LAT	RTMC	RTC
documentary
56 Up	yes	100	100	*"Seven Up" continued 49 years later
Sound City	yes	100	100	*homage to recording studio equipment
Girl Rising	yes	100		unforgiving obstacles faced by girls in developing countries
Beware of Mr. Baker	yes	97	93	*a vivid portrait of a rock icon
One Life	yes	95	100	*an intimate look at the life cycles of animals around the world
West of Memphis	yes	95	89	*a 1993 triple murder probe got it wrong
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters	yes	93	100	*an epic photo installation, "Beneath the Roses."
Koch	yes	89	92	neither fawning nor eviscerating but always compelling.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga	yes	88	93	the people of Bakhta [,Siberia]
Bestiaire	yes	88	88	an instinctive world and one of human intervention.
A Place at the Table	yes	86	88	*examines hungry Americans' plight
Uprising	yes	82	71	the Egyptian revolution of early 2011
Genius on Hold	yes	80		*unsung telecommunications inventor Walter Shaw
Hitler's Children	yes	77	67	how descendants of key Nazis have grappled with their legacy.
Greedy Lying Bastards	yes	75	69	A timely debate on global warming
Let Fury Have the Hour	yes	42	38	the smart and inspiring
Sellebrity	yes			a vivid look at the megabucks industry of celebrity photography
Mondays at Racine	yes			an intimate and surprisingly uplifting portrait
Inocente	yes			the power of this 15-year-old teen's art and the power of her story
King's Point	yes			a Florida paradise … a garden of discontent
Redemption	yes			those who scratch out a living collecting bottles and cans in NYC
The Bitter Buddha	yes			Eddie Pepitone, the funniest stand-up comedian you've never heard of
Stuck	yes			a cogent push for adopting needy children from Third World countries
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey	so-so	66	62	a pleasant story of dreams coming true.
Young Turks	so-so			amateurish aesthetic noodlings
Open Heart	so-so			Rwanden children dying of rheumatic heart disease
Only the Young	no	80		never zero[s] in on an involving structure or narrative.
FrackNation	no	60		a one-sided attack piece
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary	no	42	43	skewed
animated
Escape From Planet Earth	yes	24	60	*though it's not quite out of this world, it's still feel-good fun.
The Rabbi's Cat	so-so	93	86	wild and vivid, exceptionally talky
Walter & Tandoori's Christmas	so-so			Harmless if not particularly noteworthy
regular movies
Resolution	yes	100		*a strangely tense [,horrifying] and humorous meta-narrative
Barbara	yes	95	100	a doctor trying to maintain her humanity in East Germany
War Witch	yes	94	100	a girl in sub-Saharan Africa who is kidnapped by rebels
Caesar Must Die	yes	93	92	*Shakespeare like you've never seen
Yossi	yes	93	90	effortlessly affecting, graced with deadpan humor
Zero Dark Thirty	yes	93	88	*cinematic storytelling at its most effective
Tchoupitoulas	yes	92	100	*a jewel-bright whoosh of a ride through nighttime New Orleans
Amour	yes	92	95	*a perfect storm of a motion picture
Lore	yes	90	100	a distinct coming-of-age tale in Nazi Germany
No	yes	89	87	*tells a composite story about the vote that toppled Chile's Pinochet
Django Unchained	yes	89	79	*Tarantino unleashed
Beyond the Hills	yes	88	86	demanding but always engrossing
Side Effects	yes	86	84	is so well done that implausibility is irrelevant
The Silence	yes	84	80	chills us to the core not once but two times over.
Like Someone in Love	yes	82	94	elegant and mysterious
In Another Country	yes	81	100	a beguiling set of variations on a theme
The Impossible	yes	80	77	*the 2004 tsunami
Bless Me, Ultima	yes	77	91	*A deeply satisfying feat of storytelling
Les Miserables	yes	72	63	Vive 'Les Miserables' in all its over-the-top glory
Stoker	yes	69	63	*a darkly wicked, beautifully executed mystery
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files	yes	67	75	A hybrid of documentary and fiction
I Am Not a Hipster	yes	60		a film to relish
The End of Love	yes	57	44	*an exceptionally intimate, human-scaled picture.
The Last Stand	yes	57	42	a movie content with just being good, old-fashioned fun.
Kai Po Che	yes	57	40	three male friends bonding through cricket
This Is 40	yes	50	53	midlife crisis, laughs by Judd Apatow
The Sweeney	yes	49	40	a briskly involving British crime entertainment of the old school.
On the Road	yes	46	42	poetic adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel
Beautiful Creatures	yes	45	46	*an intriguing, intelligent enigma
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola	yes	33		energetic, whimsical
The Last Exorcism Part II	yes	13	22	*an effectively unnerving, slow-burn supernatural horror tale
War of the Worlds: The True Story	yes			*hugely inventive and ambitious concoction
Electrick Children	so-so	85	100	unevenly told and at times too fanciful for its own good
Warm Bodies	so-so	76	63	romantic schmaltz and horror cheese
The Monk	so-so	64	44	rich in atmospherics but threatens to tip into parody
Oz the Great and Powerful	so-so	61	32	a rough slog on the yellow brick road
John Dies at the End	so-so	58	53	an enjoyable but uneven genre experiment.
Would You Rather	so-so	53	29	hardly a most dangerous game night at the movies.
Clandestine Childhood	so-so	50	43	a sincere effort but also rather sincerely a meager one too.
The Playroom	so-so	44	63	often feels posed and inert [,but] strikes more than a few chords
Shanghai Calling	so-so	42	50	fish-out-of-water jokes, meet-cutes, silly coincidences, happy endings.
Parker	so-so	38	39	The violent film isn't without its 'huh?' moments
Phantom	so-so	26	17	a modest thriller … a strong cast and straightforward storytelling.
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III	so-so	12	21	a noodling indulgence[,] alternately freewheeling and dead in the water
Whatcha Wearin'	so-so			a few hours of featherweight fun
Tabu	no	85	78	undercut by its own ambition
Jack Reacher	no	61	37	too much of a stretch for Tom Cruise
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away	no	56	47	mostly a pretense to show performances from seven Cirque shows.
Snitch	no	54	54	Too much talk and not enough action
Jack the Giant Slayer	no	53	50	Nothing magic about 'Jack the Giant Slayer'
Promised Land	no	48	45	a fight over fracking turns too gimmicky to finish satisfyingly.
Bullet to the Head	no	47	46	blunt, gleefully dumb
Dead Man Down	no	38	22	twists itself into knots
The Guilt Trip	no	37	45	Better they'd stayed home
Dark Skies	no	36	25	The plotting and focus are pretty spotty
LUV	no	35	47	trite machinations
Emperor	no	35	23	misplaced priorities
Let My People Go!	no	33	13	falls short of the intended hilarity
21 and Over	no	30	32	celebrates selfishness, stupidity
Saving Lincoln	no	29	0	comes off as amateurish.
Identity Thief	no	24	26	The script for this revenge/road trip farce is a mess
Broken City	no	24	23	broken
Knife Fight	no	24	22	just plain dull
Struck by Lightning	no	24	15	a flat coming-of-age tale
The Berlin File	no	22	20	spy mission comes up short
Inescapable	no	21	13	full of flaws
Texas Chainsaw 3D	no	20	11	has little to offer beyond gore
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters	no	17	7	isn't nearly as clever as the original tale
Parental Guidance	no	16	33	crass antics and far too little warmth.
A Good Day to Die Hard	no	16	10	an uninspired effort
Safe Haven	no	13	10	can't find refuge from a cheesy story
A Haunted House	no	9	11	a troubled parody of found-footage horror movies
Girls Against Boys	no	8	8	both sides lose
A Dark Truth	no	8	0	[an] unconvincing potboiler
Movie 43	no	3	8	comedy shorts … short on comedy
Brief Reunion	no	0	0	unwinds as a boilerplate genre item.
The Condemned	no	0		A good idea for a ghost story is dead on arrival
Guns, Girls and Gambling	no			doesn't add up to fun
Hidden Moon	no			Hokey romanticism and uninspired performances
The Tower	no			heavy on effects but thin on story
Officer Down	no			an unfocused jumble.
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia	no			at times nearly incoherent
Lost in Thailand	no			Jokes fly, but don't travel well
Power of Few	no			The story goes nowhere fast in this flat crime drama.
Camp	no			a bland, by-the-numbers approach to [its] vital subject
Almost in Love	no			fades in and out
I, Me Aur Main	no			Cookie-cutter moralizing