| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| The Crash Reel | yes | 100 | extreme-sports up-and-comer Kevin Pearce | |
| Twenty Feet From Stardom | yes | 97 | 100 | puts backup singers center stage |
| Call Me Kuchu | yes | 97 | 100 | an unnerving look at Ugandan LGBT struggle |
| Stories We Tell | yes | 96 | 91 | *complexities and contradictions within her own family |
| A Band Called Death | yes | 94 | 100 | *embryonic punk visionaries |
| Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story | yes | 92 | 83 | excellent examination of his controversial work |
| Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay | yes | 90 | 100 | *into the you-won't-trust-your-eyes world |
| Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself | yes | 89 | 100 | an engaging life story told in his words |
| We Steal Secrets | yes | 85 | 86 | a thriller about WikiLeaks |
| Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie | yes | 83 | 100 | as fair a portrayal the weak-chinned warrior will get |
| Dirty Wars | yes | 83 | 73 | the war on terror in the Middle East and Africa |
| Bidder 70 | yes | 78 | 60 | *U of Utah student bids on 12 parcels for oil and drilling rights |
| Becoming Traviata | yes | 73 | 86 | [an] exquisitely observed look at performance and the creative process |
| How To Make Money Selling Drugs | yes | 72 | 69 | *slick guide to dope dealing, evolves into something far more vital |
| Somm | yes | 69 | 70 | Wine, men and one brutal test |
| State 194 | yes | 67 | a smart look at the Israeli-Palestinian struggle | |
| Free the Mind | yes | 60 | drug-free options to treat anxiety and trauma. | |
| Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp | yes | 60 | a rough but fascinating warts-and-all bio | |
| Valentino's Ghost | yes | American media's often negative portrayals of Arabs and Muslims | ||
| Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer | yes | feels important, if not fully complete. | ||
| The Girls in the Band | yes | sheds light on the unsung female jazz instrumentalists of the 30s and 40s | ||
| Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm | yes | Loose and ragtag, stirring and poignant | ||
| Big Men | yes | hits a gusher of oil and greed | ||
| Gasland Part II | yes | plays out like an environmental horror movie. | ||
| Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me | so-so | 95 | 92 | overall, it's still a skillfully rendered narrative |
| Downloaded | so-so | 67 | 50 | tells the rise-and-fall tragedy of Napster |
| Free China: The Courage to Believe | so-so | healthy outrage … almost undone by a lack of nuance | ||
| Married and Counting | so-so | things can get a bit mawkish | ||
| Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain | no | 72 | 62 | isn't as funny as previous concert films. |
| One Track Heart | no | 64 | 71 | fan letter of a documentary. |
| Pandora's Promise | no | 56 | 45 | nuclear power: Opposing voices would have helped. |
| The Secret Disco Revolution | no | 41 | 40 | is far from music to your ears |
| The Second Meeting | no | a stagy letdown | ||
| animated | ||||
| Despicable Me 2 | yes | 75 | 82 | *It's still fun but it should be a little more despicable. |
| The Painting | so-so | 71 | 60 | its big ideas about equality and friendship are flatly 2-D. |
| Epic | so-so | 63 | 41 | has the right elements, but can't pull them together |
| Monsters University | no | 77 | 74 | Go to the bottom of the class |
| regular movies | ||||
| A Hijacking | yes | 98 | 93 | fine Danish thriller from Tobias Lindholm |
| Hannah Arendt | yes | 95 | 88 | captivating depiction of a committed life |
| The History of Future Folk | yes | 93 | 100 | sweetly wacky ultra-low-budget sci-fi comedy. |
| The Attack | yes | 93 | 93 | deftly explores emotions after suicide bombing |
| The Hunt | yes | 93 | 92 | *a searing study of a single lie's aftermath |
| Frances Ha | yes | 91 | 91 | a charming portrait of youth and spirit |
| Fruitvale Station | yes | 90 | 88 | *skillfully balances hope and despair |
| Still Mine | yes | 89 | Growing old with grace and dignity | |
| Welcome to Pine Hill | yes | 88 | 100 | real-life situations and characters with fictionalized narrative threads |
| The Way, Way Back | yes | 87 | 91 | *has a sweet side and a sting |
| Star Trek Into Darkness | yes | 87 | 80 | *bursting at the seams with enemies |
| This Is the End | yes | 85 | 84 | *a towering inferno of fun |
| What Maisie Knew | yes | 84 | 82 | gives a child's eye view of divorce |
| Fill the Void | yes | 83 | 88 | a transfixing, emotionally complex Israeli drama |
| Aliyah | yes | 83 | 80 | *evokes the existential character studies of the '70s |
| Augustine | yes | 81 | 100 | Jean-Martin Charcot and the teenage kitchen maid Augustine |
| You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet | yes | 80 | 92 | *a crafty, brainy and uniquely stirring concoction |
| Much Ado About Nothing | yes | 80 | 89 | a tasty snack for Bard lovers |
| Bhaag Milkha Bhaag | yes | 80 | a stirring bio of Milkha Singh | |
| Pieta | yes | 77 | 83 | capitalism's emotional wreckage |
| The East | yes | 73 | 63 | turns corporate malfeasance into a spy game |
| Fast & Furious 6 | yes | 72 | 78 | blinding speed, et al. It's enough to give you whiplash … in a good way. |
| Pacific Rim | yes | 72 | 67 | *Del Toro makes magic with monsters |
| Wish You Were Here | yes | 69 | 54 | an intriguing vacation-gone-wrong thriller |
| World War Z | yes | 68 | 71 | *the smartly done film is fun and thrilling to watch |
| Tiger Eyes | yes | 65 | 75 | a sensitive coming-of-age indie film |
| The Prey | yes | 63 | 60 | A … solid nail-biter about a prisoner on the run. |
| The Heat | yes | 62 | 69 | a bosom-buddy cop comedy |
| Lesser Blessed | yes | 60 | painfully and poetically told | |
| The Wall | yes | 59 | 86 | a gripping tale of survival, loss, fate and other big themes |
| Byzantium | yes | 58 | 48 | *conjures vampires with human touch |
| Post Tenebras Lux | yes | 51 | 57 | a visually striking archaeology |
| Rapture-Palooza | yes | 31 | 50 | blood rain, cursing locusts and the Antichrist's amorous intentions |
| Java Heat | yes | 9 | 0 | the explosions: they're big and gosh-darned beautiful. |
| Wild Horses | yes | wild horses herded by helicopter into pens to the slaughterhouse. | ||
| In the Fog | yes | Intimate in the telling, sweeping in the implications | ||
| Before Midnight | so-so | 97 | 95 | like its characters, is showing its age |
| 100 Bloody Acres | so-so | 90 | 78 | revels giddily in flying body parts and rom-com entanglements. |
| Shadow Dancer | so-so | 82 | 64 | a fairly conventional template for informant-story tension |
| Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus | so-so | 81 | 90 | not exactly the Holy Grail of road movies |
| Laurence Anyways | so-so | 80 | 85 | an intriguing, oddly satisfying conceit |
| An Oversimplification of Her Beauty | so-so | 79 | 100 | There are times you wish [it] would be a bit, well, simpler. |
| The Kings of Summer | so-so | 76 | 69 | rough around the edges … [with] engaging cleverness and cast. |
| Man of Steel | so-so | 56 | 54 | Henry Cavill soars over an erratic plot |
| Some Girl(s) | so-so | 52 | 40 | women scorned |
| White House Down | so-so | 47 | 50 | hard to believe, easy to enjoy |
| Vehicle 19 | so-so | 27 | 29 | A serviceable if silly B-movie |
| A Green Story | so-so | 17 | a sudsy tale of man's American dream | |
| Hello Herman | so-so | 17 | well-meaning but unfocused | |
| From the Head | so-so | an enjoyably miserablist episodic rhythm | ||
| 1 Mile Above | so-so | spins out man's trek with little insight | ||
| Unfinished Song | no | 64 | 62 | hits all the rote notes |
| The Look of Love | no | 61 | 58 | remains a curiously uninvolving affair. |
| Bling Ring | no | 61 | 56 | a pretty, empty Hollywood tale |
| Detention of the Dead | no | 60 | a horror-comedy that's neither scary nor funny | |
| American Mary | no | 58 | 50 | slack and unfocused after an enticingly lurid, wickedly tense first half |
| I'm So Excited! | no | 51 | 50 | a lark with too much of this and too much of that |
| Redemption | no | 51 | 40 | Brains-over-brawn approach doesn't quite work |
| Maniac | no | 49 | 29 | self-serious visual style reinforces how unnecessary the remake was. |
| The English Teacher | no | 44 | 50 | wastes a fine cast |
| Now You See Me | no | 43 | 26 | a not-so-magical game of cat and mouse |
| Black Rock | no | 42 | 43 | uneven girls-versus-boys thriller |
| The Purge | no | 41 | 21 | dreary exploitation slog, B-horror tropes and bloodletting |
| The Hot Flashes | no | 40 | 30 | a charmless basketball romp |
| Between Us | no | 40 | makes a mess of 2 marriages | |
| The Rambler | no | 38 | a handsome nothing, at least until you get sick of the screaming | |
| The Internship | no | 32 | 24 | a one-liner forged into a two-hour joke. |
| The Lone Ranger | no | 25 | 11 | Lost on the plain |
| Erased | no | 24 | 31 | lacks originality but not cliches |
| Violet & Daisy | no | 23 | 19 | ultimately falls victim to a credibility gap |
| Hangover Part III | no | 21 | 19 | just one long headache |
| 33 Postcards | no | 21 | 17 | strained redemption drama |
| The Guillotines | no | 20 | 20 | a bait-and-switch for wuxia fans stoked for steel-meets-flesh mayhem |
| Pawn Shop Chronicles | no | 18 | 0 | "Pulp Fiction" is still inspiring imitators |
| Killing Season | no | 14 | 0 | Robert De Niro, John Travolta, tedium |
| Copperhead | no | 14 | might have worked if not for a poor sense of storytelling. | |
| After Earth | no | 12 | 11 | crashes after take-off |
| The Stroller Strategy | no | 11 | 14 | a goofy, episodic trifle |
| Just Like a Woman | no | 9 | 14 | wishes it were 'Thelma & Louise' |
| Grown Ups 2 | no | 7 | 9 | refuses to leave the sandbox |
| Rushlights | no | 0 | 0 | a con job on every level |
| I Do | no | 0 | sweet, sincere, yet ultimately tepid | |
| 3 Geezers | no | Raunchy, imbecilic and so not funny | ||
| Free Samples | no | drags by no fault of its delightfully sour lead | ||
| Lost and Found in Armenia | no | a lost cause | ||
| Stepping High | no | LMAO! | ||
| L.A. Superheroes | no | more of a random yakfest … than the [intended] zippy comic thriller |