LAT RTMC RTC note: “~” = the film's name
documentary



500 Years yes 100 100 Powerful doc concludes trilogy on Guatemalan resistance
Birthright: A War Story yes 100 100 chronicles the attack on women's health and reproductive rights
Chasing Coral yes 100 100 an urgent message about climate change: The coral reef is dying
Sidemen: Long Road to Glory yes 100 100 Trio of bluesmen get their due in music documentary
Swim Team yes 100 100 [has] particular character, heart and verve
The Farthest yes 100 100 pays homage to Voyager, and human potential
Mali Blues yes 100
the emotion is strong, the music joyous
Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey yes 100
engaging
Served Like a Girl yes 100
joins women vets as they empower themselves at a pageant
City of Ghosts yes 99 100 powerful and unnerving
Whose Streets? yes 99 100 validation, encouragement and love in the face of injustice
Step yes 95 95 tells the inspirational story of Baltimore teens' triumph against the odds
Icarus yes 91 100 a happy-accident doc
The Last Dalai Lama? yes 88 100 Time spent with even an imperfect Dalai Lama is not wasted
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World yes 88 92 American popular music: the crucial contributions of Native Americans
Santoalla yes 83 86 the dream of heaven right here on Earth
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power yes 78 86 involving and unexpectedly passionate
Blue Velvet Revisited yes

a trove of behind-the-scenes photographs and Super 8 footage
Escapes yes

all that and more on the adventurous life of Hampton Fancher
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman yes

tells a more complicated story than its unexciting title would indicate.
Whitney: Can I Be Me? so-so 87 92 compelling viewing; cobbled together feel
The Wrong Light so-so 80
lacks the journalistic urgency, heft
The Skyjacker’s Tale so-so 53 63 explores massacre, injustice and oppression in U.S. Virgin Islands
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry so-so 44 40 Somber, Berry’s affable drawl, Kentucky, hearth-and-soil romanticism
The Trip to Spain no 85 67 aimless
The Incomparable Rose Hartman no 75 60 Fast-paced doc glosses over photographer's complexity
All the Rage (Saved by Sarno) no 63
Filmmaker hijacks his own movie
Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story no 43
leans too hard on the petty crises
The Pulitzer at 100 no 0
falls short on substance despite inclusion of A-listers
Who the F**k Is That Guy? no

Music biz doc lacks the panache of its subject
animated



The Girl Without Hands yes 100 100 a disturbing but strikingly beautifuld take on Brothers Grimm
In This Corner of the World yes 98 92 A well-ordered world is upended
Kiki's Delivery Service yes

wonderful
Leap! so-so 37 45 is fun when it dances, but the storytelling? Oof!
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature so-so 10 8 more, and less, than the average animated sequel
The Emoji Movie no 10 0 can be summed up in one word: Meh
Deep no

import sinks under the weight of its recycled materials
regular movies



Harmonium yes 100 100 plays out tense Japanese family drama
It's Not Yet Dark yes 100 100 a powerful vision of a filmmaker's battle with ALS
Women Who Kill yes 100 100 is a fresh twist on indie comedy, romance and serial killers
Columbus yes 97 96 *serenely intelligent
Menashe yes 96 96 [captures] the rituals and prayers of its subject's life
A Taxi Driver yes 94 83 Fact-based political thriller takes journalist for a ride in South Korea
War for the Planet of the Apes yes 93 93 *a work of stunning blockbuster artistry
Logan Lucky yes 93 90 *Slick, smart, impeccably executed highbrow heist movie
Dunkirk yes 92 94 *confounds expectations: intimate and epic, tension-filled
Some Freaks yes 92
visceral and anxiety-laden; ends on an uneasy, though hopeful, note
Our Time Will Come yes 91 100 Leftists resist in well-appointed World War II Hong Kong-set drama
Icaros yes 90 100 a mini-epic of serene, intelligent mind-body wooziness
Good Time yes 90 92 *proves exactly that
Marjorie Prime yes 89 95 *an elegant, haunting futuristic drama
Lady Macbeth yes 89 86 a film that demands to be admired and cares little if you actually like it
Pop Aye yes 88 90 A man and an elephant take a road trip in quirky Thai comedy
4 Days in France yes 88 89 a treat for the eye
Wind River yes 87 87 shows how crime thrillers should be made
The Midwife yes 87 80 an absorbing meander of a movie, prettily shot and a touch over-scored
The Untamed yes 87 70 unusual erotic horror film
Ingrid Goes West yes 86 85 *a warning to fave-thirsty social media addicts
The Incredible Jessica James yes 85 94 warm indie comedy lives up to the effusive adjective in the title
Lost in Paris yes 85 90 winningly elastic comedy
The Fencer yes 84 50 *Soviet-set drama deftly mixes sports and politics
Beach Rats yes 82 87 *an erotic, evocative summer-of-love drama
Detroit yes 82 84 searing; vital; a horrific chapter of American history
I Dream in Another Language yes 82 83 So much is spoken in the common tongue of ~
Patti Cake$ yes 82 79 *exuberant, hearty feel-good stew of hip-hop and tough love
Brigsby Bear yes 80 76 a charming, affectionate tribute to the joys of amateur filmmaking
Unleashed yes 80
Kate Micucci stars in the infectious rom-com
Atomic Blond yes 76 80 Charlize Theron is, like, totally in the Zone!
68 Kill yes 76 71 deserves to find an audience among the grindhouse-minded
Crown Heights yes 76 68 *tells a timely, fact-based tale of wrongful incarceration
Killing Ground yes 76 56 an effective indie creeper that unnerves
Amnesia yes 74 71 moving sociopolitical drama against scenic Ibiza backdrop
Annabelle: Creation yes 69 63 a ruthlessly efficient jolt delivery machine
Pilgrimage yes 69 63 Medieval action film is beautifully shot, powerfully violent
To the Bone yes 67 80 anorexia and bulimia, one not-so-ordinary young woman’s story
Lemon yes 58 62 Struggling actor's life crumbles in the weirdly charming comedy
Tales of an Immoral Couple yes 57
Mexican rom-com delivers sizzle and laughs
The Glass Castle yes 49 42 an unconventional-family tale with heart
Person to Person yes 47 55 Well-observed; mixes comedy and drama
Ghost House yes 29
Thai-set horror film adroitly keeps the audience on edge
Misfortune yes

Indie thriller is an impressive spin on familiar turf
Endless Poetry so-so 94 91 vividly strange, wild, hallucinatory bursts of visual and conceptual insanity
Gook so-so 93 93 *revisits '92 L.A. riots with insight
A Ghost Story so-so 90 87 too patient, and too committed to its own idiosyncrasies
Hermia & Helena so-so 86 78 artfully frothy
Dave Made a Maze so-so 78 67 underdeveloped characters and circuitous plot
Wolf Warrior 2 so-so 70
Chinese patriotism on display in generic action film
The Ice Cream Truck so-so 64
fascinating to watch; doesn't land much impact
What Happened to Monday so-so 60 50 Muddled sci-fi thriller is still fun
Strange Weather so-so 57 50 a choppy narrative; creaky plot
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets so-so 49 51 a dazzling, dimwitted space opera
Red Christmas so-so 44
a tightly constructed, unapologetically nasty little thriller
Once Upon a Time so-so 40
about as sensible as a “Transformers” movie with dazzling visuals
Kuso so-so 35 60 gross, repetitive; But it’s not artless
From the Land of the Moon so-so 31 31 never gets a grasp on the protagonist’s contradictions
Birth of the Dragon so-so 23 25 Martial arts flick; interesting, if corny, take on Bruce Lee legend
Planetarium so-so 14 13 may not wholly satisfy; intriguing drama
First Kill so-so 9 20 Cops and robbers? You never know what to expect
Swallows and Amazons no 94
British family adventure awkwardly pines for simpler times
All Saints no 93 80 serviceable at best; stilted at times, too much dead air hanging around
Man Underground no 89
Quirky indie drama buried beneath tedious dialogue
The Villainess no 82 64 coldly virtuosic spectacle; what you mainly feel is revulsion
Shot Caller no 74 75 a flow chart of bad decisions and explosive violence
Landline no 74 68 tired '90s-set family dysfunction comedy
6 Days no 64 40 Hostage drama proves duller than real-life
Savage Dog no 63
Keith David almost saves ~
The Persian Connection no 63
Slick, but unpersuasive crime thriller
The Battleship Island no 55
boisterous energy; an evervating lack of focus
Hickok no 50
Western is a handsome but wispy take on Wild Bill
The Confessions no 50
Impressive cast falls flat in the international thriller
Bushwick no 46 39 Brooklyn is under attack in empty action spectacle
Brave New Jersey no 44 17 War of the Worlds broadcast rattles a small town but to what end?
Death Note no 40 15 a bloody and controversial manga adaptation
The Hitman's Bodyguard no 39 25 a lame, violent Eurotrip
Kidnap no 36 43 inept chase thriller
Only Living Boy in New York no 34 17 Privileged men, one-dimensional women, too many visions of Johanna
The Only Living Boy in New York no 34 17 an unconvincing coming-of-age tale
Chronically Metropolitan no 33 0 consistently 'meh'
Fun Mom Dinner no 32 33 a plate full of aimlessness drizzled with a few giggles
The Queen of Spain no 29 14 Lightweight farce dims any glamour
Liza, Liza, Skies Are Grey no 22
lacks a sense of what is essential to its story
Austin Found no 20 20 comedy can't decide if it wants to be deliciously bad or morally good
False Confessions no 19 0 flat theatrical exercise
Wish Upon no 17 26 Horror-lite; delivers more yucks than scares
The Adventurers no 17
Continent-hopping caper flick is no match for its precursors
Blind no 16 25 Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore strain at romance in dopey drama
The Dark Tower no 15 11 Hardly fit for a King tale
Battle Scars no 14
Returning vet faces PTSD in misguided crime thriller
A Family Man no 13 0 Gerard Butler is a big miss in overbearing and treacly drama
The Black Prince no 8
dreary Indian period drama
The Last Face no 5 0 grim romantic drama
Armed Response no 0 0 This armed response to rogue AI quickly becomes ridiculous
The Gracefield Incident no 0
found-footage horror [film] delivers nothing new
Awaken the Shadowman no

Pretentious horror film slides into silliness
Bedeviled no

Siri-type app turns lethal
Cartels no

crime thriller would have been better off without Steven Seagal
Do You Take This Man no

not the gay wedding drama you've been waiting for
Granny of the Dead no

Horror comedy is more yawn than 'Shaun'
Imperfections no

Indie caper comedy is no diamond in the rough
Lycan no

recycles werewolf and horror formulas with little payoff
Revelator no

Haunting ghost tale looks great, but solid storytelling eludes it
The Conway Curve no

too bland to sustain its kooky characters' high jinks
The Monster Project no

Found-footage horror film is logic- and scare free
The Sea no

struggles with its literary roots