| LAT | RTMC | RTC | ||
| documentary | ||||
| The Only Real Game | yes | 100 | 100 | hits a grand slam in |
| Bound by Flesh | yes | 100 | 100 | an absorbing look at famed conjoined twins |
| Manakamana | yes | 100 | 100 | an absorbing, voyeuristic portrait of humanity |
| Hanna Ranch | yes | 100 | the battles of an 'eco-cowboy | |
| Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case | yes | 95 | 92 | shows Ai Weiwei under duress, pushing on |
| Code Black | yes | 94 | 88 | a riveting doctor's-eye view of the emergency room |
| The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | yes | 90 | 81 | will leave you heartsick as well as more than a little angry |
| Llyn Foulkes One Man Band | yes | 90 | 80 | paints odd picture of artist Llyn Foulkes |
| The Case Against 8 | yes | 88 | 100 | Prop 8:engagingly presented |
| The Hornet's Nest | yes | 86 | 100 | embeds you |
| Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia | yes | 83 | 70 | piercing wit rarely exhibited by today's movie heroes and villains |
| American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs | yes | 83 | a superb look at the activist | |
| Fed Up | yes | 82 | 92 | Galvanizing ... takes a hard look at the food industry |
| Ivory Tower | yes | 81 | 92 | Is college, specifically the elite four-year residential model, overrated? |
| Breastmilk | yes | 78 | 80 | an intimate chronicle of women's, experts' views |
| Korengal | yes | 76 | 89 | looks at the psychological effects after the battle |
| Cyber-Seniors | yes | 75 | 86 | a fun look at seniors bridging digital divide |
| Documented | yes | 71 | 57 | gives first-person account of Dream Act fight |
| Now: In the Wings on a World Stage | yes | 54 | 54 | captures and conveys the romance of the theatrical experience |
| Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | so-so | 74 | 73 | breezy good fun if you don't examine it too hard |
| Burt's Buzz | so-so | 70 | 67 | engaging but not always satisfying |
| Under the Electric Sky | so-so | 63 | promotes Electric Daisy Carnival | |
| American Jesus | so-so | 57 | a superficial look at Protestant subcultures in U.S. | |
| Citizen Koch | so-so | 53 | 54 | is pure advocacy documentary |
| DamNation | so-so | 50 | 40 | a convincing argument for systemic dam removal |
| La Bare | no | 80 | a feature-length ad for the Dallas male strip club | |
| Before You Know It | no | 79 | 83 | reveals little about gay seniors |
| Next Year Jerusalem | no | a brief, at times random, routinely shot and edited video diary | ||
| This Is Not a Ball | no | the subject is a tough sell as a feature-length documentary | ||
| animated | ||||
| Postman Pat | yes | 47 | *First-class; delivers in fine style | |
| Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | no | 16 | 0 | lacks brains, heart, nerve |
| regular movies | ||||
| The Amazing Catfish | yes | 100 | an ideal balance between understated realism and hopeful poignancy | |
| We Are the Best! | yes | 97 | 100 | an exuberant punk rock tale |
| Snowpiercer | yes | 93 | 95 | *Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | yes | 92 | 93 | *revives mutants' fighting spirit |
| Dance of Reality | yes | 92 | 88 | keeps Jodorowsky's childhood surreal |
| How to Train Your Dragon 2 | yes | 91 | 97 | *packs emotional firepower in a rip-roaring ride |
| Edge of Tomorrow | yes | 90 | 87 | *saves the day |
| Cold in July | yes | 89 | 90 | *turns up the pulp fiction heat with Texas tale |
| Chef | yes | 88 | 86 | *has all the ingredients for a hit |
| Redwood Highway | yes | 88 | pokey but downright charming | |
| The Immigrant | yes | 86 | 92 | in the end the ideas are so rich, the look so lovely |
| The Discoverers | yes | 86 | 78 | an offbeat road trip into family healing |
| 22 Jump Street | yes | 85 | 87 | pokes its R-rated finger at everything — hilariously |
| Night Moves | yes | 83 | 81 | What happens when a seemingly righteous operation goes wrong |
| The Double | yes | 82 | 77 | is tense and charming |
| Coherence | yes | 81 | 58 | Mind-bending, without ever seeming off-puttingly brainy |
| The Fault in Our Stars | yes | 80 | 77 | elevates sad story by cutting the sap |
| The Last Sentence | yes | 77 | 70 | about a man whose life was more complicated than the world knew. |
| Chinese Puzzle | yes | 75 | 61 | a buoyant and bittersweet romantic adventure |
| Neighbors | yes | 73 | 74 | *Naughty[, but] a good mix of the silly and sweet |
| Palo Alto | yes | 72 | 72 | conjures restless, unformed youth |
| A Coffee in Berlin | yes | 71 | 64 | a deep cup of German present and past |
| The Rover | yes | 65 | 58 | *chilling, intense |
| Million Dollar Arm | yes | 61 | 53 | tosses out a nice softball |
| Heli | yes | 60 | 58 | a stunning piece of filmmaking |
| The Signal | yes | 56 | 58 | *a mind-blowing experience |
| Jersey Boys | yes | 54 | 61 | old-school entertainment with surprising edge |
| The Girl and Death | yes | 31 | 29 | watching the paint dry is worth the wait |
| Blended | yes | 14 | 10 | *Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, fun |
| The Retrieval | so-so | 92 | 100 | a trek through dilemmas of slavery, manhood |
| For a Woman | so-so | 89 | 100 | a soapy yet compelling tale of marriage, family |
| Borgman | so-so | 88 | 93 | mixes mayhem, murder in a mostly compelling ride |
| Obvious Child | so-so | 88 | 83 | A work in progress that somehow hooks you anyway. |
| Elena | so-so | 87 | 86 | repetition takes hold in the second half |
| Violette | so-so | 84 | 87 | an epic portrait ... but is unevenly plotted |
| Dormant Beauty | so-so | 82 | 100 | The proportions of the narrative strands sometimes feel off |
| Godzilla | so-so | 73 | 67 | plays it a little too cool |
| Policeman | so-so | 68 | 86 | a loss of plausibility as well as credibility as events progress |
| They Came Together | so-so | 67 | 50 | a so-so lampoon of boy-meets-girl |
| Trust Me | so-so | 52 | 55 | is fun but gets convoluted |
| Maleficent | so-so | 50 | 45 | not-quite-classic; Angelina Jolie is wickedly good |
| Yves Saint Laurent | so-so | 45 | 45 | captures the fashion but not the feeling |
| The Human Race | so-so | 45 | extreme blood spattering and loosey-goosey plotting | |
| Words and Pictures | so-so | 39 | 30 | melodrama can almost be forgiven |
| The Fatal Encounter | so-so | a pumped-up historical Korean drama | ||
| One Candle, Two Candles | so-so | proves worthwhile at least as a cultural curio | ||
| Test | no | 88 | 86 | says little about gay life in the 1980s |
| Lucky Them | no | 77 | 79 | chases after a vanished rock 'n' roll legend |
| Nothing Bad Can Happen | no | 74 | 40 | contradicts itself: It's cruel |
| Young & Beautiful | no | 73 | 75 | yet lacking in grace |
| Begin Again | no | 72 | 52 | [it's] music more appealing than its story |
| Rigor Mortis | no | 64 | 57 | a disorienting Hong Kong horror flick |
| The Sacrament | no | 64 | 36 | something first creepy, then puzzling |
| Broken | no | 63 | 64 | a crime thriller that blurs lines between criminal and victim |
| Filth | no | 63 | 60 | an over-the-top wallow in the gutter |
| The Big Ask | no | 63 | fails to expand on questionable premise | |
| The Grand Seduction | no | 62 | 63 | as unmemorable as the original version |
| Hellion | no | 61 | 45 | finds itself in cinematic limbo |
| Chaplin of the Mountains | no | 60 | feels like an overambitious film-school thesis | |
| Ping Pong Summer | no | 54 | 33 | serves up '80s without the fun nostalgia |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | no | 53 | 43 | doesn't add up to a satisfying whole |
| Miss Lovely | no | 50 | 57 | underdeveloped |
| Age of Uprising | no | 50 | 33 | never quite rises to the challenge |
| Emoticon ;) | no | 50 | agreeable but unnecessary family drama | |
| Wolf Creek 2 | no | 48 | 29 | can't match original |
| All Cheerleaders Die | no | 48 | 27 | has little to root for |
| A Night in Old Mexico | no | 44 | 22 | a waste for Robert Duvall |
| Anna | no | 38 | drops a big hint and spoils the old-fashioned mystery | |
| A Million Ways to Die in the West | no | 33 | 37 | shoots self in foot |
| I Am I | no | 33 | 20 | about a woman's daddy issues, raises ick factor |
| Lullaby | no | 31 | 0 | in desperate need of a respirator. Stat. |
| God's Pocket | no | 30 | 31 | is empty of the Philip Seymour Hoffman you want |
| Burning Blue | no | 27 | 20 | treats 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' era awkwardly |
| The Love Punch | no | 27 | 13 | not a direct comedy hit |
| Think Like a Man Too | no | 24 | 18 | way too much of a good thing |
| Devil's Knot | no | 22 | 29 | offers desolate view of West Memphis Three |
| Third Person | no | 20 | 20 | maddens far more than it intrigues |
| Radio Free Albemuth | no | 20 | Convoluted; succumbs to dated sci-fi plot | |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | no | 18 | 6 | things get Bayed — big time |
| Mom's Night Out | no | 17 | 7 | a one-dimensional bore |
| The Moment | no | 13 | 20 | badly jumbled, gets lost in a woman's mind |
| The Angriest Man in Brooklyn | no | 12 | 0 | Expect a shout fest from |
| Don Peyote | no | 8 | a tedious look at a paranoid stoner's emotional and spiritual unraveling | |
| 50 to 1 | no | 0 | can't overcome its long odds | |
| Chapman | no | is dull and thinly plotted | ||
| How We Got Away With It | no | gets away from the actors | ||
| Stage Fright | no | a lame mashup of horror and show tunes | ||
| The Odd Way Home | no | a lost cause | ||
| Big Gay Love | no | discombobulated ... hiding a sweet, funny, universal story | ||
| The World Famous Kid Detective | no | plays more like a potential Disney Channel pilot | ||
| No Tears for the Dead | no | sheds blood at story's expense | ||
| Redemption Trail | no | bogs down in excessive restraint |