LAT	RTMC	RTC	note: “~” = the film's name
documentary
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me	yes	100	100	tracks ailing singer's farewell tour
The Invisible Front	yes	100	100	delves into the Lithuanian resistance against the USSR
National Gallery	yes	100	100	a portrait of humanity on canvas and on-screen
Virunga	yes	100		captures drama of African rangers guarding gorillas
Night Will Fall	yes	100		a masterfully constructed look at an obscure chapter of Holocaust history
Overnighters	yes	98	100	*an intimate chronicle of boomtown job seekers
Citizenfour	yes	97	100	*a compelling look at Edward Snowden's actions
Little Hope Was Arson	yes	92	80	explores fallout from East Texas church fires
The Great Invisible	yes	88	91	delves into Deepwater Horizon oil spill
E-Team	yes	88	83	delves into Human Rights Watch investigators' work
Happy Valley	yes	87	92	a thorough, thoughtful and disturbing doc of the Penn State scandal
Antarctica: A Year on Ice	yes	83	89	epic visuals and the small-scale personal stories
Point and Shoot	yes	78	72	a curious documentary ... [about] getting caught up in the Libyan cause
Merchants of Doubt	yes	77		*It gives a peek behind the curtain of how public opinion is formed
Plot for Peace	yes	71	80	remarkable story ... as thrilling as it is edifying
Magical Universe	yes	63		enters one man's world of Barbies
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People	yes	59	56	it's only through the eyes of black photographers that we see differently
Flamenco	yes	53	50	another dazzling Carlos Saura tribute to dance
Botso	yes			an inspiring lesson in endurance and optimism
The Hadza:Last of the First	yes			an academic but valuable look at Africa's Hadza
Warsaw Uprising	yes			when Poland fought back
True Son	yes			follows power of youthful conviction in politics
Occupy the Farm	yes			the guerrilla agriculture didn't sit well with UC officials
Shadows From My Past	yes			confronts Austria's role in the Holocaust
Little White Lie	yes			nice Jewish girl finds her true racial origins
25 to Life	yes			HIV positive man becomes an advocate
Pelican Dreams	so-so	100	100	Whatever you think you know about pelicans, [it] will surprise you.
A World Not Ours	so-so	100		Alternately moving and frustrating
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago	so-so	85	75	some begin as tourists and end up as pilgrims
On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter	so-so	55	50	sequel rides in as energetic eye candy
Yakona	so-so			would have been more potent had it been a 40-minute short
All You Need Is Love	so-so			a heartfelt if limited portrait
Food Chains	no	89	80	Farmworkers ill served by ~
Death Metal Angola	no	83		proves more rookie effort than rock film
21 Years: Richard Linklater	no	42	43	I suppose we'll have to wait for "42 Years: Richard Linklater"
Lakay	no			having a great time amid the devastation
Last Patrol	no			Sebastian Junger can't seem to get war 'out of his system
Getting to the Nutcracker	no			a corps story without a dramatic core
animated
Big Hero 6	yes	91	89	*a huggable robo-hero pops up in the future
Giovanni's Island	no	83		a heavy-handed, familiar fantasy
Penguins of Madagascar	no	72	56	run ... afowl?
regular movies
The Babadook	yes	98	100	*smart and dark, delivers grown-up horrors
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night	yes	96	95	*has a definite bite
Nightcrawler	yes	95	86	*pulp with a purpose
Force Majeure	yes	93	94	sets in motion an avalanche of buried emotion
Diplomacy	yes	93	89	Paris' fate is at stake in the flawless, WWII-set [film]
Imitation Game	yes	89	90	*a crackerjack tale about Enigma buster Alan Turing
Foxcatcher	yes	86	82	a gripping story of seduction, rejection, murder
Listen Up Philip	yes	85	78	*a toxic triumph
John Wick	yes	85	74	*brings A game to violent business of revenge
Beyond the Lights	yes	84	82	[a] showcase for Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Theory of Everything	yes	80	84	makes the cosmos of a marriage shine
Rhymes for Young Ghouls	yes	80		a blood- and booze-soaked revenge drama
Once Upon a Time Veronica	yes	75	86	a sensual study of human condition
1,000 Times Good Night	yes	74	73	powerfully frames a postwar life
Interstellar	yes	73	67	*explores outer and inner spaces
Laggies	yes	69	79	a lovely lark
Showrunners	yes	67		a lively snapshot from TV's creative front lines
Private Peaceful	yes	64	80	Melancholy runs deep; richly appointed British period piece
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain	yes	58	33	an effective cautionary tale
Low Down	yes	49	50	Pain and pure love in [a] melancholic memory piece
Horns	yes	41	32	Out to lunch, over the top, tongue-in-cheek, largely effective
Missionary	yes	40		*a 'Fatal Attraction'-like tale, toys with the concept of a Mormon bad guy
Dumb and Dumber To	yes	28	17	*just a chip off the older blockheads
Elsa & Fred	yes	25	40	Romance proves ageless
Jessabelle	yes	25	25	is a bayou gumbo of horrors
Hit by Lightning	yes	11	20	fuses comedy with film noir
The Playback Singer	yes			is a satisfying comedy-drama
Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains	yes			a stirring historical epic
Jal	yes			Bollywood take on a drought's devistation
The Homesman	so-so	80	74	Harsh land and raw, maddening emotion test ~
Rosewater	so-so	74	71	[Jon] Stewart acquits himself solidly, though not thrillingly
Camp X-Ray	so-so	72	53	has a tendency to slip into stereotypes a bit too easily
Sex Ed	so-so	67		a charming comedy despite its flaws
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1	so-so	65	64	just a place-holder
Before I Go to Sleep	so-so	36	33	handsomely made; feels like awfully familiar business
The Lookalike	so-so	20		Kooky plotting but fun performances
A Merry Friggin' Christmas	so-so	18	30	includes Robin Williams shtick
9 Full Moons	so-so			plenty of heavy baggage
Delusions of Guinevere	so-so			cautions on pitfalls of YouTube fame
Calloused Hands	so-so			When the script falls short Royo and Haggard act up a storm.
Women Who Flirt	so-so			plays with gender stereotypes in silly romp
The Way He Looks	no	90	79	escapist entertainment
Wild Tales	no	88		weighed down by clunky filmmaking
Bad Turn Worse	no	81	60	runs out of juice
Beside Still Waters	no	70		founders in inanity
Winter in the Blood	no	64	60	a tale of losses, including the audience
Brahmin Bulls	no	60		tepid
Stonehearst Asylum	no	52	44	has gothic air, can't lock in the terror
The Toy Soldiers	no	50		is a tangled web of damaged souls
White Bird in a Blizzard	no	48	35	Not much to see in
The Better Angels	no	40	33	a fragmented look at Lincoln's boyhood
Viva la Libertà	no	40		could use more verve in the story department
23 Blast	no	38	33	plays well but doesn't score
Horrible Bosses 2	no	36	23	has horribly funny moments, but too few
Open Windows	no	35	20	Overindulgent tech fest ... deserves defenestration
Exists	no	32	14	Who signed off on a fast Bigfoot?
Extraterrestrial	no	31	13	lands with a thud
Wolves	no	26	29	Silly story and dialogue defang ~
Miss Meadows	no	24	13	A failing grade for ~
The Pact 2	no	14		doesn't hold much promise
All Relative	no	11	17	an honest if not entirely successful rom-com
Always Woodstock	no	10	20	has its rom-com hits and misses
Ouija	no	7	18	a boring board-game adaptation badly played
Revenge of the Green Dragons	no	5	0	seem[s] like so much posturing
Viktor	no	0	0	a hackneyed avenging-dad action flick
Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas	no	0	0	is an unholy mess
Reach Me	no	0	0	sift through the jumble
Eternity: the Movie	no	0		a largely one-note cheesy sendup of 1980s pop music
Aviation Cocktail	no			doesn't quite fly
As Night Comes	no			[a] grim and airless teen drama
Work Weather Wife	no			a bargain-basement Bollywood musical
The Key	no			Some secret diaries are better left locked
Me	no			Big-name cast can't save [it] from vanity-project blues