LAT	RTMC	RTC	note: “~” = the film's name
documentary
California Typewriter	yes	100	100	smartly recounts contemporary passion for beloved machine
Dolores	yes	100	100	celebrates a hero; shows what a life of total commitment means
Strong Island	yes	100	100	An intimate look at race, injustice and murder
Unrest	yes	100	100	documents crippling autoimmune disease
Twenty Two	yes	100		giving voice to the surviving “comfort women
Boston	yes	100		astutely covers the long, storied history of the city's famous marathon
Two Trains Runnin'	yes	100		captures 1964 collision of blues and civil rights
Trophy	yes	98	100	*alternately alarming and frustrating
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library	yes	96	95	*Frederick Wiseman delivers an ode to knowledge
Spettacolo	yes	94	100	Italian townspeople stage drama from their lives
School Life	yes	93	91	*goes inside an Irish boarding school for an unusually charming doc
The Force	yes	92	100	Oakland Police Department doc advocates for the truth
Machines	yes	91	71	powerful; looks at dehumanizing factory work in India
Motherland	yes	90		unforgettably immerses audience in Manila maternity ward
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives	yes	88	80	hits the high notes of unlikely music mogul's success
Let's Play Two	yes	78	60	Cubbies and Pearl Jam make for a joyful mix
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton	yes	76	73	we feel privileged to have such an intimate glimpse
Man in Red Bandana	yes	63		a powerful and inspiring experience
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story	yes			argues that British rocker deserves more credit for Ziggy Stardust
Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking	yes			Filmmaker-monk goes after sex trade
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes For Lizard	so-so	65	73	a bit unfocused; loosely chronological but otherwise haphazard
Gaga: Five Foot Two	no	75	67	Lady Gaga gets personal, but can't overcome clichés
Red Trees	no	56		takes an unusually artsy approach to Holocaust story
Embargo	no			lacks an incisive point of view
Fallen	no			not even a minimal effort been made to address policing controversies
Neary’s: The Dream at the End of the Rainbow	no			feels long, like it might have been better suited to a short
Prosperity	no			Slick eco-doc promotes more than it explores
animated
Window Horses	yes	100	100	*The young poet finds identity and belonging in a foreign land
Napping Princess	yes	67		Inventive and imaginative
Loving Vincent	so-so	81	83	visually distinctive, uneven, but deeply felt homage.
The Lego Ninjago Movie	no	54	46	a few pieces short of the animated franchise's standard
regular movies
White Sun	yes	100	100	Cultural and generational divides tear at Nepalese village
Free in Deed	yes	100		Tortured souls seek human contact in deeply felt spiritual drama
Happy Hunting	yes	100		has a bloody good time taking aim at societal hypocrisy
Lucky	yes	98	97	*Harry Dean Stanton gives a beautiful final star turn
Stronger	yes	94	95	*a memoir [of] a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing
Clash	yes	93	86	*Politics, religion and humanity come into conflict
Super Dark Times	yes	92	93	artfully blends suspense and '90s teen angst
Heartstone	yes	92		an affecting coming-of-age story of two boys in Iceland
Sieranevada	yes	91	100	*a richly engrossing, philosophical family drama
After Love	yes	91	92	*Divorce, French-style, in the gripping domestic drama
Our Souls at Night	yes	91	85	Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in a winning late life love story
The Teacher	yes	89	100	has a lesson for audiences about corruption in a Communist society
Lipstick Under My Burkha	yes	89		*Women assert themselves with verve in Indian drama
The Wound	yes	88	89	Questions of self and manhood run deep in South African drama
American Made	yes	87	75	*Tom Cruise dominates the screen in the larger than life
Battle of the Sexes	yes	86	91	*enjoyable and entertaining
Brad's Status	yes	82	90	*terrific midlife-crisis comedy
The Nile Hilton Incident	yes	81	63	Crime and corruption on the eve of revolution
The Tiger Hunter	yes	76	86	Charming comedy sets immigrant dream in 1979 Chicago
The Limehouse Golem	yes	76	60	*makes for a perfectly watchable if overtly theatrical whodunit
Thirst Street	yes	75	67	has its share of disreputably perverse pleasures
Viceroy's House	yes	71	57	opens the door to a key era in India's past
Kill Me Please	yes	69	86	Teen girls tempt fate in the sexy Brazilian thriller
Dayveon	yes	69	60	Bees, gangs et al challenge teen in the intriguing coming-of-age drama
mother!	yes	68	69	darkly exhilarating
Last Rampage	yes	56		a solid, dramatized account of the flight of [a] convicted murderer
Shot	yes	42	50	absorbing and authentic
Home Again	yes	31	21	an exceedingly pleasant place to escape to for a couple hours
Rebel in the Rye	yes	29	19	J.D. Salinger biopic effectively evokes author's struggles
The Vault	yes	29		Horror/heist mash-up effective on multiple levels
The Sound	yes	25		Rose McGowan shines in the atmospheric horror film
Friend Request	yes	15	17	so gloriously dumb that it is surprisingly a whole lot of fun
Get Big	yes			Laughs abound in indie comedy
Slipaway	yes			the touching story of an unlikely friendship
The Houses October Built 2	yes			revisits effective mix of found-footage horror and haunted houses
Before the Sun Explodes	yes			well-acted, intimate drama
Indivisible	yes			Conjoined twins with a chance to live separately lend spellbinding power
First They Killed My Father	so-so	88	77	always impressive but not emotionally compelling
Anti Matter	so-so	88		more interesting than entertaining
Polina	so-so	84	83	Dance drama transcends its flat story through the magic of movement
Jesús	so-so	82	80	spiritual emptiness is certainly the prevailing mood
The Unknown Girl	so-so	71	81	mostly compelling moral mystery; imperfect but absorbing
Victoria & Abdul	so-so	64	54	lopsided crowdpleaser
American Assassin	so-so	34	38	a serviceable, workman-like thriller
Tulip Fever	so-so	10	13	neither the disaster nor the masterpiece the studio would have hoped
Jackals	so-so			may be derivative, but it still provides frights
The View From Here	so-so			an affecting drama despite a half-baked restaurant subplot
Scareycrows	so-so			British horror-comedy provides harmless giggles
Tam Cam: The Untold Story	so-so			Rousing, if familiar, adventure in Vietnamese folk tale
Soy Nero	so-so			Determined to earn citizenship, a 'Dreamer' heads to war
In Search of Fellini	no	100		Fantastical drama values character quirks over story
It	no	85	80	delivers nightmarish visuals but misses the true horror of the novel
A Very Sordid Wedding	no	83		The uninitiated may get lost; overlong picture; excess of back stories
Realive	no	77	71	Narration and dense script overwhelm futuristic drama
Elizabeth Blue	no	55		has an unfortunate tendency to overexplain itself
Kingsman: The Golden Circle	no	51	28	Spy-caper sequel offers more and more of the same
Year by the Sea	no	50	44	Karen Allen is a wonder, but she deserves better
England Is Mine	no	50	22	unsatisfyingly stops just short of the Smiths
The Good Catholic	no	45		Sitcom-like barbs prevent ~ from finding depth or complexity
Goon: Last of the Enforcers	no	43	50	Hockey comedy; zipless
A Question of Faith	no	40		tests its characters' beliefs and the audience's patience
Wetlands	no	36	17	a detective thriller so amateur it's criminal
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House	no	33	27	Deep Throat drama stays mostly on the surface
I Do ... Until I Don't	no	30	29	Lake Bell hits sophomore slump
Literally, Right Before Aaron	no	26	13	takes the flawed romantic hero trope to its extreme
Unlocked	no	25	31	fails to provide much tension
The Wilde Wedding	no	23	20	Glenn Close, why put up with this?
Rememory	no	22	43	GOT's Peter Dinklage and sci-fi mystery undone by faulty script
Woodshock	no	18	17	Cannabis-infused drama mired in moody death spiral
Temple	no	13	20	Run-of-the-mill horror film delivers the same old evil spirits
9/11	no	11	20	is (thankfully) only 90 minutes long; tone-deaf
Fallen	no	7		a budget “Twilight”
Flatliners	no	5	0	remake is exactly as witless as you'd expect
The Layover	no	0	0	sets a low bar for bad-behavior comedy
Gun Shy	no	0	0	Antonio Banderas rocks the wig in silly, sloppy action-comedy
Against the Night	no	0		Horror film sports a cool location, but little else
Don't Sleep	no	0		Routine thriller relies on supernatural boilerplate
Mike Boy	no			unspeakably bad, but you must see it to believe it
Valley of Bones	no			Crime thriller wastes compelling premise
September Morning	no			it’s just not enough to make a significant comment about [9/11]
True to the Game	no			lacks the game to back it up
Infinity Chamber	no			Sci-fi ~ goes on ... and on ... for a little too long
Ryde	no			Horror film is one brutal but meaningless 'Ryde' through L.A.
Justice	no			Post-civil war era western piles on the clichés
The Show	no			A film about on-air suicides is predictable and tone-deaf
Vengeance: A Love Story	no			A remote Nicolas Cage doesn’t help the melodramatic ~
1 Buck	no			Swampy crime drama sinks fast
Big Bear	no			Boys-behaving-badly comedy never figures out what it wants to be
30-Love	no			Grief and tennis dramedy is all over the court
Welcome to Willits	no			a weird and woozy slasher and aliens flick
Different Flowers	no			Not much happens in runaway bride dramedy
'Til Death Do Us Part	no			domestic abuse theme comes off as seriously soapy