Splat 2/5 |
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) |
"This isn’t revisionist history; it’s a key moment in political radicalism reduced to an empty pop-cultural posture." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"The movie never gains much narrative momentum and the religious elements remain a bit obscure to the uninitiated, but the fine Sufi music and skillfully crafted images make for pleasant-enough viewing." |
Joshua Land |
Splat 2/6 |
Babel (2006) |
"Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest sprawling, dispersed art-film blockbuster prompts a question: Does he just not know how to tell a story?" |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 3/6 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"Had Fey written the script, would the ending have been such a cop-out?" |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 3/6 |
Back To Normandy (2007) |
"The testimony of Normandy’s subjects is always fascinating; Philibert proves that not all directors should wade in the same river twice." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/6 |
Backseat (2008) |
"The list of transgressions in Bruce Van Dusen’s stalled road-trip flick is miles long: dialogue chocked with bumper-sticker platitudes, self-consciously quirky characters, gratuitous gunplay and a soundtrack top-heavy with achingly bad dorm-rock." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Cage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 3/6 |
Baghead (2008) |
"The Duplass brothers find themselves sucked into conventions that even their too-cool detachment can’t compensate for." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) |
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Trevor Johnston |
Tomato 4/6 |
Ballast (2008) |
"Ballast has a potential that few Sundance movies even approach." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Ballerina (2008) |
"Ballerina has the feel of a propaganda puff piece put out by the Russian tourist board." |
Anna King |
- |
Ballets Russes (2005) |
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Geoff Andrew |
Splat 3/6 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
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Drew Toal |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bandslam (2009) |
"The movie is a far more convincing fantasy of performance-as-self-discovery than the High School Musical franchise." |
Karina Longworth |
Splat 2/6 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"Cage is believable as the brooding lone-wolf gunman, but the “hit man screwing himself by growing a conscience on his final kill” ploy needs to be put down for good." |
Drew Toal |
Splat 2/6 |
Banished (2007) |
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Melissa Anderson |
Splat 2/6 |
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2007) |
"Marco Williams’s latest investigation into race relations suggests, seemingly without intending to, how much the language of pop psychology has vitiated our nation’s discourse on the atrocities committed on its soil." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 3/6 |
The Bank Job (2008) |
"Donaldson builds enough tension and draws enough humor from the situation to cover such lapses." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 3/6 |
Bart Got a Room (2009) |
"If nothing else, the film serves as a cringeworthy reminder to us all about what terrible people we were in high school." |
Drew Toal |
Splat 2/6 |
Battle for Terra (2009) |
"Doe-eyed earnestness dulls every edge, and Eden-like naïveté reigns supreme." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/6 |
Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"The intent may be to provide distance between topic and teller, but the result is more wishy-washy than neutrally clarifying." |
Mark Holcomb |
- |
The Baxter (2005) |
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Dave Calhoun |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) |
"Another adorably whimsical yet casually profound documentary from France’s Agnès Varda." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
The Beales Of Grey Gardens (1976) |
Click here to see the review. |
Melissa Anderson |
- |
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
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Dave Calhoun |
Tomato 3/6 |
Beaufort (2008) |
"Frustration over the futility of their presence in the region (and with those who kept them there) replaces fervor." |
David Fear |
- |
Beautiful Boxer (2005) |
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Nigel Floyd |
- |
The Beautiful Country (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
Tomato 4/6 |
Beautiful Losers (2008) |
"The cultural time capsule doubles as a testament to the joys of outsiders bonding, with interviewees emphasizing how they finally felt like they belonged somewhere after years of asphyxiating alone on the fringe." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
The Beautiful Truth (2008) |
"The director’s suggestion that big pharmaceutical companies have no interest in actually curing cancer is credible, but the film itself unfortunately makes Kroschel’s beliefs come off like just so much hippie propaganda." |
Drew Toal |
Tomato |
Beauty and the Beast (1946) |
"A magnificent fairy tale." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Tomato 4/6 |
Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
"Beauty in Trouble is a fairly conventional story about the conflicting pulls of sexual dependency and financial security, but the movie is lifted out of the ordinary by Schmitzer’s turn as the grandfather from hell." |
Joshua Land |
Splat 1/6 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"Everyone here is a caricature, and the gaps are papered over with hyperactive shtick. I haven't seen so many cakes dropped or smashed since I Love Lucy." |
Mark Holcomb |
- |
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
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Nigel Floyd |
Splat 2/6 |
Becoming Jane (2007) |
"Hews frustratingly to the middle of the road." |
David Fear |
Splat 1/6 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"Lazy, simplistic and self-serving are the best ways to describe the bedtime stories Skeeter Bronson (Sandler) tells his niece and nephew, and the words just as aptly apply to the film that showcases them." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 2/6 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"You might have been able to get away with stuff like this in the pre-Pixar age. Not anymore." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
Beeswax (2009) |
"Those who see strength in the film’s modesty are settling for too little." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Before I Forget (2008) |
"Nolot’s portrait of senescence isn’t about rainbow visions; his film, one of the most honest, courageous and witty of the year, instead looks at decay, insufferable loss and humiliation--all endured...with defiant, wilfull abjection." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 5/6 |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"The movie, however, belongs to Lumet: The fact that he’s produced such a vital work as an octogenarian is amazing enough, but the way this tragedy unfolds without a single false move puts the film among the best work of a very prestigious career." |
David Fear |
- |
Before the Fall (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Wally Hammond |
Splat 2/6 |
Before the Rains (2008) |
"No amount of lingering shots of nature’s rich pageant can make up for its lack of human involvement." |
Mark Holcomb |
Tomato 3/5 |
Before Tomorrow (2009) |
"A terribly purple folk score by Kate and Anna McGarrigle hypes the spiritual aspects of the Inuit way of life; you’ll die laughing on the tundra." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007) |
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Mark Holcomb |
Tomato 4/6 |
Being Jewish in France (2009) |
"Even those who’ve boned up on Gallic history will have their eyes opened by Yves Jeuland’s comprehensive documentary regarding the Chosen People and this motherland blithe and brave." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Belle Toujours (2006) |
"Both performers make the most of skimpy roles, raising an eyebrow or focusing a gaze. But only those who’ve forgotten Buñuel’s psychosexual daring will find such modest achievements nourishing." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Ben X (2008) |
"The ending is a letdown, as high-tech media mingles with old-school Christian imagery." |
Anna King |
Tomato 4/6 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"If we must have mead halls, let them be populated by rogues like John Malkovich." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Betrayal (2008) |
"The Betrayal avoids the taint of opportunism; Kuras and Phrasavath become collaborators in telling his story." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
Betty Blue (1986) |
"If Betty Blue feasts on the bodies of its leads, it’s this director’s cut that fully establishes the movie’s artistic bona fides." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
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