 0 | Rob Hedden's romantic comedy is really neither. | |
| R2B | no | offers high-octane thrills but the storytelling stalls out. | ||
| Raaz 3 | no | [Bollywood] cheesy movie horror | ||
| Blue Collar Boys | no | should just clock out | ||
| Barfi! | no | slapstick, pathos and, at times, grinding irritation | ||
| 186 Dollars to Freedom | no | Sun, surf and a sexy girlfriend give way to why-me indignity | ||
| Just 45 Minutes From Broadway | no | an investment in theatrical self-indulgence with diminishing returns | ||
| Blues for Willadean | no | set among the beer-drinkin' denizens of a Texas trailer park | ||
| #HoldYourBreath | no | deserves a one-word tweet: don't |