| LAT | RTMC | RTC | note: “~” = the film's name. *RT fresh | |
| documentary | ||||
| The Woman Who Loves Giraffes | yes | 100 | 100 | lives up to its title, and something more |
| Advocate | yes | 100 | 71 | Lea Tsemel, a Jewish Israeli lawyer who helps Palestinian prisoners |
| Don't Be a Dick About It | yes | 100 | 36 | an affectionate portrait of a fraternal bond |
| System K | yes | 100 | exhilarating portrait of troubled African city’s thriving art scene. | |
| The Cordillera of Dreams | yes | 93 | Of men and mountains | |
| Chinese Portrait | yes | 90 | 40 | Brimming with humanity; contemplative, minimalist |
| Afterward | yes | 88 | Haunted by what happened before | |
| Sorry We Missed You | yes | 87 | 82 | *feels honest and blisteringly human |
| Once Were Brothers | yes | 84 | 86 | *demands to be seen |
| The Times of Bill Cunningham | yes | 80 | 92 | photographer comes into fashion again |
| Art Paul of Playboy: The Man Behind the Bunny | yes | a portrait of unwavering dedication to aesthetics | ||
| Earth | yes | straightforward, striking | ||
| Hate Among Us | so-so | skirt[s] incendiary tweets and retweets from [Trump] | ||
| Lost in America | no | 100 | 91 | editing hiccups, language that feels dated. |
| Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street | no | 100 | 90 | *overstates the cultural impact of NOES |
| Tread | no | 92 | 87 | Less would have been considerably more |
| Created Equal | no | Clarence Thomas; one-sided film’s wheels come off | ||
| Heavy Water | no | It’s tubular only to hardcore surfers | ||
| animated | ||||
| Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | yes | 96 | 80 | *A charming film with a clunky title |
| Ride Your Wave | yes | 93 | 83 | Masaaki Yuasa’s best anime yet |
| Weathering With You | yes | 92 | 96 | *a thought-provoking edge |
| Onward | yes | 88 | 95 | *Nostalgia and originality carry forth |
| Sonic the Hedgehog | yes | 63 | 93 | shrugs off shaky start |
| My Hero Acadamia: Heroes Rising | yes | 99 | satisfies with bravery and kaboom | |
| Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back — Evolution | so-so | 44 | 46 | it all feels very familiar. |
| regular movies | ||||
| Saint Frances | yes | 99 | 75 | *honest, funny and messy too |
| Corpus Christi | yes | 98 | 93 | thrilling narrative power of complex moral decisions |
| Extra Ordinary | yes | 98 | 77 | *‘Extra’ laughs in this kooky romp |
| Knives Out | yes | 97 | 92 | *ingenious, deliriously entertaining detective tail |
| First Cow | yes | 96 | 64 | delightful surprise in the Old West |
| Blood on Her Name | yes | 96 | 54 | *making terrible mistakes |
| Little Woman | yes | 95 | 92 | *it’s a pip |
| Come as You Are | yes | 95 | 80 | Road-trip humor takes a fresh turn |
| Invisible Life | yes | 94 | 88 | *a moving look at Brazilian sisters kept apart |
| Beanpole | yes | 93 | 76 | *becomes utterly, fascinatingly specific |
| Ordinary Love | yes | 93 | 69 | *The backbone of a marriage |
| Straight Up | yes | 93 | 67 | Love is a complicated thing in sweet, smart ~ |
| The Assistant | yes | 93 | 25 | *Job is a misery for ‘Assistant’ |
| The Invisible Man | yes | 92 | 88 | *visibly scary |
| Clemency | yes | 92 | 65 | *Death-row drama |
| The Two Popes | yes | 89 | 88 | *their spirit will move you |
| Jezebel | yes | 89 | 46 | Character study with genuine warmth |
| I Was at Home, But ... | yes | 88 | 33 | brilliant, elliptical tale of loss |
| Redoubt | yes | 88 | picturesque wilderness meditation | |
| Standing Up, Falling Down | yes | 87 | 86 | *Old school in a good way |
| Come to Daddy | yes | 87 | 75 | *it does deliver a good, sick twist |
| Swallow | yes | 87 | 71 | *Inedible becomes almost irresistible |
| Zombi Child | yes | 86 | 54 | *Beguiling; unique to its genre |
| The Way Back | yes | 84 | 84 | redemptive drama |
| Queen & Slim | yes | 83 | 92 | *comes roaring out of the gate |
| The Whistlers | yes | 83 | 53 | *'Oceans Eleven' territory with fun results |
| Secret Zoo | yes | 83 | 45 | inspired fun |
| The Banker | yes | 79 | 100 | inspiring tale of fight against discrimination |
| Birds of Prey | yes | 79 | 78 | *a sleek, diverting, hyper-violent new caper |
| VHYes | yes | 79 | 69 | *retro warped comedy |
| Disappearance at Clifton Hill | yes | 76 | *Sleuth finds artful mood in mystery | |
| The Lodge | yes | 74 | 51 | *the language of horror |
| Escape From Pretoria | yes | 73 | 76 | A prison thriller in apartheid era |
| All the Bright Places | yes | 65 | 61 | moving romantic drama |
| Camp Cold Brook | yes | 57 | 34 | Clever plot brings ghost story to life |
| Burden | yes | 50 | 97 | a passionate message about the power of love |
| Greed | yes | 50 | 32 | Greed is good for laughs in this satire |
| Run This Town | yes | 46 | 22 | Smart, ambitious and impressive |
| Spenser Confidential | yes | 36 | 51 | fun, familiar thriller |
| The Grudge | yes | 20 | 23 | Once it gets going ~ is terrifying |
| Emma | yes | lovely to meet again | ||
| Goldie | yes | High-spirited and eyecatching | ||
| Incitement | yes | how fanaticism can grow and be enabled | ||
| Premature | yes | captures the absorbing language of young love | ||
| The World Is Full of Secrets | yes | Bare-bones in scale but enormous in effect | ||
| Underwater | yes | lean, efficient, unapologetically derivative | ||
| And Then We Danced | so-so | 94 | 95 | *not terribly original, but ... |
| After Midnight | so-so | 90 | 48 | Florida man faces heartbreak horror |
| 37 Seconds | so-so | 88 | 85 | sparsely incorporated; film’s latter half feels overlong at times. |
| José | so-so | 87 | 75 | incredible and evocative, if perhaps overly meandering |
| Color Out of Space | so-so | 86 | 82 | *rallies down the stretch |
| Go Back to China | so-so | 82 | Trial by toys for spoiled daughter | |
| Buffaloed | so-so | 81 | 60 | You’ll fall for this scammer’s pitch |
| The Photograph | so-so | 75 | 81 | *uneven, but often intoxicatingly lovely romantic drama called |
| Horse Girl | so-so | 71 | 47 | can’t quite sustain its own extraterrestrial ambitions, |
| Hope Gap | so-so | 64 | 70 | Smart drama can’t escape stage roots |
| The Call of the Wild | so-so | 63 | 89 | an old-fashioned animal friendly adventure flick for kids |
| Feedback | so-so | 62 | 53 | It’s hard to nail down what ~ is about. |
| The Last Full Measure | so-so | 60 | 96 | underdeveloped storyline, but ... |
| The Turning | so-so | 12 | 15 | Focus on this spectral puzzle |
| The Last Thing He Wanted | so-so | 5 | 14 | some overreach and muddle here, but ... |
| Sonata | so-so | Stylish ~ can chill | ||
| My Name is Myeisha | no | 90 | feels stuck on stage | |
| A Simple Wedding | no | 85 | 71 | second act ends too soon, leaving an overlong third act |
| The Traitor | no | 85 | 70 | *Gangster saga feels bloated |
| Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made | no | 84 | 59 | *leans too heavily on quirk to express character |
| The Dark Red | no | 78 | overall scope too limited | |
| Bad Boys for Life | no | 76 | 96 | *Older but not much wiser |
| The Gentlemen | no | 75 | 84 | *well-dressed but low-impact |
| Only Cloud Knows | no | 75 | 78 | A fine romance, nothing special |
| Olympic Dreams | no | 70 | 54 | Mopey dramedy earns no medals |
| The Flood | no | 69 | cinematic clichés that telegraph outcomes | |
| The Wave | no | 68 | 61 | More a concept than actual plot |
| The Burnt Orange Heresy | no | 66 | 81 | Neo-noir thriller gets lost in details |
| Gretel & Hansel | no | 63 | 23 | It's a feast for the eyes, but filling it's not |
| Fantasy island | no | 62 | 52 | Not a bad idea. Dumb execution |
| You Go to My Head | no | 60 | 85 | Eye candy? Sure. But that’s about it |
| Young Ahmed | no | 59 | 54 | Tale of a young zealot disappoints |
| The Rise of Skywalker | no | 52 | 86 | The skywalking dead |
| Guns Akimbo | no | 51 | 40 | relentless mayhem and carnage |
| Impossible Monsters | no | 50 | 91 | visually studied but dramatically muddy |
| Quezon’s Game | no | 45 | 94 | A story worth telling, but better |
| Inherit the Viper | no | 45 | 46 | Small-town crime saga lacks drama |
| Three Christs | no | 43 | 62 | No saving grace in psychology tale |
| Waiting for Anya | no | 43 | 57 | Heavy on cheese, easy on the Nazi |
| Lost Holiday | no | 42 | 94 | Footloose duo is a little too much |
| Wendy | no | 42 | 79 | a sometimes astonishing, ultimately enervating take on ‘Peter Pan’ |
| The Night Clerk | no | 37 | 31 | muted thrills and noncommittal denouement |
| Downhill | no | 37 | 14 | disappointing remake of the great Swedish avalanche dramedy |
| Reality Queen! | no | 36 | 60 | A mockumentary that’s no fun at all |
| Impractical Jokers: The Movie | no | 35 | 76 | the jokes veer cringingly toward stereotypes |
| The Rhythm Section | no | 28 | 44 | Thriller never finds its groove |
| The Host | no | 25 | 76 | Dull Euro-thriller has nice scenery |
| Like a Boss | no | 22 | 65 | It’s so clearly incomprehensible |
| Beneath Us | no | 20 | 50 | grisly horror flick |
| A Fall From Grace | no | 20 | NTF One long fall for a sketchy potboiler | |
| The Jesus Rolls | no | 20 | gutter ball of a sophomoric, white middle-age male sexfarce fantasy | |
| Cats | no | 19 | 53 | pawfectly bad |
| Disturbing the Peace | no | 19 | 10 | A reluctant hero is lacking support |
| Goalie | no | 18 | probing though ponderously episodic drama | |
| Elsewhere | no | 17 | 70 | He needs to start over and move on |
| Dolittle | no | 15 | 76 | Another ~ to belittle |
| Intrigo: Death of an Author | no | 11 | 50 | A nimble thriller can’t stick landing |
| Brahms: The Bad Boy II | no | 11 | 44 | A fairly corny and stodgy spook show |
| Get Gone | no | 0 | 44 | cobbled together from secondhand parts |
| John Henry | no | 0 | 22 | lead-footed revenge thriller |
| Emerald Run | no | A gem? More like a cubic zirconia |