January

• The Kids are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) B+
• Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010) B
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010) C-
• Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010) A-
• The Tourist (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2010) D
• Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) A-
• 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010) A
• Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010) A-
• ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (Dori Berinstein, 2007) B-
• Howl (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, 2010) B
• The Green Hornet (Michel Gondry, 2011) D
• Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010) A-
• One Week (Michael McGowan, 2008) B
• Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010) B
• Please Give (Nicole Holofcener, 2010) B-
• Buried (Rodrigo Cortés, 2010) B-
• Welcome to the Rileys (Jake Scott, 2010) B

February

• The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010) A
• Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee, 2009) C
• Diner (Barry Levinson, 1982) C
• Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010) A-
• Just Go With It (Dennis Dugan, 2011) C+

March

• Tangled (Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, 2010) C+
• Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, 2010) B
• Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) A-

April

• Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) B
• Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011) B
• Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) C+
• Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim, 2010) B+
• I am Number Four (D.J. Caruso, 2011) C-
• Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 2010) A
• The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg, 2010) B-
• The Tillman Story (Amir Bar-Lev, 2010) B

May

• Country Strong (Shana Feste, 2010) B-
• Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 2011) B-
• Fast Five (Justin Lin, 2011) C+
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh, 2011) B
• Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994) B
• It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) B+
• Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948) B

June

• No Strings Attached (Ivan Reitman, 2011) C
• Limitless (Neil Burger, 2011) B
• Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu, 2011) C
• Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, 2010) C+
• Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001) B
• X-men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn, 2011) B+
• Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011) A-
• The Lucky Ones (Neil Burger, 2008) C+
• Sleepwalking (Bill Maher, 2008) C
• Phoebe in Wonderland (Daniel Barnz, 2008) B-
• The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary, 2002) C
• Green Lantern (Martin Campbell, 2011) C-
• Dare (Adam Salky, 2009) C
• I Love You, Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, 2009) B+
• Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaugh, 2010) B-
• All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki, 2010) B
• The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010) B
• Cedar Rapids (Miguel Arteta, 2011) B-
• Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) A-
• The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) A
• Daybreakers (Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig, 2009) C+
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay, 2011) C+

July

• True Grit (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2010) A
• Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price (Robert Greenwald, 2005) B
• Babies (Thomas Balmès, 2010) B-
• The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman, 2011) B
• The Greatest (Shana Feste, 2009) C+
• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg, 2010) B+
• Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1988) B
• Freakonomics (Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki & Morgan Spurlock, 2010) B
• Catfish (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2010) A
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (David Yates, 2011) B+
• Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011) B

August

• Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008) B
• Captain America (Joe Johnston, 2011) C+
• Cowboys & Aliens (Jon Favreau, 2011) C-
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt, 2011) A-
• Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011) C
• Crazy, Stupid, Love. (Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, 2011) B

September

• Bad Teach (Jake Kasdan, 2011) C+
• Abduction (John Singleton, 2011) D
• No Other Woman (Ruel S. Bayani, 2011) C
• Real Steel (Shawn Levy, 2011) B

October

• Conan O' Brien Can't Stop (Rodman Flender, 2011) C+
• In Time (Andrew Niccol, 2011) B-

November

• The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011) B+
• Everything Must Go (Dan Rush, 2010) B-
• Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996) B
• Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) A+
• Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Bill Condon, 2011) C-

December

• The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011) C+
• Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) B
• Water for Elephants (Francis Lawrence, 2011) C+
• Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993) B
• Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2011) C+
• It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2010) B-
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011) B
• Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) B+
• 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) A+
• The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008) A
• Solitary Man (Brian Koppelman & David Levien, 2009) C-
• Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957) B-
• Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009) B
• Ip Man (Wilson Yip, 2008) B+
• Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip, 2010) B-
• The TV Set (Jake Kasdan, 2006) C+