LAT	RTMC	RTC	note: “~” = the film's name
documentary
Quest	yes	100	100	*radiates north Philadelphia family's strength
What Lies Upstream	yes	100		acknowledging what isn’t known about drinking water
The Road Movie	yes	86	78	a gleeful rubbernecker’s large popcorn’s worth of crazy
The Final Year	yes	83	83	*the last 12 months of President Obama’s tenure
Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story	yes	82	80	an alarming animal-welfare crisis
Bill Frisell: A Portrait	so-so	86		not all riveting, frankly, but ...
Seeing Allred	so-so			don't hear from anyone sane offering both pros and cons
Killing for Love	no	100		overlong, overwrought mash notes et al
The Soul of Success: The Jack Canfield Story	no			plays like a promo for 'Chicken Soup' author's brand
animated
Ethel & Ernest	yes	97	100	Working-class Brits keep calm and carry on
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children	yes	96	100	offers dark, satiric peek into life's grim corners
Mary and the Witch’s Flower	yes	87	85	*Magic flows freely if not infinitely
Have a Nice Day	yes			Nasty, brutish, neo-noir
Ferdinand	so-so	70	75	The gentle message survives the added mayhem
Hedgehogs	no			fails the cute test
Monster Family	no			No screams, or laughs, here
regular movies
Paddington 2	yes	100	100	*The second time is still the charm
This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy	yes	100		lo-fi sci-fi comedy destined latenight viewing
In Between	yes	98	100	*gives voice to young women in debut drama
The Cage Fighter	yes	92	100	lands every punch
A Fantastic Woman	yes	92	96	*a bold and endlessly sympathetic feat of imagination
Saturday Church	yes	92	89	successfully mixes drama and music in tale of LGBTQ teens
Phantom Thread	yes	91	98	*a wondrously perverse love story
The Last Jedi	yes	91	96	*brings emotion, exhilaration and surprise back to 'Star Wars'
On Body and Soul	yes	91	80	*Netflix: memorable to experience, no matter what screen it’s on
Still/Born	yes	90		postnatal spookshow; sharp and shocking
The Post	yes	88	93	*a movie about the past that speaks to our times
Vazante	yes	83	100	Grimly powerful and intersectionally acute
A Ciambra	yes	83	85	a vibrant and gritty documentary edge
1987: When the Day Comes	yes	83		South Korean thriller; an admirable dot-connecting quality
Molly's Game	yes	82	79	*incorrigibly entertaining
Lover for a Day	yes	82	64	unfolds with deceptive lightness and calm
The Revival	yes	80		religious fervor and sexual longing
The Ballad of Lefty Brown	yes	79	89	a dark, brooding Old West tale with a smart modern touch
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool	yes	78	68	*involve what happens when stresses manifest themselves
American Folk	yes	78	67	two musicians making their way cross-country on 9/11
All the Money in the World	yes	77	83	*John Paul Getty III kidnapping
Before We Vanish	yes	76	83	a witty, low-key throwback; cheeky, scattershot
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle	yes	76	74	*a lot of running, jumping, yelling and falling
Small Town Crime	yes	74	88	a satisfyingly quirky serving of frisky pulp fiction
Like Me	yes	74	86	has an eccentric bravura to it
Permission	yes	74	78	manages an easy, seemingly effortless humor
Sheikh Jackson	yes	73		Egyptian drama effectively channels King of Pop
In the Fade	yes	72	83	not a happy story, not even close. But powerful
Hostiles	yes	71	71	a brutal tale of moral survival
Braven	yes	70	71	a solid, fast paced action-thriller
The Ritual	yes	70	67	*Deliverance" meets "The Blair Witch Project
Padman	yes	70	60	a well told film re sanitary pads
Crooked House	yes	69	67	delivers a thrilling Agatha Christie
Happy End	yes	68	67	a disquieting, blisteringly funny evisceration of the bourgeoisie
Humor Me	yes	67	83	*will humor you — and then some
The Strange Ones	yes	62	57	an odyssey and a mystery
The Polka King	yes	61	67	rollicking fable about a lovable fraud
Entanglement	yes	59	70	creeps up on you in deceptively profound ways
Juliet, Naked	yes	59	50	a warm, smart and funny romantic drama
The Commuter	yes	58	53	Liam Neeson sticks to the formula
Den of Thieves	yes	39	59	a clever crime noir
Forever My Girl	yes	21	13	The female-driven, country music tinged [film] delivers as expected.
Fake Blood	yes			first-person documentary, gory B horror and metafictional mediation
Forgotten by God	yes			Grim Russian war drama cuts deeply across generations
Goldbuster	yes			Wackiness and heart abound in Sandra Ng's slapstick ~
Shot in the Dark	yes			fleet, affecting
The Neighbor	yes			Privileged-male angst fuels drama
Signature Move	so-so	100	100	by-the-numbers rom-com; likable characters, unsentimental sweetness
Becks	so-so	92	83	Story rambles, but music charms
The Insult	so-so	89	91	wages an absorbing but overblown war of words
Youth	so-so	83	86	follows a Chinese military arts troupe through history
Mom and Dad	so-so	72	70	becomes like a sick version of “Home Alone”
Driving While Black	so-so	57		pointed social commentary despite the chill vibes
Downsizing	so-so	50	50	fascinatingly muddled sci-fi satire
When We First Met	so-so	42		rom-com a diverting twist; doesn't fully deliver
Step Sisters	so-so	29		lacks the spark of "Bring It On” and “Pitch Perfect
Inside	so-so	25		Horror remake maintains chills
Madtown	so-so			an overwrought melodrama that nevertheless remains engaging
Kickboxer: Retaliation	no	100	100	MMA spectacle swings and misses
Dim the Fluorescents	no	91	80	Quirky, incandescent; loses its way
Bomb City	no	83		laughably deck-stacked journey
Blame	no	80	88	Quinn Shephard's mean girls psychodrama loses focus
Beyond Skyline	no	73	80	not quite funny, and too low-budget to take seriously
Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game	no	67		Martin Landau's last role gets lost in suds of soapy ~
My Art	no	62	67	intriguing premise; story gets lost along the way
A Futile and Stupid Gesture	no	62	38	lies haphazardly between funny and not
Peter Rabbit	no	59	40	Potter's bunny is unrecognizable and the villain sympathetic
Django	no	57	38	the connecting scenes have a puzzling flatness
Please Stand By	no	56	40	falters under scrutiny
Freak Show	no	56	29	The plot is fairly standard high school stuff
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero	no	55	40	undercut by its stolid earnestness
12 Strong	no	54	61	lacks excitement and reflection
The Greatest Showman	no	54	37	Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum cons the audience
Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds	no	50		One world is more than enough in Korean fantasy
Misguided	no	50		just about covers it
Maze Runner: The Death Cure	no	43	43	Slog can’t keep up the pace
Permanent	no	43		Even the movie itself is having a bad hair day
Devil’s Gate	no	36		Supernatural thriller lurches from jolt to jolt
The Thousand Faces of Dunjia	no	33	20	Less would have been more in over-the-top ~
Insidious: The Last Key	no	33	17	Lin Shaye is a scream, but ~ doesn't click
The Leisure Seeker	no	32	17	sticks to the trite and true
The Female Brain	no	31	43	fractured narrative, short, shallow stories
Pitch Perfect 3	no	31	28	a fatally off-key sequel
The Clapper	no	30	14	will land among 2018’s worst films
Proud Mary	no	26	21	Mired in melodrama; fails to keep rollin'
Bright	no	26	17	Netflix gets epic, but the result is less than thrilling
The 15:17 to Paris	no	25	18	not ... an involving feature film
Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel	no	20		ineptly parodies superheroes
Winchester	no	14	14	Ghost story creaks along
Fifty Shades Freed	no	11	16	The couple try marital bliss
Scorched Earth	no	11		And the dialogue is also parched
Basmati Blues	no	9	0	Bollywood meets “La La Land,” not in a fortuitous way
Hangman	no	6	14	awkward expository dialogue; glaring absence of tension
Acts of Violence	no	0	0	essentially a tawdry pulp thriller
Lies We Tell	no	0	0	a pretentious and muddled dud of a melodrama
Stratton	no	0	0	British spy thriller neither shaken nor stirring
Day of the Dead: Bloodline	no	0		disrespects George Romero's zombie legacy
The Music of Silence	no	0		Bocelli biopic hits the wrong notes
A Lesson in Cruelty	no			Nothing learned
Azad	no			Homemade dystopian drama should have remained in the home
Black Hollow Cage	no			Arty sci-fi slog leaves you numb
Blur Circle	no			Indie drama burdened by tragedy and poor choices
Bucky and the Squirrels	no			excruciatingly witless mockumentary
Dance Baby Dance	no			A pitiful shuffle off to Buffalo
Delirium	no			Ghosts are cool, but the dudes...
Desolation	no			Arty approach to woodland horror bogs down ~
Living Among Us	no			regrettable slowburn horror painfully stilted
Showdown in Manila	no			Thrilla? Not even scintilla
Spent	no			Neo-noir ~ quickly exhausts audience's patience
The Campus	no			Gory indie dives into the absurd
The Lucky Man	no			an undercooked road movie
The Midnight Man	no			[feels] like a hodgepodge of other fright flicks
The Next Big Thing	no			84 minutes of unpleasantness
Wastelander	no			Just a vintage cheese wannabe