Tomato B+ |
Babe (1995) |
"The world of Babe isn't a seamless one, but it's surely inviting and rewarding." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
Babel (2006) |
"Obviously concerned with the Big Issues, Iñárritu spends an inordinate amount of time screwing his characters -- and his audience. It doesn't serve him well." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B- |
Baby Face (1933) |
"Baby Face is sort of the ultimate pre-Code film, with its repetitive form %u2014 that same come-hither look, that same goggle-eyed assent from the dude on the receiving end %u2014 almost beggaring belief." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C |
Bad Boys (1995) |
"Bad Boys is certainly pretty, and it's only boring if you think too hard." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B+ |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"Nicolas Cage, a born Hollywood skin-walker, somehow hints at a spiritual dimension to all this lunatic mayhem." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B- |
Barbershop (2002) |
"Feels a little like Spike Lee lite — "Joe’s Bed Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" minus the street realism, or Do the Right Thing without the conflagrations." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
Baron Blood (1972) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Splat C- |
Batman & Robin (1997) |
"A whole slew of asides and flashy foofaraw designed to show us just how hip and cutting-edge this fogey of a director really is." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"All the good intentions in the world don’t change the fact that the new Batman is a bit of a bore." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C |
Batman Forever (1995) |
"No surprises, no mysteries, no moments out of time that fill us with awe or wonder. The best that can be said is that the movie does what it sets out to do very well." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat 2/5 |
Batteries Not Included (1987) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B- |
Battle in Heaven (2006) |
"Explicitness is crucial to meaning -- by dwelling on the trim and beautiful versus the flabby and ordinary, Reygadas emphasizes both physical closeness and economic distance." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B+ |
Battle Royale (2000) |
"A vicious take-off on reality TV that turns a high-school milieu dominated by cliques and childish relationships into a war zone." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B+ |
Bean (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A |
Beauty and the Beast (1946) |
"Jean Cocteau's frighteningly beautiful surrealist take on the classic story is a potent antidote if Disney's given you one swig too many of the sweet stuff." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
"This machine repeatedly threatens to rev up, but mostly just keeps slipping out of gear." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A- |
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"Being John Malkovich, a pre-millennial science fiction comedy about participatory voyeurism and the nature of celebrity, is probably the damnedest thing we'll see all year." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A- |
Belle de Jour (1967) |
"Belle de Jour is a definitive statement on eroticism, and a deeply personal experience." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Bicycle Thief (1948) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
Big Fish (2003) |
"This feels awkward, like a film made by someone who thinks he has something to prove - or maybe to atone for." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B+ |
The Big Lebowski (1998) |
"It sounds like another precious Coen brothers gimmick, but in Bridges' hands it becomes a hysterical running joke." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B |
The Big One (1997) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A+ |
The Big Sleep (1946) |
"I can't think of a crime drama with a story that can match that can match the headlong intricacy of The Big Sleep." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B- |
Birthday Girl (2002) |
"Terrific as Nadia, a Russian mail-order bride who comes to America speaking not a word of English, it’s Kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B |
Black Book (2007) |
"Paul Verhoeven's target in Black Book is extremists on both sides of the political equation" |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A- |
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"An instant classic." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A- |
Blood and Black Lace (1964) |
"Few films are anywhere near as lovely as the bloody and brutal 'Blood and Black Lace.'" |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato 4/5 |
Blood of a Poet (1930) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B |
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1970) |
"If The Blood on Satan's Claw is a fundamentally conservative film, it's pretty vigorous in depicting Satan's foul mischief." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato 3/5 |
Blood on the Sun (1945) |
No article available. |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A- |
Blow Out (1981) |
"Underrated by just about everyone except Quentin Tarantino." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A |
Blow-Up (1966) |
"The very last scene poses a profound and beautiful question about movies, the art of storytelling, and Life Itself." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A |
Blue (1993) |
"It sounds very color- by- numbers, but the film is actually anything but." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
Boiler Room (2000) |
"Despite its flaws, it is a wicked little debut from an interesting writer/director." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
Bones (2001) |
"The story is a creepy urban parable with a fondness for 70s street culture and exploitation movies and a moral underpinning, but it never gels." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C- |
Boogie Nights (1997) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Splat C- |
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Splat C- |
Bound (1996) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B+ |
Bowling for Columbine (2002) |
"When Bowling For Columbine hits its stride, which is to say, during the bulk of its running time, it’s funny, incisive and fairly devastating." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A |
Branded to Kill (1967) |
"It's a knockout." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A- |
Breakdown (1997) |
"A terrifying movie that presses the right buttons early on and then capitalizes on your vulnerability." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B+ |
Breaking and Entering (2007) |
"This story's ultimate resolution is saccharine. (Even the hooker turns out to have a heart of gold.) But it's still heartening." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A+ |
Breaking the Waves (1996) |
"Von Trier staves off the inherent tawdriness of his concept and invests it with a fierce gravity." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B |
Brick (2006) |
"Evokes the real feelings of those high-school years, when teenaged personal politics felt bigger than life and every emotion was amplified to the level of heartbreak." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A+ |
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
"The results are both marvelously campy and wholly devastating." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato A |
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"Pretty terrific stuff by any measure, full of detailed characterizations and unashamed, misty-eyed sentiment that pushes precisely the right buttons." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B- |
Broken Arrow (1996) |
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Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B |
Broken Flowers (2005) |
"The film's singlemindedness, like Murray's solipsism, keeps it from feeling fully formed." |
Bryant Frazer |
Tomato B |
Brother (2001) |
"It’s mainly Kitano's face — alternately warm and chilly, weatherbeaten and oddly expressive in spite of its partial paralysis — that speaks clearly in any language." |
Bryant Frazer |
Splat C+ |
The Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002) |
"A lush old-school drama, modernized only by some whimsical efforts at martial-arts combat and a saturation of CGI effects work." |
Bryant Frazer |
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