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Peter Debruge, Variety

1. 360 2012 With a multilingual cast of mostly unfamiliar faces, plus a few stars, 360 feels too abstract, orchestrating break-ups and hook-ups in a passionless vacuum. full review
2. Americano 2012 Though Demy's approach breaks no new ground, directorially speaking, Martin's personal journey finds a fresh angle on a universal piece of wisdom. full review
3. Beauty Is Embarrassing 2012 full review
4. Bestiaire 2012 erving up artfully framed, static-camera compositions of the animals within their mismatched environs, Cote's actuality-style catalog of context-free tableaux invites auds to free-associate with the scenes put before them. full review
5. Butter 2012 A wicked Midwest satire with razor blades stashed beneath its bright candy-apple surface. full review
6. Crazy Eyes 2012 These two non-lovers have real chemistry, and it's hard not to be intoxicated by the strange cocktail of watching them together, even as the story appears to be going nowhere. full review
7. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon 2012 A delightfully scrappy backburner passion project from Jay and Mark Duplass. full review
8. Get the Gringo 2012 full review
9. In Our Nature 2012 Savelson's approach feels old-fashioned and perhaps even a little stodgy. full review
10. Little Birds 2012 Little Birds is such a typical Sundance movie you almost don't need to see it to know where it's headed. To skip, however, would be to miss the arrival of promising new helmer Elgin James and gifted up-and-comer Juno Temple. full review
11. Nobody Walks 2012 Nobody Walks looks and sounds great. full review
12. The Turin Horse 2012 The answers are a mystery, but no detail, however mundane, is accidental in Tarr's meticulously constructed allegory. full review
13. The Woman Who Wasn't There 2012 A singularly unsettling film no less effective for deliberately giving away its twist in the title. full review
14. Absent 2011 full review
15. Albert Nobbs 2011 It's a career-crowning role for Glenn Close. Too bad the film is such a drag. full review
16. Dirty Girl 2011 What begins as a politically incorrect, Mean Girls-esque satire constantly shifts tone and focus as director Abe Sylvia pursues a style as jumbled as his narrative. full review
17. A Happy Event 2011 full review
18. Into The Abyss 2011 Herzog's investigation may not work as an anti-death-penalty editorial, but its findings are undeniably profound. full review
19. The Last Fall 2011 full review
20. There Be Dragons 2011 Dragons may not be perfect, but it plays to the helmer's strengths, demonstrating an increasingly rare sense of scope and pageantry best served by the bigscreen. full review
21. We Were Here 2011 We Were Here documents the epidemic through a powerful combination of first-hand testimony, archival photography and TV news footage. full review
22. Cold Weather 2010 Pic represents considerable progress for Katz, a founding member of the mumblecore movement. full review
23. Henry's Crime 2010 Part of what makes Henry such a frustrating hero is how little he reveals of his emotions. full review
24. Marwencol 2010 Malmberg applies stylistic and structural tricks to create the most compelling portrait possible, reflecting a respectful but very different agenda from that of his subject. full review
25. Waste Land 2010 One of the powers of great portraiture is its ability to make us wonder about the complete strangers captured within enigmatic works of art. full review
26. Alexander the Last 2009 At a slight 72 minutes, the DIY director's latest bout of psychosexual titillation (which is being made available on-demand in conjunction with its SXSW fest premiere) feels undercooked. full review
27. The House of the Devil 2009 Call it the best '80s babysitter-in-peril movie never made. full review
28. Splinterheads 2009 Attempts to compensate for its too-familiar romantic setup by defining its characters through idiosyncratic hobbies and traits. full review
29. Yesterday Was a Lie 2008 James Kerwin's conceptually ambitious low-budget debut offers stunning black-and-white HD cinematography, a sultry jazz score and a refreshingly high-minded script, but feels hopelessly amateurish in the acting department. full review
30. Beautiful Losers 2008 A celebration of Peter Pan-like spirits who felt the freedom to express themselves before anybody cared. full review
31. The Yellow Handkerchief 2008 Better pack your hankies. full review
32. Confessions of a Superhero 2007 Ogens ventures beyond sideshow condescension, striking a tone that ought to entice specialty auds. full review
33. Heckler 2007 Addis and Kennedy have tapped into a rich subject here. full review
34. Memory 2007 Considerably better -- and far more intriguing -- than most entry-level horror pics, marrying a retro B-movie setup with the ghostly obsessions of recent Asian extreme cinema. full review